Single Review: Rain

It is pissing down. London Town, it’s Spring 2019 and a storm named Hannah has decided to make herself known in all her howling wind and icy rain glory. Sometimes life is like that. You expect one thing (semi warm weather in Spring) and then someone like Hannah comes and dumps all over it! So even though I am sitting in Spitalfields Market with a lukewarm, piss weak cup of dirty water trying to pass itself off as coffee, fingers frozen as I type, I am smiling as guitars blast into my eardrums.

Sit Down In Front are a young band from Gisborne and in their latest single, Rain they are railing against the shit that life can throw at you. It is a full on punk ‘n’ roll hailstorm spawned in the formidable vortex of Roundhead studios. This is classic punk in the vein of The Sex Pistols and vocalist Cory Newman has the required angsty snotty vocal perfectly nailed. Sit Down in Front have managed to take a really mundane everyday (well It is at the moment here in the UK) event and turn it Into a 3 min vitriolic attack on Mother Nature. Punk in its purest form, just being angry at anything!

Apparently producer Greg Haver became something of a mentor to the band during the recording and his experience shows as the song never loses pace, is perfectly short and he has managed to capture the energy and attitude music like this so often loses when a band faces the often sterile environment of a recording studio.

There are always dark clouds on the horizon. The world is brighter when they have gone away but while they are unleashing their misery it’s good to know that these guys from sunny Gisborne are going to be screaming their lungs out making sure they don’t hang around for too long.