8-piece Socialist R'n'B band … 5th album 'Reading Writing Revolution' out this Spring …  “taking down the Tories one song at a time” Martin Horsefield, The Guardian ... “Actual full-on revolutionary socialist R&B – imagine Dr Feelgood with a brainful of Gramsci or The Redskins with a sense of humour (it is possible, really). Positing that the indie landfill cannot be changed but must be destroyed, Thee Faction launch a critique of societal hegemony on the back of a BIG grimy blues’n’b twang. Excellent.” Andrew Harrison, The Word Magazine ...  “Timely. I love these mad bastards” Simon Price, The Independent on Sunday


Union Man / Proletarian Man

Thee Faction – blistering, unpleasant socialist R&B with an explicit political agenda.

“Terrific stuff. Well done! Here, we celebrate the successes of the working class” Danny Baker, broadcaster

“..barricade storming, smart, fun, instantly energising” Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror (number 17 in the Daily Mirror ‘Albums of 2011’)

“..bringing down the Tories one song at a time” The Guardian

“The fourth album by self-styled “unpleasant socialist R&B band” Thee Faction has as its stated goal “complete human emancipation”.  A dozen exhilarating attacks on austerity in a Redskins-meets-Dr Feelgood style, ‘Good Politics’ is packed with quotable slogans (“We didn’t start a class war … but we’re gonna end one”, “The House Of Lords over the cliff in a bus”). Thee Faction defy you to say they’re joking. They are. They aren’t. They are/n’t. 4/5″  Simon Price, Independent On Sunday

“Thee Faction provide the perfect antidote to the smug gentrification of politics and music” writes Karl Marx’s biographer Francis Wheen and, as ever, he’s not wrong … piledriving, brassy R’n’B  & proletarian rousing politics with unapologetic gusto…Specific problems are skewered, specific remedies offered on Better Than Wages &Employment…They make a mockery of pop’s enfeebled “post-political” age… Get your hands untied! they cry. They’ve done their bit. The rest is up to us. 8/10″ David Stubbs Classic Rock

“Mixing the grungey pub rock power of Dr. Feelgood and the bolshy brass of Dexy’s, virtually every track is scalp-pricklingly good, with nagging, catchy riffs. 4/5″ MOJO

  “…a critique of societal hegemony on the back of a grimy blues’n’b twang… rife with the contagious energy of people who know they’re right. In short, meet Comrade Feelgood.” Andrew Harrison, Editor, Q Magazine.

 “To bring a bit of revolution to the evolution of rock music, you can either, push the sonic manifesto to the limit and cultivate a strange branch of the family tree from that experimental seed. Or, by marrying an original lyrical idea with a traditional riff, turn an established form into something nouveaux. The latter is the strategy of Thee Faction and it works, if only because it takes a certain determined, and clearly collective, genius, to extract Marxist theory from dusty tomes and weld it to soul/blue collar rock n’ roll, to give birth to Socialism Rhythm & Blues..” John Robb’s Louder than War  webzine

  “Thee Faction’s mission is to restore to pop the Socialist polemic of the 80s and not to rest until the last member of Mumford & Sons is strangled with the entrails of Coldplay’s drummer…with the musical weapons of pub-rock, skinny R’n’B & clipped brass..the titles & the sleeve suggest they’re ruefully aware of the aesthetic difficulties of agit-pop; but their tongues are only partly in cheek. 100% fun AND they 100% mean it, man.” David Stubbs, Classic Rock

 “..taking down the Tories one song at a time” Martin Horsefield,The Guardian

  “gloriously exuberant…acknowledges the past but helps take us into a glorious future.” Rock ‘N’ Reel

 “Twinning Dr Feelgood and eastern-bloc rockin’ beats … to rabble-rouse your mind and Agit-prop your pop …Singing Down the Government could be the best song Dexy’s never wrote … Thee Faction have come to steal the governments political picnic, reclaiming it for the masses. 9/10″ Vive Le Rock

 “Want to find out who GDH Cole is while enjoying Canvey Island-style R’n’B? Of course you do. If not, why not?” Gideon Coe, BBC6 Music

“Actual full-on revolutionary socialist R&B – imagine Dr Feelgood with a brainful of Gramsci or The Redskins with a sense of humour (it is possible, really). Positing that the indie landfill cannot be changed but must be destroyed, Thee Faction launch a critique of societal hegemony on the back of a BIG grimy blues’n’b twang. Excellent.” Andrew Harrison, The Word Magazine

“Timely. I love these mad bastards” Simon Price, The Independent on Sunday

“What a cracking record” Paul Brannigan, Kerrang!
