Class of 2024: Gretel Hänlyn
Pushing her witty, gothic storytelling into evermore adventurous territory with each release, the West London singer is striving for originality above all.
22nd December 2023
Class of 2024
Class of 2024: Heartworms
Cheltenham’s Jojo Orme is creating arresting, emotional collages using gothic post-punk soundscapes and her theatrical spoken word delivery.
21st December 2023
Class of 2024: Antony Szmierek
Armed with spoken word songs that celebrate the beauty in the everyday, the Manchester poet is ticking off career milestones seemingly by the minute.
20th December 2023
Class of 2024: Picture Parlour
Crashing into life with debut single ‘Norwegian Wood’ back in the peak of summer, Picture Parlour have had a rollercoaster 2023 full of hype-ridden highs and troll-fuelled troubles. Emerging with their heads more firmly in the game than ever, there’s little that can stop them now.
19th December 2023
Class of 2024: STONE
Liverpool’s next great guitar hopes, heading into their debut LP with raucous energy and creative hunger to spare.
18th December 2023
Class of 2024: Katie Gregson-Macleod
With a viral, life-changing hit in her back pocket, and a knack for writing witty but intimate vignettes of life and love, the Inverness singer is focussed on the long game.
17th December 2023
Class of 2024: METTE
A solo project with expansive ideas, METTE is the multimodal artist making existentialism exciting.
16th December 2023
Class of 2024: HotWax
Having honed a reputation as a must-see live band, HotWax are pushing forward as one of guitar music’s brightest new sparks.
15th December 2023
Class of 2024: Divorce
Penning evocative indie-country-punk-whatever explorations on the human condition, the Nottingham quartet have already got Self Esteem in their corner — it’s probably time to join her.
14th December 2023
Class of 2024: hemlocke springs
With this year’s debut EP ‘going… going… GONE!’, hemlocke springs has firmly bid farewell to normality and stepped into a world of offbeat technicolour performance.
13th December 2023
Class of 2024: Big Special
Weaving vulnerable tales of everyday life into their vital brand of soulful but fiery punk, meet the Midlands duo that are living up to their name.
12th December 2023
Class of 2024: Fat Dog
Cemented as 2023’s most chaotic breakthrough live band, this South London quintet are putting their paw prints on a debut LP — all with their trusty dog mask-wearing drummer in tow.
11th December 2023
Fat Dog and Divorce to play DIY’s Class of 2024 launch show at Hoxton’s Colours!
It’s all in celebration of our bumper new Dec/Jan double issue — out now!
11th December 2023
DIY’s Class of 2024 issue — feat. HotWax, Picture Parlour, Fat Dog, hemlocke springs & more — is out now!
Our new double issue also features Heartworms, Gretel Hänlyn, Katie Gregson-MacLeod, Divorce and loads more brilliant new acts.
11th December 2023