Sunday 26 September 2021

Is the new Newtown Neurotics album any good?


Posted this as a reply to someone who suggested we use younger punk musicians to get a more "hi octane" performance...

"Very pleased that you are looking forward to our new album, but puzzled by the ‘less older’ bit. I will be 67 next month therefore am I too old to be a punk? The rest of the band are younger than me so they are less older than me. We have been together for a long time now.


Punk to me is to be honest in all you do, and if it’s music, then that too. We are an older band; we are not teenagers anymore and would never try to make music now as if we were. That would be less honest. We are now not as fast, not as hairy, and not as pretty anymore but we are still a fucking good band. We bring our experiences to our music to enrich it, we don’t see our age as baggage. You may not like the new album, but I see no reason why you shouldn’t. We put more into it and are true to ourselves, more than most other bands.
If you listen without prejudice, you will be enriched and not disappointed.

The vast majority of musicians are always convinced that their latest album is the best they have ever made. I make no comment on our new work other than to say, I hope everyone experiences the excitement we feel right now as we work on it. It will be another perspective lyrically, It would never be another ‘Beggars Can Be Choosers’ (In a good way. but it will be something else and it will be angry, and in anticipation there is excitement. It is up to the listener to judge where it sits with our other work.
There is one constant though, in the message behind it all… “Kick Out The Tories!”

Monday 20 September 2021

Newtown Neurotics first album for nearly forty years

 Hi all,

Yeah I know, a stupid long time to get around to writing and recording a new album. Especially as we have been back in existence for ten years now.

The reason for this is that we have never considered ourselves as a proper evolving band during that time.

Our songs were still as relevant as they were in the 1980's so why write new material? We felt that each gig may be our last but it became evident that there was a great demand for what we were doing so we carried on.

When Trump came to power in the United States, and then the arrival of Brexit and Covid, it seemed that the band needed to reflect the world as it is now and so I started writing again.

It is not a great time to be recording and planning to put out a new album when the music industry has been destroyed by Brexit, helped along by Covid, but it has to be done.

We have a documentary film made about us called 'Kick Out' which was shelved when 'Lockdown' occurred the first time, and as yet, things have not turned a corner with the virus to allow us to plan documentary, new release, tour. But we will do these things, it is just gonna take some time.

So today, we go into the studio to begin our first day of recording on our new album: 'Cognitive Dissidents'

Wish us luck!