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Preview: End of the Trail stage at Liverpool Sound City this weekend (Saturday 2nd October)

Posted: 28 September 2021 in Previews and Editorial
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Here at Aural Aggravation, we’ve been backing Jekyll, Sweethearts, and Polarized Eyes for a while now, so it’s exciting to see that End of the Trail Records, is curating a stage at this year’s Liverpool Sound City on Saturday 2nd October, featuring them alongside a host of other exciting new acts.

They’re showcasing a bunch of bands from the label, alongside acts from both seminal and stalwart independent label Fierce Panda and Fear Records, to pull together an exciting bill of up-and-coming talent. Live music is back with a bang, and these are exciting times with a wealth of fresh talent emerging.

The showcase will be held at EBGBS in Liverpool (of course!) Stage sponsored by Fear Records & Blaggers Records, with stage times (and band info links) as follows:

21.00 CHINA BEARS : INFO

19.50 ENJOYABLE LISTENS INFO

19.00 THE INSTITUTES INFO

18.10 SHADE INFO

17.20 POLARIZED EYES INFO

16.30 MOSES INFO

15.40 FAMILY JOOLS INFO

14.50 JEKYLL INFO

14.00 SWEETHEARTS INFO

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If you’re already going, you can’t go far wrong. If you’re not, tickets for Sound City are still available here.

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Media kudos for End of the Trail:

Genuinely in it for the music – LOUDER THAN WAR

Super cool – BBC RADIO 6

Echoing the grandeur of Factory – NARC MAGAZINE

Polarized Eyes – It’s Not An Accident, It’s Love

Posted: 2 June 2021 in Singles and EPs
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4th June 2021 (Knight)

Kids… every year they get younger, right? It’s a poor quip poorly executed, one that cropped up when I was teaching at a university as lecturers joked about how every year the students got younger. Bands who aren’t yet old enough to drink at the venues they perform tend to be met with an equal blend of awe and scoffing. Both are equally unfair: why should anyone assume that age is a measure by which any musician should be judged? Being wowed because of ability that’s advanced ‘for their age’ is as discriminatory as commenting on how a band from the 70s are still ‘good for their age’. It’s also a criticism of sort, as if they’re not actually good on their own merits.

So instead of either being wowed by their youthful talent or knocking them for being a bunch of millennials with an agenda, let’s see what this quartet consisting of Noah Lonergan (vocals and guitar), Amber Welsh (bass), Michael Barlingieri (guitar), and Harry Heard (drums) are actually about.

They speak for Gen Z, with songs about global warming and toxic masculinity to racism and corruption. And yes, we need bands with conscience, and we need bands who are politically engaged. THIS is how the future happens. Anyone who decries a ‘woke’ agenda and bitches about ‘snowflakes’ can fuck off, because we know they’re all middle-aged, middle-class white men with a comfortable platform from which to decry ‘cancel culture’.

Polarized Eyes met in primary school and came together as a band in 2018. Tom Robinson loves them, John Kennedy (Radio X). Jack Saunders at Radio 1 also rated their single ‘Real Boys’, and they will probably dig this too.

It’s just shy of two minutes of guitar-driven, there-chord punk energy that’s pure punk, coupled with the raw power of grunge. Ther’s some wicked reverb going on with the vocal, and Lonergan belts it out with real force – but there’s something more to his voice than that, masking it one you want to hear more of. It’s a rush. It’s also a straight-up killer single by any measure.

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