NEW RELEASE: HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND IRRITATE PEOPLE

Things Happen Here Records

Subtitled ‘New Noise From The South West Underground Scene’, ‘How To Lose Friends And Irritate People’ is a 12 track/12 band compilation album features some of the best hardcore, indie, metal, post punk and alt bands that have played at Things Happen Here; an event space and craft beer taproom based in Dartington Devon, UK.

The South West UK scene is really vibrant at present with bands, labels, promoters and venues doing great things and like all the best comps, ‘How To Lose Friends And Irritate People’ captures what’s happening as it’s happening, to put you in the thick of the action. The album is the first release on Things Happen Here Records, set up by the venue to release new music and is limited to 275 copies, individually numbered on white vinyl with info/lyric insert. 11 of the twelve tracks included are exclusive on vinyl to this release.

Release date: September 27th.

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Side 1.

The Maisonettes – Sick Of This (Exeter riot grrrl band. Previously released as a digital single)

Table Service – Television (Paignton alt rock. Previously released as a digital single)

Cast Courts – Right Side Of The Bomb (Exeter/Newton Abbot hardcore/experimental/noise band. Taken from the album ‘The Year Of The Worm’)

VxHxS – It Swims, It Eats, It Fucks (Plymouth hardcore band. Taken from the EP ‘Jaws’)

Bramwell – Upside Down (Exeter indie band. Previously released as a digital single)

Colour TV – Billy Pilgrim (Plymouth indie band. Previously released on the EP ‘Is That You’)

Side 2.

Falling Empires – Keelhaul (Cornish post hardcore band. Previously released as a digital single)

Death Roll – Death Cult (Kingsbridge hardcore band. Previously released as a digital single)

Hellwigs – You’re Fired! (Plymouth hardcore band. Previously released as a digital single)

Tendrils – The Pessimist (Exeter metal band. Taken from the album ‘Long Dead’)

Big Shipping – With Neil And I (Exeter post hardcore band. Taken from the EP ‘We Will Be Forgotten’)

Leonard And The Zombies – Convince Me (Totnes alt rock. Previously released as a digital single)

Things Happen Here

– Darren Branch

Darren Branch’s first love was Heavy Metal, sparked by seeing Iron Maiden live at the Cornwall Coliseum in 1984 at the age of 13. His passion for grassroots music grew after discovering the vibrant local scene around Daylight Recording Studios in Honiton during the late 1980s. Having lived in Honiton and Exeter, Darren now lives in South Somerset and enjoys spending time in South Carolina. He stays deeply connected to the Southwest’s emerging bands—often through families that keep the scene alive. Outside music, he builds websites, reads business books, and participates in English Premier League Fantasy Football.

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