Easy Life “don’t have a band name or a band, but we’re still here”

nme.com:

Easy Life frontman Murray Matravers has spoken to NME about the upside of their legal battle with EasyGroup, current situation and plans for the future.Last year saw saw Easy Life play their final show under that name, having conceded defeat in a legal battle over the moniker against easyGroup (the brand owner of easyJet airlines) and that “sadly, it seems that justice is only available to those who can afford it” without “the funds to access a fair trial in the High Court.”Despite this, frontman Murray Matravers said that 2023 was “a good year in general” – as he told us at the recent Featured Artists Coalition AGM, supported by NME.“We had our first ever profitable festival season after six years of doing it, so we worked that out,” he told the NME-chaired panel. “We’re still here.

We don’t have a band name or a band, but we’re still doing it.”He continued: “To be honest, [the EasyJet legal battle] has actually been a good thing.

We’ve reached people that would never have heard of our band before. We reached older people that read broadsheet newspapers still.