Introducing new Venn Records signings Club Brat - new single 'Goodbye Pop Culture' out today!

CLUB BRAT TO RELEASE ‘FOUR SONGS’ EP ON SEPTEMBER 12TH VIA VENN RECORDS

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE ‘GOODBYE POP CULTURE’ HERE AND STREAM HERE:

UK TOUR CONFIRMED FOR SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

CLUB BRAT is a high-intensity punk/noise pop band defying traditional labels, blending jagged guitars, bass-heavy dissonance, and volatile rhythmic urgency. Originally from Peterborough and now split between Bristol and London, the five-piece formed in 2023 and quickly earned a reputation for unpredictable live shows and a relentless DIY ethos, while still working with some of underground music’s most respected engineers. 

Their upcoming EP, ‘4 Songs’ (out 12th September via VENN Records), was recorded at HUMM Studios with Dom Mitchison and Archie Jones, and mastered by Bob Weston of Shellac - a clear nod to the Albini school of stark, unvarnished production. But the EP isn’t political in content - it’s political in form: concise, deliberate, and unapologetically direct. Yet CLUB BRAT resists comfortable interpretation. Their songs provoke, not preach - inviting listeners to draw their own conclusions and turning each encounter into something personal and open-ended.

The lead single from ‘4 Songs’, ‘Goodbye Pop Culture’, is out now with a video by Chris Hugall (Split Dogs), and it’s a jarring, yet infectiously pulsing and rhythmic clamour that plugs directly into the electronics of dance as much as it does the discordant guitars.

“Goodbye Pop Culture lives in the tension between form and collapse, tradition and mutation, the past and what’s next,” explains guitarist Joe Smith. “It’s concise, deliberate, and unapologetically direct. CLUB BRAT doesn’t preach. We resist easy interpretation. This song won’t tell you what to think - it invites you to feel, to sit with the discomfort, and come to your own understanding.”

Watch the video for ‘Goodbye Pop Culture’ HERE:

Club Brat previously worked with Don Zientara of Inner Ear Studios - legendary for his work with Fugazi - who described CLUB BRAT as: “A locomotive… who can REALLY put it into song”, and they’ve shared stages with Scream and HR (Bad Brains) and appeared at Rebellion Festival. 

Drawing from Fugazi, Idles, and The Pixies to Drum ’n’ Bass and early 2000s Alternative, CLUB BRAT refuses to be boxed in by genre. What defines them isn’t style - it’s urgency: raw, confrontational, and constantly evolving. Or, as Steve Ignorant of CRASS puts it: “Miss out on this band at your peril - inspiring, entrancing and unstoppable – they are coming your way!”

‘4 Songs’ EP Track listing: 

1. 25 Cameras 

2. Goodbye Pop Culture 

3. In It For The Money 

4. Watch

Catch Club Brat live at the follow dates:

September

18 September — Leeds, Headingley Social Club

19 September — Stamford, Mama Liz’s Voodoo Lounge

20 September — Bristol, The Golden Lion

25 September — London, Hope & Anchor

26 September — Nottingham, JT Soar

October

2 October — Sheffield, The Washington

9 October — Birmingham, The Rainbow

10 October — Brighton, The Pipeline

Club Brat are:

Carys Williams – Bass

Brad Stringer – Guitar

Ike McCormick – Vocals

Joe Smith – Guitar

Nikola Mitev - Drums

Find Club Brat online HERE