“We are being thrown distractions to get us to hate the wrong people” BRATAKUS bite back with new single ‘Tonight’
BRATAKUS – sisters Brèagha Cuinn (guitar/vocs) and Onnagh Cuinn (bass/vocs) – enter 2026 with single ‘Tonight,’ and further announce new album ‘Hagridden’ for Friday (Venn Records) along with a series of UK/EU live dates.
Following the release of ‘Final Girls,’ ‘Tokened’ and ‘Turnstile,’ today’s song focuses on the subject of media manipulation.
“It’s about how everyone is angry about the state of the world, but we are being thrown distractions to get us to hate the wrong people,” said Brèagha. “The fact that some people are happy to just look the other way and let it happen if they perceive that it’s not going to affect them, but in reality, we’re all on this planet together, and if we don’t have compassion for each other, and help each other out, we’ll be left with nothing.”
“I’m an avid listener of the ‘Blindboy’ podcast and one of the things he talks about that I find really interesting is how most adults nowadays aren’t really being offered the opportunity to actually grow up due to the current state of the world,” adds Onnagh. “The cost of living is so high that a lot of millennials aren’t even able to move out of their parents’ house, so it feels like a lot of the milestones that used to define adulthood are becoming more unattainable, so we’re left in this weird ‘in between’ where technically we’re adults, but we still feel like kids. It’s something I think about a lot, and I think it ties in with the meaning of the song, so I wanted to try and create a kind of visual for that by going around doing a lot of regular day to day things while wearing the baby faces.”
Bratakus live: Feb 18: Supersonic, Paris * Feb 19: The Grace, London * Feb 20: Exchange, Bristol * Feb 21: Star & Garter, Manchester * Feb 28: McChuills, Glasgow * Apr 20: Blauer Salon, Tubingen * Apr 22: Tiko, Erfurt * Apr 23: Nbl, Leipzig * Apr 24: Music Match Festival, Dresden * Apr 25: Urban Spree, Berlin * Apr 26: Molotow, Hamburg * June 05/06: Milton Keynes, Crauford Arms [w/UK Subs] * July 08/11: 2000 Trees Festival * Nov 14: Core Festival, Glasgow *
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