Nervus is a Eatford based indie-punk rock band that sound like the wonderful amalgamation of Alkaline Trio and Into It. They just released two new video titled Oh Joy and Skipping Needle. EP Permanent Rainbow out November 4th 2016 through Venn Records and The LP Cafe. Nervus started as a bedroom project and saw guitarist/vocalist Em create and write music to help cope overcoming addictions in various different forms as well as working through their own gender identity. First track on the record’s called Oh Joy, it’s probably the loveliest song on the album but damn it’s an uncomfortable listen at times in the best possible way. Em shot the video for it down in Brighton a while back and has these nice words to say about the song:
‘It’s about my relationship with alcohol and addiction, and how you just end up replacing addictions with other ones until you get to the real root cause of the problem.
‘I was listening to a lot of Alanis Morissette at the time, and tried to channel some ‘You Oughtta Know’ with this because there is nothing more hairbrush-microphone righteous than a scathing break-up tune.’
Em uses they/them pro-nouns whilst Jack/Karl/Paul all use he/him pronouns, please be respectful of this and message us if you wanna know more/understand better.
Oh Joy video:
Skipping Needle video: