{"id":27588,"date":"2025-11-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27588"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:59:42","slug":"bad-sam-the-nanaz-no-murder-no-moustache-the-pit-mccanns-newport-22nd-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27588","title":{"rendered":"Bad Sam\/The Nanaz\/No Murder No Moustache \u2013 The Pit @ McCann\u2019s, Newport \u2013 22nd November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saturday night in Newport is never that appetising a proposition for yours truly, but when it\u2019s a three-course feast of DIY punk rock on offer, headlined by those scamps Bad Sam launching their third album \u2018Trauma\u2019, (you can read the review HERE<\/a> on RPM), then I\u2019ll certainly be more than happy to tuck in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For starters, tonight we have Celtic folk punker No Murder No Moustache, followed by local community music project The Nanaz. Both acts are wildly different in what they do; however, both appear to immediately tap into the pulse of what the good people of Newport are looking for on a Saturday night out. The former has the room bouncing to his very own brand of serious yet humorous folk punk, and the latter provides 40 minutes of almost Velvet Underground-like experimental proto-punk, which has The Pit\u2019s dancefloor the fullest I\u2019ve ever seen it. In fact, the Nanaz are probably the most punk thing I\u2019ve seen in quite some time.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Turn it up cunts.\u201d Dean Beddis and Richard Glover are in da house, people, and suddenly, with drum loops blasting at maximum volume, I could very easily be at some foam party in Ibiza, but of course I\u2019m not, I\u2019m in a basement bar in Newport, and I\u2019m about to get officially traumatised by Bad Sam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having successfully teamed up with electro wizard Luke Vibert to remix their recent \u2018Popcorn & Blood\u2019 single, and in turn making themselves minor internet sensations, it\u2019s no surprise that the duo choose to open with an extended version of said tune, and almost immediately any memories I might have had of the Bad Sam of old are out the fire exit. Beddis is still barefoot, contorting his body into shapes many frontmen half his age would find unimaginable, barking out his lyrics straight into the faces of the front row, goading and laughing whilst always making you think, meanwhile Glover, now the master of all things wires and valves (as in programming) and not just guitar, opens up his magic box of sounds and together the duo unleash music that would be much more at home on Wax Trax! than Fat Wreck.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here in the UK it\u2019s Property of The Lost who have in enough belief in Bad Sam to make \u2018Trauma\u2019 a reality (in more ways than one) and tonight is all about this record, the band\u2019s long awaited third, with the likes of \u2018The Van\u2019, \u2018Pedigree Poor\u2019 and \u2018Perpetual Consumption\u2019 all following with unyielding intensity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The patter between Beddis and Glover and Beddis and the audience helps provide the yin to the musical yang, so to speak, as subjects as diverse as Chinese death vans and getting spunk on your shoes are tackled as only these guys know how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a pulsating (I think) yet to be officially titled new track, based on the duo\u2019s council estate roots, we are straight back into \u2018Trauma\u2019 for a rip ride through \u2018Salute The Media\u2019, and \u2018Tupperware Death Party\u2019 before \u2018Emotional Hostage\u2019 brings things to a chaotic conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After four gigs in five days, I\u2019ve seen everything from post-punk and NWOBHM legends to Australian punk rock royalty, yet tonight was the absolute icing on the gig cake for me. Of course, I do wonder if I\u2019ll ever get to hear the likes of \u2018American Fat Fucks\u2019 and\/or \u2018I Love The Port\u2019 live ever again, but right now Bad Sam are all about the \u2018Trauma\u2019 of surviving in 2025\u2026.and I fucking loves it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy Bad Sam Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday night in Newport is never that appetising a proposition for yours truly, but when it\u2019s a three-course feast of DIY punk rock on offer, headlined by those scamps Bad Sam launching their third album \u2018Trauma\u2019, (you can read the review HERE on RPM), then I\u2019ll certainly be more than happy to tuck in. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1002,8936,8012,8362],"class_list":["post-27588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-review","tag-bad-sam","tag-no-murder-no-moustache","tag-the-pit","tag-zooport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27594,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588\/revisions\/27594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}