PROBLEM PATTERNS Satirise Ingrained Classic Rock Misogyny On New Single ‘Classic Rock Has Become My Prison’
PROBLEM PATTERNS Satirise Ingrained Classic Rock Misogyny On New Single
‘Classic Rock Has Become My Prison’ Released 19th August 2025
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Announce New Live Dates w/ Pissed Jeans, Other Half, Fightmilk + More
Plus Appearances at Get In Her Ears Fest + More
Tickets on sale now - https://linktr.ee/Problempatterns
New EP Boring Songs For Boring People Released 12th September 2025 via Alcopop! Records
Preorder - https://ilovealcopop.co.uk/collections/problem-patterns
Belfast-based DIY feminist queerpunk quartet PROBLEM PATTERNS return today with their new single ‘Classic Rock Has Become My Prison’ set for release on 19th August 2025 via Alcopop! Records.
The track is the latest to be taken from their forthcoming 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
New single ‘Classic Rock Has Become My Prison' is a chuggy parody of classic rock turned classic Problem Patterns rant-fest, and follows on from lead single ‘I’m Fine and I’m Doing Great’ which recently smashed onto the BBC Radio 6music C List for four weeks.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered once again by Niall Doran at Start Together Studios, Belfast, the new single comes with an official video directed by Beverley Boal, which sees the band assuming their new classic rock alter-egos: Beverley Flippin' Boal, MegaBeth, Hard Rock Alanah, and Ciara King Cobra.
Commenting on the track, the band say: “The title was the concluding sentence of a rant about my neighbour who plays classic rock radio stations obnoxiously loud from his garage for hours on sunny days, thrusting me back indoors and forcing me to close the windows to get some peace. ‘Great name for a song,’ I was told, so in classic fashion I took to channelling those frustrations into music. But the more I thought about classic rock tunes, the more I thought about the sexism and misogyny rampant in the lyrics of even the most popular songs.”
“There are something like 25 of the most uncomfortable and cocky lyric references patchworked into this song, and there will be a prize if you guess all 25 correctly. Musically, we took on classic rock alter-egos, ripping solos, chugging riffs, hitting the drum fills just right, before letting loose that patented PP anger. This is Problem Patterns at our cock-rockiest.”
Previously released EP track ‘Sad Old Woman’, featuring vocals from Matt Korvette of Pissed Jeans (Sub Pop Records), 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 appearances at NXNE, Stendahl, and Under The Drum, the band will appear at the Pink Pound Birthday Party and Get In Her Ears Fest this summer, plus newly-announced live dates with Pissed Jeans, Other Half, and Fightmilk (see below for listings).
New EP Boring Songs For Boring People is released 12th September 2025 via Alcopop! Records
Live Dates:
17th August - Brighton - Chalk (supporting Pissed Jeans)
22nd August - Ponyhawke x Problem Patterns fundraiser for Trans Pride & The Rainbow Project
30th August - Glasgow - The Flying Duck (Pink Pound Birthday Party w/ Trach Kit + Come Outside)
05th September - Belfast - NI (EP Launch with Other Half)
06th September - Drogheda - Ireland (EP Launch with Other Half)
07th September - Dublin - Ireland (EP Launch with Other Half)
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
Problem Patterns online:
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https://www.facebook.com/probpatterns
https://www.instagram.com/probpatterns
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
