Girls In Synthesis / Bones Shake / The Dirt – The Peer Hat, Manchester, UK, 20th October 2022

If you were going to pick a day to go and see a politically motivated post punk band, the day that the Prime Minister resigns is a good one, with the most useless leader since, well, since the last one, handing her notice in we live in a country that is rudderless and being pulled towards the edge. So on a damp night as yet another winter of discontent looms before us, we head into our regular stomping ground of Manchester’s The Peer Hat to catch Girls In Synthesis, whose albums, Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future and The Rest Is Distraction, are among the UK’s most relevant releases of the last few years. Post punk originally emerged as darker times enveloped the UK, so it makes sense that Girls In Synthesis have risen to prominence as they tackle the current political chaos head on. But...

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