Trash Boat live at The Bodega
Schedule
Wed Feb 11 2026 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
The Bodega | Nottingham, EN
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Live at The Bodega
Wednesday 11 February 2026
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“Life is pretty chaotic,” begins Trash Boat vocalist Tobi Duncan by way of explaining his band’s fervent fourth full-length album. “The world is pretty chaotic. I’m pretty chaotic, and this album is every piece of me and us as a band”
Welcome to the world of Heaven Can Wait: a knotty, gnarled riddle of a record, at one turn deeply introspective, full of deep-seated questions, anxiety and despondency; at the next fuelled by a righteous rage towards an unjust, uncaring world stuck in a downward spiral. “I just wanna change the world, but I don’t know where to begin,” Duncan sings on the twisting, Britpop-channelling freefall of Delusions Of Grandeur. “I've already changed myself, a different me every weekend.”
Anyone paying attention to Trash Boat's indomitable ascent through alternative rock’s upper echelons will find little to surprise in those statements. The band’s preceding third album, 2021’s Don’t You Feel Amazing?, elevated the quintet – completed by guitarists Ryan Hyslop and Dann Bostock, bassist James Grayson and drummer Oakley Moffatt – to the cover of esteemed tastemaker publications including Kerrang! and Upset, racking up 19m global streams off the back of key editorial playlist looks fronting Spotify’s The Rock List and Amazon’s Rock Scene. But more so, it served to shatter the constrained box into which expectation of the band previously had neatly sat. “I think people had come to expect a very particular sound from Trash Boat, and Don’t You Feel Amazing? was us exploring different sides, influences and inspirations, and finding our true sound,” Duncan reflects. “Heaven Can Wait, which we collectively self-produced, is an extension of that journey of exploration. As a band, we don’t have a singular artistic direction. We’re a cloud of chaos.”
Across its 11 shapeshifting tracks, Heaven Can Wait crackles with a white-hot energy. There’s the Deftones-invoking double salvo of Watching Heaven… Burn; the skittish Linkin Park-sounding filthy/RIGHTEOUS, for which Crossfaith’s Kenta Koie lends a thrilling guest vocal; and the slow-burn Are You Ready Now?, boasting, Duncan beams, a throat-shredding 22-second-long scream. It’s Trash Boat at their “heaviest, slowest, fastest, most complicated and contradictory”, the frontman attests.
It is, also, lyrically the truest reflection of Trash Boat’s leading man. “I’m a very happy, confident person, but like everyone I have my struggles, and my life has been full of trials and tribulations,” he admits. A long-term degenerative knee injury has the vocalist in near constant pain and will, he knows, eventually leave him disabled. Addiction has pockmarked his past. Following the release of Don’t You Feel Amazing?, he suffered what he considers to be the worst and longest period of mental health problems he has ever encountered. “For about six months, the prospect of even getting out of bed was terrifying,” he says. “It led me to question myself and my future in ways I never had before. What if this was my life now? A lot of Heaven Can Wait was inspired by that time, what I went through, and how it made me see myself and the world.”
It’s with stark, brutal honesty that the frontman sings “I don’t wanna be here / Where? Anywhere” on …Burn. Elsewhere, the tender, contemplative Better Than Yesterday opens with the words “Twisted little fingers painting death behind my eyes / It’s persistent and it lingers like I’m running out of time” dancing across minimal synth beats, before the roaring Break You sees Duncan spit “Lost my mind / I just wanna die / Everything inside is against me”.
There is similar unrestrained straight-talking when Duncan turns his focus outward, too. Are You Ready Now? laments our continued sleepwalking into environmental catastrophe; lead single Be Someone takes a swing at the notion of “blind, violent aggression” as a means of conflict resolution, and prominent influencer voices shamefully promoting such a toxic macho mindset. The track features I Prevail’s Eric Vanlerberghe, a collaboration in part inspired by a random act of violence encountered on a night out while the two bands were touring together in Ireland.
Then there is The Drip, a song which Duncan describes as featuring possibly his finest lyrics ever. “Having a voice in the political sphere, particularly as a musician, in my opinion, requires a far greater degree of consideration and knowledge than most seem to apply,” he says by way of explanation of the track. “I am so infinitely tired of seeing generally accepted platitudes or political footballs being thrown around as tabloid headlines for artists to use to give their song or stage talk a hook.
“I recognise I don't do enough or act selflessly enough, I don't know enough about economics, politics, social structures or anything like that to stand and say something that makes a difference.” he continues. “At best I hope this song inspires people to take a similar critical look as themselves and wonder if they are putting things in their Instagram bio because they really believe it will help or if they just want to be seen as someone who cares.
“I'm not trying to paint a pretty picture that is nice to look at or that’s easily digestible,” Duncan says of Heaven Can Wait. “I'm simply trying to paint an honest picture, and get as much of myself into these songs as possible. It’s direct. It’s unfiltered. It’s raw.”
It’s Trash Boat’s finest creative expression to date, too. Embrace the chaos.
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