An interview with frontboy Alooif Annois
This interview was first recorded on September the 15th of 2025. Whilst I had reservations about the interview following the guitarist's lack of respect I decided to continue as a testament to my journalistic integrity, unwavering in the face of adversarial subjects.
'Al' turned out to be slightly more abrasive but far more coherent and I appreciated him taking the interview somewhat seriously, even if he still harboured a strange resentment towards myself.
I hold him no ill-will given his brain-thoughts were likely poisoned by the words of Southampton's own Iago, whispering caustic green nothings into his band mates ear holes.
We’ve heard extensive information about the origins of Cherrywaves, but could you give us any insight into how the current iteration of Cherrywaves came to be?
No
Why Noise rock/shoegaze? Why not something cool and good sounding like Oasis or 1975?
Fuck you. that is, for the most part, the intention behind everything that sounds good to me and bad to others. When I can play a guitar with boxes filled with the magical power to absolutely destroy any notion of a "warm clean tone", why would I ever go back?
I find there is no case for "tone", tone is in the wood, tone is in the tuners, tone is in my asshole, come find it... its particularly warm in there.
So, good sounding music is a prolapsed asshole, petruding from an already disgusting orifice that expects only shit to slide through its pulsing muscles.
Just as you can't unfuck the Christmas turkey, you can't unfuck your ears, once they have felt the veiny cock of the worst noises known to man, there is no going back.
What’s your favourite song on the album?
I like that one, the one that goes, yknow how it goes, that one, I think? No yes no I like that other one, it'll definitely be on the album
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever been part of musically?
I think the overarching narrative is that I have been in the worst band out of everyone in CW, This is true. I hate to publicly shame my past but christ Vision stinks (stunk?), I mixed a "live" album on premiere pro for fucks sake. Everything outputted from that band was made through arguments, even the best times were varnished by a sheen of shit.
I dont regret it... much.
As the defacto lyricist of the band, how do you come up with your song-words?
I steal. A method that may be the only overlapping idea from my previous bands, imagine Ideas are a genocide supporting, breast milk spoiling, rain forrest burning, planet destroying corporation, now imagine taking just one pint of that chunky idea milk from an endlessly repeating stockroom, stealing doesnt feel so bad anymore.
That is how I create. I see. I take. I distort. Some lyrics come from billboards and newspapers, some quotes from friends and family, some ripped straight from other songs.
Christ the bands name is a deftones song, originality is dead and I dance upon the piss soaked soil that sits 6 feet above its rotting casket.
If i ever find myself in its coffin, it is usually not alone, I share the space with the skeleton of an idea, I rip its possessions from its calcium tendrils and break my way out, Kill Bill style, except with more whining and moaning.
Why is Reagon the way he is?
I saw a St George's flag put at half mast for Charlie Kirk today. That should explain, to any rational person, why Reagon is the way he is.
Did he mention anything about the interview he did with me?
Yeah but I'm not telling you
Is he always like that or was it some nardwuar sonic youth type-thing?
No no neither