Track Premiere: Smiling Assassin - With All Due Respect & Aftermath
Track Premiere: Smiling Assassin – With All Due Respect & Aftermath
After the success of Smiling Assassin’s debut album ‘Plight of The Millennial’, they have teamed up with veteran DJ/Producer Endoflevelbaddie to bring you ‘Plight of The Millennial [Remix]’.
Flipping the Punk genre on its head and breaking all the rules this album is exactly what it says on the tin, the full debut album remixed from start to finish. Mirroring the relentless chaos and anger that…
Music News: British Hardcore Quartet Smiling Assassin Release New Single!
British hardcore quartet Smiling Assassin have released their latest single “Coping” ahead of the release of their debut album “Plight Of The Millennial”.
Speaking about the single, vocalist George Garnett had this to say:
‘Coping’ is about some friends. I have a friend who drinks heavily when their mental health takes a dive. Another friend shuts them self away. The more I noticed them doing…
We caught up with Smiling Assassin to assess how 2020 has been for them so far plus their thoughts on the current global situation...
What’re your highlights of the year so far?
Josh Rogerson (Guitarist) - The absolute highlight of the year was filming the music video for coping, having friends there enjoying the experience was great and we played the best we have so far filming that video.
What are your goals for the rest of the year?
Robbie Johnson (Drummer) – We’ve been so busy this year writing ‘Plight Of the Millennial’ and gigging constantly, the first bit of hard work is now done. We are immediately writing a bigger and better album we have planned for next year but as far as the plans for the rest of this year go, we are trying to modernise the punk scene and get the message out there that we are here and here to stay!
Which new bands/artists are you into right now?
George Garnett (Vocalist) – Right now I'm listening to PEARS a whole lot. I haven't heard their new album, yet I'm still hooked on green star.
What was the band or artist that got you into music or inspired you to be a musician?
Casey Stead (Bassist) -I took up guitar after hearing Franz Ferdinand! But not too long after, Green Day were my gateway into punk. That's when I started writing and decided to play in bands.
How best do you write; in a jam room or a studio?
George Garnett (Vocalist) – My writing process is a bit unconventional. Lyrically, a line pops in my head and manifests itself. Sometimes the song writes itself and sometimes I have to work on it. Instrumentally, it's the same with a riff. It can get frustrating because I'll stockpile a bunch of half written songs.
What was your wildest show so far, and why?
Casey Stead (Bassist) - It's a hard choice between our video-shoot gig and an anti-austerity gig.
The video shoot was at a legendary local venue we'd played several times called The Adelphi. We self-promoted, and thankfully the turnout was awesome! So that was wild just playing to a crowd who were purely there to see us and to help shoot our video. At one point we had to ask people to calm down a bit, as we had to get specific footage and it was proving difficult with such a lively crowd!
On the other hand, the anti-austerity show was at a venue called The Brain Jar. It was a really mixed bill, from acoustic singer-songwriters through to live drum & bass. We played at the end of the night and everyone went crazy! So that one was equally wild, since most people in that crowd were completely new to us, but they fully loved it.
Where is the furthest across the globe you’ve played so far?
Josh Rogerson (Guitarist) - Well, the furthest across the globe we've played was York, that was our first out of town gig, still one of my favourite gigs, we found a new home with all the die-hard fans and the guys running the BGB festival were all awesome.
Given the current circumstances, what are you doing to keep the band moving forward?
Robbie Johnson (Drummer) – We have been really lucky because we got everything, we needed to do for this album done just before this global crisis struck. I think it’s a good chance to deliver all the content we’ve been sat on for months. Everything we’re doing now is online based, we have plans for a live stream gig, online Q&A’s a daily lockdown diary full of riffs, covers and stuff we’re doing to cope being stuck at home every day. Being a relatively new independent band we’re amongst the most affected by this and so all we ask is that people give their local/new artists as much support as possible during this hard time.
You can keep up to date with everything we’re doing on our website www.smilingassassin.co.uk
We’re also on every major social media / music platform links below:
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/smilingassassinofficial
INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/smilingassassinofficial
TWITTER: www.twitter.com/SMILINGASSASS1N
YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/3dFiRLE
BANDCAMP: www.smilingassassin.bandcamp.com
SOUNDCLOUD: www.soundcloud.com/smilingassassinofficial
SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/2QSJ9QO
One link for Single Coping:
https://www.listen.lt/SmilingAssassinCoping
