Checking In With SickOnes: The ‘Bad Way’ Video and The IMMINENCE Of ‘Find Energy’.
SickOnes – South West England, United Kingdom.
Photography: Isha Shah Photography – Click Here.
For our previous work on the band – Click Here.
SickOnes, a band you probably know of. A band that with a ‘healthy respect’ for 80’s Hardcore Punk and all the groove and PMA that would soon attach itself to a movement that was already progressing with every two-step and over enthusiastic stomp. And finally a band that in the past two years have well and truly destroyed more stages than I care to count as their down-to-earth approach to contemporary Punk has seen their fan base grow exponentially.
Think, Black Flag, Ceremony, Turnstile and Fugazi given a contemporary UK twist and you have SickOnes. ‘Bad Way’ has been with us for some time now but a few hours ago it evolved into its final video edit where the band’s knack for an incredibly well produced but still grass-roots video pulls out all the stops yet again. The band clearly in their own fashion had some serious fun with the filming of this edit which in itself sees them in even more of a attractive light when their strong socio-political ethos is taken into account.
Serious Punks need a good time too…
Speaking of which, ‘Bad Way’ is serious song though and it really couldn’t be more honest in its cathartic representation of depression and mental health. ‘Bad Way’ rages against an environment bringing you down despite a constant drive forward, you put-off helping yourself and give yourself another day and then another despite said determination being present but still hampered. Punk and Hardcore have for quite some time been places where thoughts of such have been manifested and SickOnes capture this perfectly. ‘Bad Way’ is as insanely quotable as it is relatable and is the first foray into an EP set to explore this further.
New EP I hear you say? Well, to top off a year so far seeing them support Cancer Bats – which they will be doing again later this week – an East Coast tour of the US with notables Divebomb, 3weekoldroses and Traumaxqueen and then a three-day mini-tour in Europe later this month, the highly anticipated Find Energy EP is about to imminently unleash it’s broadside after the way has now been paved by ‘Bad Way’.
We caught up with singular Axe-Man Charlie Jones-West on the matter:
‘I think with this next EP we all consider it a transitional project. We’ve introduced some new elements – at times it has almost a Psychedelic/New Wave vibe. Which really comes through with the help of the Small Clone chorus pedal (infamously used by Nirvana and a host of 70s/80s bands). We’ve tried to be a little progressive and throw it some curve balls. It’s quite a varied EP and I think that helps with its uniqueness. Love it or hate it I don’t think anyone else in the UK sounds like us at the moment.’
‘Bad Way’ sees the band at their most melodic almost teasingly so, as with one guitar they are forced to limit what you hear but in actuality do so incredibly well as you are indeed kept on your toes. ‘Bad Way’ takes clear and well executed pointers from the early Post-Hardcore years and on top of this unambiguously ear-worming Fugazi riff and 80’s adoring Hardcore and Post-Hardcore structure, the band’s groove-laden rhythms and as-ever on point skin-beating via the not-so gentle giant Andy Wrintmore are as usual on top form. Finally, it is indeed needless to comment on vocalist Ben Curd as he is but himself and it works as wholly as ever.
SickOnes will be releasing Find Energy really very soon and having heard it, I can safely say that it blows their already stellar back-catalogue well out of the water only for it to stay floating above in admiration of the ocean-dividing power of Find Energy below.
Or something like that, I only do this part time, what do I know!?!
Find Them:
- Social Media/Updates: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
- Music: bandcamp, Youtube Channel, iTunes/Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play.
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