Salisbury’s CARSICK Announce The Meffs 2025 UK Support Tour + 2025 EU Headline Dates
Salisbury’s CARSICK Announce The Meffs 2025 UK Support Tour + 2025 EU Headline Dates
Tickets - https://linktr.ee/carsickofficial
Latest Single ‘Gig Tax’ Out Now
Watch the video - HERE
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Debut EP Drunk Hymns Out Now via Alcopop! Records
Purchase - https://ilovealcopop.co.uk/collections/carsick
Salisbury punk rockers CARSICK are pleased to announce they will support Essex Brit-punk duo The Meffs on their forthcoming January 2025 live dates, with a run of their own EU headline dates to follow in April 2025.
Tickets for all dates are on sale now, see below for listings.
Rounding out their biggest year so far—which saw them embarking on UK and EU headline shows, plus festival appearances at Reading & Leeds Festival, 2000 Trees, TRUCK, A Stone’s Throw, and more—the band released their music-industry-baiting latest single ‘Gig Tax’ earlier this year via Alcopop! Records.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Sam Winfield and Tom Millar at Studio 91, Newbury, the track is another scintillating slice of spiced-up indie punk from this constantly evolving and growing quartet.
Filled as it with pimps, charlatans, ne’er-do-wells, abusers and conmen, ‘Gig Tax’ squarely takes aim at the many downsides that the music industry has to offer a hungry young band on the rise, and there are no holds barred in the process.
The band’s debut EP Drunk Hymns was released in 2023 in a standard digital edition and an extended 12” vinyl on Salisbury orange, featuring an exclusive Side B which contains all of the band’s previously digital-only release tracks.
Already marking themselves out as one of the keenest, hardest working new young bands on the scene, it seems CARSICK aren’t about to put the brakes on their impressive work ethic any time soon, with further new music and live dates TBA for 2025.
Debut EP Drunk Hymns is out now via Alcopop! Records
CARSICK 2025 Live Dates:
22 JAN - BIRMINGHAM - 02 INSTITUTE2 (UK) *
23 JAN - GLASGOW - G2 (UK) *
24 JAN - MANCHESTER - DEAF INSTITUTE (UK) *
30 JAN - BRISTOL - FLEECE (UK) *
31 JAN - LONDON - GARAGE (UK) *
01 FEB - BRIGHTON - PATTERNS (UK) *
07 APR - COLOGNE - BLUE SHELL (DE)
08 APR - MUNICH - FEIERWERK (DE)
09 APR - DRESDEN - POLIMAGIE FEST (DE)
11 APR - HAMBURG - MOLOTOW (DE)
12 APR - OSNABRÜCK - POPSALON FEST (DE)
14 APR - BERLIN - LARK (DE)
16 APR - ARLON - BE L'ENTREPÔT (BE)
18 APR - ARNHEM, NL LUXOR LIVE (NL)
19 APR - EINDHOVEN - STROOMHUIS (NL)
20 APR - ROTTERDAM - V11 (NL)
* w/ The Meffs
CARSICK online:
https://linktr.ee/carsickofficial
CARSICK are:
Joe Richardson (Vocals)
Jack Richardson (Guitar)
Jack Hardiman (Bass)
Tom Armstrong (Drums)
More info:
A band formed over pints in a small English pub in late 2021, CARSICK take influence from a range of different artists and genres—from indie rock to post-punk to hip-hop with electronic elements—but their tongue-in-cheek lyrical approach directly tackles the trials and tribulations of life as a young adult, and especially the drinking culture which dominates the band's demographic.
Their energetic and unpredictable live shows match that theme: this is music about living for the weekend; about the desperate chaos of small-town nightlife and about forgetting what happened last night.
More than anything, CARSICK have rapidly made a name for themselves through their rowdy live performances. Since their debut show at Southampton's Joiners in November 2021, they have supported artists like Knuckle Puck, Salem, NOISY, Enola Gay, Narrow Head, and Beach Riot across the South of England. Their hometown gigs in Salisbury are the stuff of local legend, including a sold-out show at the 300-cap Chapel supported by borts and Binboy (ex-Gnarwolves).
In April 2022, the band caught the attention of the Marshall Live Agency, and were quickly signed to their growing roster of the country's most exciting young bands. In July 2022, they played two sets at Oxford's Truck Festival, opening both the Main Stage on the Thursday and the Market Stage on the Friday.
2023 saw Salisbury genre-hoppers CARSICK make a proper name for themselves; they embarked on a two-month-long UK/EU headline tour, recorded a live session at the BBC's Maida Vale, signed to Alcopop! Records, dropped their debut EP Drunk Hymns, and solidified their growing reputation as one of the UK's most energetic, unpredictable, and all-around wild live acts.
Their music—a blend of raw punk, 90s-inspired indie-rock, UK hip-hop, and irresistable electronic elements—is all about living for the weekend; about the desperate chaos of small-town nightlife and about forgetting what happened last night.
Support from the likes of BBC Radio 1, Tom Robinson at BBC Radio 6 Music, and John Kennedy on Radio X, has ensured that their "anthems for the pissed-up and pissed-off" are reaching an ever-expanding cult following. If the band are to be believed, this is the downfall of British music at terminal velocity. Get on board while you can.
Previous single ‘Anaconda Frank’ saw the band picking up speed at radio with support from BBC R1 Future Artists with Nels Hylton, made John Kennedy’s X-Posure Hot One on Radio X and added to the X-Posure Playlist, recording a live session at BBC Maida Vale with BBC Introducing, plus more support from Total Rock, Amazing Radio, Idobi Anthm and many more specialist stations and shows.
‘Gig Tax’ is the first new material from the band since previous 2023 standalone single ‘Put It Down’ which came off the back of a stunning run of live shows at 2000 Trees, Truck Festival, Boomtown, Barnstomper Festival, Attitude Festival, Left of The Dial and the band’s own Sep/Oct 2024 UK headline tour dates.
