“Dead Meat” and “Sniveller” by Tubs

A band name like Tubs does invite some humorous references, but since we a pretending to be serious journalists, and because our partners frequently remind us that we have a ridiculously inflated opinion of our own humor, we will refrain (but some partners are getting a lump of coal for Christmas — oh hell, make that a TUB of coal for Christmas).

OK, who are Tubs? They are a London-based band with DNA reaching back to Welsh band Joanna Gruesome via Owen ‘O’ Williams and George ‘GN’ Nicholls. Their album Dead Meat is due in late January on the Trouble In Mind label, but we have the first two singles for you now. Of course, two singles are a slim basis to judge an album, but if we were forced to predict the future we would put Dead Meat down on our just started list of favorite albums of 2023. Yup, this is stuff we love.

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