I love Black Honey. Do you love Black Honey? You really f*ckin should. Someone who knows a lot more about music than I do once told me that the three basic rules of writing a great pop song (of any genre) were to 1. Keep it short. 2 Keep it simple. 3. Make it instantly memorable. Black Honey follow those rules 100% with new song Hello Today, which clocks in at just over 2 and a half minutes. They’re not hanging around here and they don’t need to. That’s all the time that’s required to make an impression. You only need this to pass your ears once and it’s there, in your head, riffing and snarling, strutting and preening, confident in the knowledge that it knows what it’s doing. As I said. I love Black Honey and so should you. Black Honey - Hello Today
No messing, no commentary on the event (you can find that on yesterday’s post), I’m just going straight in with 5 music makers that are on my list of possible (venue capacities permitting) acts to see at this year’s Great Escape festival, which takes place in Brighton city centre at a variety of venues between 19th and 21st May. Then I finish by tossing up a link to a recommendation for a band on the Alt Escape line up as well.
Here are my choices from the Friday line-up. (You can find Thursday's choices on this link here) If you’re going you can see all these 5 selections with no clashes (unfortunately my Alt Escape bonus pick does clash). If you’re a regular reader of Breaking More Waves none of these choices will in any way surprise you.
Note: You should also go and see Have You Ever Seen The JaneFonda Aerobic VHS? On Friday at the Queens Hotel at 14:30 because with a name like that and being from Finland they can be nothing but incredible. Also in between Black Honey and Declan McKenna at Wagner Hall there’s Loyal, an act that is very much loved by the blogosphere, so they’re going to be worth sticking around for. Don’t go to the bar instead.
Xylaroo 13:00 The Pop-Up Stage
If singing sisters are a thing (and the evidence suggests they are – The Staves, First Aid Kit, Haim…er…..The Nolan Sisters) then these sisters, one of two acts we’re recommending from the Sunday Best stable are another name to add to the list. I tipped Xylaroo as One to Watch for 2016 last year on the blog, so go on, take my advice and watch them.
Pleasure Beach 15.30 Spiegeltent
I’ve seen (and maybe in some cases written) words about Northern Ireland’s Pleasure Beach that compare them to Arcade Fire, War On Drugs and Bruce Springsteen. This is the point where I should say ‘but that’s just lazy journalism’. But it isn’t – because those comparisons have some basis of truth. It’s not lazy journalism – it’s accurate journalism. Lazy journalists are the ones who work for a couple of hours in a day and then call it quits to go down the pub / watch TV. Anyway, I digress. I have no idea what Pleasure Beach are like live, but if they sound anything like their recorded material they should be pretty marvellous.
Alice Jemima 19.00 Jubilee Gardens
The unsigned artist that I’ve posted the most about in the history of Breaking More Waves, but now she’s signed to Sunday Best. She recently released a rather clever tune called Liquorice. It went top 10 on the Hype Machine. She’s playing BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend. It’s all very exciting. This is why you should catch Alice Jemima at Great Escape. If you see a man explode like a bomb in front of you – that’s me. The excitement got too much.
Black Honey 20:30 Wagner Hall
The band most likely to 'do a Wolf Alice' over the next year or so. Need I say any more? Rock ‘n’ roll with a nostalgic twangy cinematic twist. Breaking More Waves regulars.They’re the real deal and genuine contenders. If you haven't seen them yet, make Black Honey a must.
Declan McKenna 22:30 Wagner Hall
The winner of the Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition in 2015. Two fascinating, unusual and assured singles in the form of Brazil and Paracetamol. Another of Breaking More Waves’ Ones To Watch 2016. A young but rare talent doing something different in a crowded field of the singer songwriters. For once someone that isn't Ed Sheeran-like or r'n'b influenced pop
Alt Escape Bonus Pick: Majik 19.15 North Laine Brewhouse
A few weeks ago I went to see Black Honey at Guildford's Boiler Room venue and was pleasantly surprised for the big turn out for the band. Not that I should be surprised - they're a f*cking brilliant live act with a highly charismatic front woman and great musicianship - but I'm so used to turning up to shows in smaller cities and towns outside of London and finding what I consider to be superb bands playing to one man and his dog. It wasn't after all that long ago that I saw Wolf Alice in the same room and there were far less people there than for Black Honey, and yet now Wolf Alice are playing to 1000+ venues outside of London, have mass adoration and even got a nomination for the Mercury Prize. In many ways Black Honey's growth feels very similar to Wolf Alice - both have been loved by the blogosphere from the word go, but it's never felt like false hype or buzzy. Because of that each band has been able to take their time, refining their sound, releasing a number of singles and EPs and growing their audience organically, particularly through that good old fashioned route of playing live lots and winning a loyal audience. Current supports with Catfish & The Bottlemen will undoubtedly help as well. Whilst I was away on holiday Black Honey put out a new track called All My Pride, so just in case you haven't heard it yet it's streaming below. A combination of thrashy indie energy, cocky yet scarred vocals, twangy guitars and a spearing chorus, it's another fine additional to their catalogue. All My Pride Is taken from a forthcoming EP called Headspin and judging by the other new songs Black Honey played in Guildford, it is going to be exceptionally good. Black Honey - All My Pride
Whilst Breaking More Waves home city of Portsmouth is well served for music festivals such as Victorious (a huge outdoor event with some big names and bargain ticket prices) and Icebreaker (local scene multi-venue festival), when it’s longest running new music event, Southsea Fest announced it was taking a year out there was some disappointment locally.
So rather than just moan about it, a bunch of local music enthusiasts, including Breaking More Waves, got together and decided to run a replacement festival that we called Dials (the name coming loosely from the concept of everyone involved having different tastes / skills - different locations on the dial if you like). Dials was strictly D-I-Y. There was no big corporate sponsor, no advance funding except for digging into our own pockets, and the vast majority of people involved in the team were also balancing busy day jobs and other life commitments that had nothing to do with running a such an event.
Whilst Breaking More Waves’ involvement in the festival was far less than some of the other truly hard working souls who put their names forward, what we did do for Dials (help in booking some of the acts using the contacts that we’d developed from running the blog, putting some money on the table, organising and running the majority of press liaison, and a small amount of marketing and promotion) helped us gain a deeper understanding of just some of the pressures and difficulties festivals are under, some of which don't get talked about very much.
Here are some of the things we learnt:
1. Cashflow is everything (Part 1 – Punters and tickets)
Stuff doesn’t happen without it being paid for. And when your main source of funding is ticket sales this means that there’s a very difficult balance between what’s going out and what comes in. When you book your ticket for a festival you might think that the money goes straight to the organiser. Not necessarily. Many ticket agencies withhold money they take until after the event has occurred, so that if it is cancelled they can refund easily. So as an organiser your choice of who you sell tickets with is incredibly important for cashflow, as is how you arrange for things to be paid for up front, and as a punter, if money isn't being held back by the ticket agency, buying your ticket early or from local physical retailers can help the festival to overcome the issue of cashflow.
2. Cashflow is everything (Part 2 – Bands)
Dials’ original intention was to pay every band on the bill. However, it quickly became clear after doing the maths and taking all costs into account this wasn’t possible. Quite simply, to put on an event with 45 bands (that’s nearly 200 musicians - roughly a quarter of our total capacity / ticket sales) in small venues, with no big sponsorship and to pay everyone would lead to cancellation before tickets had even started to be sold. Before Dials we’d always thought that musicians should be paid for every show they played, but the practical reality is far more complex. Dials paid every national touring act that performed, and most larger local acts, however some acts, who were generally occupying bottom of the bill slots, playing to just a handful of people for half an hour, weren't offered payment. However we tried to treat these acts as fairly as we could – they were all given a small amount of free drinks and had their festival wristband so they could enjoy the rest of the day watching the music after they had played.
3. Cashflow is everything (Part 3 – Blaggers)
The number of blaggers shocked us. That's blaggers, not bloggers. This wasn’t an expensive festival (£15 early bird / £18 regular / £20 on the door, for an event that ran from 1pm to 11pm + DJs after ) and every band was entitled to a set number of cheap guest tickets at £10 where they arranged them in advance. We also had a number of photographers, press and competition winners who received free tickets. Yet we were surprised at the numbers of people trying the ‘I’m friends / with such and such a band and I should be on the guest / press list’ approach or people who expected there to be a totally free guest list. Dials wasn’t Glastonbury. It was a small independent festival where every ticket sale counted; not to make money for the organisers, but so that we could pay the people we had agreed to pay; artists, security etc.
If you went to see a film you wouldn’t expect to get a free ticket from the cinema just because you happened to be mates with one of the actors in it would you? Music festivals are the same. The bottom line is if Dials gave everyone who thought they were entitled to a free ticket a free ticket, there would be no Dials. Likewise the number of bands / their representatives who put down frankly ludicrous requests in their contracts for their riders. If you called a plumber to your house to do a small job that you were paying him say £150 for would you expect the plumber to request a roasted chicken (sliced) and a bottle of spirits in addition to his payment?
4. It’s quite possible to have a festival line up that features as many acts with women in them as men.
Earlier this year you may have seen various articles online asking why UK festivals were dominated by male only bands after Josh at Crack In The Road blog produced a now internet-famous poster showing the acts playing this years Reading / Leeds festivals that contained female musicians. At Dials we were very pleased that nearly half of the acts playing contained female musicians. Several ticket holders commented positively on how great it was to see so many women on stage. It’s sad that they should even have to comment on this, but what we learnt was that: 1. It is very possible to book a festival line-up where women were given as much opportunity as men and 2. That punters will watch music by either sex – all they care about is if the acts are good or not.
5. There’s a lot more to organising a festival than you could possibly imagine. You do need professional help and people with experience.
Despite the D-I-Y approach that Dials had, within the team we had highly professional and experienced people who knew what they were doing. Without these hard working and brilliant people who understand how to run venues, who know the right people to speak to and who understand the stuff that nobody wants to do like financial accounting Dials wouldn’t have happened. These people all put their hearts into Dials for one reason - they wanted a live music event like this in Portsmouth.
6. Successful bands aren’t just good musicians. They go about their jobs professionally.
If you’re a musician and you’re due to play a festival and your stage time is 1.30pm, turning up late or even worse not at all because you’ve been waiting for a taxi / are hungover / didn’t realise what time you were on and not phoning the organisers to let them know is not a way to impress either the festival management or the punters who have decided to come and watch you rather than someone else. To be fair Dials only had a small amount of these instances and they were from local artists lower on the bill who probably lack experience – all of the more well known acts were absolutely professional in their approach. In fact our main headliner was the first band to arrive!
7. Everyone wants their name on the top of the bill.
We suspect this is more to do with bands agents than the bands themselves (who generally don’t seem to care and just want to play) but everyone wants their name nearer the top end of the poster that’s advertising the event. Maybe the way to go is just to list all bands from A-Z, then there is no room for egos, only the alphabet.
8. Being part of running a music festival carries some level of stress, but with the right team, it can be an absolute blast.
To say that we were on an incredible high after the last band had played at Dials is somewhat of an understatement. Seeing bands like Black Honey (one of our choices / bookings for the event) play to a packed sweaty room, watching another of our choices Alice Jemima, who we have been championing for some time, playing to a warm and attentive crowd and clearly enjoying herself, getting namechecks from stage for the blog from at least 2 of the acts that played and meeting many of the artists that we have written about over the last few years who without exception were lovely, seeing so many positive comments about the festival on social media after it was all finished and just being part of it all was way more than we could have ever expected when we started this humble music blog back in 2008.
Black Honey know how to write a great tune don’t they? There’s a real scuzzy basement pop sound to their new song Corrine. With a chorus of “Corrine come back to me, ‘ cos it’s 6 in the morning and we’re always playing make believe,” gleefully leaping out with a huge ball grabbing melody and torch song emotion it thrusts twangy guitars and a hint of the 1960’s vintage into your ears with vigour, and then some. Is anyone still doing the guitar music is dead argument? Well if they are here's the last nail in that particular coffin. How can it be dead when you’ve got bands as viscerally thrilling as Black Honey making music seem so alive? It’s why, when Breaking More Waves was asked to personally select a number of bands and musicians for the bill of this year’s Dials Festival in Southsea, Black Honey was top of our list. Come and see them rock the socks off Portsmouth’s latest new music event as the headline the Edge of the Wedge stage on October 3rd alongside the likes of Hooton Tennis Club, Fickle Friends, Kagoule, Alice Jemima and Chloe Black. Tickets are available on this link here. Black Honey - Corrine
Dials Festival, Albert Road, Southsea, Portsmouth - 3rd October 2015 We’re pretty sure that we’re not the only music blog that has dreamed of curating its own festival or stage at a festival. So when the organisers of Dials, a brand new multi venue new music event based in our home city approached us asking if we’d be interested in hand picking some of the bands on their bill, we jumped at the chance. Dials is a brand new collaborative festival taking place in 5 venues in Southsea, Portsmouth on the 3rd October 2015. It was originally set up when organisers heard that the well established new music festival Southsea Fest was not running this year and whilst hugely disappointed, decided the show must go on, in the form of their own show. The name Dials comes from the concept that the festival is being run by a co-operative of venue owners, promoters and other music professionals and enthusiasts from the Portsmouth area, who are passionate about bringing exciting new music to the south coast, helping support local musicians, venues, businesses and the community in the process. Breaking More Waves is one of those enthusiasts. Others include iconic independent music venue the Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth cultural website and store Strong Island together with their offshoot record label Strong Island Recordings, Hong Kong Gardeners Club, who have in the past propagated new music nights that included the likes of Everything Everything, Dan Smith (before he became Bastille), The Joy Formidable and Django Django in tiny rooms before anyone had heard of them. Plus us, Breaking More Waves Blog. Hi. You can see the full list of artists playing in the poster below, which includes national touring acts as well as musicians local to the Portsmouth area.
Of course what we’re really excited about is the handful of acts that Breaking More Waves has helped deliver to the festival. There's plenty of noisy rock n roll, indie and such like on the bill, but with our selections we've tried to inject something a little different. Here they are: Alice Jemima It was way back in April 2011 when we first featured Devon based singer Alice Jemima, a then unsigned songwriter, and ever since then we’ve been championing her music to anyone who will listen. We’re proud of the fact that directly because of that championing (and of course Alice’s fantastic songs) she landed a Radio 1 session at Maida Vale and since that time she has slayed the internet; her cover version of No Diggity has built up over 2 million plays on Soundcloud – more plays than all the other artists at the festival put together. The last year or so we haven’t heard that much from Alice, but with some recent support slots with Laura Doggett, a showcase for Sunday Best recordings at Brighton’s Great Escape, a new self penned song Diamonds & Bones getting an airing on Radio 1 courtesy of Huw Stephens and appearances at this year’s Camp Bestival, Somersault and Bestival festivals it seems that Alice is finally readying herself for something pretty special. We’re very pleased and excited to be able to finally bring Alice Jemima to Portsmouth. One not to miss.
Chloe Black “We could have a star on our hands,” we wrote about Chloe Black in October 2014 and now that star shines on Portsmouth. Self-tagged ‘goth ‘n’ soul’ singer Chloe had a big online hit with her lyrically morbid tune 27 Club and all the reports we’ve received since have confirmed that she can deliver live as well with a potent vocal and bags of charm. Prepare yourselves to fall in love with Miss Black in the Wedgewood Rooms.
Black Honey Furious frenetic feedback frenzies, pop melodies to die for and a captivating and dramatic front woman, Brighton’s Black Honey have it all. It’s probably why they were one of the most written about bands by UK Hype Machine listed music bloggers in 2014 and featured on the Blog Sound of 2015 long list – music bloggers version of the ubiquitous BBC Sound of list. As we all know though, being ‘big on the internet’ doesn’t necessarily translate to being a great live band, but Black Honey absolutely do. When we saw them earlier this year we were blown away by their rawness, their musicianship, their tunes and their power. Another must see, they’ll be headlining the Edge of the Wedge stage.
Lyza Jane In contrast to Black Honey’s energy and forcefulness, London’s Lyza Jane creates languid sounding experimental electronic pop infused with modern trip-hop beats not dissimilar to the likes of Banks, FKA Twigs and Tricky. She’s already played Glastonbury festival twice, supported Alabama 3 and recently worked with reggae royalty Ranking Joe. There will be plenty of rock and roll aggression on display at Dials, so slip into something more comfortable for a while with Lyza Jane.
Glass Glass are a totally new duo from London of which not much is known yet. You certainly won't find their songs streaming on Soundcloud, Spotify or You Tube. They describe their music as 'Pop Hip-Op Crance'. Those with good internet search skills might recognise them from previous musical projects. As Dials is very much a new music festival and that means discovery, don't play safe - make Glass part of that discovery. This will be their first show outside of London. Arrive early before they're gone. Curxes / Jerry Williams / Wyldest Whilst we’ve selected acts from London, Devon and Brighton to play, Breaking More Waves is also pleased to give a nod to some of the local and emerging talent from the Portsmouth area, or acts that have Portsmouth connections. Curxes, Wyldest and Jerry Williams are three artists that we’ve featured on the blog a number of times and all of them will be cropping up somewhere on the Dials bill. So if audacious dark electronic music (Curxes) chiming ethereal guitar pop (Wyldest) or catchy acoustic pop (Jerry Williams) are your thing, then go watch all of these.They’ll be giving some of the national touring bands a run for their money. Tickets for Dials are on sale from today and available locally from The Wedgewood Rooms, Pie & Vinyl, Strong Island’s store. You can also buy them online from this link. We recommend buying early as the current £15 price tag is for early birds only. Keep an eye out for a shiny website for the festival coming real soon and in the meantime, check the Dials Facebook (here) and enjoy the playlist below of most of the artists so far announced. More acts are still to be added to the bill. You can follow Dials Festival on Twitter here Buy tickets using this link
Black Honey just uploaded what only the coolest of bands could put out there; a song that sounds like something from the soundtrack of a Quentin Tarantino movie with an indie Nancy Sinattra on vocals. Damn, it’s good; from Izzy’s hollering shriek to those deep spaghetti western twangy guitars, Black Honey has got this stuff down to a fine art. The song has a title of course, and that title is Spinning Wheel. If the whole thing sounds familiar, then well done - you’ve been paying attention, because it’s already been featured on the blog just 2 days ago, by way of a crowd sourced video, in our recommendations of bands to see at this year’s Great Escape. Although the chances are that most of you missed that, because as far as we can tell (90% of you) who visited those posts just scanned through quickly to see who we had chosen as our tips and then skipped off elsewhere without pressing play. Such is the ADD disorder that the internet creates. Let’s hope that this time you stay for the 3 minutes and 25 seconds of this glorious and supremely confident song that pumps and hollers with energy and retro style. Spinning Wheel forms the other half of the group's new double A side (the other half being the equally excellent Madonna). Black Honey support Superfood in Birmingham tonight (8th April ) and in London at Heaven tomorrow (9th April) Black Honey - Spinning Wheel
Continuing our tips for bands and solo artists that we recommend seeing if you’re going to this year’s Great Escape festival in Brighton on May 14th-16th. In this penultimate post we’re featuring live video footage of some of the acts we’ve selected so that you can get a real idea of their capabilities. 13. Black Honey 3 reasons why you should go and see Black Honey: 1. In lead singer Izzy they have an excellent front woman who manages to mix steely eyed ferociousness with just a hint of humour. 2. The band make a lot of noise, but they also make some damn fine songs. 3. The Great Escape is their home town show, so it should be a good one.
14. Seinabo Sey One of our Ones To Watch 2015, Sweden’s Seinabo Sey is still remarkably low profile in the UK despite an appearance on Later… with Jools Holland. An incredible vocal talent. Surely that low profile can’t remain for that much longer?
15. Laura Doggett The comments for Seinabo could also apply to Somerset’s Laura Doggett. Another powerful and gut-wrenching voice with a relatively low but building profile, helped by the inclusion of her song Old Faces on the trailer for ITV's Broadchurch. A Breaking More Waves regular - Laura is another act that we gave the first Hype Machine listing to back in 2013 with her song Heard It All Before.
16. A.O.S.O.O.N South-London male-female duo A.O.S.O.O.N aka Marisa Hylton and Manny Folorunsohave been growing support from blogs and UK radio with melodic songs that mix acoustic pop and beats that they've tagged as 'gangsta folk'. Their debut EP featured the captivating song Under which was picked up by Majestic Casual and to date has received over 4.5 million views on Youtube. They've followed it up with the equally impressive Same Difference from their Capo 3 EP.
You know how at school there was always a bunch of kids hanging round in the corner who were far cooler, far more knowing, wore all the best clothes, had the best haircuts and always won any playground fights? Black Honey’s new song Madonna is a bit like that. Ferocious twangs, filthy dirty snarling riffs and underneath it all a big smoking killer chorus show that this is a band not to be messed with and who know exactly what they’re doing. Having now seen them live three times (albeit two of those times was under their previous moniker) we can confirm that they are a rather thrilling experience in the flesh as well. Black Honey is taking a rather novel idea to retailing their next single, which will include this song and another (Spinning Wheel) on CD. The first five copies will be available via bidding on eBay meaning that a lucky few punters outside of the UK will be able to get their mits on them. Let the bidding war commence. For those who like us here at Breaking More Waves are based in the UK you can pre-order the CD via text on 07578533359. We’re not quite sure how that is going to work, but we’ll be giving it a go ourselves. Black Honey - Madonna
Hurrah! Mystery band Black Honey finally reveal themselves – and guess what? They look pretty much like any other regular bunch of guys and gals in a band. No deformed faces, no extra limbs, no absurdly large or small body parts (not that we can see anyway). We also get some names: Izzy Bee, Chris Ostler, Tommy Taylor & Tom Dewhurst. Plug that into Google and you’ll find out the name of Black Honey before they became Black Honey, if you’re interested in that sort of thing. (Interesting / not so interesting fact depending on your point of view: when they were that former band one of their first gigs was supporting Haim in Brighton. One of their last gigs in their previous guise was the Camden Crawl this year. We witnessed both shows - their birth and death before the reincarnation so to speak.) Right, now we’ve got all of that cleared up, shall we get on with the music? This one gives a nod backwards, as it struts like an ostrich with a raw speaker shredding 60’s noise pop sound to it. It features on the bands untitled debut EP, which will be available as a limited edition physical run CD at their gigs, the first of which is today in their home town of Brighton at a yet to be disclosed venue. Want to go? Message them on 07578533359 for details. They also play Notting Hill Arts Club, London on November 2nd. Black Honey - Bloodlust
Don’t be fooled by Black Honey. Although there’s been some Lana Del Rey type comparisons, there’s a noisy beast with dirty fingernails clawing its way out from within. The Taste unleashes the monster fully by way of a song that manages to place cooing sighs alongside fistfuls of no-holds barred noise and lip-curling guitars. There’s probably going to be a few Wolf Alice comparisons with this one and that’s no bad thing. Watch out for the guitars at the end, the sound of someone getting off big time; that’s some climax. Of course now that another Brighton based band (Royal Blood) have allowed the media to write that ‘guitars are back’ rubbish once again, Black Honey stand a good chance of getting some attention. How long will it be before someone hails Brighton ‘the new guitar band capital of the UK’ we wonder? That of course would also be a load of bollocks – there have always been good bands of all genres hailing from that seaside city, but we give it a month. And don't be fooled by the artwork giving the suggestion that the band are actually a television. We've seen them in real life. We've even touched one of them and we can confirm that they are real living breathing humans just like the rest of us. They're just keeping their visual identity under the shroud of darkness right now. If we told you who they are / were they might kill us. Anyway, this one’s a corker. Let it shoot its load in your ears. Black Honey - The Taste
Yesterday we alluded to the fact that the band Black Honey (another one from the ever expanding seemingly always on it Duly Noted label) hadn’t yet appeared on Breaking More Waves, but would be pretty damn soon. That moment is now. If (like us) you keep a careful eye on the internet for new music you may have already heard their languid torch song Sleep Forever, the group’s first release, and now they follow it up with a new demo entitled Teenager. Likewise if you have read any of the blog / website postings that have gone up about Black Honey you’ll also know that for the time being they’re going down the ‘shrouded in mystery’ route, revealing very little about themselves except that they’re from a city just down the road from Breaking More Waves, namely Brighton. And it’s in Brighton that we first saw them play a very early show way back in 2012, albeit in a slightly different form from the beast they are today. Yesterday the band revealed a phone number which they asked bloggers and journalists to text to ask them whatever we wanted, so using our serious investigative and journalistic skills we asked the following question: "Which member of 80’s pop band Duran Duran would you most like to play golf with?" The answer we received was: “I would rather die than play golf with Duran Duran.” So what can we learn from this answer? That the band don’t like golf? Or they don’t like Duran Duran? Or both? They also seem to have misunderstood the question, because we weren’t asking them about golf with Duran Duran, but just one member of Duran Duran, which we would suggest is an entirely different thing, although that's an argument in itself. However what we can ascertain is that Black Honey have attitude, something that is evident from the two live gigs we’ve seen them play. So to the music, which we don’t really need to talk about that much, because you can just press play below and make your own mind up. All we’ll say is Teenager is a sumptuously twangy and noisy cinematic indie rock tune, like Lana Del Rey if she’d drunk a couple of Vodka and Red Bulls and really decided to rock rather than piss around the edges with her new album. This song is our new favourite musical thing. Black Honey - Teenager
