Salisbury’s CARSICK Announce New EP 'Tough Luck' Released 5th September 2025 via Alcopop! Records
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Rising Indie Rockers Lament Living For The Weekend On New Single ‘Backseat’
Released 3rd July 2025
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Announce Winter 2025 UK Support Tour w/ Pet Needs
Plus International Summer Festival Appearances Including: Rebellion, Boomtown, Sziget Festival and more
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Salisbury indie rockers CARSICK are delighted to announce their second EP, Tough Luck, set for release on 5th September 2025 via Alcopop! Records.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Sam Winfield and Tom Millar at Studio 91, Newbury, the new EP is the first collection of new material from the band since their warmly received debut EP Drunk Hymns in 2023.
To celebrate the news they’re sharing lead single ‘Backseat’ which is out now on all good digital service providers, and follows on from EP cut ‘Pub Watch’—a nihilistic anthem for the late stage capitalism generation—released earlier this year.
Commenting on the track, the band said: "'Backseat' is a song about getting stuck in the loop of living for the weekend. British culture has always encouraged giving your entire week to work and then spending every last bit of your wage packet at the pub once Friday hits. It's easy to put your life into autopilot and endlessly repeat that cycle without realising it's become a downward spiral. Sounds bleak, but luckily we've condensed that existential crisis into a catchy summer banger for you. Just don't worry about it!"
Fresh from completing their own leg of Spring 2025 EU headline dates and supporting hot property Essex Brit-punk duo The Meffs on their recent UK headline dates, the band will be running the European festival gauntlet this summer at Rebellion Festival, Boomtown, Sziget, and are also delighted to announce Winter 2025 UK support dates with Pet Needs (see below for listings).
Their haywire live shows and no-holds-barred approach to the party lifestyle have garnered the band both notoriety and an increasingly ardent young fanbase, as evidenced by their notably packed out festival appearances last summer.
2024 was CARSICK’s biggest year so far, and saw them embarking on UK and EU headline shows, plus festival appearances at Reading & Leeds Festival, 2000 Trees, TRUCK, A Stone’s Throw, and more, with the band releasing their music-industry-baiting standalone single ‘Gig Tax’ to round out proceedings.
The band’s debut EP Drunk Hymns was released in 2023 in a standard digital edition and an extended 12” vinyl on Salisbury orange, featuring an exclusive Side B which contains all of the band’s previously digital-only release tracks.
Already marking themselves out as one of the keenest, hardest working new young bands on the indie circuit, it seems CARSICK aren’t about to put the brakes on their impressive work ethic or equally impressive dedication to the boozer any time soon, with further new music and live dates TBA for 2025.
CARSICKS’ new Tough Luck EP is released 5th September 2025 via Alcopop! Records
CARSICK 2025 Live Dates:
01 AUG - Rag City Festival, Fordingbridge
08 AUG - Rebellion Festival + Aftershow, Blackpool
09 AUG - Boomtown Festival, Winchester
11 AUG - Sziget Festival, Budapest
22 AUG - Obstwiesen Festival, Dornstadt
30 AUG - Getoese Festival, Rietberg
26 NOV - Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow *
27 NOV - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham *
28 NOV - The Deaf Institute, Manchester *
29 NOV - Thekla, Bristol *
04 DEC - The 1865, Southampton *
* w/ Pet Needs
Tough Luck EP tracklist:
1. Violence
2. Backseat
3. Pub Watch
4. Song About The Police
5. Thatcher's Gold
CARSICK online:
https://linktr.ee/carsickofficial
CARSICK are:
Joe Richardson (Vocals)
Jack Richardson (Guitar)
Jack Hardiman (Bass)
Tom Armstrong (Drums)
More info:
A band formed over pints in a small English pub in late 2021, CARSICK take influence from a range of different artists and genres—from indie rock to post-punk to hip-hop with electronic elements—but their tongue-in-cheek lyrical approach directly tackles the trials and tribulations of life as a young adult, and especially the drinking culture which dominates the band's demographic.
Their energetic and unpredictable live shows match that theme: this is music about living for the weekend; about the desperate chaos of small-town nightlife and about forgetting what happened last night.
More than anything, CARSICK have rapidly made a name for themselves through their rowdy live performances. Since their debut show at Southampton's Joiners in November 2021, they have supported artists like Knuckle Puck, Salem, NOISY, Enola Gay, Narrow Head, and Beach Riot across the South of England. Their hometown gigs in Salisbury are the stuff of local legend, including a sold-out show at the 300-cap Chapel supported by borts and Binboy (ex-Gnarwolves).
In April 2022, the band caught the attention of the Marshall Live Agency, and were quickly signed to their growing roster of the country's most exciting young bands. In July 2022, they played two sets at Oxford's Truck Festival, opening both the Main Stage on the Thursday and the Market Stage on the Friday.
2023 saw Salisbury genre-hoppers CARSICK make a proper name for themselves; they embarked on a two-month-long UK/EU headline tour, recorded a live session at the BBC's Maida Vale, signed to Alcopop! Records, dropped their debut EP Drunk Hymns, and solidified their growing reputation as one of the UK's most energetic, unpredictable, and all-around wild live acts.
Their music—a blend of raw punk, 90s-inspired indie-rock, UK hip-hop, and irresistable electronic elements—is all about living for the weekend; about the desperate chaos of small-town nightlife and about forgetting what happened last night.
Support from the likes of BBC Radio 1, Tom Robinson at BBC Radio 6 Music, and John Kennedy on Radio X, has ensured that their "anthems for the pissed-up and pissed-off" are reaching an ever-expanding cult following. If the band are to be believed, this is the downfall of British music at terminal velocity. Get on board while you can.
Previous single ‘Anaconda Frank’ saw the band picking up speed at radio with support from BBC R1 Future Artists with Nels Hylton, made John Kennedy’s X-Posure Hot One on Radio X and added to the X-Posure Playlist, recording a live session at BBC Maida Vale with BBC Introducing, plus more support from Total Rock, Amazing Radio, Idobi Anthm and many more specialist stations and shows.
‘Gig Tax’ is the first new material from the band since previous 2023 standalone single ‘Put It Down’ which came off the back of a stunning run of live shows at 2000 Trees, Truck Festival, Boomtown, Barnstomper Festival, Attitude Festival, Left of The Dial and the band’s own Sep/Oct 2024 UK headline tour dates.
