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Brash Bullets

I’m Not Your TV 

(Brash Bullets)

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Brash Bullets determine as a ‘Style impartial band from the UK predominantly impressed by filthy uncooked guitar music’.  Ged Babey realises seven years is a very long time in rock’n’roll and loads can occur to a band. 

Cameron, Brash Bullets guitarist, lyricist and songwriter bristles with manic vitality and seems like a little bit of a conspiracy-nut in chilly print. However he’s simply making an attempt to persuade me his band are necessary to him. He is aware of I didn’t evaluate their final EP, regardless of being requested…

I’ve labored a couple of dead-end jobs in my time however the trick is to remember…. Each day mundane routine will get the higher of many individuals and swiftly 25 years have handed and also you’ve gone precisely nowhere with nothing to point out for it. In the event you’re sick & uninterested in that ‘life’ then solely YOU have the ability to get the fuck out of it. That is why I reference David Foster Wallace. ‘That is water’ WILL encourage you & supply new perspective and even simply provide you with a delicate reminder that you simply don’t need to be a fucking sheep. 

I’m Not Your TV is a slow-build, raging anthem towards surveillance, subservience and about survival -and it rocks. There are dub and hip-hop touches to their slacker grunge sound with an ideal, soiled slithering bass sound snaking amongst the jagged shards of guitar.

The Brash Bullets I wrote about in 2016 and once more in 2017 are a really totally different band to Brash Bullets of 2023. The road-up modified however they saved the title. The brand new band are a more durable, gristly, grungy proposition with few concessions to the old-school punk followers the unique band had picked up.

Their 2020 ‘Clue For A Queen’ EP I discovered a tough hear. A gnarly, raging, claustrophobic grunge sound and a brand new vocalist, who has since left, changing unique singer Andrew Defiant who had left the band on amicable phrases to go to Europe to proceed his research. I favored Andrew loads. His manner and politeness offstage and the depth in his lyrics and efficiency on.  Brash Bullets ought to perhaps have modified their title because it was a ‘recent begin’ musically, however had constructed up an excellent repute for themselves.

We shared a few of our biggest highlights up to now with Andrew, supporting CJ and Richie Ramone, opening a punk pageant through the fortieth anniversary of the motion, and enjoying in his beloved Prague. Though we went our separate methods in 2018, we parted on a handshake & effectively needs. We had been definitely hoping someday sooner or later we may share a stage once more…

Cam and bassist Caidyn each now sing lead on I’m Not Your TV.  Benn Feeney from Blind Falcon drums and a complete bunch of mates present backing vocals (see the credit on the finish of the video. We’ve got a brand new drummer now Richard Early however need to recruit a brand new singer. says Cameron.)

The video is unusual to say the least and I’m by no means shocked to see that Jack Hargreaves from Southampton punk fool savants Bitter Self Exploitment was concerned in it.

The video was filmed completely on cell phones as a result of it simply felt proper to try this means given the theme.  The very fact we saved £500 going strictly DIY was a bonus.

I’m Not Your TV’s origins are rooted in early 2021… I had been placing gigs on at The 1865 and had a string of cancelled dates resulting from authorities security recommendation so swiftly no dwell music once more. Therefore the refrain of ‘please chorus from being entertained on this life’.

2 home strikes and a break-up later, I’m now residing in a shared home stuffed with CCTV cameras as you may see within the video. SOMEONE is watching me, proper now. Am I allowed to have some enjoyable or is that towards the foundations? Strolling down the road and seeing these little cameras that whizz spherical & spherical protecting Large Brother tabs on us all. Fuck THAT!!! These ideas jogged my memory of the track I had began to put in writing however by no means completed, aha the track has course once more!

I’m Not Your TV was meant to be a defiant anthem. So defiant I needed Andrew to sing the refrain however sadly… 

Andrew ‘Defiant’ French died in November 2022 on the age of 35, unexpectedly of an undiagnosed well being drawback. The native music scene was shocked to the core. No-one had a nasty phrase to say about him. He was a genuinely pretty bloke, favored by all of his contemporaries and older musicians and gig-goers (a few of us older than his heartbroken mum Debby who was a daily at Brash Bullets gigs.)

Brash Bullets won’t ever be the identical with out Andrew. They might have completed a Pleasure Division > New Order fashion title change, however they didn’t need to neglect him. They need to keep it up what they began with him and his reminiscence will likely be part of it. It’s summed up within the video the place he seems for a couple of seconds on a TV display screen displaying footage of him onstage on the Joiners. Gone, however nonetheless part of the band, nonetheless defiant and eternally younger and brash.

Brash Bullets host and play at ‘A Tribute Gig for Andrew Defiant – 3 November 2023 @ The Hobbit, Southampton with:  Bitter Self Exploitment / No Odd Joe / The Rheumatics.  It will likely be emotional… 

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Extract from Brash Bullets tribute to Andrew from 25/11/202 social media publish

Andrew French was household centric. A loving son and brother who caught to his personal values and rules that had been by no means to be damaged.

Andrew Defiant was the compelling entrance man Brash Bullets wanted from the off. His trustworthy and no-holds barred method to writing lyrics impressed our use of the phrase ‘brash’ and every track being a ‘bullet’. His lyrics included – Capital Metropolis Disappointment, Glue Your Mouth Shut, I Wanna Be A Crocodile, Woman Subsequent Door & Be Your self.

His defiance will dwell on via these songs each time we play them sooner or later.

All phrases Ged Babey. All quotes in italics. 

Devoted to Andrew Defiant.