Watch the video for Bruise Control’s new single, If Yr Not Mine

Bruise Control are celebrating the release of their self-titled EP by releasing a new single and music video, If Yr Not Mine.

Before the Manchester DIY crew – vocalist Jim Taylor, guitarist Niall Griffin, bassist Ru Gilfillan and drummer Tommy Victor Morris – hit the road to bring their noise to UK venues next month, they’re spotlighting a track about “apathy” 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,” explains Jim, “’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 it’s hard to help others out because I’m struggling so much to keep afloat myself.”

Watch the video for If Yr Not Mine below:

Catch the band live at the following dates this year:

Bruise Control 2026 shows

March

5 York Fulford Arms
6 Sheffield Hallamshire Hotel
7 Margate Where Else?
8 Tunbridge Wells Forum Basement
9 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

27 Birmingham Castle & Falcon (w/ The Dirty Nil)
29 Bristol Exchange (w/ The Dirty Nil)
30 Nottingham Bodega (w/ The Dirty Nil)

July

1 London 100 Club (w/ The Dirty Nil)
3 Brighton Green Door Store (w/ The Dirty Nil)
4 Manchester Rebellion (w/ The Dirty Nil)
5 Glasgow King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut (w/ The Dirty Nil)
7 Leeds Key Club (w/ The Dirty Nil)
8 Cheltenham 2000trees Festival

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