Bugeye
The acclaimed queer, electro art-rockers release The Shape Of Things, their long-awaited second album out 15 May 2026 on INH Records
FFO: St Vincent, Nation of Language, Gary Numan, Bones UK
BUGEYE are a queer electro art rock band hailing from the concrete shores of Croydon. Formed in 2018, their sound fuses dirty guitars, disco-driven beats, sizzling synths, and explosive bass riffs that collide into irresistibly catchy hooks — the kind that demand the dancefloor. Founders of CroCroLand Festival — a celebration of Croydon’s place as the birthplace of UK punk and gender equality — BUGEYE continue to embody the spirit of rebellion, reinvention, and raw energy in everything they do.
They joined the INH Records roster in 2024 to release new album The Shape Of Things in May 2026. The Shape Of Things follows last year’s first single ‘This Ain’t A Love Song’ and 2023’s singles ‘Dancing Out In The Dark’, 2022’s ‘Signs & Exits’ and ‘Summer In The City’, with the band’s 2020 debut album READY STEADY BANG gaining critical acclaim during the pandemic. Front women and BUGEYE songwriter, Angela Martin formed the band with school friend and bass player Paula Snow and recently joined forces with Kat Pihl, Lex Giggs.
With lyrics touching on subjects from the mundanity of modern city life, to global issues such as racism and climate change, tunes come wrapped in a riotous optimism that demands you to dance. While BUGEYE have one foot in pop’s past – they are stalwartly forward thinking and future positive, a vibrant blend of 70s dance floor channeled via noughties optimism with shards of post punk energy.
BUGEYE’s 2020 debut album READY STEADY BANG was included on Louder Than War Top 50 Albums of The Year, and features in a long list of indie publications with rave reviews. The band have become favourites on BBC Introducing, John Kennedy on Radio X, Amy Lame on 6 Music and have claimed the people’s vote on the Audition Poll on Amazing Radio. With sold out shows across the UK and an impressive string of support slots, the band has played stages such as Camden’s Koko, Norwich Epic Studios, Brighton’s Concorde 2, as well as festival slots at Isle of Wight Festival, Smithdown Road and Pride. Founder Angela Martin is also the brains behind CroCro Land Festival Croydon’s Inner City Music showcase and the world’s first gender equal music festival that debuted in 2019 paused during COVID and triumphantly returned in April 24.
PRESS
‘Summer in the City – Music Video – Winner of the London Movie Awards 2022
‘Explosive new sound – Bugeye are unique’ – VENTS MAGAZINE ‘Unapologetically fierce’ – LOCK MAGAZINE
‘Bugeye ooze class…Bugeye are a force to be reckoned with, a colourful, hilarious riposte to these patriarchal times’ – CLASH MAGAZINE “Bugeye have crafted an album which has taken elements from Garbage to Sleater-Kinney and crafted something very special indeed” – Louder Than War
Speaker-shaking disco pop, with a snarling post-punk edge” – Record Collector Magazine
“It’s an infectious slice of pop with a keys riff that sounds like it’s sending a message to an alien spaceship.” – God is in the TV
“a record that bodes extremely well for their future” – Loud Women
BUGEYE
Angela Martin – vocals guitar
Paula Snow – bass
Kat Pihl – keys
Lex Giggs – guitar
Suzy Gould – drums