FKA Easy Life tell us about returning as Hard Life with new single ‘Tears’: “This is the energy I want to put out into the world”
nme.comEasy Life have emerged from their legal battle with easyGroup under the new name of Hard Life with their comeback single ‘Tears’.
Check it out below along with our interview with frontman Murray Matravers.Last year 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”.
easyGroup had engaged in a very public spat with the band, labelling them as “brand thieves“.They announced that they would be surrendering their band name due to a lack of finances to pursue it in court, before playing a London farewell gig (which saw the sold-out KOKO crowd lead chants of “fuck EasyJet“) and releasing their final single under the moniker with ‘Trust Exercises’.Now, the NME Award-winning Leicester band are back and recharged under the name Hard Life.“I really don’t want people to read too much into the name,” frontman Murray Matravers told NME. “I was nervous, because as a white, middle-class man, I haven’t exactly had a hard life.
It needs to be appreciated in context.“The first day that our manager sat us down and said, ‘Guys, there’s some legal action coming and you’re going to have to change your name’, everyone in the band unambiguously and straight away said, ‘It’s gotta be Hard Life’.
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