‘Punk’ probably wouldn’t be the thing that springs to mind when you listen to The Nightmares for the first time. The Newport quintet deal in a synth-laden emo-meets-indie sound, and they’ve even got some songs with no guitars at all. Despite not being particularly in-your-face, though, it turns out the band – vocalist/guitarist Adam Parslow, vocalist/keyboardist Eleanor Coburn, guitarist Craig Preece, bassist Benjamin T. Mainwaring and drummer James Mattock – owe their existence to the vibrant punk scene of their Welsh hometown. “We all met through our local punk venue, Le Pub, in Newport,” frontman Adam begins. “We’d been going to gigs there for years, and it was a shared love of the same kinds of bands that brought The Nightmares together. We didn’t have any grand ideas o...