punk/post-punk interview
Meet: The Brighton Collective And Your New Favourite Band – Opus Kink
Brighton collective Opus Kink are taking the country by storm with their frantic groove-filled madcap mash up of punk, jazz and rock. We managed to catch them to answer some of our questions. Give us a potted history of the band The band formed in 1999 as a support group for genius problem-toddlers. After a brief 20 …
Meet: Jaret Reddick from Bowling For Soup
BM I am a little bit disappointed we don’t have flat hair Jaret today. I spent a lot of time watching your TikToks yesterday, I can’t lie. Do you enjoy how much connectivity and connection you can get with your fans on that platform? JR Yeah, for sure. It’s kind of not unlike Instagram or …
Meet: Millie from Millie Manders And The Shutup
Millie and the band have been busy preparing for the Less Than Jake tour, and their own headline tour in June. The band have created a GoFundMe campaign to help get a new van for the tour (after their previous one gave up the ghost) Give us a potted history of you and your band …
Meet: Cristina Martinez interview on new Boss Hog album ‘Brood X’
After nearly two decades of osmosis, New York’s glorious garage-noise hybrids Boss Hog are back. Their first studio album in almost twenty years ‘BROOD X’ emerges from gestation on March 24th via Bronze Rat Records and its ravenous. Fear not, for ‘Brood X’ feels not like the work of a group who’ve been on ice …
Premiere: The Sly Persuaders – TFD + Interview
Full of surf tinged psychosis, and the cock sure swagger of a 50’s knife gang, London ‘billy-punks, The Sly Persuaders follow up what seems like an endless stream of live dates with their long awaited debut album. Drawing comparisons to the likes of The Gun Club, The Cramps, and The Birthday Party, they bring their …
Meet: Gangs, and listen to their new single, Theives
When we first heard Scottish quartet Gangs, we were a little intimidated. Despite the fact that we loved the driving, hard edged indie/punk rock of their new single Thieves, there was this sense of malevolence and anger about it that just kept us, as it keeps the track, on edge. It’s a pulsating affair, that …
Meet: Gundogs – northern industrial post-punks
For me the best post-punk bands of the 80’s were a combination of bands who allowed their surroundings to influence their sound, bands such as Joy Division and early Human League (to name but two of many), always had a an industrial, urban feel to their music; and bands such as Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy …
Meet: Punk legend Hugh Cornwell interview
No More Heroes, Golden Brown and Peaches are just some of the 20 odd hits singles Hugh Cornwell had a hand in penning before he left punk legends The Stranglers in 1990. Over the last two decades he has recorded 11 solo albums that have never had the commercial success he enjoyed with the band, …
Meet: Three Day Millionaires interview
Hull punk outfit, Three Day Millionaires, are all set for the release of their debut single ‘Behind These Eye’s‘. It’s a raucous affair that captures the flair and feeling of their live set. No strangers to the local scene we thought the timing was just right to introduce you to the lads from Hull. So …
Meet: DAS FLUFF Q+A with Front Woman Dawn Lintern
Das Fluff’s twitter strap line states they are ‘attention seekers playing sexistential electro post punk twisted disco cyber filth with alarming passion’ and after catching them live recently, I completely agree with this statement! BM: Hello Dawn, let’s start with the obvious, how did the band get together? Dawn: It started with myself and our original …