Venn Records – the independent label that’s become home to Split Dogs, Meryl Streek, Aerial Salad, Clobber, and previously High Vis and Bob Vylan – has announced its newest signing: Club Brat.
Formed in 2023, the five-piece originally hail from Peterborough and are now based between Bristol and London. In just over a year, Club Brat have carved out a reputation for unpredictable, high-voltage live shows and a relentless DIY ethos, quickly becoming one of the UK underground’s most talked-about new bands.
Their debut release for Venn, the EP 4 Songs, arrives 12th September. Recorded at HUMM Studios with respected underground engineers Dom Mitchison and Archie Jones, the record was mastered by Bob Weston of Shellac – a direct nod to the Albini school of stark, unvarnished production.
Alongside the EP launch, the band will hit the road this autumn:
September
18 Sept — Leeds, Headingley Social Club
19 Sept — Stamford, Mama Liz’s Voodoo Lounge
20 Sept — Bristol, The Golden Lion
25 Sept — London, Hope & Anchor
26 Sept — Nottingham, JT Soar
October
2 Oct — Sheffield, The Washington
9 Oct — Birmingham, The Rainbow
10 Oct — Brighton, The Pipeline
Watch the video made by Split Dogs drummer Chris Hugall.
With raw urgency, uncompromising sound, and a label pedigree that speaks for itself, Club Brat are already poised to push well beyond the basement circuit.
“Club Brat – a band that crackles like lightning trapped in a jar of extra thick cosmic honey. They’ve hacked into the nervous system of punk and rewired it with Martian circuitry, beaming their frequencies down through broken satellites and TV snow. Listening to them is like being shot through a prism on a moonbeam, tumbling backwards from Mars with your veins full of static and your lungs full of stardust. It’s chaos, it’s clarity, it’s sweat-soaked telepathy and it’ may make you the most alive you may have felt since music first kissed you on the mouth and forced its tongue deep in your throat” – Editor