Our new studio album Welcome To Karmic City was released in July via The Slightly Off Kilter (cd + download) and our own Rubber Bus imprint (download + bonus track). It includes some live favourites and some brand new material and features guest vocalists Tim Hawthorn (Anarchetypes, Invisible Orchestra of Tibet) and writer/author Daniel Spicer (The Wire magazine, Repeater Books).
Simultaneously (ish) we released a series of three special eps featuring remixed material, new songs, old songs and oddities; Urban Dust ep, Open A Can! and Brainchime! All can be found here:
https://rubberbus.bandcamp.com/
We also welcomed our new drummer - yes another one! - Michael into the band, and he made his debut with us on Sunday 1st Feb at Splitting The Atom at Brighton's Green Door Store. We've almost got access to enough percussionists now to reactivate The Schizo Drummers Of Yarg, who've not played live - as far as I know - since 1996. You have been warned!
Andy, George, Mark and Paul have also been working on their ambient music project SOMNAMBULANCE; releasing their second album From The Chalk To The Stream back in August. They collaborated with Andrew from Gnostic Rebellion during that session, and there's rumours that some of those recordings may also see the light of day...
https://somnambulanceuk.bandcamp.com/
Andy Roid has also been busily working a new album with his trio with Brian Abbott (Invisible Opera Company of Tibet) and Bob Hedger (Jah Buddha, FOAM) Entropy Zero. Their latest set is great, check it out here:
https://theentropyzeroproject.bandcamp.com/album/entropy-zero-presents-absolute-zero
2025 was a relatively quiet year gig-wise, but we did enjoy performing at KozFest once again! We have played KozFest a few times now; it's always great fun and the site has moved to a beautiful new location up a mountain in Wales; we were very pleased to be invited again in 2025. To anyone considering going in 2026, we highly recommend it!
Plus, we're just about to embark on an exciting new remix project involving a veteran dub poet, but more on that soon!
Here's some nice things people have said about us recently:
''Nice set!'' - Matt McCartney, Codex Serafini
''...comes across as a mix of early 60s European electronic music, post-form stonerism and a smidgen of Gong'' - Byron Coley, The Wire magazine
''...a punky-reggae episode of strident chaos...'' - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector magazine
''Rubber Bus brought the sunshine and lazy summer afternoon vibes'' - Semley Music Festival
photo by Paul Lewis
