BOBI started the new year at the Queen of Spades with a proper raucous evening of Punk Rock and anthemic Indie.

Getting 2025 up and running were CRASH INDUCTION, a bunch of rascally types from Northampton way. Playing a fine set of bristling Punk tunes the Inductions came across like a tuneful bunch with a mixture of the serious and the daft lyrics wise, while musically having a foot in both the 1990s and 1977. Great start and it just kept getting better.

The unusually named MATTY G & L’IL WINTER were filling in at late notice on the bill for which we are eternally grateful. Taking a break from recording a new record in the studio, the dual vocal party Punks certainly delivered a boisterous set of fun and frolics. Right rowdy and everything.

Local legends AUBREY EELS& THE BARON up next and what can you say about these vagabonds? A singing drummer and bass player rumbling away, they appeared before us in a slimmed down to a two piece fashion after their outing as a trio at P4TH last year. The bonkers mix of bottom end thunder and Punk poetry comes across as if Sleaford Mods had spent all afternoon drinking in the Axe and Cleaver with Pam Ayres who had spent the last month reading back issues of Viz and then fell out with some local ruffians at the Kebab House. Or something. A brilliant – not to mention hilarious set – from a right pair.

Topping the night off were a young band of fellas from Grantham going by the name of CHERRY HOLT. The youthful Indie kids were something of a revelation it has to be said. If Indie of the last ever so many years was a spectrum from the leery louts in cagouls and Adidas Gazelles at one end to emotion heavy, wide screen anthems at the other, it’s fair to say these youngsters sit slap bang in the middle taking the best of both worlds and creating something rather majestic of their own.

A cracking turn out and a proper positive feel of a “scene” developing … 2025 promises to be a good one for all at BOBI! See you next time?

Photos courtesy of Graham Campling.