Black Spiders interview: 20 years of hurdles and drawbacks

In a booth in a Wetherspoons pub on the border of Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire, the spirit of rock’n’roll is alive and well and three pints of Guinness in.

“All this starving artist thing, it’s a load of bollocks,” says Pete ‘Spider’ Spiby, pocket dynamo singer with Black Spiders, between mouthfuls of cheese and onion crisps as Friday afternoon drinkers sup beer around us. “You have to buy food, you have to be able to afford somewhere to live. You have to have some kind of back-up behind all the inspiration.”