South African folk punks The Shabs have shared their new video for the track ‘Tom and Phillips Song’. The song comes off of their recent album Can You Hear Us at the Back which released on the 1st March 2019 via Just Music. The video, like much of the bands’ aesthetic calls back to a simpler time in music when people were more honest, punk rock was exciting, and folks were a lot less cynical. Great song and a funny video! Check it out here.

Bassist Ryan McArthur comments:

“‘Tom and Phillip’s Song’ is about starting a band in your bedroom when you’re a teenager. The video sees us reliving the glory days of our youth in a fun and nostalgic, yet sincere tribute to late 90’s early 2000’s pop-punk / skate-punk – the music that inspired us to start a band when we were teenagers.”

Can You Hear Us at the Back was recorded, mixed and mastered at Sound and Motion Studios in Cape Town by Simon Ratcliffe, one of the country’s top recording engineers.

The band has just returned from a successful four-week long European launch tour which saw them performing in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, and Switzerland. They’ll be heading off on a national South African tour later this month before going to the UK for a tour at the end of May.