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The Dead Class (UK)

Punk Rock

Three very different musicians with very different backgrounds coming together with a single minded purpose… to make fast, fun, energetic yet thought provoking, intelligent music. Playing music together every single day, whether rehearsing, touring, writing songs or recording is at the centre of what The Dead Class are about.

Mixing molested pop songs with punk rock, folk, ska, crack, cocaine and calpol is what gives The Dead Class its unique and disturbingly tasty flavour.

The Dead Class are one of the most exciting live bands to emerge from the UK underground in recent years.

Since 2006 they have played alongside The Pogues, The Hives, The Damned, Nomeansno, Dropkick Murphys, Subhumans, UK Subs and more touring the UK, Europe and US.

"Our hobbies include mugging helpless old ladies, making bombs, bombing stuff, throwing big stones, going to church, slappin' our bitches, dining in McDonalds, watchin' the x factor, promoting racism and running very fast with scissors. We also like to laugh at people less fortunate than us, HA HA!! No really, we are just 3 scruffy fuckers who use a lot of satire and sarcasm to attack the every day things in life that piss us off.....and we've got guitars!!"

The Dead Class: Pulse & A Heartache

The Dead Class: The Best Fighter In The Town

The Dead Class: No

Band

Villy: Guitar, Vocals
Jake: Bass, Attitude
Tony: Drums, Drums Drums

Discography

2010 - "Stick" Album, Antipop Records
2009 - "Pulse and a heardache/Age of Paranoia" 7 inch, Antipop Records
2008 - "It'll damn near kill you" Album, Antipop Records
2006 - "Boo" Album, Antipop Records

Reviews

Genuine punk fans would be reluctant to give the title of Punk to bands that often are faux punks, but that is not the case with The Dead Class - they are the real deal. If you cut them in half they would have PUNK written through the middle of them. Hitting the crowd in the face with an explosive energy it is hard to catch your breath once the guys hit the stage – it is fast and it is hard. And they are so good- admittedly, I’m jealous. Whipping the crowd into a frenzy the band play the thunderous Pulse & A Heartache, Age of Paranoia, Best Fighter in the Town, and Hanging Basket, amongst other punchy punky tracks... However, that is what we had here tonight, musicians playing from their hearts as opposed to any money–making commercialized agenda. More power to the Antipop label and its band of merry Punks."
- Click Liverpool, Live-Review, November 2010

"Frenetic guitars coupled with a madball vocalist make The Dead Class come across like a kick in the teeth... If you're looking for a band with a bit of balls amongst sugar-coated modern pop punk, look no further."
- Big Cheese Magazine, UK

"The Dead Class make me wish I hadn't wasted so many years pissing time away with education. No, it’s clear to me now that what I should have placed my full concentration on from 16 onwards was pissing people off, waking up in the gutter at least once a week and punk rock. Bollocks. This life-crushing epiphany hits me during the feral yelps that bolt out of the dry-fuzz Dead Kennedys-esque 'Pulse And A Heartache', though their entire set cements the idea that we might just all be better off quitting our bloody jobs, getting back on the Buckfast and play-fighting with our nearest and dearest to furious, howling, acerbic noise 24/7. Yes, please. 'Mrs Donkey' and 'Age Of Paranoia' - roaring, wonderfully shabby trophies of near-buckling punk perfection, are proofs of The Dead Class’ prowess for performance - full of pulverizing, addictive bass-lines, skin-splitting drums and croaking, charismatic vocals that scream, chant and wail throughout."
- Click Liverpool, Live-Review, October 2009

"It’s difficult to categorise the band, which is great and refreshing but you could argue there are elements of Killing Joke and Jello Biafra in what they do, without being neither. Villy’s vocals are a cut above the generic punk trends and the uncomfortable delivery will continue to split listeners but if you want a genuine alternative to punk trends give The Dead Class a chance."
- Distorted Magazine, UK

The Dead Class unlugged: Missing You
(A drunken impromptu rendition of the unreleased track surprising the shoppers and staff at a garage service station after a gig near Antwerpen.)

The Dead Class (UK)

Punk Rock

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