{"id":12014,"date":"2025-05-31T16:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2025-05-31T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T18:15:03","slug":"slalom-d-release-a-love-letter-to-hometown-sunderland-with-new-single-harbour-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=12014","title":{"rendered":"Slalom D pen a love letter to hometown Sunderland in new single Harbour Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunderland punk band Slalom D have released their first new music in almost a year – and it’s a love letter to their home town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Harbour Walls<\/em> is the first song released by the five-piece since the standalone single Medusa<\/em>, which came out in July 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then they’ve undergone a change of line-up, with Anthony Bircham replacing Gary Roberts on guitar earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the band remains Fiona Duncan on vocals, Tony Lindstedt on bass, Iain Murray on drums and Andrew Scobie on keyboards.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Since forming in 2018, Slalom D – named after a strong lager from the 1970s – have amassed a growing following with their passionate and political take on punk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unashamedly opinionated, left-wing, anti-fascist and proudly working class, they have a handful of singles and two albums to their name – most recently 2023’s Waltz Into Anarchy<\/em> (reviewed here<\/a><\/strong>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their first album, Happy Skies<\/em>, self-released in 2021, was our album of the year (reviewed here<\/a><\/strong>), and they’re busy writing and recording songs for their third long-player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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