Venus In The Lake

Dirty Faces are a Punk group from Derry, Ireland consisting of Rare Boy on vocals and King Crabbit on bass guitar and backing tracks. Describing their style as “Rant-Hop”, this disco-punk/hip-hop two-piece are dubbed “the Walled City’s answer to Sleaford Mods” - but f*ck that!

With their working-class commentary delivered with justified anger, brutish bass lines, and punk/discotheque backing tracks, Dirty Faces call out the villains of our time via a kitchen sink realism that is “offensive to all five senses and probably to the others that haven’t been discovered yet” - Phil Taggart, BBC Radio 1.

In 2024, Dirty Faces’ song “80%” was featured in the soundtrack to Kneecap’s BAFTA nominated biopic, and they played at BBC Radio 6 Live Music Fix in Belfast as main support for Enola Gay. The year also saw the band relocate to Glasgow, culminating in headlining McChuills’ Vicar Street Social in February ‘25 and main support for Glasgow favourites Gallus in April.