Cabbage

Cabbage

Artist

Crashing onto the hallowed Manchester, England scene in the late 2015, Mossley (a small town in Tameside, Greater Manchester) quintet Cabbage injected a fresh dose of vitality into the local scene with their irreverent brand of humour, wild live shows, and scuzzy neo-post-punk.

The loutish lads of Cabbage consists of vocalist Lee Broadbent, guitarist/vocalist/lyricist Joe Martin, guitarist Eoghan Clifford, bassist/producer Stephen Evans, and the much loved drummer with a brilliant name, Asa Morley, who even has his own song named after himself in the EP, The Extended Play of Cruelty.

On the 15th of December 2015, the politically-minded band released their debut single, “Kevin”, a song with clever depths and lyrical poetry about existential dread and man’s purpose of life.

Their first EP soon followed in early 2016 with Le Chou (released on Evans' own label, Play & Record). In addition to “Kevin”, the five piece included the most memorable song, “Dinner Lady”, a lyrical account best described by Joe Martin during their 2017 Glastonbury set as a song ‘known for its comedic values’ and a ‘true story’ about his ‘former role of employment’ discussing lunchtime antics alongside the deeper topic of behaviour within social classes at a private school in North Yorkshire, ironically called Giggleswick.

Their irreverence and musicianship garnered rave reviews resulted in an increase in a very competitive field of local interest in the wild battleground of the music scene in Greater Manchester. This led to a string of summer festival appearances and support from the Charlatans' Tim Burgess.

From here, the band had a breakthrough period of sorts, across the region, and arguably even the neo-punk scene across the country, via a hectic 2016 which saw them support popular, fellow Mancs, Blossoms and Declan McKenna amongst 100 other concerts in 2016 including their first appearance at Glastonbury, all while at the same time of releasing three EPs that year, “Terrorist Synthesizer”, “Uber Capitalist Death Trade”, and “A Necroflat in the Palace”.

Their quick success has been a credit to their hard work and dedication to engaging a politically aware audience whilst making class sounds to go with it, resulting in Cabbage being handed the title of being one of the most active bands out there at the moment.

This has continued in 2017. They have made a second appearance at Glastonbury, announced a “Healing Brexit Towns” tour across the UK and even supported a sell out fifty thousand crowd gig for the Middleton band, The Courteeners, at Old Trafford Cricket ground. In February, the band released single “Gibraltar Ape” and “Save the Human” and in July released their FOURTH EP, The Extended Play of Cruelty! With a tour still to do and a continued wait for their debut album, the year 2017 looks to be as busy as the last.