Be Fair - Roddy Piper

  

  Be Fair (https://www.facebook.com/BeFairSY) the Sheffield/Leeds melodic punk quartet are no strangers to Just Some Punk Songs. I was lucky enough to stumble across their introductory demo 3 years ago https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2021/08/be-fair-cero-deniro.html and the release of a single the following year saw them return : 

https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2022/01/be-fair-veins-and-capillaries.html

  And now they've just put out one of their strongest songs so welcome back guys.

  It's the 3rd part of a trilogy of singles following on from Montreal Screwjob and Hadfield 5 and I think it's easiest just to let the band introduce it in their own words...

  "It’s 2020. The political system in the UK is a complete joke, led by a clown of a prime minister and a ruling party treating us like characters in a collective Sims game controlled by the elite. Be Fair hadn’t been a band for very long, forced in and out of isolation like the rest of the world. We had written our first set of songs, including this one. This song captures how I felt at that time. I was infuriated by the broken promises, hypocrisy, and double standards of our government. While we isolated from loved ones and people died, Parliament partied. People tore down statues, we saw a frightening rise in right-wing politics, and an institutional denial of inconvenient historical truths. I was enraged by what I witnessed day in and day out, but even more so by the fact that it's been this way for as long as I can remember, with no sign of change. Since then, I've sung this song countless times on stage to small audiences, usually at the end of our set when my untrained and unskilled vocals are nearly ripped from my throat. Yet, I still scream the last lines of this song with every last drop as hard as I did the first time, and I will continue to do so as long as I feel the same frustration. By some sort of serendipity, we finally decided to release this song—one we've had for years but never felt ready to share—just as a general election was announced in the UK.

  "Roddy Piper" is the name of a beloved Canadian wrestler turned actor who sadly passed away in 2015. The name was given to this song as a working title by our Wrestling loving guitarist Dickie - it stuck - and now that's what the songs called. We wrote it years ago, it has nothing to do with wrestling... but we love it, and hope you will to."

  You can find it on Spotify... https://open.spotify.com/track/6NDCXFFall1SuQeNpqwNej

  It's a song that starts slowly before building into a glorious crescendo of angst, it's called Roddy Piper... 

Be Fair - Veins And Capillaries

  

  Today I'm bringing you a contender for the title of the UK's most promising new punk band...

  

  Last year I posted a song from a demo by a band I'd stumbled across from Sheffield & Leeds called Be Fair (https://www.facebook.com/BeFairSY/) and I mentioned how they played catchy, fast paced, self recorded no nonsense punk (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2021/08/be-fair-cero-deniro.html). I said they sounded very promising indeed. 

  Pat on the back for me time! I appear to have been correct. At least if their debut single is any indication of things to come.  

  Released today, I've listened to it 4 times already and feel the need to quickly bang out today's blog update before I dash off to work. I'm trying to decide who they remind me of. They're very energetic, they write ear worms, they have multiple vocalists all working together to produce a full sound, those vocals are quite gruff but very palatable. Maybe they remind me of Dauntless Elite? Maybe Miloy? Maybe there's "US Beardy Fest Style" punk influences added to the mix. I'm not sure, but I do know that they're going to prove very popular on the UK gig circuit (they're playing a free gig in Bradford on Thursday at Nightrain if you're in the area). 

  The single's on Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/album/1e0m76PHK5U13rjwipNBYG

  It's called Veins And Capillaries...  

Be Fair - Cero Deniro

  

  As enjoyable as it is to post a song by an established and popular artist, there's something a little bit special about stumbling across and then sharing something by a new band that you know nothing about but who sound very promising indeed. Ladies and gentlemen, today I'm introducing Be Fair. 

  They're a Sheffield/Leeds based outfit, delivering, catchy, fast-paced, no-nonsense punk and they've just uploaded a debut 5 track demo to Bandcamp. It's self recorded and they admit it's a bit rough but it sounds pretty damn good to these grizzled old ears. They're looking for gigs if anyone can help, I think they're a band that deserve a bit of encouragement so go on Bandcamp and download the demo. It's titled But can we do it on a wet Tuesday night in Stoke? (which sounds as though it's something a fat, tired old English football manager might ask about an Argentinian god!) and it's name your price here :  https://befair.bandcamp.com/album/but-can-we-do-it-on-a-wet-tuesday-night-in-stoke

  All 5 tracks are worthy of your attention, good old school shouty UK punk with the odd gang chorus, I look forward to hearing more. 

  This is the opening track, in Spanish it means zero money, it's a rowdy singalong with none of the edges smoothed down. It's called Cero Deniro...