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New Year, New music. discover Sarah and the Sundays

9th Jan 2023 — Leave a comment

Start your new year by listening to something different.

Sarah and The Sunday’sLiam Yorgensen,Brendan Whyburn,Declan Chill, Miles Reynolds and Quinn Lane

Sarah and The Sundays are much more than an indie, alternative rock and roll band from Connecticut. Their album The Living End is a statement from the soul, a journey of self-love, honesty and a demand for more.

Vices confronts those echoey chasms with us is all that we try so hard to ignore that they then become earthquakes that shatter our surfaces. It mirrors are inner psyche dragging it up to the light. It asks of us who we are and who we are trying to be.

It’s all about people and their need for places, their zealous drive to take up spaces whilst frustration rushes to paint their faces. We don’t like who we are when we are sad but smile at ourselves when the sun shines upon us. Are we only good people when good things happen to us? Is that why we are shaded with all the bad, do our surroundings and their outcomes reflect who we are? Perhaps we are not always the positive light, the always right one after all.

The line “Do you remember how my life went to shit because I let it?” holds an honest sense of responsibility, an accountability for who we are when it is so easy to blame circumstance, civilians, our job, our lover when it is always and only us who have the power to change.

The band, made up of Liam Yorgensen,Brendan Whyburn,Declan Chill, Miles Reynolds and Quinn Lane navigate the innerworkings of mundanity, dodge the curveballs of life by dressing them up in a groove laden, sweet guitar melody, energetic drum beat and the finishing polish of  satirical lyrics.

Their song I’m so bored is inspiring take on a lump in bed. Boredom has a bad reputation, it’s artificial nights, closed eyes binging the same TV series and bad breath. Boredom is a barrier preventing us from our potential, this looming weight of what could be sits just behind the TV. But really boredom can lead to creativity and Sarah and The Sunday’s puts a fun spin on this concept.

 Life is happening in another room when you’re waiting for something to happen to you. Will that girl text me back? When will my patience be rewarded? Do good things really come to those who wait? Boredom is an act of rebellion, the need for change but not yet knowing how to incite it. A groan is a candle held up to dispel the weight of inertia, it is the need for something to happen and the want for more. Admitting your bored is a refusal to get comfortable, to strive for better to find what is out their and claim it. Be bored, be better.

Their instrumentals and chilled attitude are a welcome call back to bands such as the Happy fits, Dayglow and Group Love. From drinking pre-drank shots (see TikTok below) to selling out shows all over America this band are one for your new, year new me playlist.

SATS on TikTok

The Publics release TV inspired single Young Hearts

12th Dec 2022 — Leave a comment

What is worse than a heartbreak? A heartbreak that happens on national TV. New single, Young Hearts,by indie powerhouse the publics recounts a friend of the band and their unfortunate date on Channel fours exceptional programme Teens First Dates.

The Publics, Elliot Stephenson, Ebony Broughton and Josh Porter.

Clothes pressed, hair done, speech prepped,a few deep breathes and its lights camera action. The room is lit but the spotlight is just on you then she walks in, and you don’t know what to do. The steady pace of the drum in this track echoes the stilted breath and heavy heartbeat of any first date goer. Crack a few jokes in the hope they’ll crack a smile, hoping the money you’ve spent on cocktails is worthwhile.

Conversation stunted and a few awkward silences,you start to realise they’re not looking at you but at the door, maybe this is not the one you’ve been looking for. Their phone rings as you ask for their number, she half mutters“I’ll catch you later’ and instead of calling her you call a taxi to take you home.

The optimism echoed throughout the track is aided by the influence of 80s synth that complement the lifted harmonies and evoke images of hopefulness, a bad first date doesn’t mean you can’t have a decent second one. The shredded guitar paces the vocals to the chorus build up which will have you bouncing on the dance floor. The poetic lyrics to this track juxtapose the frustration felt in the face of rejection with the determination to overcome and find salvation in the same arms that shoved you away. 

Young Hearts. The Publics

Once again, the narrative explores themes of heartbreak, rejection, and dancing through it all, this semantic is what gives The Publics their distinctive sound and recognisable identity. They stand as a reminder that hearts heal, adorned in audible armour, buttressing us for better. It is no wonder that on playing this banger on BBC Radio Nottingham Dean Jackson described it as “brilliantly written and wonderfully performed”


The song was recorded at Electric-Bear Studios in the band’s hometown, Mansfield, which has recently undergone a huge renovation. The studio improvements help further elevate The Public’s reimagined sound as ‘Young Hearts’ aims to propel the band into the limelight of the UK Indie Rock scene.

The Publics, made up of Elliot Stephenson (lead guitar and songwriter), Josh Porter (guitar and singer) and Ebony Broughton (Keyboard and Singer), are making moves in the indie genre. Within 5 months they’ve gone from playing at a garden party to supporting indie powerhouse The Reytons. Their previous release, Marathon in heels, saw them sell out their Nottingham headline show.

 They’ve also headlined Mansfield Wetherspoons, Stag and Pheasant, twice and have supported the likes of Corella, Deco and Overpass. This upward trajectory continues with their next gig set for the 21st of December supporting The Clause. With a flurry of gigs planned for 2023, the first in January supporting Albany,The Publics are a name to add to your playlist, so you can say you knew them before everybody else.

Links to upcoming shows:

The Clause– In Nottingham

Albany– In Lincoln

The Thieves- In Newcastle

To keep up to date with The Publics follow their socials!

To discover more sounds follow my instagram!

It must also be said that Teens First Dates does also lead to some finding true love and is a really entertaining show.

Scotland Based Band YABBA release debut single GET BY.

15th Oct 2022 — 1 Comment
Josh Kirk (vocalist), Korey Patterson (guitarist), Elias Muusavi (guitarist), Max Thomson (drummer), Nick Farrell (synth) Taken by Owen Davies

The rhythm of a 9-5 starts at 7am as an alarm wrestles you from sleep.Teeth brushed, coffee drank you are on your commute. You sweat, you serve, you balance the numbers, get home, devour dinner, swallow TV, catch up on reading to fall asleep. It continues.

How do you get by? Sex? Drugs? Rock and Roll? Is this your real life. This inescapable cycle of repeated events.You worked hard, you were promised more than this, but this is all there is for people like us.

GET BY Yabba

YABBA’s guitar shredding arrival tears this mentality asunder. A raging bass and a near by siren echoing, this song screams at you to question status you, to hold these restrictive systems accountable. Maybe don’t quit your job just yet, but you can certainly change it. This song demands you to challenge predictability, resonating with those of us haunted by the dissatisfaction of this relenting reality. YABBA both exposes and heralds the addictive vices approximately 3.2 million of brits find themselves using to “GET BY”. Another violent cycle, we are all victim to some sort of rhythm in our lives, nut at least we can learn to dance to it.

From Dumfries, South West Scotland, the stirring quintet are prepared for a full scale assault on the normalcy of the indie landscape. A concoction of incomparable sleaze disco, self indulgent track about drug use and addiction, this song would not be a stranger to a rave playlist, it is both melancholic and danceable.

Speaking about their hard edged debut YABBA revealed that “Get By can be used as much like C4 is used to blast the doors off a bank. The song carries the same burden shared with the common people in the UK. GET BY is the theme song Stone Cold Steve Austin wished he had. GET BY is big music, once you hear it you’ll never be the same”

Despite no previous recordings this band have established themselves with a slew of support shows in March 2022, performing alongside the likes of Irish buzz saw band Enola Gay.After being signed by indie revered record label Nice Swan Records they finish the year with slots lined up at Left of the Dial Festival, Swn Fest, Float Along Festival and Mutations festival, to name a few.

With gigs that promises to be “stomping” you are not gonna want to miss out.

Live dates below

23rd Oct – SWN Festival, Cardiff

3rd Nov – Neu Waves, Portsmouth

4th Nov – Mutations Festival, Brighton

23rd Feb – Bobiks, Newcastle

24th Feb – Castle Hotel, Manchester

25th Feb – Broadcast, Glasgow