Snout are a happening little power pop band. Snout are a 'pointless marketing product'. Snout are serious musicians.  

On my desk I have a plastic apple, a pair of plastic glasses, a crappy little magnifying glass and a lollipop stick (I ate the lollipop already). What do these things have in common? They all have a Snout "Cleans and Brightens" sticker on them. Cleans and Brightens is the name of Snout's debut 7-track CD. Inside the cover is more shameless marketing of Snout under the Fab 3 moniker. Explain please! 

Bass player vocalist and all-round good guy, Ross, answers, "We just wanted to do a supermarket photo shoot because we were doing all this taking the piss out of marketing"... 
As you can see Snout are a fun and exciting band. They have a sense of humour and their songs have a hefty sense of melody and buzzy, noisy guitar grooviness. Just don't ask them about their guitars... 

"I use a Mangatone short scale, about 1961, bass that looks like a Rickenbacker/Pete Townsend six-string" burbles Ross. "I go to the swap shop a lot which is mainly all second hand stuff. The new stuff doesn't really appeal to us. It's just all Eddie Van Halen sort of stuff. It's not very nice. If you want the sounds that we like, you've just got to buy the older guitars." 

It sounds like Snout are traditionalists. Are you? "Yes, and no Lauren," Ross answers. "We used to be. Rob and I used to be 'oh that's crap' about anything new. But I'm sick of being that anal about music. I just think that whatever comes along that's liberating, you just use it". 

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