Nite Songs

Autumn’s here, the leaves are falling and the Singles Bar is open for business and having what can best be described as a mass clearout with no less than three parts to this month! Come in from the rain and cold and let's get you served up with something to take the edge off the chill... Kicking us off this month,  Brat Coven are a four-piece from Glasgow with a self-titled EP (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗) who sound like some righteous collision between Dream Nails and the Runaways with the ferocious anti-dick pic culture snarl of Not Your Girl  being a particular highlight. The frenetic Ugly  is similarly raging against societal norms before the lurching  Ninety Seven  captures the creeping paranoia most women feel walking home alone at night. A very impressive first salvo - I'd say that this lot are well worth keeping an eye on.  Bandcamp Link Liverpudlians  She Drew The Gun  are one of those bands I've heard of on band bills without actually hearing any materia...

"Well I'm living in the city in the shadow of things to come/Everywhere I turn, neon lights like a midnight sun/Livin' in the city under traffic control, it's just enough to make you believe that there's a subway to heaven and an underground to kingdom come..."  - The Boys  - Livin' In The City After a couple of forays elsewhere, this week's Garbage Days Revisited sees us return to the waters of punk and power pop with one of the great overlooked albums of 1977, the debut from The Boys. I've said it before in both Sounds From The Junkshop and here that in my early twenties I started seriously listening to punk and while I've always said I'd never doubt the joys of listening to the Pistols, the Clash , the Damned , the Ramones etc, it was always travelling down the lesser explored backroads that I found a lot of my favourite bands of the genre. The Boys were one such case - formed by guitarist Matt Dangerfield who'd been in proto-punks ...