Northwest Connection: Neotribe Festival Special – Live from Sunbird Records, Darwen

Join us for a deep dive into the UK underground music scene with this exclusive episode recorded live at Neotribe Festival 2025. Hosted at the legendary Sunbird Records in Darwen, Lancashire, this special edition of Northwest Connection podcast features backstage interviews with every band on the lineup—capturing raw energy, creative rituals, and sonic storytelling across genres like metal, punk, glitch, ambient, and experimental rock.

🎧 Discover emerging UK artists, festival culture, and behind-the-scenes insights🎤 Hosted by Northwest Connection, your gateway to Northern music and podcasting culture📍 Featuring Sunbird Records, Neotribe Festival, and the Darwen music community

Perfect for fans of independent music, festival coverage, and artist interviews. Hit play and step into the tribe.

This episode, we dive headfirst into the chaos with Bolton’s own Papashangos—a punk band that’s equal parts theatrical mayhem and raw sonic power. From drunken clown origins to gear-smashing gigs, the band unpacks their wild journey through the UK punk scene. We talk DIY ethos, cult followings, and what it’s really like to tear up the stage at Rebellion Festival.

Expect noise. Expect nonsense. Expect chaos.

We lost Will very early in the recording, chaos follows these lot everywhere!

In this episode of Northwest Connection we drift into the sonic depths of Overhead the Albatross. With their latest album I Leave You This, the Dublin-based post-rock collective crafts a requiem for memory—layered in strings, static, and seismic emotion.

We catch them between echoes: backstage rituals, creative fractures, and the quiet urgency of leaving something behind. It’s a conversation stitched with ghost notes and glitch light, where every sound feels like a farewell and a beginning.

This isn’t just music—it’s cartography for the heartbroken, a map of what was felt.