{"id":28604,"date":"2026-06-12T19:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28604"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:28:34","slug":"subhumans-only-fools-and-corpses-bad-sam-the-bunkhouse-swansea-04-06-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28604","title":{"rendered":"Subhumans\/ Only Fools And Corpses\/ Bad Sam \u2013 The Bunkhouse, Swansea 04\/06\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lovely to see a local venue packed to the gills on a school night in anticipation of three very fine bands all flying the flag for independent music. First up, Positive Reaction were a no-show, the reason unknown. So it is the trimmed-down but always ferocious and captivating Bad Sam<\/a>. Now down to a two piece of Guitar and voice and a laptop, meaning there are only two people to disagree with, rather than a band of 4 with all that equipment.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n

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Don\u2019t be fooled into thinking that Bad Sam have lost any of their edge or ferocity because that simply wouldn\u2019t be true. With a brand new album to peddle, this was ‘Trauma’ time for Beddis as he climbed down off the stage and right into the thick of the packed audience. \u2018Popcorn and Blood\u2019 set the tone for the brief set. Rich was in charge of the laptop (prob for the best) and his guitar up on the rather high Bunkhouse stage whilst Dean prowled the audience barking out the lyrics.\u00a0 Of all the new songs, \u2018Tupperware Death Party\u2019 brought all those in attendance of a certain age to a nostalgic tear or two, but the noticeable thing was the fact that there were only two of them they lost none of the punch or power the music needs to tear Swansea a new one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas their time is too short so there isn\u2019t any reworking of a \u2018Snake With Tits\u2019, \u2018Mr Trump\u2019 perhaps a \u2018Dicks With Dogs\u2019 or \u2018I Love The Port\u2019 but that\u2019s ok like I said this was Trauma time and hearing new Bad Sam music is always a pleasure and hopefully with the reception they got this won\u2019t be the last time they head down west maybe for a headline set where they can work in some of the old magic with this new found direction. Awesome stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Next up was local(ish) lads Only Fools And Corpses that are part Newport part Swansea lads with their Helmet meets NomeansNo meets a brick to the temple punk \/alt-hardcore noise they peddle, and to be fair, they do it oh so well.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t my first encounter with these gentlemen because we met at a chaotic performance in the tight surroundings of Afan Ales many moons ago but this was a much nicer experience with a decent and very loud PA and packed house the two guitarists traded vocals as they thumped their way through their set sadly for the last time as they\u2019ve decided that tonight was the night to call it a day for Only Fools And Corpses but Cameron did announce that he\u2019d been writing new material so hopefully it wont be long before they are back all be it under a new name and different guise again something different to Bad Sam but equally excellent which only meant it was time for the headliners to make their Swansea debut. Considering they\u2019ve been at this since 1980 and played every village and venue under the sun around this spinning rock its quite remarkable that this was their first visit to this fair city, something that wasn\u2019t lost on Dick.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now, considering this was a midweek show, it was great to see the place packed to the rafters, and for such an occasion, it was great to see the reliably good Subhumans deliver a set of top-notch anarcho punk. Anyone who\u2019s seen the band perform will know that anything less that 100% isn\u2019t an option and if you were to see them play more than once in a run of shows you wont get the same set twice however you will obviously get \u2018Micky Mouse IS Dead\u2019, \u2018Rats\u2019 and \u2018No\u2019 but its always great to hear newer songs like \u201899%\u2019 it wouldn\u2019t\u2019 seem right if you didn\u2019t have a mixed set because Dick Lucas was born to do this and gives nothing short every performance as he flits across the stage not pausing or stopping for breath for a second of the hour plus they are on stage. The band sounds tight as and looks like they\u2019re enjoying the rapturous applause they\u2019re getting from the very appreciative venue.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Twenty-plus songs in an hour from gentlemen of a certain age giving it large, showing people a fraction of their age how it’s done with passion and purpose. That, my friends, was a wonderful evening in the company of three exceptional bands absolutely smashing it. Less than \u00a315 a ticket, all for charity, I believe, which is unbelievable value for money in these tough times.\u00a0 Please, whoever books shows in this city, let’s have all three back sometime in the not-too-distant future and seeing an audience that was a very healthy mix of teenagers to us older me, it was heart-warming to see and be part of.\u00a0 Uppa Punx!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Lovely to see a local venue packed to the gills on a school night in anticipation of three very fine bands all flying the flag for independent music. First up, Positive Reaction were a no-show, the reason unknown. So it is the trimmed-down but always ferocious and captivating Bad Sam. Now down to a two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1002,1787,8148,1681,2751,7465,1833,2052],"class_list":["post-28604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-review","tag-bad-sam","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-only-fools-and-corpses","tag-rpmnews1","tag-subhumans","tag-the-bunkhouse","tag-tourlife","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604","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=28604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28611,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604\/revisions\/28611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}