Sandwiched between a Wagamamas and a Uniqlo is a little slice of old school punk heaven. It’s Grade 2’s album launch show and we’re here to celebrate the music of 1977 with the future of the old school scene. As a crowd, we’re a tight fit into the venue, guys with Cock Sparrer skull tattoos rubbing shoulders with grannies sporting Chelsea girl haircuts, and primary school kids in oversized Exploited hoodies, but it’s just that kind of show: every forward-looking punk within a ten-mile radius has laced their boots and showed us to get their fix of new material from the lads from the Isle of Wight.
As a set, tonight is short but intense, which is for the best: any longer than forty-five minutes and we’d be a collective puddle of mush on the sticky floor, but it’s also the perfect length to showcase ‘Talk About It’. “It’s a little different from what we’ve done before,” warns Sid Ryan. The split between issues of “love, loss, grief, ambition, [and] hitting trouble’, which dominate...
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