Basht. Share New Single ‘Kids Vs Guns’ Ahead Of Debut Album
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Basht. | Photo credit: Patricia Rosingana | Download hi-res band images here Basht. are today sharing new single ‘Kids Vs Guns’, the latest song to be taken from their upcoming debut album Poor Advice, out 9th October via LAB Records.
‘Kids Vs Guns’ follows recent singles ‘Terror TV‘, ‘Keira Knightley‘ and ‘Perfume‘, which set the pace for Poor Advice with their looming atmospherics, intoxicating vocals and pitch-black subject matter. On ‘Kids Vs Guns’ trade the lightning quick post-punk of earlier singles for tumbling guitar riffs and impassioned vocals on what might be the most direct statement on the album. Here the band responds to the genocide in Palestine, confronting it head-on.
Vocalist and guitarist Jack Leavey comments on the new single: “This song started off as a poem written in response to the genocide in Palestine, it highlights the one sided conflict where innocent children are left in the direct firing line. Kids Vs Guns is my favourite song off the album and my proudest.”
“Bottle rockets met with missiles, soldiers marching on parade.”
Basht. have earned themselves a devoted fanbase in the run up to their debut album, in no small thanks to taking their knockout live show on tour with the likes of DEADLETTER, Everything Everything and Wunderhorse, and featuring at festivals including The Great Escape, Truck, Supersonic Block Party, Liverpool Sound City, Dot To Dot, Live at Leeds, and Other Voices.
Produced by Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Perfume Genius, PJ Harvey), a kind of quiet patience murmurs at the core of Basht., the band only showing their hand when the right moment presents itself. Their gift is turning the reflective and emotionally heavy into the sprawling and powerful.
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More about Basht.’s debut album Poor Advice
Ireland also has a darker history, shaped by the strong influence of the Catholic Church over private life, particularly in cases of unplanned pregnancy – where young couples were often pressured into marriage to preserve respectability and avoid shame.
These unions were not always based on love or readiness, but on moral expectation and social control, with alternatives like single parenthood heavily stigmatised, especially for women. This song reflects that reality, capturing how personal lives were shaped by external pressures, where duty could outweigh desire and a single moment could determine the course of an entire future.”
Vocalist and guitarist Jack Leavey comments: “Poor Advice is a bruising concept album that traces the tangled wires between power and those crushed under it.
Through 10 tracks, it maps the old dance between church and state in Ireland, where pulpits and governments traded sermons for policy and shaped a generation with guilt, silence, and obedience.
It then pulls that thread into the present, following how moral authority has been outsourced to boardrooms and barracks, with the military industrial complex running like a grim metronome: conflict brewed, weapons sold, grief managed, contracts renewed.
Poor Advice is the title because it’s all the counsel handed down from above: keep your head down, say your prayers, trust the deal.”
Basht. are: Jack Leavey (vocals, guitar), Lughaidh Armstrong-Mayock (lead guitar), Ryan McClelland (drums) and Louis Christle (bass).
See Basht. live on the following dates
Tickets available here
Sept 25 – Other Voices, Derry, NI
Sept 26 – Gathering Sounds, Stockton, UK
Oct 04 – Spindizzy, Dublin, IE
Oct 07 – Music Zone, Cork, IE
Oct 09 – Rough Trade East, London, UK
Oct 10 – Resident Records, Brighton, UK
Oct 11 – Rough Trade, Bristol, UK
Oct 12 – Rough Trade, Nottingham, UK
Oct 13- Jacaranda Baltic, Liverpool, UK
Oct 14 – Wax & Beans, Bury, UK
Oct 15 – ASSAI, Glasgow, UK
Oct 16 – ASSAI, Edinburgh, UK
Oct 17 – NBHD Festival, Manchester, UK
Oct 18 – Castle & Falcom (w/ Jacaranda Records), Birmingham, UK
Oct 19 – Headrow House (w/ Crash Records), Leeds, UK
Oct 20 – Independent, Sunderland, UK
Oct 21- Foundry (w/ Bear Tree), Sheffield, UK
Oct 23 – Mutations Festival, Brighton, UK
Oct 27 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK – LOW TICKETS
Oct 28 – Art School, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 29 – Gorilla, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 30 – KOKO, London, UK – LOW TICKETS
Nov 07 – Button Factory, Dublin, IE – SOLD OUT
Nov 11 – Empire, Belfast, NI
Nov 18 – M for Montreal Festival, Montreal, CAN
Basht. – Poor Advice album tracklisting
1. Dive
2. Perfume
3. Keira Knightley
4. Terror TV
5. Superchurch
6. Vermilion Reptilian
7. Circadia
8. Moth
9. Kids Vs Guns
10. Poor Advice