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Nothingheads: 3000 Years In Showbusiness – Single Review and Video Premiere
Nothingheads: 3000 Years In Showbusiness (Just Step Sideways) Ltd lathe-cut 7″ | DL (available via Bandcamp) Out 28th October 2022 Nothingheads’ new single, a taste of their forthcoming EP, is an aural blast of jagged guitars to make Keith Levene proud. The return of post-punk to the fore in recent years has, once again, become […]
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Nothingheads: 3000 Years In Showbusiness
(Just Step Sideways)
Ltd lathe-cut 7″ | DL (available via Bandcamp)
Out 28th October 2022
Nothingheads’ new single, a taste of their forthcoming EP, is an aural blast of jagged guitars to make Keith Levene proud.
The return of post-punk to the fore in recent years has, once again, become shorn of the vitality of pushing the levels and smashing through the fourth wall to fire a blunt-force message at point-blank range right into the listeners’ consciousness. A revival that seemingly started with the high-powered pummelling of IDLES descended into radio-friendly sprechgesang. Nothingheads are here to drag it kicking and screaming back to where it should be, firmly injecting the Punk back into the mix on their new single 3000 Years In Showbusiness.
It riots along like PiL, confrontational and searing, angular guitars firing out over and tank-driven rhythmic rumble of the drums and bass, dissonant blasts over which singer Rob Fairey fires targeted missives, aimed at the hypocrisy of the times we inhabit. It places them well in the mould of bands like Mclusky, biting in its dismantling.
On the video for the song, the band say: “‘From the ancient colosseum, to casinos, cockfights, porn and reality TV, there’s always been a need to entertain and be entertained, as long as eyes are watching and money’s coming in. So we tried to make a non-linear video to loosely explore that theme.”
3000 Years In Showbusiness is the first single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming EP. We’ll await with bated breath for more.
Nothingheads are online, on Facebook, Instagram and Bandcamp.
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