Today they released their first track, New Palestine<\/em>, which is being released as a 7in single ahead of their self-titled debut album, which is out on 30 October via Damaged Goods Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pair are joined in the band by Vicky Smith from the Ramonas on bass and Marley Perez, Charlie’s grandson, on drums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen I was a teenager, Charlie Harper was my hero,\u201d admits Greening. \u201cI saw him on Top of the Pops snarling through Stranglehold <\/em>like a man trying to start a riot on his own, and that was it. I was in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Not long after, I was crushed against the front barrier at Crawley Leisure Centre, watching the UK Subs, half suffocated, probably deaf for three days and loving every second of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI met Charlie a few times over the years. Always seemed like a decent chap. Then he started turning up at Peter And The Test Tube Babies gigs, not just casually, either. Every time I looked up, there he was, front row, arms folded, watching my hands like a mechanic inspecting a suspicious engine noise.<\/p>\n\n\n “Slightly unnerving, if I\u2019m honest. I kept thinking, what does he want? Should I be playing better? Afterwards, he\u2019d come over. ‘Love your guitar playing. We should do a project together\u2026'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Charlie and Del both based in Brighton, athey both had time to start something new and fresh. With no rehearsals, no pre-production and some skeletal song ideas, Del, Charlie, Vicky and Marley headed to Brighton Road recording studios and got to work in October 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe set up, and Charlie suggested we just start jamming until something happens,\u201d laughs Del. \u201cI fucking hate jamming, I find it pointless. So, I voiced my opinion. \u201cWhat’s the point of just endlessly jamming for hours in a studio that we’re paying for? It’s not as if a hit is just going to suddenly pop up from nowhere.\u201d ‘That’s how I wrote Stranglehold<\/em>‘ Charlie snapped back. Fair point!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe also mentioned that the Subs’ classic track Warhead <\/em>had also emerged from a jam but had been discarded and disliked by ex-guitarist Nicky Garrett and ex-bassist Paul Slack and had been thrown in the bin, which he retrieved. ‘The song outlived them both.’ Charlie laughed. Was that our first argument? I\u2019m not sure. I knew there weren\u2019t gonna be many.<\/p>\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019d finally got everything plugged in and ready to record, guitars humming with feedback, everyone poised to go, then Charlie would suddenly start telling a story. Ten minutes later, he\u2019d forgotten who the story was about, where it happened, or why he\u2019d started telling it in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “By the end, even Charlie looked confused! He then suggested a couple of chords, A and C, and after going around in circles for 20 minutes, nothing seemed to be happening. That’s when I got out my latest song, Deadlines<\/em>. I had typed out the chord sheets, arrangement and lyrics, and I distributed them around the studio floor for everyone to see. We tried it, and it sounded fantastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We then did another one of Charlie’s, Cyber War<\/em>, and the original jam produced Divide<\/em>, then I threw in another riff, Lost<\/em>, which I\u2019d based around a brass riff idea that I\u2019d written on my son\u2018s Casio keyboard he had used for his school music lessons. Not a bad result, four songs in one six-hour session. Third of an album, maybe?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n With four songs written in the first six-hour session. Somehow, against all the odds, Charlie\u2019s completely chaotic method was working. With most of Marley\u2019s drums recorded and him now away on tour, the sessions moved to (engineer) Ali Gavin\u2019s tiny back-garden studio in Aulburn Village in Mid Sussex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"disasters\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/derik-and-the-disasters-cover.jpg?resize=640%2C640\")
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