5 NEW ALBUMS: GURRIERS – GILLA BAND – NOTHING BUT THIEVES – SOFT CELL – ADULT DVD
25 September 2026
Pukkelpop Fest, Belgium – 21 August 2026 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume
BAND: GURRIERS
Who: Fast-rising, voltaic
indies from Dublin, Ireland.
Album: NOBODY’S COMING TO SAVE YOU
Their 2nd.
Press info: “With Nobody’s Coming To Save You, Gurriers have sent their ambitions sky-high and come out swinging. If the band’s MO was to find a way to make the record “slap you in the face”, then consider yourself smacked.”
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TUTV: Without a shadow of a doubt, one of the hottest records of the year. They rock,
they punk, and they punch with blood-and-guts fervour. They’re on a quest to find the
light at the end of the tunnel to replace today’s dark times. Watch your back, Fontaines, your fellow committed countrymen are coming fast.
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Band: GILLA BAND
Who: Razor-blade-cutting,
idiosyncratic Irish post-punks.
Album: PUGNELLO.
Their 4th and first in 4 years.
Press info: “Gilla Band never know where they’re going next. For over ten years now,
the Dublin quartet have been redefining what you could loosely call “rock music” in the 21st century, influencing a wide swath of similarly forward-thinking guitar acts along the way.”
TUTV: I follow/love these Irishmen since I saw them live in Belgium in 2014
as nervous snotnoses hadn’t a record out yet, as support act for Fat White
Family. Their chainsaw hullabaloo went through bone and marrow.
And it still does. Mind you, their songs had and still have bloodcurdling body and returning, capriocious structure that’s bone-chilling and mind-blowing at times, while frontman Dara Kiely fights upfront to vomit his eccentric lyrics. If your eardrums survive
this electric-chair experience, you’re ready for some more sonic Gilla Band blitzkrieg.
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Band: ADULT DVD
Who: EBM punk agitators
from Leeds, UK.
Album: ADULT DVD
Debut LP
Press info: “The album fuses Adult DVD’s love of hook laden indie, with
pulsing groove, 90’s acid house influence and an undeniable humour in
their songwriting.”
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TUTV: Think/feel this. Electro-punk mixed with industrial thumps mixed with drum/bass bashing sledgehammers mixed with sonic booms. Sounds like thunder and lightning fireworks for (il)legal raves produced by techno experts Underworld. Bonkers, right?
You wham bam betcha.
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Band: NOTHING BUT THIEVES
Who: British Herculean rock squad
formed in 2012 in Essex.
Album: STRAY DOGS
Their 5th.
Press info: “Stray Dogs reconnects the Southend five-piece with their DIY roots.
The album was written in unison over a dedicated 5-month period, resulting in
the band creating their most liberating and cohesive work to date.”
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TUTV: On 6 tracks NBT mess with your rotating head with untrammelled force,
storm-wracked noiz drills, hysterical guitars, drum/bass horsepower, and full-hearted vocals. On the other 6 tracks they go for more traditional rock sucker punches. It results
in a roller coaster record with a straightaway impact. Nothing but thrills.
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Artists: SOFT CELL
Who: British electro-pop champs featuring vocalist
Marc Almond and the late keyboardist Dave Ball.
Album: DANCETARIA
6th and final one.
The recordings were finished before co-founder
Dave Ball passed away last year in October.
Press info: “The final album is both a love letter to early 80s New York and
a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball. The album is a big, classy and playful
farewell after.”
TUTV: It’s a Soft Cell worthy goodbye, showing their heart and soul for dancefloor
entertainment once again, but, unfortunately, for the last time. Their magnificent 1981
gem “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye” is playing in my head while writing this. Thank you for
the music, electronic dance pop champs.
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