"Here the raw rubs shoulders with the gleefully inept, the deliberately tangential, the loftily idealistic. It’s a frankly terrific collection, containing some marvellous music worthy of a wider audience." - Dara Higgins on Irish post-punk & new wave compilation Strange Passion.
'For many of us, punk offered a lifeline away from our own particular difficulties. On a practical level they in the North had access to condoms, for example, and we had other oppressive fish to fry, and not just just on Fridays!' - Siobhán Kane talks to Eoin Freeney of Chant! Chant! Chant! ahead of their first live performance in over 30 years.
Paper Trail Records have released a compilation of previously unreleased tracks in support of the Abortion Support Network
Released just in time for the March For Choice, Shrug Life‘s new single Your Body is ‘a song about bodily autonomy,...