In what has been a fairly quiet year for us, we've managed to cram some exciting stuff in, for example, performing two sets at Bunkfest in Wallingford, there's nothing cooler than playing an acoustic set on a train!

I have to apologise, every time I post some news I always say “we have two new singles coming soon!”, I'm certain I've said this for two years with nothing to show. So I am going to change it to “we have two new singles coming at some point in life!”. Trust me, I'm very disappointed in myself for not having them out much sooner and when I wanted.

We've also been without a drummer for almost a year, but that changed over the weekend as we welcomed Daniel Richardson to the band! Dan is best known for being the drummer in the band Violet Origin and he has also worked with our bassist, Lew, on a Broken Device video package. Our first practice session with him left us with a lot of excitement and we are looking forward to getting our first show of 2026 booked in.

[The Whiskey Knights rehearsing with new drummer Dan, 13 October 2025]

Hello and Happy New Year!

Firstly, a HUGE thank you to all for your support over 2024, whether that be listening to our music, coming to our shows or buying our merch, it all means a lot and we really appreciate it.

It was a fairly quiet year for us but we managed to pack in a few things, especially toward the end of the year. In July we released the single “Time”, our first new material since our last album Amethyst in 2020. We played our first show of the year in October at The Acoustic Couch, which felt great getting back in to action. Scott and I performed an acoustic set at Wote Street Club, Basingstoke in November, which was great fun and we want to do more of these and finally we did a debut show at Fiery Bird in Woking. 

[The Whiskey Knights performing at The Acoustic Couch 18 October 2024]

Keen eyes may have noticed someone else behind the drum kit at our shows, shout out to Dean Hall from Polarity for jumping in and helping us out! “Where was Ali?” I hear you say, well, at the end of July, our drummer Ali announced to us that he wouldn't be able to continue full time with The Whiskey Knights as he had an offer from another band he had filled in for, Spriggan Mist. So a huge thank you to Ali for being part of our band for the last three years and all the best in the future with his projects, his drum work will still be heard on the two new upcoming singles we have.

Speaking of which, “Memory Lane” and “Your Words” will be coming soon. Everything has been recorded, they are now in post-production so more info to come closer to their respective release dates (early 2025 I hope)!

[The Whiskey Knights performing at Fiery Bird, Woking 20 December]

One final thank you to our bassist and my brother Lew for always showing up and giving it his all, we appreciate everything you bring and do for us! 

What do we have planned for 2025? Well, as mentioned previously we have two new singles to release soon so keep an eye out for them. We want to find a new full time drummer for shows but Scott and I also want to play more acoustic nights. We have a huge collection of unfinished songs to work on, so who knows, maybe a new EP or album? Speaking of albums, it will be the ten year anniversary of Whiskey Nights in October, so we should definitely do something for that. 

It will hopefully be a busy year ahead for us, so stay tuned and we will see you soon!

Hello everyone! Steve here with a special update blog post.

The last blog back in September 2023 mentioned we are working on three new songs, well…

I am VERY pleased to announce one of those new songs, “Time”, will be released on all platforms on Friday 19th July. This will be the first new music since we released Amethyst back in 2020 so we are very excited for you to hear this. The other two singles “Memory Lane” and “Your Words” will be released at later dates. 

There are going to be three different editions of “Time”:

As you can see, there are three variations of the artwork and each one will be “exlusive” to a platfom the single is bought / streamed from. The first purple cover will be available from our website and bandcamp page, the red will be on iTunes and Amazon Music and the blue will be all other streaming platforms like Spotify. The website and streaming versions of the single will also have a b-side cover, “Yesterday” by The Beatles. In May this year I decided it would be cool if each of the new songs had a cover as a b-side to make things interesting, so the other two will be revealed once release dates for each are sorted.

I'll also talk about the new songs closer to their release dates.

Where Have We Been?

Why has it taken so long for us to get going again? Well, it has been a long time since we saw last saw you, it was back when we supported One Last Day at The Acoustic Couch in Bracknell in February 2023. 

This one was interesting for me because after we finished, I came off the stage feeling very disappointed with my performance. Something felt very off that night; I was on the other side of the stage (we've played at this venue several times) which felt weird to me, my amp wasn't miced up, it was plugged straight in to the desk so the volumes were all over the place when I switched channels, I felt I didn't play to the sort of standard I know I could so I was just disheartened to the point that I wanted to give up music in general, I felt I didn't have it in me to continue any more. So after that night I put the band to the side and forgot about it. I have since seen footage of various songs from the show and it was actually much better than I felt at the time.

It wasn't until a few months after the how in May or June that I started coming up with new song ideas, writing down random lyrics and hearing riffs and melodies in my head. I also went back over some old songs in our archive to rework, so that got me motivated to make plans and I told the band we were getting back to it. A mixture of refining the songs and just general life commitments meant it just took a while to get in to the studio and record all the parts.

But here we are, three new songs done and we have time booked in to get in to the rehearsal studio. It won't be long until we are back on stage doing what we do best. Until then, take care of yourselves and see you soon!

We know all of you (y'know, all three of you) have been wondering what we have been doing since our show with One Last Day back in February. Truth be told, it's been pretty quiet on the band front, however, there has been a lot writing. 

There's around fourteen songs that we have been working on, three of which are nearing completion. You may have seen a social media post recently of Ali hitting the drums surrounded by microphones and a laptop running Pro Tools. This is from a recording session we did for new songs called “Time”, “Your Words” and “Memory Lane” that we are hoping will reach your ears soon.

We plan on staggering their releases while we get shows booked up for next year as well as finishing the pool of new material we have been working on. So stay tuned, there is still plenty more yet to come!
 

Today we released our new "live in the studio" album 'Four Knights In Farnborough'. It is available to listen to NOW on all of our channels.
There is also a video version of the live album coming soon too, it is currently being edited and pieced together by our very own Lew Smith. He recently did the same with his other project Broken Device which you can watch here.

'Four Knights In Farnborough' was recorded at The Rooms Rehearsal Studios in Farnborough, which is where we hold our band practice sessions as well. It features a collection of songs from all of our releases and it was a lot of fun to record.