From Fresh's new EP 'The Summer I Got Good At Guitar' out 30th April 2021.
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LYRICS
Spend time filling up that hole
Cos I feel awful and empty
I feel awful and empty
I feel awful and empty

Arrive in Italy at dusk and feel the cool air on my face
Try to shake away the thoughts that I had earlier today
Feeling worn out, red and raw
Sometimes I fervently believe that I wont live very long at all

I’ve been forgetting slowly
Sometimes I still read things in your voice
Sometimes I still read things in your voice
Sometimes I still read things in your voice

FRESH - My Redemption Arc

From Don't Worry's new album 'Remorseless Swing' out 25th March via Specialist Subject Records.

Pre-order now - https://smarturl.it/remorselessswing

DON'T WORRY - Head's Chocka

LYRICS

I should be more motivated 
This isn’t how good stories are created
Maybe I’m lazy
I should be more concentrated 
Feel the fire burning to make it
Maybe I’m lazy
Or maybe it’s

Three recessions in thirty years
A handheld newscycle full of fear 
Maybe I’m just diluted by trauma 
From living in an endless apocalyptic drama

Try to think of life somewhere secluded 
Why does that goal feel so deluded 
Maybe I’m lazy
I don’t  have the emotional energy
To think of my own self so tenderly 
Maybe I’m lazy
Or maybe it’s 

Three recessions in thirty years
A handheld newscycle full of fear 
Maybe I’m just diluted by trauma 
From living in an endless apocalyptic drama
The rich burning our planet to ashes
Our own lives dictated by fascists
How could I be feeling any calmer
I’m living in an endless apocalyptic drama

The spark left my eyes
Once the gaping divide was lost
On the horizon 

Maybe I’m lazy
Heck if you say so
Maybe I’m lazy
Or maybe it’s 

Three recessions in thirty years
A handheld newscycle full of fear 
Maybe I’m just diluted by trauma 
From living in an endless apocalyptic drama
The rich burning our planet to ashes
Our own lives dictated by fascists
How could I be feeling any calmer
I’m living in an endless apocalyptic drama

SOOT SPRITE - Lazy

From Witching Waves' fourth album, Streams and Waterways out 1st December via Specialist Subject Records.

https://specialistsubjectrecords.co.uk/products/witching-waves-streams-and-waterways-lp

https://witchingwaves.bandcamp.com/album/streams-and-waterways

https://open.spotify.com/track/0ytaaIQPOsdujV3e2xIP1R?si=25ed2fc21d0c4026

WITCHING WAVES - Vessel

New EP out 26th April 2024
https://shitpresent.bandcamp.com/album/acting-tough
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https://open.spotify.com/album/0leOAKB4CgOXDRekmOjSrl?si=vV4FjeQiRMOA5Xv1l0TOWA

LYRICS

It doesn’t always work out
You’ve just got way too much doubt
Your mother says you need to learn to forget
But it’s not my fault and I need your help
You see I’ve got this picture of myself
And It’s taken me years to come up with
Start again and you’ll be fine
Aren’t you sick of looking for answers all the time
It’s such a shame to have to see you acting tough
Did somebody make you feel like you aren’t good enough
Losing faith in everything you ever loved
Would you be heard if you shout
Do you feel like time’s running out
And every time you think of the things you’d say
Someone else says it’s in your head
You joke that you might as well be dead
And everyone around just looks the other way

SHIT PRESENT - Acting Tough

From the new album "I Feel Weird" out 13th April on Specialist Subject

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GREAT CYNICS - Lost in You

HAMBURGER - Uglie

New single from Harlow, Essex indie rockers, Don't Worry!

https://dontworry.bandcamp.com/album/ever-so-clear
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5cc7uhz3I52ZJWZEvhb6lf?si=j8CSxqz-SqyUHfzf17JCzA

UPCOMING GIGS

30/11/24 - Redchurch Brewery, Harlow
20/12/24 - Exchange, Bristol
31/01/25 - New Cross Inn, London

LYRICS

All night I’m drinking alone
I can’t see where this is going
I just need a little time
Stay with me
I just need a little

I just need a little time
I just need a little time

It’s sad to me
That things turned out this way

But hey
The truth is ever so clear
So clear
Ever so clear
So clear
I’ve soothed the pain
With schadenfreude
It’s no doubt
A treat that’s ever so clear
It’s so clear
Ever so clear
It’s so clear

All night I’m thinking for England
I can’t be with you at all

I just need a little time
Stay with me
I just need a little time

And I’m finding out the hard way
That the truth don’t matter to you
All that’s real is what you truly feel
Finding out the hard way
That you can only be you
All you need is just one minute more

I just need a little time
I just need a little

DON'T WORRY - Ever So Clear

From Soot Sprite's upcoming debut album 'Wield Your Hope Like A Weapon' out 16th May 2025 via Specialist Subject Records.

https://sootsprite.bandcamp.com/album/wield-your-hope-like-a-weapon
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CoB9YE7rYnbmr9zlwv0af?si=IGY_-q7zQp6PBL6icdZ6Aw

UPCOMING GIGS 2025
SAT 10TH MAY - Clwb IFor Bach, Cardiff
SUN 18TH MAY - Exchange, Bristol
SUN 22ND JUNE - The Victoria, London
MON 23RD JUNE - The Prince Albert, Brighton
TUE 24TH JUNE - The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
WED 25TH JUNE - Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich
THU 26TH JUNE - The Grove, Nottingham
SAT 28TH JUNE - Tap Social Brewery, Oxford

Tickets - https://linktr.ee/Sootsprite

LYRICS

Between cycles of news of great floods
And forests on fire, look for the flashes
Glimmers of joy, good people helping 
They lay in the roads, they lighten the load
Of heavy days after days
Days after days

The thick skin you grow, is it really a blessing?
What’s a suit of armor when your ship is sinking
To be soft is a form of defense
I don't want to forget
What those lessons meant

Homes underwater or scorched by blazes
The rich making puzzles, always evasive
Placated concern, laugh at us in private
Just barely hiding contempt for our struggle
More heavy days after days
Days after days

Your fists clenched tight
Knuckles turned to white
Turned us on each other
Nothing feels right
A lifetime of class war
When somebody shook the jar
If we uplift each other
We could go so far

SOOT SPRITE - Days After Days

From Soot Sprite's upcoming debut album 'Wield Your Hope Like A Weapon' out 16th May 2025 via Specialist Subject Records.

https://sootsprite.bandcamp.com/album/wield-your-hope-like-a-weapon
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CoB9YE7rYnbmr9zlwv0af?si=IGY_-q7zQp6PBL6icdZ6Aw

UPCOMING GIGS 2025

SUN 18TH MAY - Exchange, Bristol
SUN 22ND JUNE - The Victoria, London
MON 23RD JUNE - The Prince Albert, Brighton
TUE 24TH JUNE - The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
WED 25TH JUNE - Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich

Tickets - https://linktr.ee/Sootsprite

LYRICS

All my friends are depressed 
Over worked under stress
Just trying to make it through the year with less and less
All my friends are getting sick 
Weighted down with politics 
Something in reality doesn’t quite click

If your escapism is a sign
That something in your stars aren’t quite in line
Change what you can,  what you control
Let the rest wash over you, try not to fold

All my friends under duress
Waiting for whatever’s next
What can be taken to cut us off at the knees
All my friends are in a mess
Scrambling for security
And I’m not an exception by any stretch 

If your escapism is a sign
That something in your stars aren’t quite in line
Change what you can,  what you control
Let the rest wash over you, try not to fold

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious 
We’re all just rain clouds with a sunny disposition 

If your escapism is a sign
That something in your stars aren’t quite in line
Change what you can,  what you control
Let the rest wash over you, try not to fold

SOOT SPRITE - All My Friends Are Depressed

Surprise Guilty Party

From Soot Sprite's upcoming debut album 'Wield Your Hope Like A Weapon' out 16th May 2025 via Specialist Subject Records.

https://sootsprite.bandcamp.com/album/wield-your-hope-like-a-weapon
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CoB9YE7rYnbmr9zlwv0af?si=IGY_-q7zQp6PBL6icdZ6Aw

SOOT SPRITE - Wield Your Hope Like A Weapon

Cautious Optimist

SOOT SPRITE - Vicious Cycles

Waiting On A Day

Name On The Wall

From Don't Worry's new album Idealism out 18th July 2025 via Specialist Subject Records.
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BANDCAMP: https://dontworry.bandcamp.com/album/idealism
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5cc7uhz3I52ZJWZEvhb6lf?si=inZbYRnAR12oyen4sWNhIA

Middle Finger

Leaving That Alone

Ever So Clear

From Fortitude Valley's upcoming album 'Part Of The Problem Baby' out 1st August on Specialist Subject Records.
PRE-ORDER LP / CD: https://specialistsubjectrecords.co.uk/products/fortitude-valley-part-of-the-problem-baby-lp-cd
BANDCAMP: https://fortitudevalley.bandcamp.com/
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/78t3RmocrQxHOLzRuv81tR?si=F2ykJsLETGGlkrXVwQL1lg

Sunshine State

Everything Everywhere

Totally

Take Me Away, I'm Dreaming

Part Of The Problem, Baby

From Fortitude Valley's upcoming album 'Part Of The Problem, Baby' out 1st August on Specialist Subject Records.
PRE-ORDER LP / CD: https://specialistsubjectrecords.co.uk/products/fortitude-valley-part-of-the-problem-baby-lp-cd
BANDCAMP: https://fortitudevalley.bandcamp.com/
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/78t3RmocrQxHOLzRuv81tR?si=F2ykJsLETGGlkrXVwQL1lg

FORTITUDE VALLEY ON TOUR 2025

THU 11TH SEP - Duffy's, Leicester
FRI 12TH SEP - Hope & Ruin, Brighton
SAT 13TH SEP - New River Studios, London
SUN 14TH SEP - Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield
FRI 19TH SEP - Star & Shadow, Newcastle
FRI 26TH SEP - Mono, Glasgow
SAT 27TH SEP - Rat & Pigeon, Manchester
FRI 14TH NOV - Wharf Chambers, Leeds
SAT 15TH NOV - Blue Moon, Cambridge

TICKETS - https://linktr.ee/fortitudevalley

FORTITUDE VALLEY - Oceans Apart

Don't You Wanna Be Near Me?

Into The Wild

Red Sky

From Shit Present's self titled 12" EP coming out later in 2015 on Specialist Subject Records.

New band from Iona Cairns (who you may know from Great Cynics) along with members / ex members of Gnarwolves, OK Pilot, The Computers & The Smith Street Band.

SHIT PRESENT - Anxious Type

From the forthcoming album, Greyhound Dreams out 9th October on Specialist Subject / Red Scare Industries.

UK - pre-order LP: http://bit.ly/1Q0TXmU
US - pre-order LP / CD: http://bit.ly/1Kc9Zqo

SAM RUSSO - Runaways

From the upcoming split 7" with Martha, out 16th October on Specialist Subject.

Pre-order 7" here:  http://shop.specialistsubjectrecords.co.uk/products/557560-radiator-hospital-martha-split-7

RADIATOR HOSPITAL - Will You Find Me?

From the forthcoming album, Greyhound Dreams out 9th October on Specialist Subject / Red Scare Industries.

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SAM RUSSO -  Eye Candy

From Soot Sprite's new EP Sharp Tongue out 11th October on Specialist Subject Records. Pre-order 12" / stream - http://smarturl.it/sootsprite

SOOT SPRITE - Bleed

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https://open.spotify.com/track/2j06XjKN9KRLaaOm4EbSDc?si=NcceclSHRQmd3O9qmCFfZQ

LYRICS

Pastel shades in the early heat of May
But all I see is grey
Monochrome scenes feels like it’s all through a screen
But who am I to say what’s real

Is something wrong with me?
Rings like a silent scream 
My sadness is compiling
It’s summer and I don’t feel like smiling

The long days shouldn’t feel this bleak
But it feels like I’m on a losing streak
The smell of suncream and salty air
I feel nothing and I don’t care

Is something wrong with me?
Rings like a silent scream
My sadness is compiling 
It’s summer and I don’t feel like smiling

Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 
Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 
Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 

The long days shouldn’t feel this bleak
But it feels like I’m on a losing streak

SOOT SPRITE - It's Summer and I Don't Feel Like Smiling

From Teenage Terrified 12" out 11th Dec 2020
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LYRICS

You made me supersad
By dumping me in the trash
No toxic waste and not a spider bite
could give me power to put my heart back right

My tough arms can tear you limb from limb
And sharp teeth just wanna dig on in
Yeah, I can fly or turn invisible
But it's no good I'm fucking miserable

Cos I thought we could do everything
But right now I can't do anything

I'm sorry, I'm not giving in
On the city that I'm living in
God I hope it's the kind of place
Days I save never go away

Cos I thought we could do everything
But right now I can't do anything

HAMBURGER - Supersad

New single from Supermilk! New album coming later in 2021 on Specialist Subject Records

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2GtvFrvgJjN9biM7KWUB5P
https://supermilk4u.bandcamp.com/

LYRICS

You’ve got an axe to grind
There’s a place in town that haunts me
It’s true, setting fire to it earned
a death before you warned me
Their grue trickles into the forest
(where) shallow is the whole stay

Pelican Pete
You’ve gone too far this time
Pelican Pete
You’re out of your mind

You’ve got grave defined
In the shadow of the arcade
It’s all we can offer you now
As a memory of the old way
Your blood barely filled up the bath
Now as shallow as the first day

Pelican Pete

SUPERMILK - Pelican Pete

New single out 9th March 2021 via Specialist Subject Records!

https://freshpunks.bandcamp.com/album/girl-clout
https://smarturl.it/girlclout

LYRICS

You don’t even know me
You just want to look good
I feel the anger slowly
I’d kill you if I could

I feel a constant lethargy
The pressure to say yes
No one will take me seriously
I want to be the best

I didn’t pour my heart out
For you to fancy me
We didn’t drive for hours
To idolise your greed

I feel a constant lethargy
The pressure to say yes
No one will take me seriously
I want to be the best
It’s here for sure and certain
I see it in your eyes
Play shows with us for girl clout
Tell me you’re one of the good guys

FRESH - Girl Clout

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