“Three months ago we had the chance to visit Ghost City Studios somewhere close to Nuremberg in South Germany,” say the band of the session. “It’s literally in the middle of nowhere, the streets don’t even have names, they’re just numbered. So when we arrived we weren’t sure if that was the right place until Jan, Maurice, Lukas and Alex welcomed us, being the nicest dudes this world has ever yielded. The studio appeared to be very professional and hilariously well equipped, including several rooms for the bands to sleep in, delicious olive oil in massive tanks, a Playstation 4 with tons of games, a lot of lifestyle-gaining furnishings and a Korg Miku pedal. So thank you so much Ghost City Recordings, we’d always love to come back!”

‘No Innocence’ is available now via Bandcamp, and they have a number of dates coming up which you can see below.

April (w/ Earth Moves)
13.04.17 – Hamburg – F115
14.04.17 – Wiesbaden – Sabot
15.04.17 – Mühlheim – Fiducia Fest AZ Mühlheim*
16.04.17 – Saarbrücken – Horst*
17.04.17 – Karlsruhe – P8*
18.04.17 – Strasbourg – The Mudd Club*
19.04.17 – Frankfurt am Main – Secret Show

“At the end of 2015 Kylie Jenner posted a video online saying 2016 is the year of ‘realising stuff’,” the band’s Patrick announces, one of many pop-culture references. “She wasn’t wrong, and ‘Coming of Age’ was definitely written as reaction to everything that I’ve realised about my personal life, where I’d like to be in the future and as the title of the song would suggest, growing up. I like to consider this song the Middle Distance version of ‘I’m Not A Girl Not Yet A Women’ by Britney Spears.”

“The location for this shoot was great, it’s at the bottom of the park in my hometown. I had never been there before even though I’ve lived there my whole life and I was blown away when I was shown it by our mate Charlie, who was there the day we shot this session.”

‘Dahlia’ is available now, as Middle Distance prepare tour dates for the end of the year, “to celebrate our best year as band yet.”

‘Back In The Days’ is taken from the band’s ‘Twists ‘n’ Turns’ LP, released earlier in the year. For more, check out our review of the “varied album with its fair share of bangers and clever, slick song-writing.”

PEARS

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Muncie Girls

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We’ve had a little time to experiment with this new technology and we bring you the next step in our exclusive Punktastic Sessions series – the 360° sessions!

A few weeks back we caught up with our friends in Unwritten Law to try out our new tech. They were super stoked when we proposed to film something a little different…. and the result is this super intimate performance before their sold out London show, and now you can experience it in glorious 360°. Feel free to look around, and enjoy the show!

Click and drag, or use the console on the video, to have a look around.

Call It Off

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