AmyJo Doh & The Spangles turn a gender reveal into a punk rallying cry for forgotten history

Madrid has quietly become a base for British punk acts — and no band embodies that cross-channel migration better than AmyJo Doh & The Spangles, who have built a decade of European touring while keeping a rehearsal room and a home in the Spanish capital since 2016. When FEP Producciones, the Madrid management and booking house, steps into the season with four acts in a single month, the lineup is not a coincidence: it is a snapshot of how a mid-size Spanish independent holds international artists and keeps them working.

The centrepiece of FEP’s September is “It’s a Girl”, a double single published on UK label Strap Originals. The A-side opens with the pastel imagery of a gender reveal party — balloons, pink, blue, the familiar announcement — then detonates into a punk manifesto that names inventors, scientists, warriors and women systematically erased from the record: forgotten by the textbooks, stripped of credit, celebrated too late. The studio does not reach for irony as a defence; the song earns its anger. The B-side, “Menú del Día”, flips the register entirely — a cantata in castellano to Madrid’s working-lunch culture, its tabernas and daily specials, the city that adopted the band. The official launch event at La Trinchera in Madrid will include Amnesty International, sharpening the political charge into something with institutional weight behind it.

A day later, Los Invaders’ “Sentimentaloides” gets remixed by DJ Moderno and Ben M Kinloch, two producers who pull the original’s nocturnal electronics toward something darker and more explicitly dancefloor-ready — a collision of house, techno, electro and indie dance in the lineage of Soulwax and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. The remix is built to function in clubs and festivals in equal measure.

On the 18th, Blanco Piñata arrive with “Igual Se Va”, the first glimpse of a new album produced by Víctor Cabezuelo (Rufus T. Firefly) and mixed and mastered by Carlos Hernández Nombela, whose credits run from Carolina Durante to Triángulo de Amor Bizarro. The single is melodic but weighted: a dense rhythm section under tense, hooky guitar work, with a final instrumental surge that earns its space. Biffy Clyro and Los Planetas are the references the band is happy to name, and both are audible.

The batch closes on the 25th with SERCH. and “Hysteria”, the second preview of the upcoming album NO CONTROL. The Barcelona post-punk quartet builds the song around synthesizers, guitar and electronic tension — a structure that refuses to settle and deliberately breaks its own architecture as it unfolds. The band describes a lyric about living permanently in confrontation, pressing against the consensus until exhaustion becomes its own kind of home. A 2026/2027 touring cycle alongside Las Novias and Niños del Brasil is already in preparation.

FEP Producciones frames September as the opening move of a season it describes as especially intense — one that the four acts above appear to have calibrated together, even if they arrived by very different routes.

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