It’s official. ‘Intermittent Fast Living’, the new album by PET NEEDS is a UK Top 20 Album.

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Crash landing into the charts at No.17 on 23 Feb, the Essex punks’ third album is their highest charting to date and finds them rubbing shoulders with huge acts the likes of Kanye West, Ariana Grande, and IDLES.

Masterminding a campaign to smash into the UK Official Top 40 that the band dubbed ‘Bottom of the Pops’, it seems their plan may have worked a little too well as they suddenly find themselves in the UK Official Top 20.

Speaking about the record's success, frontman Johnny told the BBC earlier this week:

"It is bizarre… None of us were prepared for this… The fact that we are up there with Kayne West is incomprehensibly unreal.”

Encapsulating the stop-start life of a contemporary punk band constantly jolting between rock’n’roll dreams and domestic duties, ‘Intermittent Fast Living’ is the riotous, relatable new record from the Essex quartet.

Their third studio album in as many years, its frantic 11 tracks pinball through songs of love and loss, the trials & tribulations of touring, punk protests against pay-to-play shows, lucid life lessons learnt from a new puppy, and just about everything in between. It includes previously released singles “Separation Anxiety” and “Sleep When I’m Dead”, which had spins from Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music, John Kennedy on Radio X, Total Rock, BBC Introducing, Amazing Radio and Kerrang Radio.

Receiving early plaudits from Punktastic they praised “[PET NEEDS’] superpower comes from channelling their normality and repurposing the magic they experience in their everyday lives as insightful, honest rock… enough bangers to open up an ironic pit”. Elsewhere V13 Magazine hailed ‘Intermittent Fast Living’ as a “gloriously drunken, frantic and punchy punk rock” record, whereas The Soundboard championed the new album as “a phenomenally tight and robust package from front to back, as fulfilling on the most cursory, surface-level listen as it is to take a proper deep dive”.

Recorded in just two weeks and now a UK Top 20 Album, ‘Intermittent Fast Living’ is a breathless new addition to the PET NEEDS canon, created at Vada Studios with producer/sound engineer George Perks (Enter Shikari, You Me At Six, Mogwai, Skindred).

A full UK & European tour is confirmed for later in the Spring. The full list of dates are as follows:.

PET NEEDS UK LIVE DATES 2024
UK TOUR
APRIL

16 - STOCKTON ON TEES Georgian Theatre

17 - LEEDS Boom

18 - MANCHESTER Night & Day

19 - BRISTOL Exchange

20 - BRIGHTON Hope & Ruin

23 - CAMBRIDGE Portland Arms

24 - OXFORD The Bullingdon

25 - LONDON The Underworld

26 - BIRMINGHAM Hare & Hounds

27 - SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners

 

EUROPEAN TOUR

MAY

28 HAARLEM, NL Patronaat

29 COLOGNE, DE Blue Shell

30 - HAMBURG, DE Nochtwache

31 - BERLIN, DE Cassiopeia

JUNE
02 - PARIS, FR La Boule Noire

 

Tickets for all shows are on sale now: https://petneedsband.com/live-dates.

PET NEEDS - TOP 20 ALBUM: ‘INTERMITTENT FAST LIVING’
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