Meryl Streek
About Politically-outspoken Irish avant garde punk producer MERYL STREEK has released his debut album ‘796’ via Gallows’ owned Venn Records (High Vis, Bob Vylan, Witch Fever). The debut album 796 is an emotionally volatile and heart-wrenching collection of cutting edge punk that pushes genre boundaries whilst traversing extremely challenging political subject matter with aplomb and vitriol. Never let the system win and always stretch the boundaries of what punk is or should be, and after you’ve done all this, then make some music that encompasses all this, that’s what Meryl Streek has just gone and done, and with no f***......
Mandrake Handshake
About Multi-dimensional nine-piece spectacular, Mandrake Handshake, perform a music they call ‘Flowerkraut’: a hedonistic, brain-frying feast of Krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia, spiced with enigmatic grooves and fearless improvisations. Since the reintroduction of gigs post-lockdown, the band have reinforced their status as an exaltant live prospect. First packing out fields at Wide Awake Festival, then rattling church vaults at Rotterdam’s Left of the Dial festival, Mandrake Handshake embarked on nationwide headline tours in the spring of 2022, including sell-outs in London, Manchester and Oxford, where the group first formed. In the summer of the 2021, the Mandrake released their glistening debut......
