Coming up this month:
Thu 3rd Apr- TwoHeadedDog presents: Big Mess (DK)/ Coughin’ Vicars/ The Dogs
Fri 4th Apr- FBM Bellwitch presents: Wode/ Blind Monarch/ Black Groove/ Mouths
Thu 17th Apr (Easter Bank Hol) Distort Sheff presents: Easter Slam Night The Flex/ Belgrado (BCN)/ Rat Cage/ Sex Germs/ Masochists
Sat 19th Apr- Tooth & Nail UK x Implied Noise presents: Horsebastard/Give Over/ Thumbsucker/ Forbidden Sin
Sun 27th Apr- Delicious Clam x Slime Palais presents: “See You in Hell” Exhibition and music (a Snakeman360vision joint) +Karaoke
Thu 3rd Apr- TwoHeadedDog presents: Big Mess/ Coughin’ Vicars/ The Dogs
TwoHeadedDog presents:
BIG MESS (Denmark): Melodic power-pop punk legends over from Copenhagen.
COUGHIN’ VICARS: ex-members of Walk the Plank and Cold Ones playing Mersey post punk/death rock.
THE DOGS: Members of Chain of Flowers and South Yorks Mick Hucknall barkin’ down the doors.
DISIRED EFFECT: NEW Sheff post-punk out of Delicious Clam.
Doors 8pm, £8 ADV/ £10 OTD/ £5 Under 18’s
Friday 4th April- FBM Bellwitch presents: Wode/ Blind Monarch/ Black Groove/ Mouths
FBM Bellwitch presents:
WODE: Manchester Black/Death Metal warriors play material from their forthcoming album on 20 Buck Spin.
BLIND MONARCH: Esoteric, relentless blackened doom.
BLACK GROOVE: Gnarly and uncompromisingly, ugly as the world, in your face sludge hate from Eastbourne.
MOUTHS: Atmospheric Post Hardcore from Sheffield. MOUTHS put out their debut EP at the end of 2024 on Moment of Collapse.
Doors about 7pm. £10 Standard, £12 Solidarity, £8 Concession
Thu 17th Apr (Easter Bank Hol) Distort Sheff presents: Easter Slam Night The Flex/ Belgrado/ Rat Cage/ Sex Germs/ Masochists
Distort Sheffield presents: Easter Slam Night
Doors 7PM £5-10 advanced tickets, more OTD (£5 U18s). NOTAFLOF always. Further information and adv tix available via the link.
THE FLEX: Leeds big dog shit
BELGRADO (Barcelona): Brooding synthy post-punk
RAT CAGE: Local dads n lads, back to tear up 2025
SEX GERMS: Intricate heavy, explosive noise hardcore from Lesta
MASOCHISTS: Legit as fuck weirdo hardcore/ from the heart peace-punk
Sat 19th Apr- Tooth & Nail UK x Implied Noise presents: Horsebastard/Give Over/ Thumbsucker/ Life’s Forbidden Sin
Tooth & Nail UK x Implied Noise presents:
HORSEBASTARD: Face-melting blast of irreverent Scouse Grindcore since 2010.
GIVE OVER: Formerly FAxFO, Leeds ‘ardcore punks
THUMBSUCKER: Fast hardcore punk from Leicester. Members of Nothing Clean, Diet Pills, Disability, Toecutter HC, etc.
FORBIDDEN SIN: Sheffield locals
£8 tickets. Doors 6:30pm Curfew: 10pm
Sun 27th Apr- Delicious Clam x Slime Palais presents: “See You in Hell” Exhibition and music (a Snakeman360vision joint) +Karaoke
DC x Slime Palais Presents: “See You In Hell” A Snakeman360Vision Joint
Live:
SELF IMMOLATION MUSIC: One of the best live bands in the country. Psych rock 4 da punx and the masses, if you haven’t twigged onto them yet r u mad?
EYE MEASURE ft SNAKEMAN: Revenge never tasted sweeter with live coding/ beats meets scramz. Evil rap rock. Angels Never Die.
KATZ WITH A K: Hottest rapper in Sheffield atm, check out his new album “The Fixer” to see what the fuss is all about!!
VIDEO EVIDENCE: Leeds hxc with members of Coded Marking and olde Clam faves Splutter on Brainrotter Records serving pure primordial soup.
ALYS BESTOS: Electronic noise pop punk with keys, guitar and even a tin whistle popping off. Pure candy for the brain.
R. LOOMES: Dark folk magic from Sister Wives guitarist legend in her own right.
HENRY PORTER: Fort Keel frontman debuts his lovely solo material to ease us into a sweet Sunday sesh.
The XOXOS: *Jack Skellington voice* what’s this? What’s this? A power pop solo opener? I wonder who it could be...
+ @xosnakeman360visionxo art exhibition with new n olde pieces+ karaoke!!!
Tickets are only a FIVER adv and will be more on the door! So cop one now in bio.
2pm start, curfew around 10:30
Public Acid: Interview
photo from Public Acid bandcamp (Kirsten Theon & Rachel Shorr)
On the road to Noise Annoys, we’re catching up with the bands on the line-up… next we spoke to Public Acid. A band from the North Carolina punk community that is known for its underground scene and producing bands like Double Negative, Corrosion of Conformity, AS DRIP, Scarecrow, and Natural End:
Q) You guys are old heads in the crazy world of punk- how has it changed (and what has stayed the same!) since you started out?
A) Old heads! That’s my first time hearing us called that. I suppose we have been touring and putting out music for 8 years as Public Acid. It’s hard to talk about the progression of punk/DIY in the past several years without mentioning how the pandemic changed everything. When we were first starting out, being a touring punk band from the American South truly felt like a labor of love. Shows weren’t as big, not as many bands, and not nearly as many young people. Coming out of the pandemic, punk and DIY seems to have exploded. It’s been incredible to see so many scenes thriving with new bands and young kids making genuine protect music. It’s like all these fucked up punk kids were just growing in a Petri dish for 2 years and emerged ready to take over.
Before the pandemic I still felt like the youngest person in the room at most gigs, now that is definitely not the case. Fuck, maybe I am an old head.
Q) What are the punk and DIY communities like in Greensboro and Richmond, is there a lot of crossover between the two?
A) To be clear, none of us live in Greensboro anymore. 3 of us are in Richmond, 1 of us is in NYC, and 1 of us in Raleigh (getting together to practice can be very frustrating).
Years ago our crew in Greensboro tried our best to create a local scene that aligned with our values and the music we wanted to cater to. We had a good thing going for a while but life goes on, people move away, and things change. These days there isn’t a lot of crossover between Richmond and Greensboro to my knowledge, however I know there are some folks holding it down in Greensboro and making shit happen and I think that’s sick.
Richmond has always been a hub for hardcore punk and is a city that is pretty much on every band’s tour route. In Greensboro we were very lucky to be able to bring the bands we wanted to see. I think Richmond has the best scene in the whole country right now.
Q) With Public Acid what influences shaped your sound and how does it differ from your other bands?
A) I’m sure you can hear the obvious influence from Scandinavian and Japanese hardcore in our sound, but most of us are freaks for US hardcore more than anything. We’ve been writing music and playing together for a long time and I think we’ve found a good chemistry. We rarely talk about trying to write music a certain way or try to emulate a specific sound, at this point we are just doing what comes naturally to us.
I can’t speak for everyone in the band, but I’d say our other bands are a product of the different people in them and different ways of writing. Sure they all have a general focus but I like to approach creativity as it comes.
Best of the rest
Roundup from the Sheffield DIY everyday things:
Sat 5th Apr- Section 80 Live : Loyds Trip/ Black Poo/ Anxiety States. (Squat party, ask a crusty) Donation for bands, BYOB.
Sat 5th Apr- Clams in Their Eyes- back and bigger than ever. Tickets
Wed 9th Apr- Icepicks at Dawn presents: Zeddon (Japan)/Video Evidence/ Internal Riot/ Knork(e) @Hatch doors 7pm £10 OTD, BYOB, notaflof.
Sat 12th Apr- Gut Level live with Nic Krog/LINTD & Porter Brook 9pm-2am
Fri 28th Mar- Sickbucket presents: The Vegetable Collective/ Fidget & The Twitchers/ Bait Britain @Zephyr’s (Stag Works, John St. S2 4QU) £12 ADV £14 OTD.
Punk Rock Personals
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Problem Child
Each month we ask our members to write in with their personal problems here’s one:
Dear Agony Guncle,
Whatever happened to pop-punk? It’s all chain punk this, poached eggs that, baggy gen-Z youthcrew wing-chung, blackened noise mosher-core, plinky plonky powerpop- whatever happened to punk being about drinking some tinnies from koozies with yer mates and having FUN?
-Kind Regards, anonymous pop-punk enjoyer.
Advice:
Dear anonymous pop-punk enjoyer, stop living in the past. Maybe take a long hard look in the mirror and ask yourself the question, is it still 2006? Chances are your eyebags and hairline say no. Even IF the Warped Tour came back, it ain’t coming back… get over it and live in the moment.
Best wishes, Ciaran xxx
Hungry for more bad advice? If that is indeed the case, why not mail in your problem to Ciaran, our resident “agony guncle” for some questionable life coaching? also available via lugholemailinglist@gmail.com
What’s next?
Fri 2nd May: The Briefs/ Geoffrey OiCott/ Rivalry/ Any Old Iron
Sat 3rd May: Dishonor/Agonsy
23rd-25th May Noise Annoys weekender FULL LINE-UP ANNOUNCED
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