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Here’s a list of all our 2025 festivals so far confirmed! Looking forward to getting back out there again….note the “Troublegum Festival Sets” have been clearly marked!

04/07/2025 Moen Festival, Moen, Belgium (Special Troublegum festival set)
05/07/2025 MUSIS, Arnhem, Netherlands w/Rudeboy Plays Urban Dance Squad (Special Troublegum set)
11/07/2025 Forestglade Festival Eisenstadt, Austria
19/07/2025 Vauhtiajot Race & Rock Festival Seinäjoki, Finland
25/07/2025 Het Groot Verlof Festival, Leuven, Belgium (Special Troublegum festival set) GRATIS/FREE
26/07/2025 Forest Fest, Laois, Ireland (Special Troublegum festival set)
17/08/2025 Beautiful Days Festival, Escot Park, UK (Special Troublegum festival set)

20/09/2025 Full Metal Cruise XII Part 1 Kiel/Boat SOLD OUT

28/09/2025 Full Metal Cruise XII Part 2 Riga/Boat SOLD OUT

Here’s what listening, reading and watching the band have been enjoying this past year…

ANDY CAIRNS

Listening…

Die Verlierer – Notausgang
Träume – Wrzask
Jesus Lizard – Rack
Nocturnal Reaper – Nocturnal Reaper
Objections – Optimistic Sizing
Other Half – Dark Ageism
Light of Eternity – Edge of Fate/Aftershock
Gimic – We Are Making a New World
Sex Swing – Golden Triangle
Charli xcx – brat
Burial/Kode 9 – Phoneglow/Eyes go Blank
Street Grease – BLOODBATH1
Jabu – A Soft and Gatherable Star
The None – Matter
Irked – Irked ep
One Leg One Eye – …And Take the Black Worm With Me
charli xcx – sympathy is a knife (hands down tune of the year for me)
Enola Gay – Cortana
Manic Street Preachers – Hiding in Plain Sight
Scowl – Special
Xeeland – Zones

The Cobain 50 podcast
Chelsea Fancast podcast
Straight Outta Cobham podcast
London is Blue podcast

Reading…

Wire Magazine
Sight & Sound Magazine
CFCUK Fanzine
Mick Heron – Slow Horses series (thanks Michael!)
Mark Fisher – Ghosts of My Life
Derek Air – Land of the Giants
Kathleen Hanna – Rebel Girl
Mark Worrall – Double Double Double
Joe England – Lone Moor Road
John King – White Trash
JR Moores – Off the Ground: Paul McCartney in the 1990’s
Virginie Despentes – Dear Dickhead
Han Kang – The White Book
The Witches of Vardø – Anya Bergman (thanks again Michael)
John Boyne – Water
John Boyne-Earth

Watching…

Chelsea FC home and (when possible) away
The Holdovers
Civil War
Furiosa:A Mad Max Saga
Emilia Pérez
The Zone of Interest
I Saw the TV Glow
Love Lies Bleeding
The Substance
All You Need Is Death
Oddity
Day of the Jackal
Silo

MICHAEL MCKEEGAN

Listening…

Oranssi Pazuzu-Muuntautuja
Thin Lizzy-1976
Concrete Winds-Concrete Winds
The Jesus Lizard-Rack
Deathfiend-Dark Rising
Zeal & Ardor-GREIF
Chat Pile-Cool World
Street Grease-Bloodbath1
Voivod-Killing Technology (High Roller ‘Diehard Edition’)
Drug Church-Prude
Wasted Death-Season Of Evil
Blue Oyster Cult-Ghost Stories
Stress Angel-Punished By Nemesis
Cavalera Conspiracy-Schizophrenia (re-recorded)
u-Ziq-Grush
USA Nails-Feel Worse
UDAD-Udad
S.H.I.T.-For A Better World
The Cure-Songs Of A Lost World
Acid Mass-Worship
Adorior-Bleed On My Teeth
DJ Counselling-Alt Mobeat
Darkthrone-It Beckons Us All
Judas Priest-Invincible Shield
Deep Purple-=1
Blood Incantation-Absolute Elsewhere
New Model Army-Unbroken
King Crimson-Sheltering Skies

Reading…

Paul Lynch-Prophet Song
Paul Murray-Bee Sting
John Boyne-Water
Geddy Lee-My Effin Life
Mick Herron-The Secret Hours
Justin Cronin-The Ferryman
Alan Byrne-Are You Ready? (Thin Lizzy album by album)
Jane Harper-The Dry

David Kerekes & David Slater-Cannibal Error

Watching…

The Holdovers
Mr Mercedes
Paradise
The Substance

NEIL COOPER

Listening…

Jon Spencer – Sick of Being Sick!
Chat Pile – Cool World
Quicksand – Distant Populations
The Jesus Lizard – Rack
Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To

Reading…

George Orwell – Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Mark Lanegan – Sing Backwards and Weep

Watching…

Griselda
Kleo
The Bear
Slow Horses
Don’t F**K With Cats
The Man in The High Castle
Zef – The Story of Die Antwoord
Meet Me in The Bathroom
The Holdovers
Searching For Sugarman
Lewsburg (live)
Jon Spencer (live)
DJ Shadow (live)
Benefits (live)
Ash (live)
Mr Bungle (live)

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the million selling, Mercury Prize-nominated Troublegum, the album has been re-issued in two highly collectable vinyl editions!

The original album comes on 180g caramel vinyl, while a 2LP version has the original album on 180g silver vinyl with a second LP on 180g lavender vinyl. This 2nd LP contains a further 14 tracks rounding up B-sides and bonus tracks of the era.

Buy now:Troublegum (LP) :https://therapyband.lnk.to/troublegum

Troublegum (2xLP) :https://therapyband.lnk.to/troublegumdeluxe

Due to demand we’ve now added a 2nd “Troublegum 30” show at the Ancienne Belgique on December 11th. Tickets on-sale Friday 23rd February 10am CET

https://www.abconcerts.be/en/agenda/therapy-extra-concert/a10Qw000000sdUDIAY

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of our iconic album, Troublegum, we will be hitting the road in late 2024 for a special “Troublegum 30” tour.

The multi country tour will see us visit Isle of Man, Finland, Ireland, UK, Germany, Luxemburg, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Czech Republic, Austria and France.

We’ll be playing many iconic venues which we would have visited on the original Troublegum run & we’ll be playing an ‘era-appropriate’ set too.

Tickets on sale NOW (some shows already SOLD OUT, others all going well so don’t delay) and you’ll be able to find the links at https://therapyquestionmark.co.uk/tour.

Released on 7 February 1994, Troublegum sold over a million copies worldwide, reaching No.5 in the UK album charts as well as  other countries across the globe and spawning hits including Nowhere, Screamager and Trigger Inside.

It earned the band a Mercury Award nomination, 2 MTV nominations, Album of the Year in Kerrang and #2 in the Metal Hammer ‘End of Year’ list as well as a host of other nominations throughout Europe.

The set list will feature Troublegum in its entirety, plus a host of other musical treats from around the same era of their recording career.

Andy Cairns said: “To mark the 30th anniversary of Troublegum we’ll be heading out on tour this year to celebrate with a set, but not just a perfunctory play through, this will be based on Therapy? of 1994 and featuring songs from that era.

When we started out in County Antrim in 1989 we could never have foreseen this beast of punk metal noise being such a landmark record. Come along and celebrate with us as we play banger after banger!” 

Yes, another year, another set of ‘end of year’ lists! Tons of great stuff out this year, have a look and see what the band have been enjoying in 2023

Michael McKeegan

Listening:
Sepulchral Curse-Abhorrent Dimensions
Helmet-Left
Enola Gay-Casement
Portrayal Of Guilt-Devil Music
Sextile-Push
Ironsides-Changing Light
Model/Actriz-Dogsbody
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats-Slaughter On First Avenue
Radiant Knife-Pressure
Aesop Rock-Integrated Tech Solutions
Final Gasp-Mourning Moon
C.O.F.F.I.N.-Australia Stops
Problem Patterns-Blouse Club
Green Lung-This Heathen Land
JAAW-Supercluster
Ash-Race The Night
Margarita Witch Cult-Margarita Witch Cult
Luger-Revelations Of The Cosmic Skull
Triumph Of Death-Resurrection Of The Flesh
Hawkwind-The Future Never Waits
Zorn-Zorn
Chalk-The Gate
Korgull The Exterminator-Built To Kill
High Priest-Invocation
Benefits-Nails
Blue Oyster Cult-50th Anniversary Live-First night
Thantifaxath-Hive Monday Narcosis
Motörhead-Another Perfect Day (40th Anniversary Edition)
Graveripper-Seasons Dreaming Death
Ken Mode-VOID
Moonlight Sorcery-Horned God Of The Thorned Castle
Godflesh-Purge
Naut-Hunt
TDK-Nemesta
At The Mermaid podcast

Watching:
Station Eleven
Fall Of The House Of Usher
Tenet
Talk to Me
Slasher
Leave The World Behind
Castlerock
Horror Of Dolores Roach

Reading:
Kim Gordon-Girl In A Band
Record Collector magazine
Dayal Patterson-Black Metal:Evolution Of The Cult-Restored, Expanded & Definitive Edition

Andy Cairns

Listening:
Kevin Richard Martin – Black
Election House – Feels of Correction
Ash-race the night
Problem Patterns- blouse club
Cherym- Taking up Sports
Kneecap – it’s been ages
Geld-currency//castration
Clowns-endless
Benefits Nails
David Holmes-blind on a galloping horse
Modern Technology-conditions of worth
Home Front-Games of power
Enzyme-golden dystopian age
Bloody Head- There is no Authority but yourself..and everyone else
Schkeuditzer Kreuz – No Life Left
Enola Gay – Casement
Peng Weng Atomic Drag – The Obsidian Bat of Weng
Nihiloxica – Source of Denial
Knock Off – Chelsea Beer and Punk Rock
Thee Alcoholics – live at the piper
Aesop Rock – Integrated Tech Solutions
James and the Cold Gun-ST
SexSwing- Grade A Peanut Sauce
Colossal Squid – a haunted tongue
Repo Man – me pop now
Petbrick – singularity
Black Star Riders – wrong side of paradise
Girls in Synthesis – Die Leere
Iceboy Violet – Not a Dream but a Controlled Explosion
Helm – Chemical Flowers (not new but listened to it a lot this year)
Helmet – Left
Richie Culver – Scream if you don’t Exist
Kode 9 / Burial – Infirmary/ Unknown Summer
The Chisel – Fuck ‘Em
The Shits – you’re a mess
 Chelsea Fancast podcast

Watching:
Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
Dance First
Talk to Me
Beau is Afraid
Afire
Saint Omer
Asteroid City
Muscle
Evil
Dead Man’s Shoes
Dead Loch
Succession
The Lovers
The Last of Us
Poker Face
Gen V
Carnival Row
Shelter
Kin
Fisk
Chelsea FC
Sp*rs 1 Chelsea 4
Chelsea Legends Match
Come Along and Sing This Song live event

Reading:
Paul Marko – Menace – Prog, Punk, Skinheads & Serendipity
King/Warner/Welsh – Seal Club 2
Johnny Neal’s Blue & White Army – Come Along and Sing this Song
CFCUK Fanzine
Wire Magazine
Sight & Sound Magazine
The Quietus
John King – London Country
Pat Nevin – Football and How to Survive It
Anna Bogutskaya – Unlikeabke Female Characters
Eduardo Galeano – Football in Sun and Shadow
Stephen Morris – Record Play Paul
Neil Fitzsimon – Rhapsody in Blue
Susan Sontag – Regarding the Pain of Others
J R Moores – Electric Wizards
Dirk Van Hulle/Pim Verhulst – The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies

Neil Cooper

Listening:
John (Times Two) – A Life Diagrammatic
Lindstrom – Everyone Else Is A Stranger
Benefits – Nails
JAAW – Supercluster
Helmet – Left
Lewsburg- Out & About
Aesop Rock – Integrated Tech Solutions
Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit
Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination
Green lung – This Heathen Land
Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant To Be

Watching:
Beef
Luther, The Fallen Sun
Don’t Look Up
Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
White Noise
The Bear
Hijack
All Quiet on The Western Front
Metallica – Download festival
Benefits – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
 
Reading:
Ottessa Moshfegh – Lapvona
John Lanchester – The Wall
Hari  Kunzru – Red Pill
Lucy Foley – The Paris Apartment
Otto English – Fake History
Robert Galbraith – The Cuckoo’s Calling

The Cardiff Globe and Birmingham Institute “Hard Cold Fire” shows which had to be rescheduled are now on the 1st and 2nd February 2024 respectively. Original tickets are all still valid and there’s still a few tickets available for both. More info HERE

Delighted to confirm we will be back at HELLFEST 2024 on June 30th! Amazing line-up…check it out

Yes, to mark the 25th anniversary of its release, the good folks at Music For Vinyl have put together (for the first time!) a 12″ coloured vinyl of Semi Detached! It was our 5th studio album and as well as including the hits “Church Of Noise” and “Lonely Cryin’ Only” has a ton of fan faves like “Safe”, “Straight Life” & “The Boy’s Asleep” on there.

Due out on 27th October 2023 you can now stream/order here

https://therapy.lnk.to/SemiDetachedSR