TWAT UNION Hit Back at Body Standards With New Single ‘TV BIKINY’
Fresh from appearances at 2000trees and Back Doune The Rabbit Hole, feminist feral theatre-punks TWAT UNION are delighted to return with new summer banger single ‘TV BIKINY’ set for release on 23rd July 2026 via Alcopop! Records.
The six piece are also today pleased to announce a very special London co-headline show with Northern Irish labelmates Problem Patterns for 10th October 2026 at The Lexington.
On the show, the band say: “The twats are SO excited to share the stage with Problem Patterns at The Lexington in October. We’ll be bringing even more props and even more outfit changes!”
If you missed them at their sold out, hot-property performances at The Great Escape for The Independent and Rough Trade earlier this year, the band will be bringing their notoriously raucous theatrical live show to the stage at TRUCK Festival this week, so be sure to bring those red flags and period sex towels along, and strap yourself in for the most memorable set of the weekend.
Recorded by the band’s Kate Mac and producer Jonny Firth, ‘TV BIKINY’ was mixed by Jonny Firth and mastered by Izzy McPhee, and is an ode to letting it all hang out when it feels like the world is telling you to tuck it in.
Commenting on the new single, vocalist Kate Mac says: “TV BIKINY is about body standards, and the absolute joy of sprawling on the sofa watching gloriously trashy TV. It’s our version of a summer banger, and it’s about doing absolutely nothing.”
“It’s also poking at that weird gap between how comfy we feel in our bodies when we’re lounging around at home versus when we have to take those same bodies out into the world. We want everyone to smuggle a bit of that sofa confidence into real life.”
Another knowingly wry cut of anti-patriarchal protest punk from the sextet, the new track is the first new material from the band since May 2026 single ‘Period Sex’, taken from Twat Union’s latest EP, Don’t Blame The Peach, which was released earlier this year via Alcopop! Records.
Twat Union’s new single ‘TV BIKINY’ is released 23rd July 2026 via Alcopop! Records
Live dates:
24.07.26 – TRUCK Festival
10.10.26 – London – The Lexington (co-headline show w/ Problem Patterns)