Name: Weekend Punks - Backseat Driver by Old Cemetery Recordings in ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 425
Duration: 2 min 40 s
Description: Weekend Punks debut single. Written and recorded between Southampton (UK) and Reykjavik (Iceland), Weekend Punks play Surf Pop, but with relatively little experience of surf or sun. Reverb on everything, distortion on most things, and a nostalgia for places and times never visited.

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A tennis ball in a sock against the garage door
means your sister’s going to leave you alone for a change.

Phew.

Your dad’s watching cricket in a roomful of smoke,
curtains tight against the sun and you’re not allowed in either 
but what you don’t know is that it’s because he’s hung over. 
All you know is he’s scary.

Your mum’s singing Tammy Wynette in the kitchen 
but something in her voice and the song 
is telling you not to go in there just yet. 

There’s a rattle of a magpie; 
you don’t know it’s a magpie, 
it’s just a bird you don’t even really hear.

Holding Space dust in your mouth makes your tongue go sore 
but you do it because you don’t want anyone to know it’s there. 
Pour some more.

You hold on tight to the rough hips of the tree
because you’re balancing on an orange and red striped beach ball.
You admire your toes: you look like a circus girl. 

It’s Saturday and the sun’s gotta burst soon 
and skin cancer hasn’t been invented yet.
You’ve got six whole weeks 
before you have to go back:
you’ll be in the circus by then.  

You might marry Mickey Dolenz.
Or Pete Duel. 
You’ve already got the hat.

Space Dust

Weekend Punks debut single. Written and recorded between Southampton (UK) and Reykjavik (Iceland), Weekend Punks play Surf Pop, but with relatively little experience of surf or sun. Reverb on everything, distortion on most things, and a nostalgia for places and times never visited.

Weekend Punks EP

Backseat Driver

Weekend Punks - Backseat Driver

Lived

Wilcen & Psicell - Buried Secrets

Next Live Date London Old Blue Last 17th Nov 2021

WEAVING STRANDS OF INDIE, ROCK AND POST-PUNK INTO ONE JUGGERNAUT TRACK


“Punchy, guitar driven songwriting with shades of Foals angular energy, we're also hearing a dose of B-Town promise in their songwriting” - Clash Magazine

“A big indie banger” - Dork

"Addictive indie anthem" - Record Of The Day

"A soaring indie rock upheaval full of feverish energy and raw, radiant passion" - Atwood Magazine

"Continuing to generate buzz" - CLOUT


Rising anthemic indie quartet FLOWVERS have shared their new single 'Flowers' - listen here. 

A slow burner that builds up to an epic crescendo, the new single weaves strands of indie, rock and post-punk to create a colossal four minutes much akin to the sound of Talking Heads meeting Kings Of Leon in their more intricate moments. 

Explaining the track in more detail, the band elaborate, "'Flowers' combines all elements of FLOWVERS. past, present, and future. Weaving between guitar subtilty and sudden impact-wall of sound, with our intention being to create our most interesting and progressive track to date. The reoccurring critique of ‘not liking the way the flowers are going/ things are going’ only solidifies the emotions found in previous single ‘Far Away’."

Another juggernaut track from the four-piece, it follows on from previous meteoric single 'Far Away'. A song that oozes with the same frenetic energy once present during the 2012 B-Town indie scene, the mammoth single was praised by Clash Magazine, Dork, Record Of The Day, Atwood Magazineand CLOUT to name but a few.

Whilst many bands are still finding their feet in a post-pandemic music industry landscape, FLOWVERS have taken it in their stride, using lockdown to develop their sound, which has since presented them with some fruitful opportunities. Earlier this year the Portsmouth band appeared on Scruff Of The Neck TV on Twitch - as part of a mammoth weekender celebrating new bands from up and down the country - and released of their Old Chapel Demos EP, which included key single 'When It Comes To It' being added to the X-POSURE List on Radio X.

This summer they also played at the iconic Isle of Wight Festival, appearing on the This Feeling stage, sold out shows on a headline tour around the UK, had their music played on Soccer AM and appeared in the studio at talkSPORT Radio for an interview.  

FLOWVERS' growing hook-laden sound has seen them become regulars on BBC Introducing in the Solent as well as garnering support across the board on music blogs. They've amassed over one million streams on Spotify after featuring on their New Music Friday and Hot New Bands playlists, whilst live they have played shows with the likes of Swim Deep, JAWS, Black Honey, Another Sky and Coach Party.

Flowers

Flowers by FLOWVERS

Gates

goose princess was written, recorded and produced by rosie bla and draws inspiration from time spent living in reykjavík, london and the sleepy english countryside. the record was written in a post christmas malaise and produced in under a month, despite taking almost two years to release.

“i wrote these songs in a manic state after a shocking few years. i wanted to bring some joy to the darkness of it all. you can grow incredibly bored of your own misery eventually.”

through the slats

i was alright today

beyond

wtwta

Half Cut

Brixton

But it's like I'm  sure now

56Hrs

Spor & Memtrix - Darkest Hours ft. Rosie Blacher

Anhedonia

Southampton based independent record label.
Instagram:
@oldcemeteryrecordings
@weekendpunks
@agooseprincess

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Weekend Punks - Backseat Driver

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