Thank + Kal Marks Bristol

Thank + Kal Marks Bristol

Thank + Kal Marks play Bristol at Rough Trade on Thursday 20th March 2025. Get tickets from 10am 29th November above with only a 50p booking fee or from Seetickets.

“Bringing noise rock kicking and screaming into the volatile 2020s.” JR Moores, The Quietus

“A kind of mad melding of Pissed Jeans and Lady Gaga.” Dominic Haley, Loud and Quiet

The Rock Band Thank From Leeds’ concoction of anxious disco grooves, harsh noise freakouts and inscrutable sprechgesang bluster was borne out of their hometown’s notorious – and now sadly defunct – DIY collective CHUNK .

Thank closed out 2023 with a December residency in Scarborough. Holed up in Beckview Studios and its attic flat, the band were accompanied by longtime producer Rob Slater (Blacklisters & Mush), and they effectively lived and breathed the album for 24 hours a day during the recording. “Three of us studied in Scarborough, and during that time we played in a few different embryonic versions of Thank,” explains Vinehill-Cliffe. “We had barely visited for ten years, and in the meantime our old campus has shut down, our former practice space has been demolished to make way for luxury flats, and almost everyone we knew has moved away. So we were in this ostensibly familiar place where basically every trace of our existence was gone, it was a weird headspace to be in.”

“Thematically all the old classics are in there – sex, death, and Twitter brainrot. I don’t think I’m necessarily trying to say anything I haven’t tried to say before, I’ve just gotten better at saying it. I still hate landlords, I still hate right wing grifters, I still hate people who hide their cruelty behind progressive language. I do hate myself quite a bit less, so there’s some hope and positivity in there too, as a treat.”

In 2024 Thank signed to independent record label Big Scary Monsters , armed with a new album on the horizon and a smattering of upcoming shows in the UK and Europe to boot. ‘I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed’ is a brash, satirical and downright stomping full length that combines the raw ferocity of the band’s early work with the ambitious arrangements and electronic experimentation of their more recent output. The end result combines hardware techno squelch, jungle-inspired drumming, synth pop bombast and anarcho-punk spartan aggression, acid-fried and internet-poisoned with a shit-eating grin on its face, landing somewhere akin to The Cure’s ‘The Head On The Door’ if it was remixed by ‘Jenny Death’ – era Death Grips. https://thankleeds.bandcamp.com

Plus: Kal Marks: Kal Marks have never made a record as personal as Wasteland Baby. Though Carl Shane, the band’s vocalist-guitarist, has made a career off of exploring blunt, uncomfortable truths through song, with Wasteland Baby, he steered Kal Marks toward something utterly new. Shane looked inward to stare down a fear that had long plagued him: What would it look like to have a child in a world that looks like this? “The album was driven by the fears I’m having about being a father,” says Shane. “The initial spark was this fear, and I thought that maybe if I could express it, I could overcome it.” https://kalmarks.bandcamp.com

Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour Bristol shows:
18012025 – SUDS. Louisiana
20022025 – Maquina. Rough Trade
20032025 – Thank + Kal Marks. Rough Trade
21032025 – Pure Adult. Rough Trade

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Thank + Kal Marks Bristol

Thank + Kal Marks Bristol