Petrol Girls Stream New Single ‘Treading Water’

As a pre-curser to their forthcoming UK tour in June, Petrol Girls are streaming a pertinent new single in the form of ‘Treading Water’. Ren from the band explains the ideas behind the song: “Treading Water mixes up loads of different influences and thoughts about borders, austerity, violence and climate change. Some of the lyrics are an attempt to co-opt the scaremongering language of the media. Other lyrics place the imagined voices of groups that are often pitted against each other, side by side, blending them in places.

The song is an expression of, and hopefully a call for, more active solidarity with people without papers, which forms part of a longer struggle against borders, capitalism, the nation state and the violence these structures produce. I really believe that DIY/ alternative culture can play a role in shifting attitudes within European societies away from all the scary fascist shit we’re seeing at the moment. And I also think music and art can be useful ways of trying to get our heads around what’s happening, and build up communities that we can root our resistance in.”

Tilly McCarthy

You can also get a download of the track with tickets to the band’s show at DIY Space For London by clicking here.