If you haven’t heard Rum Lad yet then strap yourself in, because you are certainly going to in 2022 as he goes out on the road to perform tracks from the brilliant debut album ‘Vandalism’ and the two follow-up’s ‘Punk AF’ and ‘Wonder Meat’. There are many bands and artistes in the current indie/punk scene who claim to be from a working class background and using this as the basis for their music, claiming they represent the man and woman on the street. Yet few of those ever seem genuine to me, and if they are they very quickly lose sight of it as their popularity grows. Rum Lad however makes ’Sleaford Mods’ sound like Coldplay, here’s an artist like few I’ve heard and his songs pull no punches, as they directly address subjects such as homelessness, benefit scroungers, difficult relationsh...