BAD SAM

“PERPETUAL CONSUMPTION” ALBUM

VINYL ALBUM OUT 28th NOVEMBER 2025

“A bit like Sleaford Mods, but if Jason Williamson had spent the 80’s and early 90’s rolling about beer soaked punk rock stages and community center floors, and Andrew Fearn was a prolific bass player having toured the world circuit as part of The Ab’s and Dub War.  OK, nothing like Sleaford Mods then.”

Newport’s Bad Sam formed in 2012 and have released two albums “Working Class Holocaust “ (2014) and “ Bring Me The Head Of…“, (2017) both of which selling out their first press run.

This album shows a physically (but not sonically) reduced membership of Dean Beddis (vocals) and Richard Glover (everything else.) 

The two have certainly earned their punk rock stripes.

Beddis could be seen convulsing and rolling round many stages and dance floors in the 80’s/90’s  as the singer of Newport’s Cowboy Killers, even making the front cover of the MMR’s 60th issue in May 1988.  Still a force of nature, his live presence has not diminished to this day.

Richard Glover, cut his rock+roll chops through Newport’s The Abs but it is his role in Welsh Ragga Rockers, Dub War that he will be more commonly known. A highly respected bass player with a ferocious bent for punk dub rhythms.  It’s with a guitar strapped to his back, however,  that he performs with Bad Sam. 

Newport had an art school once, it meant if you grew up there in the 80’s you had the chance to see early gigs from Husker Du, Butthole Surfers, Membranes, Billy Bragg.  Crass played their last show up the road in Aberdare.  That means something...  Stuff rubs off on you and made this South Wales industrial town a thriving musical community.

This isn’t “more of the same”, Bad Sam have side stepped their hardcore punk sound, and adopted a snotty off kilter garage punk approach mixed with live drum samples.  “It’s easy to make things perfectly timed” says Richie “but I purposely did this manually, which means sometimes it ain’t perfect.”  This all adds to the spirit of the new sound.  Imagine the energy of Reagan Youth mixed with the “power of LARD.”

Lyrically, the album is a punch bowl of sardonic swings at humanities darker side and capitalist exploitation.  From death tourism (Popcorn & Blood) to societal peer pressure (Perpetual Consumption)…  Much in the vein of Jello Biafra’s “Kill The Poor” school of lyric writing, stones are not only turned but lobbed at you with cynical intent.

There’s a heady brew of duo’s out there right now, each bringing their own style to the form. Soft Play, Bob Vylan, Human Leather, Benefits..  The list goes on.  Bad Sam, two no nonsense boys from Newport, are bringing their own bag of post industrial irreverant hardcore to the party.