It’s February 2022, and Turnstile are thrilled to be back in the UK. When Baltimore’s hardcore heroes last played London in two years ago, they didn’t know when – or if – they’d be back. As guitarist Pat McCrory recalls, “The world was shutting down. We had to play a London show and then fly home instead of the rest of the tour. We all caught Covid on the way home, and we’re like, ‘This might be the last show in London that we play.’” To everyone’s relief, Turnstile have come back harder than ever, and Pat is buzzing. “We just played the Roundhouse and Nottingham Rock City, and the shows have just been purely magic.”
The quintet - Pat McCrory plus vocalist Brendan Yates, lead guitarist Brady Ebert, bassist ‘Freaky’ Franz Lyons and drummer Daniel Fang - are known for leaving everything on the stage, and the return to gigging was a rude shock to their bodies: “Most of us are pretty active, playing sports or skateboarding or lifting weights,” Pat says. “Everybody’s got energy to burn so we were like, ‘Yeah, we’ll be good!’ First show, my neck was so twerked
