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Robert Jon & The Wreck’s relationship with the UK has been building steadily since their first tours here in 2021, and nights like this prove why. Every return visit finds the Californian five‑piece sharper, tighter, and somehow even more confident in delivering their own brand of modern Southern rock. Manchester Academy 2 was either sold out or perilously close to it, maybe you could have squeezed a couple more bodies in, but only just and the atmosphere suggested a band very much on the cusp of graduating to larger rooms.

Before the main event, Manchester was treated to a superb opening set from Sam Morrow. Completely unknown to me beforehand, Sam Morrow won over the already appreciative crowd with his personal take on modern American roots music earthy, soulful, and delivered with genuine conviction. His set struck a perfect balance between groove and grit, with songs like South Texas Woman and Paid by the Mile resonating strongly in the room.

The highlight, though, came with a storming and wonderfully unique cover of Pink Floyd’s Have a Cigar, reimagined through a roots‑rock lens rather than played straight. A visit to the merch desk afterwards revealed that Sam Morrow already has five albums under his belt something I’ll definitely be rectifying by diving into his back catalogue. On the strength of this performance alone, he’s a name well worth remembering.

Setlist: On My Way, South Texas Woman, Cigarettes, Lucretia, Paid by the Mile, Have a Cigar (Pink Floyd cover)

With the crowd well and truly warmed up, Robert Jon & The Wreck took to the stage as part of their brief six‑date tour in the UK as part of their European tour, supporting their critically acclaimed ninth album Heartbreaks & Goodbyes, produced by Grammy‑winner Dave Cobb. The album marks another step forward for the band, and tonight’s set reflected both their growing legacy and their restless creativity.

Four songs from the new record made the cut: Better Of Me, Highway, Keep Myself Clean, and Sittin’ Pretty. Better Of Me stood out immediately, driven by a funky piano line from keyboardist Jake Abernathie celebrating his birthday no less while guitarist Henry James absolutely ripped through the solo, setting the bar sky‑high from the outset.

 

 

 

Keep Myself Clean kept the momentum rolling, before Bring Me Back Home Again showcased Henry James fabulous slide guitar work, seamlessly complemented by Jake’s Hammond playing. It’s this interplay guitar and keys dancing around each other that has become a defining feature of the band’s live sound with those beautiful rich harmonies.

Older favourites were just as warmly received. Oh Miss Caroline drew the biggest cheer of the night and sparked a huge sing‑along, with the Manchester crowd fully engaged and loving every minute. The main set closed with Cold Night, a perfect finale built around an extended and superb guitar and keyboard duel that underlined just how tight and musical this band has become. The rhythm section of Warren Murrel and Andrew Espantman really driving the band hard.

The encore brought a real treat: a rip‑roaring version of Rager from Red Moon Rising. Always a personal favourite of mine, this was the first time I’d ever seen it performed live and it completely blew me away. If Ritchie Blackmore had ever fronted a Southern rock band, this would have been his song: classic rock swagger with just a hint of those iconic, spiralling solos. It later emerged that Henry James is a huge Blackmore and Tommy Bolin fan, influences that are clearly audible in his playing without ever tipping into imitation.

This was a night that showcased musicianship and songwriting at the very highest level. Robert Jon & The Wreck don’t just maintain their standards every time they return they raise them. On the strength of this performance alone, larger venues will soon become a necessity rather than a luxury.

The band return to the UK in June for dates including Holmfirth Picturedrome and Loverocks Festival in Dorset before coming back again in October for a six‑date run. Judging by how quickly these shows are selling out, the advice is simple: get your tickets early or risk missing out entirely.

A triumphant night of Southern‑soaked rock, powered by a crowd that knew exactly what they were witnessing.

Setlist: The Devil Is Your Only Friend, Blame It On The Whiskey, Back To The Beginning Again, Sittin; Pretty, Highway, Better Of Me, Keep Myself Clean, Bring Me Back Home Again, Rescue Train, Oh Miss Carolina, Cold Beer, Rager

Saturday April 18 – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Sunday April 19 – Southampton, The Brook (Sold Out)

Tickets are available from – https://robertjonandthewreck.com/tour/

With thanks to Peter Noble from Noble PR for the media access.

Gallery by David Pickles

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Death and War Lose It All

It Falls Into Human Force

The latest Buzz Kull single, Human Force, taken from the EP Deep Hate, is an atmospheric synth banger that moves with a hard, locked gait, all chrome nerves and club-floor fatalism. And that has always been one of Dwyer’s strengths. Since 2012, he has been building this severe style out of minimal synth, darkwave, and industrial dance music, but what keeps Buzz Kull from turning into mere scene exercise is the way he locates real psychic abrasion inside the mechanism. Plenty of artists can (and do) borrow the stern stomp of Front 242 or the bruised glamour of Black Celebration-era Depeche Mode. Dwyer makes those reference points feel lived in, not borrowed for the weekend and returned on Monday.

The video for Human Force, by Travis Shinn and Jeremy Danger, decides the best way to sell this sort of song is to trap the singer inside his own multiplication table. So there he is, boxed into a Brady Bunch grid, split, stacked, and repeated, as if identity itself has been fed through some cold little factory process and stamped out in handsome, severe succession — almost as if he’s a Major Arcana laid out in a digital spread. People now are forever being sorted, branded, displayed, and diced into presentable pieces. This video takes that condition and turns it into pop ritual, severe and seductive, like a nightclub sermon delivered by a malfunctioning saint.

It is a smart visual move because Dwyer has always made music for those moments when personhood starts to feel mass-produced, when desire gets regimented, and the body becomes both vehicle and victim. Human Force has that severe, synthetic strut Buzz Kull does so well, and Dwyer’s presence rides over it with the stern glamour of a man who has read the riot act to his own bloodstream. He does not mug for the camera. He stares it down like he’s filing a grievance against existence itself.

The lyrics to Human Force pit private consciousness against a world bent on burial, pressure, and collapse, with Dwyer returning again and again to the idea of an inner voice struggling to make life legible under strain. Where the words reach inward toward survival, visibility, and the frailty of human will inside vast systems of violence, the video turns outward, leaning into symmetry, duplication, and that nasty little tension between order and annhilation: faces recur, frames subdivide, blue light gives way to red, and Dwyer appears splintered across the screen like a series of selves pinned beneath the fluorescent thumb of modern life.

The cameo from Cold Cave‘s Wesley Eisold only deepens the sense of the video’s shared underground liturgy, one high priest nodding to another in a chapel built from drum machines and bad dreams. Yet the star here is structure itself: the compartments, the mirrored angles, the serial repetitions.

By the end, Dwyer has not escaped the grid. That is precisely why the clip works. It knows freedom is overrated as a visual cliché. Sometimes the more truthful image is a man caught in the boxes, still moving, still glaring, still making the trap look chic enough that you might willingly step inside.

Watch the video for Human Force below:

Deep Hate is out now via Heartworm Press. Order the EP here.

Buzz Kull Tour Dates:

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• April 23, 2026 — Philadelphia, PA — Theatre of Living Arts
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• April 29, 2026 — Chicago, IL — Metro
• May 2, 2026 — Detroit, MI — St. Andrew’s Hall
• June 26, 2026 — Newtown, NSW — The Vanguard

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