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