With nods to the Fall and Soft Cell, the urgent Yorkshire indie band like confusing people, and badmouthing Andrew Neil
Working men’s clubs in West Yorkshire didn’t used to be full of teenagers. But since the likes of Hebden Bridge’s Trades Club became venues, they’ve been full of young people;
Sydney Minsky-Sargeant even named his band in tribute. He was a Trades Club regular before studying songwriting at Manchester’s BIMM Institute. There, in late 2017, he befriended original Working Men’s Club bandmates Jake Bogacki and Giulia Bonometti.
Their first single, Bad Blood/Suburban Heights, was released early this year on Manchester label Melodic. It was delicious: an urgent 21st-century take on the Fall with added tunefulness, along with some twisted early REM jangle.