New Cross Live presents:

Pet Needs

+ Glitchers + Goodnight Vincent

Support from Glitchers + Goodnight Vincent

In 2020, the future for PET NEEDS, as with so many other bands, looked precarious. Now, in 2022, they’re poised to take on the world with the release of their second album ‘Primetime Entertainment’. It’s been one hell of a ride so far.

“We’d been together since 2016, we were having fun with it, a punk band playing punk shows to our friends,” says Johnny Marriott, singer, songwriter, guitarist. “At the start of 2020, we didn’t know if we were going to carry on as a band. But we thought we’d throw everything at recording an album.” The resulting album, ‘Fractured Party Music’, is that classic debut in that everything up to that point was poured into it. Yet it’s still a surprise to hear that thrilling, fan-favourite singles ‘Toothpaste’ and ‘Tracey Emin’s Bed’ were written just two weeks before recording, showing the creative fire was still fierce.

Whether PET NEEDS (completed by brother George Marriott on guitar, Rich Gutierrez on bass and Jack Lock on drums) were almost done or not didn’t matter because they refused to compromise on what turned out to be their saviour, an album brimming with intense resonance. Strewn with social commentary, the frenetic, kerosene-blanched songs flayed modern living, leaving it exposed and fully-examined in catharsis.

It hit more than a few searing chords and found its way to the ears of independent label Xtra Mile Recordings who promptly signed the band and released it in the middle of the pandemic in March 2021.