Sad news from the West Midlands as proto-punk supergroup BLACK BOMBERS announce their split, "or on an extended hiatus, or something..."
The move was announced on the band's Facebook page on Friday afternoon, citing "the impossible economics of a circuit under pressure" as the cause.
"Blame the frustrations of a decade spent trying to hammer our square peg into the round hole of genre expectation," they continue. "We still love each other really, and we love all of you who came this far with us - supported the records, attended the shows."
Formed in 2015 sporting a collective CV accumulated from service with the likes of The Prefects, Nikki Sudden, Gunfire Dance, The Godfathers, Brian James and Walter Lure, they eschewed the trendy 'post-punk' label, looking backwards to the earlier, angrier proto-punk sounds of the Pink Fairies, Deviants and Third World War for influence.
Releasing their self-titled debut album in 2016, it was followed in 2019 by the 10" mini-album Vol 4, and second album Vive La Revolution in January this year, its lead single 'The Price' pulling zero punches by setting its sights squarely on the shameful behaviour of Boris Johnson and his government over the handling of the Covid Pandemic.
Hopefully this won't be the last we hear from the band - bassist Birchy is already gigging with ace new band the Headhunters - but even if it is, Bombers product is still available from Easy Action Records.
You can read a recent interview with Black Bombers in issue 109 of Vive Le Rock!