regular music presents…

Nick Shoulders

plus special guests

Wednesday 2 July 2025

£18.00 + stbf

18+

All Bad, the latest album from Nick Shoulders, released via Gar Hole Records (a label founded and

co-owned by Shoulders), ultimately encapsulates everything that makes Shoulders’ inimitable form

of country music so vital: a heady balance of dazzling musicianship and punk defiance, coupled with

gritty eccentricity and a generational connection to the roots of the genre. With a singing style

inherited from his family’s vocal lineage, Nick’s songs achieve the rare feat of imparting difficult

truths while inciting a certain joyful abandon, balancing a sound forged by years of hard travel with a

heartfelt reverence for the origins of country music. In the spirit of Hazel Dickens and Jimmy

Driftwood, the incisive yet wildly jubilant All Bad vocally objects to the reckless destruction of the

natural landscape and development run rampant, while still offering plenty of joy and dance-ready

rhythms. Spanning a variety of early country styles, the album’s infectious harmonies shine alongside

everything from jangling cajun waltzes to surf-rock infused bluesy ballads–all tied together by a voice

seemingly out of place in this century, yet ever ready to speak up about its problems.