Encapsulating the stop-start life of a contemporary punk band constantly jolting between rock’n’roll dreams and domestic duties, ‘Intermittent Fast Living’ is the riotous, relatable new record from the Essex quartet.
Their third studio album in as many years, it’s frantic 11 tracks pinball through songs of love and loss, the trials & tribulations of touring, punk protests against pay-to-play shows, lucid life lessons learnt from a new puppy, and just about everything in between.
It includes previously released singles “Separation Anxiety” and “Sleep When I’m Dead”, which had spins from Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music, John Kennedy on Radio X, Total Rock, BBC Introducing, Amazing Radio and Kerrang Radio.
Receiving early plaudits from Punktastic they praised “[PET NEEDS’] superpower comes from channelling their normality and repurposing the magic they experience in their everyday lives as insightful, honest rock… enough bangers to open up an ironic pit”. Elsewhere V13 Magazine hailed ‘Intermittent Fast Living’ as a “gloriously drunken, frantic and punchy punk rock” record, whereas The Soundboardchampioned the new album as “a phenomenally tight and robust package from front to back, as fulfilling on the most cursory, surface-level listen as it is to take a proper deep dive”.
Recorded in just two weeks, ‘Intermittent Fast Living’ is a breathless new addition to the PET NEEDS canon, created at Vada Studios with producer/sound engineer George Perks (Enter Shikari, You Me At Six, Mogwai, Skindred).
With the new album finally out there, PET NEEDS are currently masterminding its world domination with a campaign to smash into the UK Official Top 40. An effort dubbed by the band as ‘Bottom of the Pops’, their plan includes a genius twelve-sleeve CD campaign (comprising a dozen collectible artworks that pay wry homage to Top of the Pops logos throughout history) poised to push them towards chart stardom – all available now. As Johnny states:
“The newspapers say we’re in an age where plucky little indie bands with loyal fanbases can storm the charts for a week – like that’s a bad thing!… We are proud to be a plucky little indie band, and are throwing everything at infiltrating the mainstream for five minutes with our new album, Intermittent Fast Living!”
In support of the new album, PET NEEDS are currently on the road for a whistlestop tour of independent record shops where they will be signing records and performing live – catch them at your local haunt as listed below. A full UK & European tour also follows later in the Spring. The full list of dates are as follows:.
PET NEEDS UK LIVE DATES 2024
INSTORE DATES
FEBRUARY
16 – BRISTOL Rough Trade
18 – GLASGOW Assai
19 – PORTSMOUTH Pie & Vinyl
20 – KINGSTON Banquet
21 – COLCHESTER HMV
UK TOUR
FEBRUARY
17 – NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms
APRIL
16 – STOCKTON ON TEES Georgian Theatre
17 – LEEDS Boom
18 – MANCHESTER Night & Day
19 – BRISTOL Exchange
20 – BRIGHTON Hope & Ruin
23 – CAMBRIDGE Portland Arms
24 – OXFORD The Bullingdon
25 – LONDON The Underworld
26 – BIRMINGHAM Hare & Hounds
27 – SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners
EUROPEAN TOUR
MAY
28 HAARLEM, NL Patronaat
29 COLOGNE, DE Blue Shell
30 – HAMBURG, DE Nochtwache
31 – BERLIN, DE Cassiopeia
JUNE
02 – PARIS, FR La Boule Noire
Tickets for all shows are on sale now: https://petneedsband.com/live-dates.