Have 32 years really have passed since Mark Chadwick and Jeremy Cunningham met in The Eagle in Brighton? 11 studio albums (soon to be 12), and 17 Beautiful Days festivals later, they have returned with their latest single, ‘Food Roof Family’.
With soaring fiddles and unifying polemic, they have tapped into the groove that made them legends on ‘Levelling The Land’. Chadwick’s guitars play great homage The Ruts venomous classic ‘Staring At The Rude Boys’.
Despite being entrenched in punk; they stride out beyond its polemic. Through their song writing, they’ve hit upon a pathway that moves past the aggressive binary times we are living in.
No matter how frenzied or desperate the guitars threaten to be, the Celtic tones of the strings lend an affection that few possess. So much so that, by the time of the chorus, you’ll be reaching for loved ones to embrace and euphorically raise your fists.
Despite their longevity, their passionate rhetoric has not waned. Furthermore, the hooks and ecstasy which propelled them to our hearts on ‘Levelling The Land’, is out in full force. Here’s to another 22 years.