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The Mayhem Charts – July 2025 August 18, 2025


Here is the Mayhem chart for July 2025, a little late (just like last month) I know, but better late than never right? Regular readers know the chart is based on my streaming listening habits. These are gathered over the last month by obscurify.com. My taste in music dropped one point to 98% more obscure than the rest of the UK! The chart remains contemporary-ish (but if a classic artist releases something new they might feature in the chart). However, last month’s top three “Legacy” artists were David Bowie, Carole King and Bob Marley. Obscurify also suggests the most obscure artists I have listened to for March and they are Liz Davinci, Dead Rat Society and The Dead Zoo. Bowie, Dead Rat Society, Liz Davinci and David Bowie have retained their obscure and legacy positions from last month.

Panic Shack sit atop the artist chart for July 2025. party Nails was the only act that remained in the artist chart from last month, falling from number 1 to number 10. Three artists appear in the artist chart and the song chart: Scene Queen, Panic Shack and the Dead Zoo. Scene Queen smashes her way to the top of the song chart with her wonderful single and future disco classic “L-Shaped Couch” 70% of the artist chart is female or female fronted and the song chart is not far behind! ALT BLK ERA and Delilah Bon make a welcome return to the artist chart. So without further ado here are those charts in full! Click on the Spotify link below to listen to the famous (or infamous) five! Seventeen minutes of fabulous music!

Mayhem Artist Chart July 2025

1 Panic Shack
2 The Dead Zoo
3 Paul Weller
4 Jah Wobble
5 Scene Queen
6 ALT BLK ERA
7 Delilah Bon
8 Cassyette
9 Kindelan
10 Party Nails

Mayhem Song Chart July 2025

1 L-Shaped Couch – Scene Queen
2 Thelma And Louise – Panic Shack
3 Catherine – Rival Consoles
4 Catch 22 – Specky Cult
5 Bruise – The Dead Zoo

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“Dad Dance” – Specky Cult August 17, 2025

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Specky Cult is the best named band in many a moon in my opinion. It makes me feel guilty for calling another lad at my school, even more moons ago, we called him Specky followed by another four letter word beginning with C. The new Specky Cult single is called “Dad Dance” which is definitely a style of dance I am familiar with and perhaps the only dancing I can do!

The song is infectious and draws you into it with some towering hooks and a bass line built for the dance floor. There is a post punk feel to it, but without that early 80s misery, this is a track that will make you smile and get you off your arse. Wherever you are when you hear it you will have to dance. If you fail to sing along to the chorus after a couple of listens I feel that you need to get your head checked. Has there ever been a song that mentions Rednex huge 1994 hit “Cotton Eye Joe” before this stomper from Specky Cult. In the fade of of “Dad Dance” they even throw in a bit of the 60s Batman theme. “Nananana nananana Dad Dance” indeed!

The band is made up of Rob Glover (lead guitar, vocals), Carol Stephen (lead vocals, guitar, cowbell), Rob Bradford (bass, keys, buttons), and Steve Bradley (drums, vocals). The band are tight and clearly know how to have fun. Of “Dad Dance” the band said that they are “throwing our hat in the ring for this summer’s catchiest song“. Is it the catchiest song this summer? It is certainly a top contender and deserves to be heard in festival fields across the land! Are they the finest madcap punk band in the North East of England? Probably, and one of the best in the UK too.

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