Independent Venue Week: The Bermondsey Joyriders + The Fallen Leaves

Now with second album Noise and Revolution The Bermondsey Joyriders show listeners what they're really capable of. Given all the hours of studio time the budget would enable – over a number of weeks, and under the direction of Cure and Depeche Mode producer David M Allen, the band have created an ambitious concept record, which fully realizes the ideas that won acclaim when merely sketched out on their debut.

Gleefully burning the three chord rulebook, Noise and Revolution finds real punk rebel spirit in blues, soul and 60s psychedelic sounds, but most radically twists the '77 blueprint with the words provided to it by the inimitable John Sinclair. Acting as narrator on spoken segments between the song, performance poet, MC5 manager and counter culture icon, Sinclair tells Noise and Revolution's story with a poet's pace and rhythm, a wicked humour, and the relevant, rare life experiences to make his parts captivatingly convincing.

Melodic garage punk quartet featuring Rob Symmons from the legendary Subway Sect on guitar.

The Fallen Leaves hatred of one another is intense. But it is out of this creative conflict that pop music played with passion rather than precision is born.