London feminist performance-art-punks TWAT UNION are delighted to announce that they have signed to Alcopop! Records and will release their new single ‘Singer Of The Band’ on 26th February 2025.
Commenting on the single, the band said: “Our new single is about the assumption that you’re the singer of the band just because you’re a woman. All female musicians will have an experience that they could tell you about where they have been spoken to as if they don’t know how to play their instrument. So we wrote this thrashy anthem for them (and us). Along this theme we’ve made a music video where we use guitar picks as fake nails, a trumpet as a hoover, and a jack lead as a washing line for our tiny pants. Because that’s all we could possibly do with instruments, right?!”
After selling out a string of buzzy gigs before releasing any music and literally several people asking ‘when are you going to put music on the internet then?’, the band are also delighted to announce that their hotly anticipated debut EP Don’t Look It In The Eye will be released on 4th April 2025 via Alcopop! Records, following on from their 2023 standalone single ‘UTI’.
Already lauded by The Guardian as One To Watch last week, the self-proclaimed “angry girls” of Twat Union are all about creating spaces which are equal parts joyful, irate, empowering, and silly, allowing people to laugh and scream at the same time. We have it on good authority that their gigs are being prescribed to treat broken hearts, and they want to spread the Twat Treatment far and wide, priding themselves on having a fan base that spans generations, with devotees aged 4 to 97.
The theatrical feminist punk 6 piece are known for their wild, immersive gigs and trademark provocative humour. The Twats, as they’re affectionately known, don’t shy away from the important topics including, but not limited to: thigh chafe, urinary tract infections, and people assuming you don’t know how to tune a guitar because you’re a woman (FFS).
They sold out The Brixton Windmill, The Jago, and played Shambala and Loud Women’s 8th Birthday Party all before releasing any music, dropping debut single ‘UTI’ in 2023 complete with a feral toilet-themed music video. They have played at Rebellion Festival, Margate Pride and sold out The Vagina Museum, and most recently headlined the iconic Old Blue Last in London.
Part punk gig, part comedy show, the band will be celebrating the EP release at one of their increasingly notorious live performances on 5th April at The Lexington in London; a chaotic punk experience unlike any other. There will be props, there will be line dancing, there will be shouting, there may even be a raffle (if you’re lucky).
UK tour dates follow throughout spring 2025, with festival appearances at Bearded Theory and Rebellion Festival already confirmed for this summer.
Twat Union’s debut EP Don’t Look It In The Eye is released 4th April 2025 via Alcopop! Records
Live dates:
Friday 28th March – Bristol, The Exchange
Saturday 29th March – Exeter, The Cavern
Saturday 5th April – London, The Lexington
Thursday 10th April – Leeds, Oporto
Friday 11th April – Manchester, 33 Oldham Street
Friday 25th April – Margate, Where Else?
Saturday 26th April – Hastings, Printworks
Sunday 28th April – Brighton, The Prince Albert (matinee show 2-5)
24th May – Bearded Theory Festival, Derbyshire
7th August – Rebellion, Blackpool
