The Black Map #248: Perp Walk from Bristol (Summer Bash V Edition)

Every year Reading Progressive Death Metal trio Mercury’s Well have a Hawaiian themed party at the Face Bar in Reading and this year is going to be a special one. The fifth anniversary of Summer Bash has an expanded line up from four to no less than eleven (count ’em) bands and will take place on Saturday 22nd July. So get your sun glasses ready, sew up the arse crack of your finest shorts and prepare for a day of drunken debauchery accompanied by inflatables and the soundtrack to the apocalypse! Here’s the line up in full…

Tape It Shut
One Last Day
Black Emerald
Hundred Year Old Man
Tribe Of Ghosts
Mercury’s Well
Treehouse
Perp Walk
Masquerader
Buds
Pteroglyph

So who the f*** are Perp Walk and why should you get your ass down to Sumer Bash V to see them? Well… Named after the walk of shame when a person in police custody is led from a police station or court house that you see in the movies with camera flashes and media scrums, Perp Walk are a Hardcore Punk band hailing from Bristol. Built on the foundations of demos written by guitarist Dan Mélizan circa 2016 it was 2021 before the band came to life, the completed material finding them sitting at the cross roads between Punk and Hardcore while citing influences in Power Violence. Lyrically their debut EP is classically conditioned by working in the NHS at University Hospital of Wales, during the pandemic with both cuts as short and sharp as a poison dwarf with a hatchet. Here’s “Dogwhistle” to whet your appetite with the full EP available for your listening pleasure here.

Want a ticket for Summer Bash V? You can find yours here