"In his eyes, there is no spirit left." Clara White is describing the look of hopelessness in her brother, Thomas. He has spent 12 years in prison after stealing a mobile phone.
08.01.2024 - 10:19 / 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. It’s not a bad thing.
"In his eyes, there is no spirit left." Clara White is describing the look of hopelessness in her brother, Thomas. He has spent 12 years in prison after stealing a mobile phone.
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NME recently supported the Featured Artist Coalition’s 2023 End of Year Party and AGM at Walthamstow’s Signature Brew in London. Following on from 2021 and 2022, NME returned to support the event as well as chairing an artist-led ‘Year in Music’ panel discussion featuring Murray Matravers of the band formerly known as Easy Life, Sam Duckworth of Get Cape.