Half Time Punks, the Leeds primarily based all day occasion curated by Nervous Twitch, is again for it’s fourth 12 months, happening on Saturday third Might at Wharf Chambers.
As with earlier years, it’s a day celebrating indie-pop, punk, new wave, and all the things in-between, bands from 2.30pm till 11pm.
Advance tickets £14 (which features a reserving charge) from Jumbo Data right here
Half Time Punks is like the final word youth membership (for adults) with all of the quirky children with one of the best T-Shirts and file collections hanging round collectively as hand picked acts vie to be your favorite new discovery…
Earlier bands to have graced the Half Time Punks stage embrace the likes of The Grime, The Crimson Stains and DiabloFurs within the first 12 months; IDORIS, Damaged Down Golf Cart and Pete Bentham and the Dinner Women in 2023; and Breakup Haircut, Tits-Up and Ming Metropolis Rockers final 12 months. Not forgetting units from the hosts, Nervous Twitch, themselves.
This 12 months’s eclectic line up of these invited to play Half Time Punks contains, in alphabetical order…
Boggis Fringe are the brand new children on the block -a Leeds-based power-trio, not too long ago fashioned within the anxious summer season of 2024.
From Nottingham are the psychedelic / grunge / storage quartet Lifeless Mint who’re releasing their debut album in March, a few months forward of the occasion.
Making their approach throughout the Pennines are Manchester’s Glimmerpit, who describe themselves as, “Noise. Krautrock. Psych pop. Silliness. Equal components rock band, standup comedy and group remedy, telling tales of neurodivergent expertise, gender id, job disillusionment, relationships, politics and psychological well being by the medium of irreverent surrealist post-punk songs.”
Palooka 5, signed to the Spinout Nuggets, play Nineteen Sixties-tinged ‘sci-fi surf music.’ Suppose B52s with a ‘dangerous vibrations’ fashionable twist. The band have obtained numerous radio performs on either side of the Atlantic, and in 2024 Palooka 5 launched into their most formidable undertaking up to now, enjoying two movie festivals offering a reside soundtrack to Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci fi basic Metropolis. This 12 months they’re set to launch it on vinyl.
Rats! Rats! Rats!, fashioned in late 2022, is a two-piece grunge/punk band from Gosport, close to Portsmouth who launched their Dwell! Dwell! Dwell! album on Uncommon Vitamin Data in 2023 with a penchant for loud songs about BMXs, Kia-Ora and Tennis (amongst different issues).
Hailing from the North East are the Kings ‘n’ Queen of POWER PERP PUNK! SHANK and the SHIVS, after which there are The Wind-up Birds, the 4 piece post-punk Leeds band who’ve been round for greater than a decade, identified for his or her uncooked, energetic sound and politically charged lyrics.
Lastly, out of alphabetical sequence, are the hosts, Nervous Twitch. The band spent the
latter a part of 2024 writing and dealing on a tonne of latest songs and have not too long ago completed the second session with sound engineer Alex Greenwood, who has additionally labored on their latest albums, Some Individuals By no means Change, Nervous Twitch and I Gained’t Conceal. Erin says, “They’re all coming collectively properly and we’re placing the ultimate touches to the mixes. There’s some actual gems and we’re useless excited to share them!” The band can be supporting indie legends The Darling Buds in York on 1st February, heading as much as Edinburgh for a present on eighth February, and enjoying a particular Lux Inside memorial gig in Newcastle on the fifteenth, for which the band promise some Cramps covers and originals written particularly for the occasion.
Half Time Punks is a good, relaxed time out and an opportunity to take a look at some nice reside music. The venue, Wharf Chambers, is a members’ membership and it is advisable be a member, or visitor of a member, so as to attend. To hitch, please go to the web site. Membership prices £2 and requires a minimal of 48 hours to take impact.
Advance tickets for Half Time Punks price £14 (which features a reserving charge) and can be found from Jumbo Data right here. Entry can be £17 on the door.
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All phrases by Iain Key. See his writer profile right here or discover him on Bluesky
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