Salisbury’s CARSICK Bemoan Industry Darkside On New Single ‘Gig Tax’ Out Now Alcopop! Records
Salisbury’s CARSICK Bemoan Industry Darkside On New Single ‘Gig Tax’ Released 1st May 2024
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Debut EP Drunk Hymns Out Now via Alcopop! Records
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UK/EU Live Dates On Sale Now + Festival Appearances @ 2000 Trees, TRUCK + More
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Salisbury punk rockers CARSICK are pleased to reveal their music-industry-baiting new single ‘Gig Tax’ released 1st May 2024 via Alcopop! Records.
Never happy staying still for too long, the band recently announced a run of summer 2024 UK headline shows, plus festival appearances at 2000 Trees, TRUCK, A Stone’s Throw, and more, with German and Dutch festival dates also on sale now (see below for full listings).
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, the new single 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.
Commenting on the track, the band say: “'Gig Tax' is our heartfelt tribute to the trials and tribulations of being a young(ish) band on the great British touring circuit. There's nothing we love more than playing shows and the UK is absolutely blessed to have such a vibrant independent music scene, full of incredible bands, promoters, venue staff and punters who live and breathe music. We're lucky enough to have experienced it all first hand—but we've also very familiar with the other side of that coin: dodgy geezers down the local who want to pay musicians in "exposure"; bands in a tiny green room acting like they're Oasis; hecklers and haters either in a live crowd or on the other side of a screen. This one goes out to those lot, and to everyone dealing with them on a regular basis.”
CARSICK released their debut EP Drunk Hymns 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.
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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.
Already marking themselves out as one of the keenest, hardest-working new young bands on the scene, it seems CARSICK are intent on keeping their feet to the floor on their impressive work ethic for the foreseeable.
Debut EP Drunk Hymns is out now via Alcopop! Records
Live Dates:
17/05 - Palestine Medical Aid Fundraiser, East Street Tap, Brighton
17/05 - Rock N Roll Circus, The Font, Brighton
24/05 - The Tree House, Frome (HEADLINE SHOW)
25/05 - A Stone's Throw Festival, Newcastle
21/06 - Cavern, Exeter (HEADLINE SHOW)
22/06 - The Railway Inn, Winchester (HEADLINE SHOW)
08/07 - Komedia, Bath (HEADLINE SHOW)
10/07 - 2000 Trees Festival, Cheltenham
20/07 - Health Bells Festival, Hamburg, Germany
26/07 - Truck Festival, Oxfordshire
28/07 - Trebur Open Air, Trebur, Germany
30/08 - Bruis Festival, Maastricht, Netherlands
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CARSICK online:
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CARSICK are:
Joe Richardson (Vocals)
Jack Richardson (Guitar)
Jack Hardiman (Bass)
Tom Armstrong (Drums)
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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.
