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BEST NEW LOCAL ACT 2025
HEYBUDAPEST! scooped the 2025 BEST NEW LOCAL ACT category awarded by the renowned music journalist and author Pete Chambers in the COVENTRY OBSERVER newspaper.
"Rumbling atmos meets soundscape anarchy, Hey Budapest released their first CD a few weeks ago. Yet already plans are brewing for a second album to hit the streets early 2026, no doubt cementing the promise of more spine-tingling music. Little wonder then that they have won the new local artist title."
19.12.2025
RELEASE THE B[E]ATS
Coventry proudly hosts the only regular GOTH & INDUSTRIAL night in the UK. NecroscopE is the lovechild of the inspirational figure that is Alan Tee.
"HEYBUDAPEST! has gone from strength to strength and brings a musical meal that equates to a crazy combination of The Pistols, Clash, Depeche Mode and Jesus & Mary Chain. It’s a great privilege to have been able to have booked him to play a number of times and experienced the wonderful multi-media homunculus that is HEYBUDAPEST! Miss this at your musical peril!
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MAKING ONE COLOSSAL SPLASH
SINK OR SWIM PROMOTIONS have put on over one hundred gigs in the musically-thriving Coventry area. Joe Colombi, the tireless figure behind the organisation, recently had this to say.
"HEYBUDAPEST! is an absolute force in the West Midlands electronic and industrial scene taking keynotes from the original stalwarts of the scene like Cabaret Voltaire, Front 242, Clock DVA and Attrition. He manages to make inventive and innovative music with gritty textures, heavenly basslines and dark cinematic layers with a unique use of samples. This music feels like you are stepping into a future dystopia after the Armageddon."
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DEBUT RELEASE FAVOURABLY REVIEWED
Soon after its release on Halloween 2025, the ENJOY RADIATION RESPONSIBLY EP made a very positive impression on Pete Chambers in his MUSIC MATTERS column in the COVENTRY OBSERVER newspaper.
"I was taken on some crazy journey where hypnotic beats fuse with sounds that could be of human origin, but in this world there is no telling what is actually what."
Read the latest column in the COVENTRY OBSERVER here
VERY BLOODY FESTIVE
HILLZ FM broadcasts from the heart of Hillfields in Coventry , an area with many social and economic problems but also a rich and diverse ethnic heart and community feel. Their Local Artists Chart is all about putting local talent in the spotlight and the ENJOY RADIATION RESPONSIBLY track KNIEVEL WITH A SHOTGUN. rose steadily throughout November and December 2025. The climb culminated with a number six slot in the Xmas Chart as voted for by the station's listeners.
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PROJECT HAIL MARY
With HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO scheduled to open on the Las Vegas Strip in Winter 2027, the HEYBUDAPEST! Head of North American Operations recently connected HARD ROCK to tender the band's services for the Opening Night celebrations. Rudy Lascaze, Director of Marketing for the organisation, replied to advise that the band's offer was being kept on file as no decision has yet been made on the Grand Opening performances.
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