Moderate Rebels
'Thieves Like You'
Out 23rd October
Highest Common Denominator

" Born leader... born liar... born fool" - Thieves Like You

Moderate Rebels release their new song 'Thieves Like You' on 23rd Oct via Highest Common Denominator.

A preview track from of one of their two new studio albums (their 5th & 6th), currently being finalised and planned for 2026.

"MR's instincts are against self proclaimed "leaders" and almost anyone who aspires to be "a leader"...normally exactly the sort of shifty characters who should calm down, sit down and just be quiet. 'Leadership' as a whole concept needs to go into the big dustbin of history, pronto. To us, this kind of thinking is as relevant just now as it's ever been" - Moderate Rebels

Moderate Rebels are a fluid membership, ever changing 'anti music' London based collective, active since 2016, who value expressing their ideas and feelings simply & directly, sometimes uber minimally, over any flash displays of musical skills.

There have been Scottish, English, Australian and Irish members at various points, and the collective have performed live with as many as 8 members, or as little as 3, with stage line ups at points mostly female, or other shows with an all male line up.

Navigating (the now fairly usual) live band line up changes, partial hearing loss, obsolete equipment, rudimentary digital recording skills, Temu's cheapest microphones and suddenly disappearing studios, Moderate Rebels have just about finished a whole large bunch of spanking new songs which will be duly released across two separate albums in 2026.

"...London act combining rhythmic repetition, discordant guitar fuzz and hazy psychedelia are going to blow the minds of anyone wise enough to seek them out" - Louder Than War, 2025

Live
26th Oct @ The Lexington, London w/ Prolapse

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Moderate Rebels 'Thieves Like You'

Free download on bandcamp -  until 6th Jan

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Moderate Rebels
‘God Sent Us’ single
Out on 11th November 2016 on Everyday Life Recordings
Cat no. ELR 006

New London-based collective Moderate Rebels release their debut single ‘God Sent Us’ on 11th November 2016. 

Recorded within two hours in a small studio in South Bermondsey, the group say ‘We went into the live room with one chord that we liked and the song wrote itself, doesn’t feel that much to do with us really’

Moderate Rebels will play a 25-minute extended version of ‘God Sent Us’ for one live show only at The Finsbury (Manor Hse) London on 11th Nov to celebrate its release.

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