POST PARTY INTERVIEW - GATA MEETS WOLF & LUX GILLESPIE
London has always been a city of reinvention, a place where young people have historically turned noise into culture and chaos into identity. Since the late seventies, punk has never been just a sound, but a rejection of perfection and a way of turning chaos and style into something shared. Lux and Wolf Gillespie grew up inside that current, granting them a fluency long before ambition, and today they work as an emerging DJ duo, bringing their eclectic sound to venues around the world.
Now that “punk doesn’t exist”, in the words of Wolf, their project Post Party, a hedonistic amalgamation of community, events and spectacle, looks not to revive the original movement but rather to evoke the hazy nostalgia of the heyday of Hedi Slimane after-parties. It operates as a kind of ceremony–a space where pleasure and self-destruction sit uncomfortably close.
GATA sat down with the brothers at the Gosha Rubchinskiy after-party in Tokyo to talk parties, excess and the influences that shaped their cultural movement.
GATA: The Gosha party was intense, the energy in the room was unreal. Was it the Russians? [Laughs]. How was it for you? And was this your first time playing in Tokyo?
Wolf: We ended up playing in front of Ye, which was a real dream come true. He is our hero, and the Russians are our new family.
The Tokyo crowd is totally culturally diverse, unlike the London scene, which felt cool in such a homogenised world.
GATA: What was home like growing up, and how did music shape your upbringing?
Wolf: We were very lucky to always have different music constantly playing in our home it was annoying at the time… but that kind of knowledge just sticks.
Lux can pretty much play every instrument. I think all the talent went to him maybe .
GATA: WOLF AND LUX on your passport. Such cool names. Your parents must have been very special characters. Why those two names?
Wolf: I wish I had a better answer but genuinely because they thought it was cool.
Lux: I was named after Lux Interior.
GATA: When did you both decide to become a duo and start playing together as siblings?
Wolf: It was all thanks to Nicolo Michelin. he is our Italian Malcom McLaren.
GATA: If you had to describe your energy on set, how would you put it into words and what are your go-to songs, the tracks you'd choose to close your most important set ever?
Lux: I’d say my energy during a set is quite playful. I tend to improvise everything and play for myself and what makes me happy. This feeling is usually reciprocated in the crowd but sometimes it’s not and that’s ok. I always love to play Reverence by The Jesus and Mary Chain but more recently anything off sinn6r’s FEDERAL.
GATA: The UK has always been a major force in music, but I imagine the scene has shifted a lot from the ’80s and ’90s to now. What’s the London scene like today?
Wolf: It has never felt like this before. It’s amazing and infectious. All our friends are making music, and it really feels like the cultural capital of the world right now.
Lux: It’s a big family. Everyone is so supportive of each other, and the quality and energy of the music coming out now really speak to the energy of the city. It’s the only place for me, and I’m proud to call it my home.
GATA: What artists, photographers or musicians have influenced your aesthetic?
Wolf: John Lennon, Vladimir Lenin, and Neil Lennon.
Lux: Scott Asheton, Young Thug, and Chicken Little.
GATA: POST PARTY! I’d love to hear a bit more about the meaning behind it. The visual identity feels wild — almost like imagery straight out of a gritty ’80s punk time machine.
Wolf: Post Party is the after-party before the after-party.
I think the best way to present things is as they are.
Lux: It’s a fun excuse to make cool art and have a good time. We love making the posters and merchandise. It’s really about bringing good people together and creating.
GATA: POST PARTY has a raw, chaotic party energy. Where do you draw the line between fun and self-destruction?
Wolf: I wish we could. I’d like to think I’m working it out right now—I don’t know if Lux is.
Lux: Fun and self-destruction go hand in hand for me. I find it hard to draw that line.
GATA: The Beatles or the Rolling Stones?
Wolf: The Beatles for the sound and politics.
The Rolling Stones for the fashion.
Lux: The Stones.
GATA: Tell me more about fashion; you’re both effortlessly cool, and I know you’ve been modelling. What’s your relationship with fashion, and what role does it play for you?
Wolf: Fashion is your own personal myth. There’s no point in telling one if there isn’t some kind of crux to it, even if that’s just looking hot.
Lux: Fashion is a really big part of my life. I study menswear at Central Saint Martins and find a lot of happiness in creating clothes. With modelling, it’s a different type of relationship. Right now it’s more monetary, but when I was younger, being around that energy at shows was truly inspiring and exciting. I’ve met so many amazing people through fashion. But day to day, my relationship with fashion is between me and my jeans.
GATA: A lot of new "punk" aesthetics today are just styling, not spirit. What do you think is the fakest part of punk culture right now?
Wolf: I think punk doesn’t exist.
Lux: I agree.
GATA: Where do you see yourself in 20 years?
Wolf: As far away from what we’re doing now as physically possible.
Lux: No clue.
GATA: What title should we give this interview?
Lux: Post Party interview.
GATA: And lastly, tell us your three favourite films.
Wolf: Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, Apocalypse Now, and Barry Lyndon
Lux: Chicken Little, Taxi Driver, The Shining.
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