Whingefest All-Dayer IX

The Ferret + Whinge present:

WHINGEFEST ALL-DAYER IX
+ Whinge Album Launch Party!

ft:

The DSM IV|Mums

Pill Fangs|TV FACE

Gaylips|Material Goods

The Sick Fix

& Whinge

Sat 8th Feb 2025
The Ferret, Preston
2pm - late

Tickets £5 advance / £10 on the door. Buy in advance to save yer pounds!

Established in 2019, the idea for Whingefest came up as a joke one night in The Ferret beer garden. And here it is. The 9th one! It's mainly an excuse for local band Whinge to play with some of their favourite bands, old friends, and new discoveries. But you lot can enjoy it too right? Plus, this edition is an extra-special Whingefest as it’s also the launch party for Whinge’s debut release “Something’s Not Quite Right” on Crackedankles Records. More about that later. In the meantime, check out this dead good lineup…

>>>>>>>>> THE DSM IV:

“Somewhere between The Stooges primal garage punk and Suicide's screeching futurism...blistering dance-punk” - CLASH

Formed in Liverpool in 2018 by former Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster frontman Guy McKnight, THE DSM IV crystallise the ultra real and the otherworldly, bringing a focused hyperrealism to the party. Their convention-defying live performances toy with audience expectations and stimulate questions of the narratives being sold to us as news—or entertainment—all to the beat of the drum machinist.

“Hardcore acid Scouse...McKnight still has the ability to summon demons and bewitch with his hoodoo” - Electronic Sound

As if pontificating from a lectern, McKnight sings and gesticulates like his life depends on it, his lyrics enticing or lacerating depending on the mood the band conjures. In an age of perversion of reality, justice and truth, THE DSM IV poetically reflect on our world’s hypocrisies and dilemmas, with danceability, intelligence, indignation, grace, style—refreshing purity for these polluted times.

New EP NEGATIVE UTOPIA is released 31st January 2025 via 9x9 Records.

“A swirling sinister slice of goth pop...dance floor-filling Sisters/Mission dry ice shenanigans” - Louder Than War

“A blend of The Fall, Suicide, Arthur Lee and acid house...dynamic and compelling” - The Quietus 

>>>>>>>>> MUMS:

“In the mutable realm of alternative music, where vibrancy clashes with cacophony and melodies flirt with dissonance, bands like Mums, rooted in the gritty landscape of Northwest England, show that longevity isn’t just about persistence—it’s about evolution.” - Idioteq

With their sound pushing its own boundaries, Mums drive deeper into the realm of thick riffs and earworm vocal lines, while ensuring the feedback always threatens to shatter speakers.

>>>>>>>>> PILL FANGS:

Critically acclaimed songwriter Dan Haywood brings us Pill Fangs, channelling his love of New York 70s rock such as Lou Reed and Richard Hell. Haywood is joined by Lottie Baldwin on bass, Peek Freans on drums and Richard James Turner on synths, who produce a wonderfully jagged and amphetamine fuelled paranoid musical backdrop to the singer’s incisive, alienated vocals.

There is the slashing strung out guitar, the juddering drums pounding out like the drummer is trying to hit a fly on the skins, and the bass like a pacemaker going dangerously fast and worryingly slow. It’s the sound of too many late nights, not enough sleep, little daylight and the sense that the city is gonna get you in the end.

>>>>>>>>> TV FACE:

The band called TV FACE are a gang-of-three from Lancaster. They are known for their ear-blistering and intense live shows, and described as “a wonderful trident of piercing guitar, bass and drums, unified by vocals through the torrent of hot noise, thunderous rumble and acid-scuzz” (Louder Than War). A classic three-piece, they have been compared to Mclusky, Brainiac, Minutemen. Gloriously, riotously, unashamedly angry, with a dash of indignation, and a soupçon of incredulity, their songs rage at the expectations of the keep-calm-and-carry-on-gang.

Their debut album Tide of Men was released September 2023 on Evil Blizzard’s label Crackedankles Records. It was named Louder Than War’s album of the week. The band are currently locked away in their hit factory in Morecambe writing material for their 2nd album, which they will record Spring 2025 and release on Crackedankles Records in September 2025. Two ltd ed lathe cut singles will be released in May and August.

>>>>>>>>> GAYLIPS:

The exact time that Gaylips was born has been forgotten. But, it might have been somewhere around the time when Carl and Jonny’s previous band imploded in its own Nu-Rave-neon-face-paint-please-like-us-NME bullshit which finally choked to death in the reduced section of Bedford Topman. But Carl and Jonny clambered out of the bargain bin, escaped the bad haircuts, and saw the glorious epiphany.

This is music with bayonets firmly fixed, a grenade rolled into a room, a final last hoorah before music is finally scarified at the altar of an AI algorithm.

>>>>>>>>> MATERIAL GOODS:

Drawing inspiration from the likes of Nine Inch Nails, HEALTH, Deftones, IDLES, and How to Destroy Angels, Material Goods emerges as an electrifying blend of industrial electronic and post-punk influences.

>>>>>>>>> THE SICK FIX:

A garage punk band of 4 x 15/16 year-olds from Manchester with influences from The Libertines, Dead Boys, The Chats, New York Dolls, The Jam, The Clash, Buzzcocks and so much more. But as they rightly say ‘The genre we make is pretty much our own… loud, fast and energetic’.

>>>>>>>>> WHINGE:

Your hosts & “expert curators”. A meeting of 4 jaded old friends from the underbelly of the NW music scene, Whinge began as a cathartic outlet & an attempt to press pause on the unrelenting passage of time.

Fuelled by nihilism & a playful eye for self-deprecation, one pub conversation too many saw their myriad of musical backgrounds meet their unpredictable approach to life, with the end result: ‘Whinge'. Like the best bands; more a gang than a group.

Post-punk informed DIY garage-rock played with gay abandon, Whinge live shows veer from intense & frenetic to creeping & sardonic.

Over to Crackedankles Records:

"We knew the members of Whinge by sight from our local venue The Ferret where, it would seem, at least one of Whinge was in at any given time. Their debut gig was a kaleidoscope of conflict & charm that was intimidating & hilarious in equal measures. But underneath the chaos were really memorable, witty & well crafted songs portraying a unique palette of influences & the best front person we'd seen in years."

WHINGE - SOMETHING'S NOT QUITE RIGHT

Debut album coming Feb 2025:

Whinge's debut album 'Something's Not Quite Right' is released on strictly limited edition vinyl & CD on Crackedankles Records, who have previously released Hotwax, Thank, Evil Blizzard, King Gizzard ATLW, TV Face, Hauspoints, Dead Things and more.

Preceded by the 7" single 'I Think I Found A Lump' - out in Jan - the album is released 7th February 2025.

As DIY as it comes, these first full length recordings were done in drummer Matt's mum's garage. "These sound great - I can't wait to hear you record them properly" the label said.

"These are proper. This is it".

Don't argue with Whinge.

Something's not quite right.

>>>>>>>>>

The Ferret + Whinge present:

WHINGEFEST ALL-DAYER IX

+ Whinge Album Launch Party!

ft:

The DSM IV|Mums

Pill Fangs|TV FACE

Gaylips|Material Goods

The Sick Fix

& Whinge

Sat 8th Feb 2025

The Ferret, Preston

2pm - late

Tickets £5 advance / £10 on the door. Buy in advance to save yer pounds!

All ages welcome (under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult).

Accessible ground floor venue & facilities.

Dog-friendly venue.