In Conversation: Pat Flynn of Fiddlehead
Over five years and three albums, Fiddlehead have traversed through loss like no other band before them. Pat Flynn wants you to know that all is full of love.
It used to be that if you were a hardcore kid who wanted to process the death of a loved one through music, you probably needed to find another genre; for me, when I lost my best friend in 1990, that meant listening to songs like “Untitled” by The Cure or “I Know It’s Over” by The Smiths on repeat. Hardcore punk didn’t feel like a vehicle that could carry grief at that time, and whatever attempts we had back then only ever scratched the surface.
But hardcore has evolved so much in the last 30 years, both stylistically and thematically, that we have finally arrived at a place where it can convey a more complex range of sentiment, beyond mere anger or disappointment or political strife. Fiddlehead have certainly tested those boundaries with unprecedented persistenc…