Neutrals

It’s taken a while to process our UK tour… hard to put into words how much fun it was. Thanks to everyone who helped put it together, booked a gig, hosted us, fed us, or played with us… and thanks to everyone who came to the gigs and helped made each night so special. Hopefully we’ll be back!

It’s taken a while to process our UK tour… hard to put into words how much fun it was. Thanks to everyone who helped put it together, booked a gig, hosted us, fed us, or played with us… and thanks to everyone who came to the gigs and helped made each night so special. Hopefully we’ll be back!

something something their defence is like Swiss Cheese save to drafts finish later neutrals.bandcamp.com/track/swiss-2

We’ve been hard at work in the practice space dusting off some older songs for this upcoming tour, including a bunch from 2019’s Kebab Disco… neutrals.bandcamp.com/album/kebab-...

still getting the hang of bluesky... happy to be off the bird app for reasons but honestly I miss the community we had on there - my algorithm seemed to keep me insulated from the worst of that world. The bsky algo is so far not serving up similar material even though I follow the same folk.

Development of the new town of the LP requires construction of a new motorway. Stop the Bypass imagines a protest song by a local band against the destruction of homes, parks, and animal habitat in the path of the new road, like how Peckham Action Group commissioned Crisis to write “No Town Hall”.

This thread of the story was inspired by many environmental protests throughout the 70s, 80s, and beyond, particularly the Pollok Free State occupation in Glasgow. We had a lot of help from our friends recording the protest chant section. Thanks MJ, Mikel, Tim, Bobby, Hard Left, etc etc

Continuing with this occasional series... The Iron That Never Swung is based on a true story. In the 80s, my dad and his friends from the factory wanted to play golf but there was no course in our town. www.instagram.com/reel/C8LTj-d...

There’s expensive, heavy equipment to buy and lug around. You get together with a few friends at the weekend and play, maybe sharing a few drinks afterwards.

Continuing with this occasional series... The Iron That Never Swung is based on a true story. In the 80s, my dad and his friends from the factory wanted to play golf but there was no course in our town. www.instagram.com/reel/C8LTj-d...

Eventually they raised enough money to buy some land, planning to do all the labour themselves, but were denied planning permission and further funding by the local council.

Continuing with this occasional series... The Iron That Never Swung is based on a true story. In the 80s, my dad and his friends from the factory wanted to play golf but there was no course in our town. www.instagram.com/reel/C8LTj-d...

Final dump of posters for tour - Glasgow, Nottingham and Southampton.

In the interests of keeping the dream alive/for anyone that might be new to us here on bluesky, sharing some past works and stories... like most of the songs on new town dream, Steven Proctor, Bus Conductor was inspired by a story from an old newspaper...

Sharing some posters for the upcoming UK tour… more as we get them. Tickets for most gigs are now available at linktr.ee/Neutrals82

Neutrals News! Like us, many of you were sad to learn that Lauren was leaving Neutrals earlier this year to concentrate on @rhymies.bsky.social -- Well, good news - we have convinced someone to take over. This is Jason Patrone jpatrone.bsky.social

Jason is originally from LA, and after a stint in Sacramento has been in the Bay Area for several years. You may know him from his previous bands FM Knives, Dots, Lyme Regis and more.