What you are always guaranteed to get from The Beer Snobs is something that musically is a blast; and ‘There’s No Night Buses To Beeston’ is no bloody exception to that. It’s a blast of something that I could describe as garagey punk in a style that kinda sits in a Buzzcocks stylee with something of The Stranglers in the power of the musical attack, with an intro that sounds like a mutant Sabbath. What I’m saying here is that you can pogo to it, got that?
With the bloody great music, you’re guaranteed to get fantastic words; and this too is no exception. This is a protest song, a commentary if you will, about the state of the country. And yes, I know that’s not immediately obvious from the title but bear with me.
The song starts at the population wide level:
We’re going all cashless
We’ve gotta use cards
With contactless payments
In restaurants and bars
Rising energy prices
And gaps on the shelves
There’s an NHS crisis
And Boris didn’t help
Before moving to a raging attack on the bus services in Leeds:
There’s no night buses to Beeston
But there’s night buses from Leeds
The N1 from Infirmary Street
Fulfils the student needs
There’s no night buses to Beeston
But there’s night buses from Leeds
And you can get to Lawnswood School at 02.53
Whatever happened
To the 923
Every Friday and Saturday
To Beeston from Leeds
It had same driver
Every week
Nicknamed The Fightrider
The fare wasn’t off peak
There’s no night buses to Beeston
But there’s night buses from Leeds
The N1 from Infirmary Street
Fulfils the student needs
There’s no night buses to Beeston
But there’s night buses from Leeds
And you can get to Lawnswood School at 02.53
And while this might seem like a pretty abrupt change of subject, it isn’t. You see it’s the things that affect your life on a personal level that really rankle, that get you all riled up. And the crap bus services are a symptom of the state of now.
And these words are delivered with something I’m going to call a sense of humour; which makes it all the more powerful. It’s a song that gets you angry while at the same time leaving a smile on your face.
‘There’s No Night Buses To Beeston’ is the very embodiment of a punk protest song, and it’s bloody fucking great. Music that gets you crazy on the dancefloor and words that make you think. Go listen right now.
This is the first release from the forthcoming second studio album from The Beer Snobs.
