“I remember at our first gig, people were just shouting, ‘Shut up! Shut up!’” says Crystabel Efemena Riley, recalling her debut outing as a drummer. “By the time you take a drum skin off you’ve got more marks and dents,” she notes. As Riley no longer uses cymbals, the metallic sounds in the set come from metal items that she had smelted herself. “So it was just trying to find different ways to be metallic without it being a cymbal.”Crystabel Efemena Riley is interviewed by Abi Bliss in The Wire 497.