Last month, the band, who feature current/former members of Honey Pot, Splitsville and Skeleton Frames, released their debut EP ‘The Same Pain’ via Circle House Records.

DECEMBER
02 BRISTOL The Exchange w/ Little Baby Sharks + Langkamer
14 BRISTOL The Exchange w/ Throwing Stuff, Young Conservatives + Worst Witch
16 CARDIFF Cathays Community Centre w/ Apologies, I Have None, Kamikaze Girls, Esuna, The Doublecross, Bicyle Thieves + Big Whoop
20 BATH Moles
FEBRUARY
17 PLYMOUTH PolarPatterns All-dayer, Underground

It is featured on their upcoming debut EP, ‘The Same Pain’, which will be released on the 20th October via Circle House Records.

The band will also be playing the following shows.

OCTOBER
24 PLYMOUTH Underground w/ Chiyoda Ku, Steve Strong + Piss Midget
28 BRISTOL Nice Punx Fest, The Exchange*^
29 EXETER Cavern* w/ American Enthusiasm (solo), Modern Rituals + Nietzsche Trigger Finger
NOVEMBER
11 SOUTHAMPTON The Shooting Star w/ Group of Man
27 EXETER Cavern w/ Daisyhead, Caves, Sibling + Child
DECEMBER
14 BRISTOL The Exchange^ w/ Throwing Stuff + Young Conservatives
16 CARDIFF Cathays Community Centre w/ Apologies, I Have None, Kamikaze Girls, Bicyle Thieves + Big Whoop

* w/ Latchstring
^ w/ Worst Witch

Andy Thomas’ Dust Heart, Billy Liar, Coral Springs, Deceit, Good Friend, Goodbye Blue Monday, The Hostiles, Loaded 45, Lovers Turn to Monsters, The Kimberly Steaks, The Murderburgers, On a Hiding to Nothing, Question the Mark, Rides the Tides, Sick of Talk, Slowlight, The Smudjas, Stonethrower, Throwing Stuff, Tim Loud, Tragical History Tour, Trivial Dispute, Vflamba, and X-Ray Cat Trio will join the likes of The Spook School, Cavalcades, Flatfoot 56, Kaddish and more at the three day fest, which takes place across various Dundee venues including Abertay Student Centre, Conroy’s Basement and Deacon Brodie’s, from the 1st to the 3rd December.

Early bird tickets are still available at £20. The fest will also be raising money for the following organisations: Young Minds, Addaction, Insight Counselling and Royal Life Saving Society. There will also be the donation stands Tins for Tunes, in support of Dundee Foodbank, and Donation Station, in support of Refugee Support/Dundee Caring the City. More info can be found here.

Propagandhi, Wonk Unit, The Bennies, Antillectual, Pizzatramp, Darko, Svetlanas, Nervus, Mobina Galore, Egos At the Door, Throwing Stuff, Natterers, Captain Hotknives, Uniforms, The Minor Discomfort Band, Drones, All Aboard!, Aerial Salad, Fresh, Christmas, Spoilers, Wolfbeast Destroyer, Regret, Rotten Foxes, Forever Unclean, Foxes Faux, Shankland, Incisions and The Lab Rats will play the Manchester based festival from the 19th to the 21st April 2018. More acts shall be added soon.

The event will take place across various Manchester venues including Gorilla, Rebellion, The Bread Shed, Zombie Shack, Underdog, Font and The Thirsty Scholar. Advance tickets cost £40 and can be purchased here. Keep a tab on their Facebook for future updates.

Earlier this year they released their debut album ‘Fit, Fine & Well’ through TNS Records.

As for Leeds hardcore punks Young Conservatives, their latest record is their EP ‘Non Exist’ on Total Recall Records.

DECEMBER
14 BRISTOL The Exchange
15 LONDON Birthdays Dalston w/ Myelin
16 LEEDS Out of Spite Fest, Brudenell Social Club

Taking place on Wednesday 23rd August, the show will act as a warm up date for the band’s upcoming appearances at Reading and Leeds Festivals. Earlier this year they released their second album ‘Outsiders’ on Tangled Talk Records and Big Scary Monsters.

As well as this, the band will also be playing the following other UK dates.

AUGUST
20 BIRMINGHAM The Flapper*
21 GLASGOW Audio*
22 MANCHESTER The Star & Garter* w/ Throwing Stuff
23 DERBY The Venue
25 LEEDS Leeds Festival
27 READING Reading Festival
SEPTEMBER
02 BRIGHTON Gnar Party, Green Door Store

* w/ Defeater

Headlined by a Rancid tribute act, …And Out Comes the Tribute Band, the mini-fest will also see The Dauntless Elite, Hot Mass, Sam Russo (full band), Throwing Stuff, Night Flowers, Young Conservatives, Natterers and Yoi join in on the festive fun. More acts shall be revealed soon.

This will take place at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on Saturday 16th December. Advance tickets cost £11 and can be purchased here. For more info, click here.

As for the track’s serious tone, which contrasts with their previous material, Small felt it was a “natural progression” for Throwing Stuff to go in. “It was a way for me to get my feelings out there as I’m not usually much of a talker, and to pay tribute to my dad with this thing that could be called art. Saying that, the decision to write the song came pretty immediately when I heard the rest of the guys pull the song together in practice. It had a way more emotive tone musically than anything else we had done before and I knew it would be the perfect fit for a song about my dad.” Yet, it should be noted that this won’t be a permanent “one-way” evolution. Instead, Small sees it as an expansion of Throwing Stuff’s emotive, tonal and thematic range. “I just think you write about what you know, and my dad’s illness was something that enveloped me in recent months.”

Directed by the band’s friend Andy Butler at Curbar Edge in the Peak District, the video for ‘Father’s Day’ seamlessly syncs up with the song’s delivery and themes. In it, we see the protagonist being chased by a hooded figure. Once he reaches a literal precipice, with no place to go, he comes face to face with the pursuer. With the lyrics in mind, do the visuals recount the inner fear of facing one’s emotions? “It’s definitely all wrapped up in fear, particularly fear for something you can’t see and the idea of being trapped,” explains Small on the video’s concept. “The tumour on my dad’s brain really impacted his ability to communicate – the longer it went on the more he struggled to find the words he needed to explain his thoughts. He would know what he wanted to say, but was unable to get it across. In that sense, he was trapped within his own mind, and the way that the character (one of my beautiful best mates Josh) ends up realising he is being chased by himself reflects how my dad didn’t have that emotional escape by being able to say how he felt about the illness and the way it was affecting him. So it’s not necessarily the fear of confronting inner emotions, but more the fear of not being able to confront them, how that isn’t even a choice.”

With such a harrowing concept in mind, Small elaborates that “the frantic nature of the chase” blended with the song’s delivery. As well as this, Small concludingly adds, “I also wanted it to reflect how insidious cancer is, how if you get that diagnosis it is always on your tail until remission or death, which is reflected in the fall in the end.”

‘Father’s Day’ is taken from Throwing Stuff’s debut album, ‘Fit, Fine & Well’, which was released earlier this month via TNS Records. The band will also be heading out on a UK tour with Clowns starting later this week, the dates of which are listed below.

APRIL
21 MANCHESTER Manchester Punk Festival*
23 SHEFFIELD The Lughole
24 LIVERPOOL Maguire’s Pizza Bar
25 NORWICH The Owl Sanctuary
26 PLYMOUTH The Junction
27 BRIGHTON The Quadrant
28 LONDON Urban Bar

* Throwing Stuff only

It is a bonus track on the digital version of their latest self-titled EP, which was released earlier this year on Everything Sucks Music.

The band will also be playing the following UK shows.

APRIL
23 SHEFFIELD The Lughole w/ Clowns, Throwing Stuff + Feral Existence
MAY
07 LEEDS Wharf Chambers w/ No Weather Talks, Cordell + Bad Idea
12 ASHTON The Station
29 MANCHESTER The Star & Garter
JUNE
29 ASHTON The Witchwood
JULY
25 MANCHESTER Retro Bar w/ Accidente, Crywank + Witch Fever
AUGUST
19 OLDHAM Bank Top Tavern

Apologies, I Have None, Sam Russo (full band), Kamikaze Girls, Hot Mass, Broadbay, Throwing Stuff, Happy Accidents, Pale Kids, Crystal Piss, and Aerial Salad will all be playing the Manchester based all dayer at Gullivers on the 10th June. This will also be the hundredth gig put on by Moving North promotions.

Standard tickets cost £10, with a charity based option for £15. Every purchase for the latter will see £5 go towards aiding Manchester based homeless charity The Boothe Centre. You can purchase them here. For more info about the show you can click here.