Perhaps you saw Stevenage punk band Bad Breeding’s full-throttle video for ‘Corrupting Fist’ recently. If you’ve ever watched them live – and they’re a barrage of pent-up frustration, often spilling off the stage and into the audience – then you’ll know that, visually, the short was a near-perfect aesthetic match for what they’re going for.
‘Remembering’, their newest track (which we’re premiering below), is a continuation of that – angry punk for the nonbelievers. Frontman Christopher Dodd had this to say about the track:
“We watched Amy Berg’s documentary Deliver Us From Evil a while back and I’d also been moved by this investigative piece called Crime And Punishment by Zhao Liang. It got us thinking about the manipulation and misuse of institutional power, but also about the endurance of humanity that often shines through when people are damaged by the rapacity of those in positions of supposed authority. In some ways it’s an examination of impropriety from religious, financial and political cliques, as well as some of our own personal struggles, which we wanted to offset against a defiant thud. It was definitely a bleak thing to write, although there’s plenty of fortitude in the song too.”
Here it is:
See Bad Breeding live on the following dates:
Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham (April 29)
Flesh And More – Blade Factory, Liverpool (30)
Stag And Dagger – Broadcast, Glasgow (May 1)
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (2)
Prince Albert, Brighton (3)
Old Blue Last, London (4)
Purple Turtle, Reading (5)
Crofters Rights, Bristol (6)
