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Possibly the UK’s biggest pop-punk band, the Welsh outfit’s angst-charged songs, beefed up with power chords and racing drums, inspire a sea of moshing teens
Introduced on stage by Jonny Boucher of suicide prevention charity Hope for the Day with roaring sentiments including “We gotta get through this shit together!”, Welsh pop-punk fivesome Neck Deep seem well attuned to the significance their music can have on young fans (some of whom may still be grappling with the death of Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington).
The Wrexham band’s rise has been precipitous – their third album The Peace and the Panic went Top 5 in the UK and the US – yet has probably gone undetected by anyone for whom Blink-182’s mainstream breakout was the last they heard of the genre. Commanding an absurdly over-the-top stage set that looks like something out of a skate video thanks to its steep ramps, Neck Deep don’t develop punk-pop’s narrow tropes much at all, but they do exhibit a confident mastery of them.
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