Pet Needs head to Nottingham's Rescue Rooms

We took in a show with Pet Needs at Rock City as part of their extensive UK, US and European tour supporting Frank Turner last year, and it was a fantastic set. Since then Pet Needs have completed their own headline UK tour including a string of dates for Independent Venue Week. Tickets for the dates flew with many dates sold out, and the band added extra fixtures due to extraordinary demand.

They’ve now embarked on an extensive UK tour with The Lottery Winners, and they head to Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms this Sunday (23rd April).

Ahead of the show, the band have released the new video for The Argument taken from their recently released second album “Primetime Entertainment” which was produced by Frank Turner.

A fiery and furious back-and-forth that sees PET NEEDS joined by collaborator Bridget, “The Argument” is a highly charged track about a relationship spiralling out of control. Brimming with the band’s usual brand of frenzied alt-rock and zany humour, frontman Johnny explains:

“After playing a show with Bridget and hearing that incredible scream, I went home and wrote a furious, vicious 90 second break-up song. Imagine a scene from a Shakespearean tragedy if it was set in the Queen Vic. Purely fictitious, of course!”

The video sees Johnny and Bridget on a dinner-date gone horribly wrong, he adds:

“We dusted off our best am-dram skills to shoot a video with Jonathan Dadds at the gorgeous Colchester Arts Centre.”

Written and recorded in just 11 months after signing with Xtra Mile Recordings for their acclaimed debut “Fractured Party Music”, the band’s latest offering is a discernibly more personal effort than its party-primed predecessor. Dealing with feelings of fear, fatigue, adrenaline, failing and determination, “Primetime Entertainment” proved to be a record of profound psychological and musical discovery for Pet Needs that produced a transfixing listening experience. Proudly dubbed by the band as “our ‘London Calling’”, the new album attracted warm reviews with NARC Magazine praising it as a record of “joyous experimentation” (⅘). Stream the album in full now here: https://orcd.co/primetimeentertainment.

Continuing to tour ‘Primetime Entertainment’ in 2023, the band are supporting The Lottery Winners on an extensive UK tour this April, before heading over the pond for a US run supporting The Bouncing Souls throughout May. Pet Needs will also be playing a range of warm-up shows and festival slots across the UK with sets at 2000 Trees, Dot To Dot, Bearded Theory and more. Full dates and details below.