Do your worst.

^ posted on the band's actual official account.

Bonus:

Also it's just about food in general

Dave: Joe in the band gave me strawberries with pepper ground on. I had no faith in that even being digestible but it was actually quite good. [...]I have a problem with fruit and savoury. Like pineapple on pizza, [...]it’s psychopathic. 

So. Glass Animals fans. What is up with this band and fruits? Has Dave Bayley just got some kind of gustatory synaesthesia?

i think it has a lot to do with how glass animals’ discography deals a lot in nostalgia, particularly in how to be a human being and dreamland. food is so tied to memory because of its cultural significance as well as the way it interacts with our senses (taste and smell are very powerful!) so dave often references food to evoke a specific time or feeling. personally i really do find it an effective visual!

in the zaba era and earlier, imo the food/fruit imagery helped conjure the gooey (ha), oozy jungle vibe. so much of their music from that time sounds… juicy like a fruit i guess? i imagine it just ended up becoming a motif.

the pineapple on stage became a thing when a fan threw one up there during a show in reference to the chorus of pork soda and the fruit merch really started in earnest after that. now it’s kind of their whole brand.

OH MY GOD

"[Fan fiction] was pointed out to me at one point and I thought it was very humorous," Kapranos says. "The thing I didn’t realize is that there are so many hot blooded girls who are really kind of into this voyeuristic thing about homosexual sex. At first I thought they’d been spying on my private life and then I realized it’s just fantasy."

"I think it’s brilliant. It’s really, really funny. And I like that sort of thing cause it means that there’s people who have imagination who are inspired by your personality and the things that you’ve done, so it’s a good thing," he says.

"There’s absolutely nothing wrong with fictionalizing a genuine character as long as you make it clear that you are fictionalizing, which I think all that slash stuff does."

OH MY GOD

"[Fan fiction] was pointed out to me at one point and I thought it was very humorous," Kapranos says. "The thing I didn’t realize is that there are so many hot blooded girls who are really kind of into this voyeuristic thing about homosexual sex. At first I thought they’d been spying on my private life and then I realized it’s just fantasy."

"I think it’s brilliant. It’s really, really funny. And I like that sort of thing cause it means that there’s people who have imagination who are inspired by your personality and the things that you’ve done, so it’s a good thing," he says.

"There’s absolutely nothing wrong with fictionalizing a genuine character as long as you make it clear that you are fictionalizing, which I think all that slash stuff does."

John Lennon, Beatles era, 1964.

OH MY GOD

"[Fan fiction] was pointed out to me at one point and I thought it was very humorous," Kapranos says. "The thing I didn’t realize is that there are so many hot blooded girls who are really kind of into this voyeuristic thing about homosexual sex. At first I thought they’d been spying on my private life and then I realized it’s just fantasy."

"I think it’s brilliant. It’s really, really funny. And I like that sort of thing cause it means that there’s people who have imagination who are inspired by your personality and the things that you’ve done, so it’s a good thing," he says.

"There’s absolutely nothing wrong with fictionalizing a genuine character as long as you make it clear that you are fictionalizing, which I think all that slash stuff does."

OH MY GOD

"[Fan fiction] was pointed out to me at one point and I thought it was very humorous," Kapranos says. "The thing I didn’t realize is that there are so many hot blooded girls who are really kind of into this voyeuristic thing about homosexual sex. At first I thought they’d been spying on my private life and then I realized it’s just fantasy."

"I think it’s brilliant. It’s really, really funny. And I like that sort of thing cause it means that there’s people who have imagination who are inspired by your personality and the things that you’ve done, so it’s a good thing," he says.

"There’s absolutely nothing wrong with fictionalizing a genuine character as long as you make it clear that you are fictionalizing, which I think all that slash stuff does."

Hmm, I could argue that the brief period in 1992 when they were Melody Maker front cover stars before ever releasing any music, just on the back of live hype, when they'd been on the front covers of magazines 19 times that year, when they had the fastest-selling UK album of all time for a brief period in 1993, before Oasis broke their record in 1994, that they were the biggest band in the UK briefly.

When music journalist Stuart Maconie coined the phrase Britpop in 1993 in a piece for Select Magazine, describing this new wave of British bands making what he called very British music, with Suede as the cover stars, that was definitely a small window when Suede were the British zeitgeist and the biggest band in the UK, no?