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"There was a guy shooting at us from his balcony. It turned out he’d been sniffing glue." The story of the UK's only top-10 nu metal hit
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When it came to nu metal, the UK never really stood a chance.
Finally, a UK nu metal hit!
“That’s a disservice to nu metal,” A vocalist Jason Perry says with a chuckle, when we put it to him that his band wrote the only major UK nu metal hit.
“The chorus was originally the bridge – ‘Fly away’ – which I always think is more of a classic A bit, really,” Jason says.
Nu metal was dead and A were too sunny for emo and too gritty for pop punk.