Great British Rock! Turn it UP.

'Oxide' is about how fear and uncertainty try to undermine your efforts to change. Those who can’t accept change often threaten to destroy everything. But you’ll never create a better future by wistfully looking at the past.

Pre-Save/Save/Listen @ https://ffm.to/oxide

Oxide

Better is about self-acceptance. Facing demons, breaking down barriers and being more honest and kind. We've really struggled during the Covid-19 pandemic, losing 2 members as well as momentum. We're picking ourselves up & carrying on though!

You can find 'Better' & all our previous releases on Spotify, Apple Music & all other good streaming services.

Also find us at www.thesilverbayonets.co.uk

Better

Final track from the forthcoming 'Unfolding' album to be relesed in September 2021.

Features vocals by Minki Malkin


...go on and live your own life...shine your light...more aware and wide awake.

Light

Light ft. Minki Malkin

'Amplified'

Release date - 7th August 2020

"Amplified is the third song on our future album release 'Unfolding' and deals with how everything you’ve been taught and told to value has been to keep you in your place and distracted in a power grab. What if adjusting your core values could give you a new perspective and let you live your best life?"


Lyrics -

Falling into deep despair
How did it end this way?
When did tomorrow turn into yesterday?
And when did we come to realise
We were naive and absurd
When did we find out we couldn’t change the world?

Amplified

We were always told
Practice makes perfect
Take that splinter out of your eye
Why weren’t we told
Practice makes permanent?
Mistakes they get amplified

Good times seem so fleeting
And bad times seem to last
We talk as if all we’ve got is the past
Convinced that there’s no future
‘Cos no-one gets out alive
So why not make the most of this borrowed time?

Amplified

We were always told
Practice makes perfect
Take that splinter out of your eye
Why weren’t we told
Practice makes permanent?
Mistakes they get amplified

Celebrating ignorance
As victims are put on trial
And empty slogans keep you in denial
No backlash for the guilty
Who locked us in this cage
Of entrenched opinions that no-one wants to change

Amplified

We were always told
Practice makes perfect
Take that splinter out of your eye
Why weren’t we told
Practice makes permanent?
Mistakes they get amplified

Amplified

nterview with Kabir Sheikh of The Silver Bayonets on "Weekends on Radio Ashford" on Sunday 20th September 2020.

Kabir talks about the new music, Coronavirus lockdown, songwriting + more

Stream/download tracks by The Silver Bayonets at www.thesilverbayonets.co.uk, on Spotify, on Apple Music, and all other good streaming/digital platforms.

Interview with Kabir Sheikh (The Silver Bayonets) on Radio Ashford (20/09/20) with Sam Griffin

This is the guitar solo from our forthcoming single release 'Change'.

OUT Friday 2nd October

Pre-save the full track on Spotify or Apple Music via our nifty little smartlink - https://ffm.to/changeme

Change (guitar solo)

GUITAR SOLO - from our forthcoming single release 'Change'. Pre-save the full track on Spotify

'Change' talks about other people wanting to change you for their own ends, rather than helping you to change for your own good.

A while back, a well known BBC DJ & musician asked that we change every aspect of our band to make us more palatable for him!

The sheer hypocrisy and blissful unawareness just fit perfectly with the overall story arc of 'Unfolding', our forthcoming 3rd album, from which the track 'Change' comes.

Change

'Caught' - facing up to the past and now facing a choice about the future.

To be released on FRIDAY 4th DECEMBER

Caught

Merry Christmas everyone!

We’ve finally got some new recordings to share with Gen on them! She’s been in the band for almost a year 😱

Our new version of Inside the Jar, and a cover of Fix Me Now by Garbage with Gen on lead vocal, can now be downloaded for free from our website!

http://thesilverbayonets.co.uk/Inside-The-Jar-2020/

Enjoy the tracks and we’ll see you in 2021
🤞🎁🎅

Inside The Jar (2020)

Inside the Jar (2020)

New - a resolution to change for the better. 

Addressing the big stuff is never easy but the person in the song wants to let go and find the positive aspects of themselves. 

It’s hopeful as f**k.

New (Single Edit)

The Silver Bayonets are a London-based rock band whose loud rock guitars blend with vocal harmonies and pop hooks to produce melodic, often anthemic, and very addictive power pop.

Fronting the group on guitar and lead vocals is songwriter Kabir Sheikh, and features Gen Ding (guitar), Ross Guy (bass) and Enzo Cuticchia (drums), all of whom add backing vocals.

Their self-recorded debut album 'The Pain Inside Your Head' (2015) received radio airplay and great reviews in the indie music press. They enlisted producer Dave Draper (The Wildhearts, Terrorvision, Kerbdog) to create the follow-up, 'Braveface' (2018), and their third album, 'Unfolding' (2020). 

“Awake”, the first single from 'Unfolding', received repeated airplay on BBC Introducing in May 2020.

Live and in-studio sessions have been recorded for Stag Radio at the University of Surrey and Croydon Radio, and the band have been heavily featured on Phoenix FM in Essex. A live set in 2016 was also recorded for TV broadcast across Europe. Gigs at London’s best unsigned nights at the Camden Assembly, Amersham Arms, Nightclub Kolis and Fest, alongside appearances at Camden Rocks Festival in 2018 and 2019 have built a reputation for intense live shows that sees them mentioned as highlights of the nights and festivals they play, playing to a steadily increasing fanbase.

The band have recently contributed to, and been credited on Ginger Wildheart’s (The Wildhearts) latest solo album “Headzapoppin”.

2020 sees the band releasing a steady flow of 9 brand new tracks which together form the ‘story arc’/concept album “Unfolding” to be released as the band’s third full studio album.

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