insideKENT Magazine Issue 47 - February 2016 | Page 22
ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
STICK 'EM UP PUNK, IT'S THE
FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS
It’s been two decades since Huey Morgan and his bandmates gatecrashed the UK’s Britpop
party bringing with them a welcome dose of swag and a seminal record: Come Find Yourself,
an album that defined the 90s and still sounds as cool today as it did then. Polly Humphris had a
chat with the original fun lovin’ criminal to find out more about the album.
Hi Huey. What was the inspiration behind
the album’s name, Come Find Yourself?
“Come Find Yourself” was always a song
that the band loved. The track was a really
big breakthrough for me when I was writing it
because it’s autobiographical and was about
me looking back over at my life and everything
I’d achieved, for good or bad. It’s the stand
out track for me as a person because I literally
did find myself while being in the band, and I
thought the song would stand the test of time;
here we are 20 years later, and I think it has.
What do you think it is about the album
that makes it so timeless?
A combination of different musical influences
and honest lyrics. Some of it’s rap; some of
it’s straight-up love song; some of it’s very
autobiographical. It’s hard to put your finger on
something like that and if you