Fresh releases, old favourites, bargain-bin rescues and gig-ready bangers — Show #217.
We kicked things off in suitably lysergic fashion with Standard Issue Pleasure Model and Acid Punk, a track that’s been floating around long enough to feel familiar but has finally landed where it belongs on the Tripsitter album. The band hail from British Columbia and the record only dropped on Friday, so this felt like the perfect moment to give it its proper on-air christening. Plus I usurped Noises From The Bottom Left Corner who is playing it on his Saturday show this week.
Staying on the acid-tinged theme, Cold Feet delivered Acid Death from their 2020 Punk Entity EP — their last release to date and still sounding raw and sharp years later.
From there it was time for Bangor’s own Skinflick and D Is For Death from Fourth Wall Of A Deathcult. Birthday shout-out to Justin, who celebrated by playing a rare Blackpool gig — and if you listen closely you can practically hear new material bubbling away in some alleyway rehearsal room already.
A welcome trip to the late 90s followed with Four Letter Word and Unconditional from the Zero Visibility (Experiments With Truth) sessions. Originally released in 1999 and later reissued by Boss Tuneage, it feels newly rediscovered thanks to a perfectly timed label sale that resulted in an armful of bargain vinyl. Punk rock economics at its finest.
The agitation level rose with Grant Sharkey and 4th4, taken from Actual Intelligence. Sharkey continues to do what he does best — poking the establishment while preparing to take Webber The Musical to the Edinburgh Fringe. Subtlety has never been the point.
Upcoming gig energy kicked in with Clobber’s Council Estate Of Mind, ahead of their Outpost and London dates, before Grade 2 reminded everyone why they’ve become one of the UK’s biggest modern street-punk exports. Better Today previews their fourth album Talk About It, released via Hellcat Records — a coming-of-age record shaped by growing up together in public.
International punk kept flowing: Italy’s Couchgagzzz previewed their forthcoming Primitive Men album and sounding not too dissimilar to show favourites Why Bother?, while fellow Italians Thunder Bomber delivered A Little Sadness ahead of their April release Boys Alive, promising genre-blurring punk with synths, sax and harmonica.
The acid thread returned courtesy of Warlockhunt with the Amon Acid Remix of We Are, tying into their appearance at next week’s NorthWest Doomfest in Chester — already sold out, naturally.
Also an exclusive! The Mistakes - Life’s Too Short - brand new track - single from their forthcoming album out soonish on Engineer Records.
From the same stable, Uncivilised crashed in with Click Bait from their brand-new Let Rip release, while Pray U Prey and Pandemix proved that Boss Tuneage bargains keep giving.
A run of big names followed: Evil Blizzard with the hypnotic Down Down Down, and street-punk legends The Casualties previewing their new album with Detonate ahead of Scarborough Punk Festival.
DIY and local scenes were heavily represented: Warrington’s TicNoToc, Bangor’s Charlie Garlic (live at The Skerries), Slovenia’s great export Slund, and almost a whole Outpost gig preview run from Chain Of Survival and Code Break.
The night finished by digging deep into UK post-punk history with Vital Disorders and their 1982 single Zombie.
Full Playlist
Standard Issue Pleasure Model – Acid Punk
Cold Feet – Acid Death
Skinflick – D Is For Death
Four Letter Word – Unconditional
Grant Sharkey – 4th4
Clobber – Council Estate Of Mind
Grade 2 – Better Today
Warlockhunt – We Are (Amon Acid Remix)
Couchgagzzz – Mighty Dog
The Mistake - Life’s Too Short
Uncivilised – Click Bait
Pray U Prey – Suffering Rules This World
Thunder Bomber – A Little Sadness
Evil Blizzard – Down Down Down
The Casualties – Detonate
TicNoToc – Piece Of Me
Charlie Garlic – Axe & Hammer (Live at The Skerries, Bangor 03.05.24)
Slund – Power Hungry
Pandemix – World War None
Chain Of Survival – Handbreak
Code Break – The Lost
Vital Disorders – Zombie
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