Bollards

“Skittish art-rock…it conjures images of mindlessly roaming, endless back streets at dusk…” - So Young Magazine

“…a journey of groove and momentum” - Hard of Hearing

Filled with the mysteries of epiphany and reflection, London’s Bollards deliver a gorgeous dose of art-rock immersion with latest single ‘No Room’, backed with enthralling. shape-shifting b-side ‘Changing Lives At Sea’.

Comforting somehow, yet constantly teetering on the edge of unease, ‘No Room’ offers a brooding feast of scattering synths and crisp guitar flourishes. Recalling the likes of Pozi, or a stripped-back Working Men’s Club, the hardened angularities of the band’s recent output have softened here into warm, vulnerable introspections.

Describing ‘No Room’, Bollards frontman/guitarist Jonny Dickens explains: "It’s about trying to find comfort in a place where it just isn’t possible, trying to find and accessorise a space with material things to change that, and the realisation that it’s not the space, it’s you. The song was written way back in 2019 when I made that realisation in my own life, and tried to change my mindset and my relationships with the people around me to get to a place of ‘comfort’. The ‘Fire’ refrain refers to a sense that that old space, the way I tried to manufacture comfort using stupid bits of tech and furniture, needed to go, it needed to be burnt down (metaphorically of course).”

Founded by Dickens from a solo bedroom project, and featuring members of cult groups Fake Turins and Polyscraps in their line-up, Bollards have become a welcome mainstay of the capital’s gig circuit. Last year’s output - the Harbour Dance EP and ‘Crimestopping’ single - gleaned praise from the likes of So Young Magazine, Hard of Hearing, Mix It All Up and Post-Brexit Pop as well as plays on BBC Introducing and the Amazing Radio B-List.