London’s Desperate Measures are primed to unleash Sublime Destruction next week with their appropriately titled new album. The band are currently clocking up the miles with likes of Dead Boys, Buzzcocks and Janus Stark, and the company they’ve been keeping on the road should give you an idea of what to expect. Desperate Measures roots lie way back in punk’s history, but whilst their roots run deep, it’s what blooms on the surface that catches your attention, and in that context what has erupted through the weeds is an unexpected and near perfect hybrid. The band’s current line up of Eugene Butcher (editor of the esteemed Vive Le Rock magazine), Ricky McGuire (UK Subs / The Fits / The Men They Couldn’t Hang), Michael Gaffney (Rich Ragany & The Digressions) ...