Counterfeit: 'The pressure is not put on by anyone else but ourselves'

'Enough' punk rockers Counterfeit have revealed that they set themselves incredibly high standards.

During a new interview with Fault magazine, the lads explained that they put pressure on themselves to be the best they can be and to prove their worth in both the genre and industry:

"We had to rise to the top. And that’s what we continue to strive for. And yeah, there is loads of pressure to make your presence known. When we write, we’re always very aware of that. We’re very aware of Counterfeit – the band. Cause we can all write very different songs, but at the end of the day, it has to be Counterfeit – the band kind of material. The pressure is not put on by anyone else but ourselves and that’s a good thing. That’s where ambition comes from."

"We’d be cocky and ignorant if we just went out there like ‘Yeah no pressure we’re fine’. We want people to come to our shows and be like ‘Bloody hell that was mental’. There are a lot of people that come to our shows that have either never been to a punk rock show and then there’s the other side of it – where there are people who go to rock shows all the time. So, for those people who have never been to one, we want them to go away, go see another band and just go like ‘that’s nowhere near Counterfeit’. You want the show to really stand out. You want people to go home and really talk about it."

Counterfeit, meanwhile, will be performing this coming weekend at the 2000 Trees festival, which will take place in the Cotswold Hills. Find out more about this here.

Watch the band performing here: