SKIV – London, England, United Kingdom It has been some time in the waiting room but via fledgling label INiiT Records, SKIV and their Chick Chicken EP are here to alleviate your anticipation. SKIV’s four-piece formula of brash but playful and approach Punk is a broad one. The band capture…
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Park Avenue – London, England, United Kingdom Here we are again with the London Punk scene churning out yet another band. So, within that, introducing Park Avenue really shouldn’t take too long. I will try to keep it on-point and far from the abject tedium my prose can arguably feed…
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Stay // Asleep – London, England, United Kingdom London’s Punk scene seems to be perpetually churning out new bands and Stay//Asleep and ‘Pay To Play’ are one of the very latest post-churn bounties thrust into the Punk spectrum. 2020 saw the band debut their UK Conservative party targetted ‘Speak, Lie,…
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Brain Ape – London, England, United Kingdom Brain Ape and ‘clxxvi. veni vidi vici’ appeared quite unexpectedly but a short time ago. The London band are no stranger to the struggle of the underground Rock scene. They have run under the name Brain Ape for some time and fostered their…
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Drones – London, England, United Kingdom Drones and Our Hell Is Right Here stands as one of the forerunning titles of both Lockjaw Records and Thousand Islands Records to head label’s and the band’s own charge into the breach left behind by 2020 into 2021. The London band’s 2018 debut…
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PLAY DEAD – London, England, United Kingdom Introducing PLAY DEAD is very much necessary when speaking of, typing about or absorbing the seemingly indomitable recent advance of Garage Punk-Rock. This event, revival or whatever you wish to quantify this happening as, has yielded much in the way of enthrallingly rambunctious…
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Attendant – London/Surrey, England, United Kingdom The legacy of Punk and within that, the legacy of Post-Hardcore and ’90s Alt. Rock is sizable. Enter Attendant and their Unreality. 2020 despite all, has seen an exponential tirade of underground noise and releases defying the very “fuckkkkkk” year we’ve just had. Attendant,…
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Forgotten Names – London, England, United Kingdom “Forgotten Names and Their Debut Single” is a headline itself the product of yet another arduous lockdown project. I shouldn’t need to extrapolate on that for more than a few token words. That said, as many of you in bands or in the…
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Broken Calling – South East, England, United Kingdom For all the poignant and inherent politics of the Punk scene, Broken Calling and ‘Redemption’ enter 2020 as something of a reminder. A crucially targetted and jagged punch to the face with a sole purpose. One to show that political disdain and…
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Shout Louder – England, United Kingdom With a second Shout Louder zine now on the way. It is fitting to give Behind The Words: An Insight Into Underground Writing the online treatment. Towards the end of 2019, I was asked, along with many wonderful people from the UK underground Punk-Rock music scene…
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