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DEBUT LP! First time on vinyl. Very limited first pressing on GREAT WESTERN GREEN VINYL!

Indignation Meeting are punky rail fans from Leeds. 15-year-old Peter is the driver – he’s the drummer and lead singer, writes most of the songs, and also plays bass and trumpet on the album. The rest of the crew is his dad Michael on guitar, Hugo on bass, and with Keith, Heather and Sally often along for the ride when they play out.
Here at DGHQ we’ve been listening to their self-released debut album Trouble In The Shed since last year and finally spoke with the band and agreed to release it on vinyl for the first time.

It was very good timing as they’ve just been in the studio to finish recording their second album, so we’ll be releasing that later in 2024.

Welcome on-board!

We caught up with Peter to ask as few questions about the band…
In a week when the Labour Party promised to return the rail network to public ownership, we ask how did your fascination with trains begin?
Honestly, I don’t really know - I’ve just loved them ever since I can remember. It’s not like with some people who had a family connection or watched Thomas the Tank Engine; I’ve just always loved them. I guess it’s just a childhood obsession that never went away!

'Trouble In The Shed' is quickly becoming a firm office favourite here at DG. There's a touch of punk, indie and new wave about it. What would you say are the key influences that make up your musical DNA?
My main influence when this album was released was Blyth Power. They’d been my favourite band for years when this was recorded, so everything on it was influenced by them in some way. They’ve had so many different musical styles over the years that they kind of conglomerated into this album, to create yet another eclectic mix of songs. The only real exception to that on this album is Electrification - no prizes for guessing the influence there! If you see us live, however, you may notice another influence pervading through our songs. That influence is the anarcho-hippy band ‘The Astronauts,’ whom I discovered midway through the recording process, and have quickly become one of my all-time favourite bands!

What's the story behind your song 'Hornby Horrors'?
Hornby Horrors is an interesting one. People who haven’t heard it may assume it’s about some ill-fated model railway endeavour, but it’s actually a tale of corruption in, of all places, the model train company Hornby! This song was the result of several minor scandals at Hornby HQ making their way to the modelling masses, the main ones of which were an ill-fated tier list, which placed retailers in three categories as to whether or not they received Hornby’s products, with tier 3 retailers barely getting anything at all. Interestingly, the UK’s former biggest retailer, Hatton’s Model Railways, was a tier 3 retailer due to their ‘competing products’ (made by their own small brand Hatton’s Originals’) and has recently announced closure due to financial hardship. Now as we all know, correlation does not equal causation, but I wonder…

The album is being released on a specific shade of green vinyl. What's the significance?
The shade of green on the vinyl is very similar to the shade worn by the locomotives from the Great Western Railway in the 1870s - 1940s. Due to this connection, we thought it was only proper we picked this colour, which we have dubbed ‘Great Western Green!’