easyGroup attorneys say Arduous Life’s new single ‘Tears’ is “disparaging and defamatory”

Legal professionals for easyGroup have complained that Arduous Life  – previously generally known as Simple Life‘s – new single ‘Tears’ is “disparaging and defamatory”.

The Leicester indie band introduced that they might be surrendering their band title after being sued by the conglomerate in October and being described as “model thieves”, thereby avoiding a expensive authorized battle they mentioned they may not afford. They performed a London farewell gig beneath that moniker (which noticed the sold-out KOKO crowd lead chants of “fuck EasyJet“) and launched a closing single, ‘Belief Workouts’.

Their comeback single ‘Tears’ addresses the authorized battle – “It’s a tough life, I can’t lie,” frontman Murray Matravers sings, “it’s been a rush, within the arduous occasions, fortunate I acquired associates that I belief. It was straightforward in my 20s now I gotta lawyer up, gimme air miles or a good trial Stelios.”

EasyGroup’s attorneys have taken challenge with the lyric referencing proprietor Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, labelling it “disparaging and defamatory” and claiming it’s a breach of the settlement made with the band.  They added that he and EasyGroup have been “disillusioned” Arduous Life have “chosen to needlessly refresh the dispute, which the band selected to settle a number of months in the past”.

Matravers spoke to NME in regards to the change of title, revealing Arduous Life was the primary various band title they got here up with.

“I actually don’t need individuals to learn an excessive amount of into the title,” he mentioned. “I used to be nervous, as a result of as a white, middle-class man, I haven’t precisely had a tough life. It must be appreciated in context.

“The primary day that our supervisor sat us down and mentioned, ‘Guys, there’s some authorized motion coming and also you’re going to have to alter your title’, everybody within the band unambiguously and immediately mentioned, ‘It’s gotta be Arduous Life’. That was our preliminary intestine intuition.”

He continued: “We have been laughing about it and I don’t suppose any of us have been taking it that severely, however as time progressed we went by way of 1,000,000 of different choices and we at all times got here again to Arduous Life as a result of we thought it was humorous. Everybody appeared to resonate with that, and it was probably the most stereotypical Simple Life factor to do.”

Matravers added that he hadn’t made a lot music apart from ‘Tears’ because the band have been sued however had been utilizing the time to work on himself. Nonetheless, writing it helped him to return to phrases with what the band had been going by way of.

“For some time, I wasn’t actually going to the studio as a result of we have been on this authorized factor and writing music wasn’t actually getting me out of it as a result of it wasn’t an emotional challenge that I may discover and attempt to put into music,” Matravers mentioned. “So for some time I used to be feeling fairly uninspired. Then Rob [Milton, producer and writer] and I went away for the weekend to hang around, to make stress with low stress.

“We made ‘Tears’ that weekend, and it was the primary time I’d made music in what appeared like a really very long time. I liked it and related with it. I acquired into this stream state, like once you’re sat in a settee at a home celebration at 3am simply chatting absolute shit. I had that very same vitality making this. I knew it was good and that it meant one thing to me. As quickly as I’d made it, I knew I wished it to be the very first thing I put out.”

Requested if he’d boycott easyJet flights, he added: “So many followers have been like, ‘In solidarity, we’re by no means going to make use of easyJet’. I used to be like, ‘Guys, simply use the most affordable choice’. I’m not indignant. I don’t have an issue with easyGroup and we by no means did – that’s what’s so weird about all of it.”

Arduous-Fi quoted NME‘s interview on their social media at this time (June 12), saying in jest: “Er… lads….”