SANDY MOSQUEDA: High Vis plays in this interesting space that falls between genres. In effect, creating a lane of its own. You share the same bill as a variety of different artists. What is it about your music and presence that speaks across audiences?

Graham Sayle: I couldn’t really tell you exactly what it is that people connect with, but we definitely feel really lucky with how the whole thing has been received. We didn’t start the band with any aspirations or goals. For years we just existed in a sort of ‘nonspace’. People didn’t know where to put us, and it wasn’t until lockdown that people started to pay attention to what we were doing. We were just making music that we wanted to play, trying not to limit ourselves to traditional genre constraints.

“I like the idea of drawing from places that aren’t aesthetically traditional punk/hardcore.”

The artist Marina Inoue designed this collaboration. Can you tell us what she means to the band, and what your (collective) inspiration was for this T-shirt graphic?

I was a fan of Marina’s work way before we met, she was behind a lot of iconic flyers and artwork for bands like Trapped Under Ice and King Nine. I’m very lucky to be her husband and co-defendant. The design was based on the nostalgic rave artwork of the 90s that I grew up with. I like the idea of drawing from places that aren’t aesthetically traditional punk/hardcore. Merging iconography from seemingly opposing subcultural spaces.

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