SUEP's incredible banger 'Highway II' + beaut new Hank Bee '10:23'

Exciting start to the year!

January 14, 2026

SUEP by Kit Harwood

Hey and happy new year!

Amazing news! SUEP have a debut album coming out 27th March - Forever! It’s incredible and you can pre-order CD, Vinyl or Download now!

To prove how incredible it is, we’ve got one of their best songs out today to celebrate - longtime fan fave at the shows, Highway II, which comes with an stunning video by Jess Power.

The track shows SUEP at their best - glistening synth pop with Marr-esque jangle, sweet but emotionally incisive. Singer Georgie is at peak performance, marrying catchy melodies with off-kilter storytelling.

She says: “The lyrics for this poured out of me on Valentine’s Day when me and my partner went out on a date in the Limehouse area, over the river from where we lived in Rotherhithe.  I got drunk too quickly, he got grumpy, and tears started streaming down my face because I just wanted to have a nice romantic time. We made up in the Canary Wharf Wetherspoons at the end of the night, but I went to have a cigarette before, to get out all my sobs and wrote all the lyrics on my phone in one go. Then at a practice studio we quickly wrote it around some chords I made up in the room.”

Hank Bee’s new single

We also have an amazing new single from Hank Bee, taken off her debut EP out 30th January - a sudden hankering. Preorder tapes before they run out, going quick!

Written in March 2023, 10:23 is a lumbering, stream of consciousness ballad, named after the time the clock struck at a moment during its writing. It was written in the attic room of a cold 8-person houseshare in Liverpool’s Georgian quarter, mainly while looking out the window.

The 8-person houseshare Hank wrote this from was a formative but tumultuous period: “living [there] had a big impact on me and it sparked a surge of creativity for me. The atmosphere of the house is very much reflected in this song.” Having moved there after the break up of a relationship “I guess I felt like I’d failed, lost someone I love and out of it just wrote a song... That’s what you’re left with!…“When will you learn, when will you sparkle and burn?” - I’m speaking to myself here, how many mistakes until you learn? Do we ever fully get it? I was seeking fulfillment and the lyric at the end “the sky it is finally blue” is the song coming full circle with me finding some peace I suppose.”

The Hank Bee’s stream of consciousness melds into scenes from the window, most obviously in the 4th verse: “I speak about a man who I refer to as “John the local” - this is about a real man who I’d often see around the area, looking unkempt and fairly distressed and lost. And I’d be able to see him from the window in my room pacing the pavement. I remember writing this verse and called him ‘John the local’ as a reference to John the Baptist. He really moved me, and I really empathised with him and whatever had brought him to this point in life. I understand why he’s angry and why he has a right to be - because the world hasn’t done for him what we’re all told it will do for us. But there he remains still, because what else can he do?”

Also - I know Spotify is THE WORST, but it’s still what most of you use. You can listen to our Greatest Hits playlist there to check out all things MoD past and present, a little taster menu if you will. Otherwise, please just have a lil browse on the Bandcamp.

If anyone is very strongly in love with another service and wants to help me get a Greatest Hits playlist on there too - let me know!

Grove’s HYDRA out now!

Grove’s first proper project in a couple of years has snuck out before the end of the year, and it’s EXPLOSIVE.

HYDRA is just 2 tracks with a beautiful intro sprinkled on top, it’s a hymn to resistance, working its ways thru the oligarchy, colonial violence and the evil forces shaping our world currently.

Lil intimate headline shows in London and Bristol (SOLD OUT) next month, grab London tickets while still available.

The HYDRA project is out along with an almost sold out bunch of hand cut 7inch vinyl, tshirts and hand printed linoprints, which are raising funds for Palestinians currently experiencing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

SUEP + caroline + Naima Bock on tour

Thanks for reading till the end, Josh