“..forasmuch as my hand hath offended, writing contrary to my heart, therefore my hand shall first be punished; for when I come to the fire it shall first be burned” - Thomas Cranmer recanting his prior dislike of seminal rock band Feeble Strength

ABOUT FEEBLE STRENGTH:

Feeble Strength released their first EP Various Martyrs in November 2024 with a sold out gig at Two Palms, Hackney.

The last two years have seen the Sunderland/London based band play throughout the UK’s punk and indie rock all-dayers and festival circuit, picking up comparisons to an English Superchunk or to Guided By Voices, The Thermals and The Weakerthans.

They’ve been cover feature on the world famous DIY culture bible Razorcake magazine

and have played at UK festivals small and large: Greenbelt Festival (Kettering), Right Roam Festival (Bolton), Til The Fest(London), Deadpunk Weekender (Bristol), Long Division Festival (Wakefield) Marrapalooza (Newcastle) Last Train Home Festival (Darlington) Oh Community (Oxford)

They’ve opened for bands like Martha, Chubby and the Gang and Jeffrey Lewis.

In 2024 they also toured with Specialist Subject Records’ Toodles and the Hectic Pity.

ABOUT VARIOUS MARTYRS EP:

Various Martyrs takes the canvas of the life of the downwardly mobile millennial and paints on it with allusions to failed socialist utopias, grizzly early Christian martyrdoms and historic worker’s hunger marches..

Inspired by the 1939 book ‘The Town That Was Murdered’ by radical MP and Labour activist Ellen Wilkinson, the Replacements / Saints esque opener 1. The Children’s Crusade is an ode to those who live as ‘unknown fighters in the struggle for existence’.

Songwriter David Littlefair, who’s grandmother was from Jarrow, grew up listening to the hand-me-down story of the Jarrow March'. 200 unemployed ship builders and dockworkers from South Tyneside walked several days to parliament to demand better conditions, only to be turned away empty handed. It is a song about hope and naiveté in a world that can offer you very little.

2. Various Martyrs is a The Thermals / Weezer esque celebration of the grizzly lengths people once went to to fight for what they believed in, in a world of compromised operators and sellouts, sometimes it takes the memory that some people endured being eaten by a lion in an arena 2000 years ago to remember to stand up and kick on.

3. Call Of The Mild is a song inspired by the story of the New Harmony commune in the USA and the ideas of Robert Owen, who wrote “There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying — that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.”
Its Weakerthans via Superchunk style of rock and guitar soloing discuss what it means to be compelled to see the best in others, and how often that involves failure or being taken advantage of by the causes you give yourself over to.

4. Humanure is an attempt to write an utterly anthemic and fist pumping anthem about packing up your dreams and heading home. It’s about living in the knowledge that you hammered the walls of your life as hard as possible, no matter the outcome - failures finding voice in a giant ‘WOAAAH’ outro reminiscent of NY prog punks Titus Andronicus