Whenyoung to release new single ‘Actor’

With their successful history of releasing punk pop bangers, it seems fitting that Hate Hate Hate have returned from their hiatus to release Actor. Complete with jagged, infectious guitar paired and lyrics that will break your heart, the track encapsulates youthful abandon at its raw best. Produced by Chris Hayden (Florence & The Machine).

Catch the Irish pop punks supporting Superfood as part of their UK tour, including the Garage in London and a killer slot at Manchester’s NEIGHBOURHOOD Festival in October.

Whenyoung are Aoife Power (Vocals/ Bass), Niall Burns (Guitar), Andrew Flood (Drums). Their story started in Limerick … three underage teenagers met for the first time after sneaking into Costello’s Tavern: the only bar in town that floated their musical tastes. After bonding over cheap vodka and the sound of The Velvet Underground, they began playing music together and moved to Dublin to seek some big city excitement. Developing their sound, still with a DIY approach, the band moved to London and last year became Whenyoung.

On stage, Whenyoung perform a dizzying rock show where Aoife’s dreamy, heart-in-the-mouth vocals fizzle between swigs of Guinness and infectious guitar riffs. Their manager Mairead says: “When I see this band live it ignites that thing inside that makes me fall in love and wanna wrestle my way to the front of the gig”, and the band have also been championed by Felix White (The Maccabees). Aoife mesmerises on stage, and critics have compared her to “Suzi Quatro in her heyday, bashing out throbbing bass lines”.

The band’s passions pulse through the veins of Whenyoung and their influences could almost be picked from a collage page in a retro zine; charity shops and DIY fashion, the style of Marlon Brando, Richard Hell and Georgia O’Keefe, films by Jim Jarmusch, Jean Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer, books by Hemingway, Paul Auster and Patti Smith, as well as musical heroes like Brian Eno, The Smiths and The Cure. The band start their live show to a hypnotic recording of Patti Smith chanting “WHEN YOUNG”, taken from the documentary Dream of Life.

In keeping with their punk spirit, Whenyoung custom decorate their own merchandise in collaboration with brand du-jour Itchy Scratchy Patchy– Girl on a Motorcycle-esque boiler suits in De Stijl artistic movement red, yellow and blue- going one step beyond the standard band logo t-shirt “A boiler suit shows much more of a commitment” says Niall. Whenyoung represent a mood, a spirit, a feeling, where anything feels possible no matter what.

UK SHOWS

September

25- The Sebright Arms, London
30- Rocksteady, London w/h Reuben and The Dark

October

4 – Thekla, Bristol w/h Superfood
5- Joiners, Southampton w/h Superfood
6- Garage, London w/h Superfood
7 – NEIGHBOURHOOD FESTIVAL (alongside Peace, Ratboy)
9 – Think Tank, Newcastle w/h Superfood
10 – King Tuts, Glasgow w/h Superfood
12- Bodega, Nottingham w/h Superfood
13- Dryden Street Social, Southampton w/h Superfood
17- Sebright Arms, London w/h Yowl
21- Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate

November

8th Nov – Be A Body Festival Dalston Victoria
10th Nov – Shacklewell Arms support False Advertising