BRUISE CONTROL release new single, ‘Spinners Mills’, from their self-titled EP out February 20th

UK headline tour starts March 5th

Sitting somewhere between 00’s indie and 80’s hardcore, Bruise Control have carved themselves an unlikely name in DIY punk, thanks to their catalogue of self-produced releases and a notoriety for chaotic live shows. Niall Griffin (guitar), Ru Gilfillan (bass) and Tommy Victor Morris (drums) focus on creating hook-filled, razor-sharp indie-punk, grounded by lead singer Jim Taylor’s down to earth lyricism and ferocious delivery.

Today, the Manchester quartet release their brand-new single, ‘Spinners Mill’, taken from their forthcoming self-titled EP, due out February 20th.

Talking of their new single Vocalist Jim Taylor shares, “Spinners Mill is another sense of apathy (bit of a theme of how I’ve felt as of late) and anger at day to day life. It’s near impossible to go about a daily task without getting wound up or annoyed at something cause absolutely everything has turned into one giant squeeze – from balancing finding time to see friends and family, trying to keep happy in a job which helps pay increasing bills and rents, trying to help out people who are in need of it, or feeling guilty that its hard to help others out because I’m struggling so much to keep afloat myself.”

BRUISE CONTROL – ‘Spinners Mill’

Bruise Control will celebrate the release of their EP with a headline UK tour this March. Dates start in York on the 5th before stopping off in Sheffield, Margate, Tunbridge Wells, Reading, London, Kingston, Newport, Exeter, Hull and Edinburgh before concluding in Birkenhead on the 21st. The band will also be joining The Dirty Nil across the UK this June and July.

FORTHCOMING LIVE DATES

MARCH

05: YORK Fulford Arms

06: SHEFFIELD Hallamshire Hotel

07: MARGATE Where Else?

08: TUNBRIDGE WELLS Forum Basement

09: READING Facebar

11: LONDON Victoria Arms

12: KINGSTON Fighting Cocks

14: NEWPORT Le Pub

15: EXETER Cavern

19: HULL Polar Bear

20: EDINBURGH Legends

21: BIRKENHEAD Navigations Festival

JUNE (with THE DIRTY NIL)

27: BIRMINGHAM Castle & Falcon

29: BRISTOL Exchange

30: NOTTINGHAM Bodega

JULY (with THE DIRTY NIL)

01: LONDON 100 Club

03: BRIGHTON Green Door Store

04: MANCHESTER Rebellion

05: GLASGOW King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut

07: LEEDS Key Club

08: 2000 TREES Festival

Bruise Control are a band born out of pressure, social, financial and emotional, and the need to release it before it kills them. Their self-titled EP is a sharp, physical document of modern frustration, balancing catharsis and exhaustion with flashes of joy, humour and community.

Across the EP, Bruise Control explore apathy, anger and survival in a world that feels increasingly transactional and unforgiving. Opener Be Like You leans into reckless excitement, a reminder that blowing off steam with your mates still matters, especially when dread and guilt feel constant. Left Behind, written in the wake of the loss of Manchester’s Brunswick Mill rehearsal space, mourns the erosion of creative communities as cities are stripped of character and sold to the highest bidder, driven by explosive rhythms and biting urgency.

Elsewhere, Gone To Ground captures the helpless tension of trying to hold everything together while knowing perfection is a myth, while If You’re Not Mine and Spinners Mill channel the grinding frustration of daily life, rising rents, stretched relationships, emotional labour and the quiet guilt of struggling to stay afloat while wanting to help others. Closing track Jumping Ship feels like a collective exhale, not an escape fantasy, but the weary desire to step off the wheel when nothing around you seems to be changing for the better.

Musically, Bruise Control favour momentum, immediacy and feel over polish. It is restless, physical music that mirrors the tension in the lyrics, songs that hit hard, move fast and linger longer than expected.

That urgency is central to the band’s live reputation. Bruise Control have toured and shared stages with Amyl & The Sniffers, Spiritual Cramp, Press Club, The Dirty Nil and Civic, while appearing at key UK festivals including 2000 Trees, Bearded Theory, Dot To Dot, The Great Escape, Rebellion, Manchester Punk Festival and Burn It Down.

Bruise Control is not about having the answers. It is about naming the feeling, turning frustration into motion and finding moments of release wherever you can.