THE MENZINGERS

Singular Artists proudly present The Mezingers for a headline show at The Belfast Empire on 17th April 2025.

Special guests on the night will be Good Friend.

At this point, The Menzingers are an absolute institution. The Philadelphia punk legends’ multi-decade

reputation as road warriors with an unbeatable catalog is cemented as hard truth—and their seventh

album, Some Of It Was True, stands as their most immediate-sounding and energetic record to date. The

follow-up to 2019’s sensational Hello Exile accomplishes the daunting task of capturing the Menzingers’

distinctive live energy in the confines of the studio, resulting in a sound that’s both rich, raw, and

complementary to the group’s increasingly prismatic songwriting approach. More than 15 years in, the

Menzingers are still holding their listeners square in the immediate present, and Some Of It Was True

documents that power in thrilling fashion.

Some Of It Was True comes after the longest gap between Menzingers records to date—a gestational

period brought on by the Hello Exile-era tour schedule’s delays due to the COVID-19 tour industry

shutdown. “We weren’t really writing new music yet,” Greg Barnett explains. “We were talking about it, but

we were honestly just happy to be out and touring again.” The acoustic reworks of 2020’s From Exile

followed, as well as Barnett’s solo record Don’t Go Throwing Roses at My Grave from last year, which

was when Some Of It Was True started to come together.

“We turned down any offers at that point because we needed the time to write,” Tom May explains while

discussing the writing and recording process, which technically started while on the road and continued in

intensive fashion while the boys were back home. “We’d go out on tour, come home, and be in the

practice space writing our asses off five days a week,” Barnett says. We had to learn to trust our instincts,

which is the hardest thing to do when you’ve been in a band like this for so long. You get caught in your

ways! It took a while to trust ourselves, but when we did, it was an amazing feeling.”

The passage of time and how things change are, of course, topics that are always on peoples’

minds—but when it comes to Some Of It Was True, the Menzingers are kickstarting a new era in their

already illustrious career by tapping into the energy that brought the band to life in the very beginning.

“This record just feels different for us,” Barnett explains. “It’s a really important one in our catalogue, and a

pivotal moment in our history. We have the liberty of our fans growing with us now, and after writing these

lyrical songs about where we are in life, we decided to take other peoples’ stories and make something

bigger out of it.”

“It brought us back to our energetic side as a band,” May concurs. “We got to let loose, which is what

drew us to the energy of being in a band in the first place. This is a live band—why shouldn’t we record

live songs? As a result, we’re back to why we started this band in the first place.”

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