“So much great art comes out of hardship,” Witch Fever vocalist Amy Walpole observes, with an almost audible air of frustration. “But it sucks. It’s nothing new – music has been made for so long off the back of trauma.” It’s early on a Friday morning as Amy bats this idea back and forth with Bobby Vylan and High Vis frontman Graham Sayle, situating one of music’s most galling truisms at the heart of a vital wave of young, politically-engaged British punk bands. When our conversation gets underway it’s already hot outside, forebodingly so, as the planet hammers home a point it’s been trying to make for years, while another political scandal unfolds close to the top of the parliamentary tree, with the usual blend of cowardice and self-interest stitched to the Partyg...