Hello folks!
Trouble In The Shed is the debut album by train-obsessed punk band Indignation Meeting!
It's out this Friday and we're shipping it NOW before we head off to Blackpool for the Rebellion Festival 2024!
It's the first time on vinyl for this album (They self-released the CD of this album last year) and we'll be releasing it in a very limited quantity on GREAT WESTERN GREEN vinyl!
We've been loving this album since we first heard it. Check out the band's videos for 'That Leeds Feeling' and 'Abergynolwyn' here...
The band will be playing this year's Rebellion Festival in Blackpool and will have copies of the album for sale with them there.
To pre-order the LP via mailorder click here or on the cover art below...
Indignation Meeting - Trouble In The Shed (Ltd. Great Western Green LP) - Release date 2nd August
Indignation Meeting are punky rail fans from Leeds. 15-year-old Peter is the driver – he’s the drummer and lead singer, writes most of the songs, and also plays bass and trumpet on the album. The rest of the crew is his dad Michael on guitar, Hugo on bass, and with Keith, Heather and Sally often along for the ride when they play out.
Here at DGHQ we’ve been listening to their self-released debut album Trouble In The Shed since last year and finally spoke with the band and agreed to release it on vinyl for the first time.
It was very good timing as they’ve just been in the studio to finish recording their second album, so we’ll be releasing that later in 2024.
Welcome on-board!
We caught up with Peter to ask as few questions about the band…
In a week when the Labour Party promised to return the rail network to public ownership, we ask how did your fascination with trains begin?
Honestly, I don’t really know - I’ve just loved them ever since I can remember. It’s not like with some people who had a family connection or watched Thomas the Tank Engine; I’ve just always loved them. I guess it’s just a childhood obsession that never went away!
'Trouble In The Shed' is quickly becoming a firm office favourite here at DG. There's a touch of punk, indie and new wave about it. What would you say are the key influences that make up your musical DNA?
My main influence when this album was released was Blyth Power. They’d been my favourite band for years when this was recorded, so everything on it was influenced by them in some way. They’ve had so many different musical styles over the years that they kind of conglomerated into this album, to create yet another eclectic mix of songs. The only real exception to that on this album is Electrification - no prizes for guessing the influence there! If you see us live, however, you may notice another influence pervading through our songs. That influence is the anarcho-hippy band ‘The Astronauts,’ whom I discovered midway through the recording process, and have quickly become one of my all-time favourite bands!
What's the story behind your song 'Hornby Horrors'?
Hornby Horrors is an interesting one. People who haven’t heard it may assume it’s about some ill-fated model railway endeavour, but it’s actually a tale of corruption in, of all places, the model train company Hornby! This song was the result of several minor scandals at Hornby HQ making their way to the modelling masses, the main ones of which were an ill-fated tier list, which placed retailers in three categories as to whether or not they received Hornby’s products, with tier 3 retailers barely getting anything at all. Interestingly, the UK’s former biggest retailer, Hatton’s Model Railways, was a tier 3 retailer due to their ‘competing products’ (made by their own small brand Hatton’s Originals’) and has recently announced closure due to financial hardship. Now as we all know, correlation does not equal causation, but I wonder…
The album is being released on a specific shade of green vinyl. What's the significance?
The shade of green on the vinyl is very similar to the shade worn by the locomotives from the Great Western Railway in the 1870s - 1940s. Due to this connection, we thought it was only proper we picked this colour, which we have dubbed ‘Great Western Green!’
The album release coincides with an appearance at Rebellion Festival in Blackpool this August. Can you give the readers three reasons why they should come and see your performance?
1 - We like to think we provide something different with our music - it is very obviously punk, but it’s a bit more light-hearted than a lot of the political stuff, with nearly all the songs being about some sort of obscure steam loco engine. If you just want something light-hearted to enjoy, we might just be the band for you!
2 - We’ve got a rather interesting line up - instead of the usual line-ups you see, we’ve got a 15 year-old singing drummer with his dad on guitar, a newly-turned adult with a massive ginger afro playing the bass, the guitarist from the old anarcho band ‘Dog On A Rope’ playing some gnarly lead parts, and all topped off with some beautiful backing vocals from the drummer’s sister and mother. As Attila the Stockbroker described us, Blyth Power meets the Partridge Family - not to be missed!
3 - Here’s something you won’t forget in a hurry - as well as his vocals, our 15-year-old frontman Peter plays drums and trumpet at the same time! If that’s something you want to see, make sure you get down to see us!