PROBLEM PATTERNS Announce New EP 'Boring Songs For Boring People' Released 12th September 2025 via Alcopop! Records
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Highlight Creative Burnout On Lead Single ‘I’m Fine and I’m Doing Great’ Released 24th June 2025
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Appearances at Stendahl Festival, Under The Drum, Get In Her Ears Fest + More
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Belfast-based DIY feminist queerpunk quartet PROBLEM PATTERNS are delighted to announce a brand new EP titled Boring Songs For Boring People, set for release on 12th September 2025 via Alcopop! Records.
The EP will be released on screen printed vinyl with a selection of office-based mug merch, with further details TBA.
Preorder now at: https://ilovealcopop.co.uk/collections/problem-patterns
To celebrate the news, the band are sharing the lead single ‘I’m Fine and I’m Doing Great’ which is out now on all good digital service providers.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Niall Doran at Start Together Studios, Belfast, the new single comes with an official video directed by the band’s Alanah Smith and filmed by Aileen McKenna.
Commenting on the track, bassist Ciara King said: “This song is an ode to every single burnout episode that any creative has ever had. The lyrics formed when we were touring flat out and playing UK festivals every weekend. As an Irish band, this requires a lot of travel back and forth. We were becoming extremely burnt out and losing joy for the thing we love.”
“I wanted to contrast that with how grateful we are for all of our achievements. I do feel like I’m well and truly living the dream. We’ve played some life changing shows and had some unimaginable experiences and successes that a tiny DIY band like us could only dream of. However, it’s important sometimes to break the fourth wall and say ‘this is really hard, isn’t it’. It’s important to the band’s mental well-being, I think, that we acknowledge when we’re tired and struggling as much as we acknowledge how excited we are. I think it’s perfectly normal to be exhausted and love your craft. This song is addressing that feeling of the love/hate relationship involved in doing music full time and still working full time. This one goes out to all our burnt out pals. Keep going.”
The new single follows on from previously released EP track ‘Sad Old Woman’, featuring vocals from Matt Korvette of Pissed Jeans (Sub Pop Records), which dropped in Spring 2025 and premiered on BBC Radio 6 Music’s New Music Fix show.
Tipped by Kathleen Hanna (Le Tigre, Bikini Kill) and Henry Rollins (Black Flag) as one of the most exciting new punk bands on the planet, the new track is the first new material from PP since winning the coveted ‘Album of The Year’ category at the Northern Irish Music Prize 2024 with critically acclaimed debut album Blouse Club.
Fresh from headline tour dates, support dates with BO NINGEN and Michael Cera Palin, and a festival appearance at NXNE in Canada, the band will be appearing at Stendahl, Under The Drum, the Pink Pound Birthday Party and Get In Her Ears Fest this summer, plus a free entry Brighton show with pals Fightmilk.
Further live dates and EP details TBA (see below for listings).
New EP Boring Songs For Boring People is released 12th September 2025 via Alcopop! Records
Live Dates:
04th—6th July - Limavady - Stendahl Festival (NI)
09th August - Tildarg, County Antrim - Under The Drum Festival (NI)
30th August - Glasgow - The Flying Duck (Pink Pound Birthday Party)
26th September - Brighton - The Hope & Ruin (w/ Fightmilk) *free entry*
27th September - London - Cavendish Arms - Get In Her Ears Fest (UK)
Boring Songs For Boring People EP tracklist:
1. Song For Fi
2. Sad Old Woman (feat. Matt Korvette)
3. Classic Rock Has Become My Prison
4. I’m Fine and I’m Doing Great
5. Bone Idle
6. Boring Songs For Boring People
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Problem Patterns are four shouty queers who write songs for right now, swapping roles and instruments to get their point across about whatever angers them this week.
After many lonely nights screaming alone in their bedrooms over the state of the world, Alanah, Bethany, Bev and Ciara (aka ABBA) came together in Belfast in 2018 to invent a new genre they called PUNK. It's shouty, it's heavy, it's tongue in cheek, it's inclusive, it's hopeful and it's fun.
These four DIY punk dads are all about creating havoc in celebratory and cathartic spaces. Bigger than The Beatles, but not yet quite as big as Slipknot, the band have played notable support slots with Le Tigre, Bob Vylan and Fight Like Apes.
Their debut single, ‘Allegedly’, was recorded and released within their first month together, they released their debut EP, Good For You, Aren’t You Great? in July 2019.
Recorded and mixed by Niall Doran at Start Together Studios in Belfast and mastered by Peter J Moore at The E Room in Toronto, their 2023 debut album Blouse Club received rave reviews and coverage from from The Guardian (who tipped them at Ones To Watch), LOUDER, VISIONS, Dig With It, God Is In The TV Zine, The Punk Site, The Thin Air, Chordblossom, and many more.
At radio the band have performed an exclusive BBC 6music Session for the New Music Fix, were added to the BBC 6music Introducing playlist, the Radio X X-Posure Playlist, the Amazing Radio playlist, and the Student Music Network playlist, with support from punk legend Henry Rollins at KCRW, BBC Northern Ireland’s Introducing, Mickey Bradley and Stephen McCauley, BBC Stereo Underground with Richard Latto, The Selector, RTÉ, Total Rock, Louder Than War Radio, and many more regional and specialist shows.
Streaming support has been equally bountiful, with love from Spotify’s All New Punk, The Punk List, Hot New Bands, and Queercore playlists, Apple’s New In Rock, New In Alternative, and Negative Space, and Deezer’s Queer Punk playlist.
They have played with Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill’s iconic electro rock trio Le Tigre, supported Dream Wife on their Ireland tour, joined fellow Irish upstarts And So I Watch You From Afar and Fight Like Apes on stage, and opened for Scottish legends The Spook School at their reunion show in Glasgow.
Problem Patterns rounded out an incredible 2024 by supporting Other Half in Norwich, The Mary Wallopers at SSE Arena, Belfast and releasing an electronic rework version of the album, Blouse Clubland. An eclectic mix of melody, mash ups, and mayhem, this exquisite new version of the record sees the Belfast punk icons come together with a boatload of their finest friends, collaborators, and fellow musicians to re-work the original tracks into a sublime new listening experience. It's Problem Patterns, but not like you've ever heard them before.
The remix album followed on from the standalone single ‘I Think You Should Leave’ released earlier in 2024, following a bumper summer of performances at Glastonbury Festival, Stendahl Festival, 2000 Trees, TRUCK Festival and Belsonic.
Here's what some of their icons had to say about them:
“I love the band Problem Patterns because they make weird music for right now that sounds like no one else and I am addicted” - Kathleen Hanna
“I just think they’re great” - Henry Rollins
“A thoroughly great racket” - Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 6 Music
