The Chats live at the Manchester Academy


The Chats live in Manchester, Mar '22 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

The Chats live in Manchester, Mar ’22 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)




The Chats were in Manchester on March 26th.

The Chats are on a UK tour this month after starting it with the release of another fine example of their brand of modern punk, Struck By Lightning written as new guitarist Josh Hardy settled into the fold.

“Struck By Lightning came about when we were having a jam,” Eamon Sandwith explained. “I was on the drums, and I just started playing this little pattern, like, ‘struck-by – LIGHT-NIN’!’ I thought, ‘Hmm, that could work’, so I went home and wrote a song about getting struck by lightning, like how you would feel, and what would happen.”

“People can’t grow their hair back and shit. It’s weird – especially the whole no-eyebrows thing. That would be really scary! I’m really hoping that this doesn’t happen to me, now I’ve written a song about it.”


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