I’ve played and toured internationally in DIY punk bands Sauna Youth, Feature, Monotony, Gold Foil and Mind Jail as both a drummer and a vocalist. I’ve also been a guest vocalist on records and during live performances for the bands Fucked Up, Pissed Jeans, Human Hair and Buttonhead. I sometimes play drums in a Ramones covers band called The Ranomes.
I started playing in bands while in my first year at university at Goldsmiths, co-forming Run Red Riding Hood (2009) and joining King and the Olive Fields shortly after (2010). I joined Sauna Youth in 2011 while living in Brighton, and we played together till 2018, recording three albums and touring internationally. In 2014, we briefly paused Sauna Youth to form Monotony together by swapping instruments. In 2012, Liv Willars and I started Feature, with Heather Perkins eventually joining, and we released our album ‘Banishing Ritual’ in 2017. Along the way there were also shorter-lived bands Gold Foil and Mind Jail, formed with friends in the wider punk scene.
I wrote the lyrics and sang the song ‘Erase’ on Fucked Up’s album Raise Your Voice Joyce: Contemporary Shouts From Contemporary Voices (2018). I do backing vocals on various songs on Human Hair’s album ‘My Life As a Beast and Lowly Form’ (2014) and as part of a backing chorus on Buttonhead’s album ‘3D Opera Whale’ (2012).