If ever a band seemed determined to keep one foot in the pub and the other on the monitors of an enormodome (spiritually if not physically), it’s this Lancaster mob. Not an easy balance to maintain, but in the process they’re slowly carving themselves a niche in British rock that sounds unique to them.
On this sixth album Massive Wagons show that they’re also fine-tuning their formula. And for a band who pride themselves on providing a supremely fun night out, they’re not scared to be topical or make a point or two about the turbulent popular culture swirling around them.
‘I try not to swear in our songs… fuck the haters,’ goes the deathless chorus of the opener and recent single, punctuating marginally more subtle verses taking aim at online trolls and bullies of all stripes.
So yeah, they still want to rock and roll all night. But their minds are on something a little more profound than just partying every day. digs at the curiously tenuous relationships found on social media, skewers complacent, entitled peers expecting the world by next-day delivery, and the title track swipes at culture
