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Mark you absolute legend. You’ve been aware of us pretty much from the off in the lockdown days, we’re grateful you stuck with us. Patience is a virtue.

Our album has found its way onto some Album of the Year lists!! Thank you all, especially @thelineofbestfit.com and @louderthanwar.bsky.social , for listening and getting behind a couple of belligerent underdog northern chancers.

Proud that Constant Noise got recognised in The Line of Best Fit’s albums of the year. It was an absolute shit to get made, convincing people it was worth making was one thing, getting it over the line was even more difficult. Pure chaos. We’ll take any and every plaudit.

We’re playing the Louder Than War festival in Manchester on 14th March. Here’s some promotion.

Final night of our UK Tour tonight at Ku in Stockton, birthplace of the railways, the safety match, and me and Robbie. 745pm Middle Management / 830pm THE DSM IV / 915pm Benefits It’s going to be class, please come.

“Essential music for our times” readingindielife.uk/2025/11/15/b...

“The experience is nothing short than mind blowing.” auralaggravation.com/2025/11/20/b...

“What a gig. Catch them, buy something, just make sure they keep going. We need noise like this.” fighting-boredom.co.uk/live-review/...

Incorrectly formatted video with text. Edinburgh tonight at Sneaky Pete’s. 745pm THE DSM IV / 830pm BENEFITS

York tonight at the Fulford Arms. 8pm DSM IV, 9pm Benefits. Come take your anger out on us.

The arrogance and joy in the way they’re doing this. A repellent bunch of duplicitous arseholes. I’ll never vote for this party again. Fuck Labour.

Been writing text in badly ratio’d boxes again. We’ve not been putting footage up during the tour as we’re sick of the app driven promo cycles and want to bring back some magic.

Look this is way Dan…but sadder… Loved having Dan Le Sac on tour with us this last week but now, alas, our time together is over. The DSM IV are our support for the northern leg of the tour: Sheffield Tuesday, York Wednesday, Carlisle Thursday, Edinburgh Friday and Stockton Saturday. Come see us!

Early one tonight in London. Dan Le Sac 730pm, Benefits 815pm at Lower Third Soho. NEARLY sold out, go on, come down.

I'm literally just going to stand here... Then I'm going to stand here... Well done. That's it. Ipswich tonight at the Smokehouse. Sold out.

Saw @benefitstheband.bsky.social in Coventry last night. Amazingly good. Unlike anything I’ve seen before. Go see them at @bedfordesquires.bsky.social on Sunday. Full tour details here: www.benefitstheband.com/live

The brilliant Benefits are out on tour

If you dig this stuff get along and see them @benefitstheband.bsky.social

Gawd, stop posting videos in the wrong format on sites that hate this stuff, sorry! Uk tour starts tonight in Reading at Facebar. 8pm Dan Le Sac, 9pm Benefits.

Tomorrow! After a blistering set at Are You Listening?, @benefitstheband.bsky.social are back in town and back at the Facebar, alongside local legend @danlesac.bandcamp.com playing his first live set in almost a DECADE. Be there whatsonreading.com/venues/heavy...

I know. This is not the platform for black square text blocks. But we’re going on tour on Wednesday and I’ve a load of samples to sort and I haven’t packed yet.

You know what doesn’t work on Bluesky? Videos. Videos with text. And swearing. And noise. And ones promoting a music tour. None of that works.

Made some old school panini style stickers of the band and tour collaborators for the November merch desk. Come to a gig and get em!

What happened to protest songs? Try these 10 new albums, including CHEAP PERFUME PRINCESS NOKIA @benefitstheband.bsky.social @davidrovics.bsky.social @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social @yokoono.bsky.social SUN RUN JAMES BROOK BAKER BOY KIALA & THE AFROBLASTER www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1441/cu...

Great piece in @mixmag.net about Boro’s very own Industrial Coast. mixmag.net/feature/func...

Just hope no one minds that all these flags popping up across the country have all been part of an elaborate marketing campaign for our ten date November tour of venues with a capacities between 100 and 250.

Been audiobooking this as it’s read by Reiner and Tap. If they want to continue with the Tap brand they should make a period piece dramatisation of the book, it’s incredible. The backstorys, how they connect, how they graft to get it made etc all hit better than the sequel.

All these tatty flags gonna just stay there are they? Council just gonna leave them and act like it’s totally normal?

I’ve had more interaction and engagement on the ol insta with a couple of pictures of old Volvos I took while at SWN in Cardiff than anything else this month. Which tells you a lot about a) our demographic b) our popularity as an experimental noise act.

British.

Neptune is bigger than Mercury fyi, albeit full of gas…! Either way, please vote for our difficult second album in this @drownedinsound.bsky.social prize vote!

Probably my favourite Kate Bush song. The old band covered it in 2011, I love our version, video done by my friend Andy, who later made the Benefits video Warhorse. youtu.be/wwN2IPOp4xU?...

Sorry to interrupt your arguments. We’re doing a show in an art gallery next week with James Adrian Brown as collab and Oliver Ho playing after. Gonna be mint and if you have a TS postcode it’s only 50p to come. Ok, back to shouting at each other.

We’ve persuaded Dan Le Sac and THE DSM IV to join us on tour in November! Dans doing the south and THE DSM IV (featuring Guy McKnight of Eighties Matchbox b-line Disaster) are doing the north! GET ON IT!

Erm… I’m doing my first gigs in 9 years, supporting the delightful @benefitstheband.bsky.social… beyond hyped (and a little scared tbh)… come thru people. Dates/Tix : linktr.ee/danlesac Boom!

Friends! Be an absolute star and vote for us in Drowned in Sounds Neptune Prize please! It’s the alt competition to the Mercury and it’s a pure buzz to be nominated alongside some legends and heros. We put everything into making this album so to be recognised in this way means a lot. Vote!

Messing about in Europe last week playing the hits as the world burns.

We’ve been farting about all over Europe the last couple of weeks and it’s took me away from me real passion - hawking gigs and tours most of you aren’t interested in, (obvs, I’ve seen the sales figures). Anyway. We’re awesome live, you should come see the full shabang as soon as you can.

All this talk of a new party with Jezza and Zarah made me reminisce of the glory days of Twitter, literally days before everything went bad.

Yeyyyyy state controlled entertainment yeyyyyyy. Love to know the definition of a “high risk” performance. Plus does that therefore make every act that appears on tv now “low risk”?

Benefits in France this autumn, oh la la! 30/09 DIJON 01/10 PARIS 03/10 RENNES Liberté, égalité, fraternité.

Bob Vylan and Kneecap are not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.

Our November tour is on sale NOW! Every show a banger, get a ticket! Come see us!

Hi! After having a mint time touring our second album in April, we’re doing it again in November! More lights, more strobes, more constant noise. On sale Friday 10AM. Trust us.

If you miss @benefitstheband.bsky.social on their upcoming November tour, you’ll always look back at 2025 full of nothing but regret. Tix on sale Friday 10am

We’re off touring in November! On sale FRIDAY 10AM. Reading, Cov, Ipswich, London, Bedford, Sheffield, York, Carlisle, Edinburgh and Stockton. Gonna be class, get a ticket on Friday!

The fact that both pioneering tastemaker @maryannehobbs.bsky.social and pioneering noisemakers @benefitstheband.bsky.social are active on Bluesky is a good indicator that we've finally reached critical mass over here. And warm personal thanks to both for their generous words in this video...

We’re headlining Puch Open Air in Germany on July 12th and because we’re taking Shakk with us to perform on a couple of tracks I adapted their poster to have him appear in a little star. Original photo taken in the best takeaway in Birmingham.

Pack the Alpen and the salopettes, we’re playing in Switzerland next month at Festival de la Cité in Lausanne! Taking Shakk too, let’s goooo!