TEXT & BILD: Trinity

East London’s Boy Bleach are back with a blistering new single ‘England’, an aptly-timed critique of the mediocrity that their home country has to offer,  out now on Nettwerk.

Echoing the apathy and pessimism felt by many, the lyrics offer a snarling, tongue-in-cheek take on a life spent existing in the mundane.  Speaking about the single, Jimi says “as a country the majority of us are both fed up with the future as we see it and starved of the hope that it’ll change, go figure. We wrote ‘England’ to try and capture the essence of peculiarity in this stagnation, the blind acceptance of the cycle of mediocrity we’ve come to expect as standard. For all the progress claimed, the reality is we’ve regressed, and it feels like it’s been time for that stiff upper lip to split.

Boy Bleach are an East London born-and-raised alternative group made up of two sets of brothers (Lou & Jimi / James & Nick) and best friend JJ.  A musically eclectic group of council boys, a Portuguese immigrant and cockney-blooded Welsh lads.  Talented musicians in their own right, their Brit-icised alt-rock/punk sound is as diverse as their musical heroes – everything from Depeche Mode, Garbage, Blur, The Clash and Pistols to Kano and Gorillaz. With a natural flair for making gritty anthems, they manage to be both witty and brutally direct.