Bitchfinder General

When your name is this good, how can you fail, right? Formed by Jayne Dent (aka Me Lost Me) and folk musician Frankie Insley to fulfil a desire to be in a chaotic punk band, they were joined by the rhythm section of Sarah Li and James O’Coaimh and swiftly became the multi-media, dayglo-and-chainmail queer punk explosion that has been killing it on stages all over the North East for the last year or so. Their debut EP, No Thought Just Vibes, is a sub-18 minute blast of outsider joy and trauma dressed up as madcap cartoon energy and their live show is an ever-developing thing of wonder. (Lee Fisher)