Brighton based Geordie rockers, Sick Joy, have today released a brand new single, ‘Hypodermic Sunshine’, produced by Dom Craik of Nothing But Thieves. The track is the second new track from the trio since the release of last years debut album, ‘WE’RE ALL GONNA F***ING DIE’ on So Recordings (Placebo, Enter Shikari, Hundred Reasons).“It’s kind of a messed up love song,” shares frontman Mykl Barton. “I’m just saying thank you to the people, the things that pull you out of the darkest corners or the lowest spots. Maybe that’s a person, maybe that’s a song, whatever you needed.”
‘Hypodermic Sunshine’ is released ahead of the band’s next run of UK dates, kicking off in Brighton on September 1st, before concluding on October 3rd in the capital. Full dates can be found below:
SEPTEMBER
02 BRIGHTON Bad Pond Fest
20 LEEDS Oporto
21 HULL Polar Bear
22 SHEFFIELD Corporation
24 MANCHESTER YES
25 YORK Fulford Arms
27 NORWICH Voodoo Daddys
OCTOBER
03 LONDON Sebright Arms
In tough times, music can be the way through. With an expertise in fuzzy riffs, melodic heaviness, high energy and sharp lyrics, Sick Joy are one of British rock’s most promising young bands, a claim backed up by the roaring, fuzzy alt.rock explosion of their debut album, WE’RE ALL GONNA F***ING DIE.
Despite its title, it’s a record that actually leans into a great deal of joy; “For me, that title’s a positive,” says Mykl. “I realised, ‘it’s going to be over one day, man. So do whatever the fuck you’re gonna do, and have a good fucking time. And I don’t mean just get loaded and be a dick. I mean do the things you want to do. Don’t let fear decide where you’re going to go. We’re all going to fucking die. So get out and fucking kill it, man.”
Featuring contributions from Jamie Lenman and Mykl’s own stepdad (lending a touch of harmonica to Belly Aching Beast), We’re All Gonna F***ing Die takes life’s gristle and turns it into something uplifting and euphoric. Praise for the album plus gigs with Deaf Havana, Dinosaur Pile Up, Pixies and Pearl Jam and appearances at Reading & Leeds, 2000 Trees and others, mean it looks, fittingly, like the start of a happy chapter for Sick Joy.