Where better to hold a birthday party than a brewery? Throw in the fact it’s Marshall Records’ tenth birthday, and the venue is the fabulous Blondies Brewery, and there’s top notch entertainment in the form of band new and established, and you’re in for a great evening of celebratory entertainment.
After our first set from Marshall’s newest signing, Ashaine White that’s equal parts soulful and gritty, we’re swept into Daytime TV. They bring the past and future together, their eighties smooth confidence blending with modern introspection. When they stomp, their sound is monstrously appealing, all harmony and blocky chunks of bass and rhythm and their latest single, Sun, radiates hopeful holiday energy with a strut and a bounce in its live debut. Meditate, their unreleased track, pierces with synth anchors and betrays dreamy pop ambitions. With songs like Anger Mgmt and their new place at Marshall Records, there’s no chance we’ll be seeing them in a venue this small again.
Daytime TV, Marshall Records 10th Birthday @ Blondies Brewery, London 2026.06.10 © Pauline Di Silvestro - All rights reserved - www.paulinedis.com
Big Truck, Laurie Vincent of SOFT PLAY’s new project, present a brash and honest slice of life with almost funk honesty, packed with everyday Zen and the joy of the mundane. Vincent’s eloquent everyman energy rises above the smooth waves propelled by his bass. Big Truck represent a movement beyond SOFT PLAY but with that same irreverent heart, refined but not necessarily mellowed. They specialise in poetic truths with moments of big crash, especially with the frontman intoning lyrics as he wanders into the crowd, his preaching echoing in an opening circle. They’re an irresistibly clappable band and even after this short set we’re already getting very excited for their debut record.
Big Truck, Marshall Records 10th Birthday @ Blondies Brewery, London 2026.06.10 © Pauline Di Silvestro - All rights reserved - www.paulinedis.com
Yes, their set ended early due to a power cut, but that’s probably more due to the sheer force of Cancer Bats’ set. They’re spring-loaded brutality of the highest order, and tonight is a window back to the time when they played dive bars rather than vast festival fields, their desert metal compressed into a frenzied back room. From the second vocalist Liam Cornier high-kicks, the pit explodes. Opener Golden Tanks is the sound of inventive frothy punk taken to it’s absolute, beautifully aggressive limit, and French Immersion sends our fists in the sky with its endless energy. “We love any excuse to have a rowdy Wednesday night,” laughs Cormier as sweat rises from the circle pit, any pauses in their sonic onslaught only a distorted illusion, the roaring old school drops on Shillelagh only there to toy with us. Snarling poses and triumphant howls drag us into new single Long Tooth, a gravelly avalanche of a track with just as much heavy elastic dynamism as the rest of their back catalogue. It’s blunt and abrupt, abrasive and hypnotic, with menacing edges and gorgeous distorted fade out. Cancer Bats know exactly how to bring a volcanic scorch to a set, and that’s a whole lot more rock’n’roll than the candles you’d expect at an average birthday party.
A review of Marshall Records‘ Tenth Birthday Show at Blondies Brewery on 10th June 2026. Words by Kate Allvey, photography by Pauline Di Silvestro
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