Trash Boat

Trash Boat at O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK

What should have been a triumphant return to live form from ENTER SHIKARI ended up falling a bit flat as only three quarters of the band made it out. Carrying on regardless – or not – the gig was imbued with a sense that, while live music is back, it could disappear again at any notice.

Punk rock masters TRASH BOAT switched things up with their newest album, Don't You Feel Amazing, incorporating a more hardcore sounding element to their music. Of course this was a big change, but this has made their live performances even more impactful.

It's been a long sixteen months, hasn't it? Sixteen months that have upended the world as we knew it, imposing new restrictions on the way people go about their lives from the more mundane like face masks when shopping, to shutting down live music in its entirety.

TRASH BOAT have returned once again to their UK stomping grounds for perhaps one of the last UK cycles in their Crown Shyness era, bringing down the roof of a packed out O2 Institute2 in Birmingham with support from WOES, DOLLSKIN and CAPSTAN.

Rock City Basement, Nottingham, UK

O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, UK