Old Bad Habits Label

15/12/2025

Thank you Ged!

The Wonky Folk play psych-folk bossa-nova-pop. ' The most chilled of protest bands with a quiet radicalism'

12/12/2025

Dear friends The Wonky Folk album is officially released now.

There will be a delay in the delivery of the vinyls though , but the pressing plant promised it will be until the end of next week.

Those ordered the album can get the digital copies now, and you can all stream the songs of this beauty now!

Unfortunately the other two releases planned for Christmas are postponed for the beginning of next year, but we are going to release the digital copies on time!

Thank you all!

7 track album

09/12/2025

And this is how we are going to close 2025!

Dear friends, this is the 1st release of the Quarterlies, the new project of the legend of Norway's indie pop, Ole Johannes Aleskjaer, former member of the Loch Ness Mouse.

The Quarterlies are:

Devon Bergsaune - Guitar
Fred G. Strand - Drums
Frantz Andreassen - Bass
Ole Johannes Aleskjaer - Guitar, vocals, percussion

With special quest Phil Sutton - vocals on Feet Up On The Wall. Vocals recorded by Gary Olson at Marlborough Farms.

All lyrics by Ole and Monika Toman (A1, B1)

Music by Ole and Jorn Aleskjaer

Art on cover by Karol Dobrowolski

Genious pop as it should be and we are sure that The Quarterlies will become one of your favorite bands soon.

We have three new releases for Christmas in all available formats, a 12” vinyl album by Crabber, a 10” album by the Wonky Folk and this 7” EP by the Quarterlies!

2026 begins with the release of the 2nd album of the Water Striders.

4 track album

25/11/2025

The time has come for the release of the fourth album of Crabber form Hamburg. This is a co-release with our friends at Jigsaw records who are going to do the CD release.

The boys (Olli, Jens, Peter and Uli) are back with 13 dynamites and better than ever. They are all having a long story in German underground pop, as they were members of some legendary bands like Dr. Konig Arthus, The Legendary Bang and Kristallin.

It gets even better with the quests and collaborators:

Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor, solo)
Tim Vass ( Razorcuts, Silver Biplanes, etc.)
Vanessa Vass (The Melons, Silver Biplanes)
Mirko (Kristallin)
with Rol on keyboards and Maddin on violin.

So, grab your chance to own one of the copies on vinyl and place your order now!

13 track album

31/10/2025

It’s happening again on May 2026!

The 4th Athens Pop Underground Fest & Convention is happening again on the 22nd and 23rd of May 2026.

The fest is hosted by the legendary An Club, home of everything underground in Athens, Greece.

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There are possibilities to add one more band from the states, but it will take some more time for the final yes or no!

Stay tuned on this page for more details, about tickets, parties, etc.

Let’s keep the 🔥 burning!

14/10/2025

This is a release a label can be remembered and feel so proud for!

The wonderful The Wonky Folk of Steve Duffield (The Beta Band, Milton Underground Resistance, Steve Mason Band, etc.) , with Carly (Thee Lonely Hearts) on bass guitar, Matt (Copernicus Rice) on guitar and Jane (The Green Hornets, Paul Groovy and the Pop Art Experience) on percussion and backing vocals.

An album with seven tracks, straight form the heart, from the perfect representatives of Pompey (Portsmouth) undergound scene. We confirm that you won't be able to listen to anything better. The best combination of folk, pop and psychedelia.

Available for pre orders from today! A 10” classic black vinyl limited to 150 copies! As always friends from UK and US can get it without additional taxes and with local postage rates, as they are shipped from our fulfilment partners Shambotic and Jigsaw, from within the countries!

And don’t forget that the band is visiting Athens on May included in the line up of the 4th Athens Pop Underground Fest !

No more things to say, let's make it sold out soon!

7 track album

27/09/2025

Hey Ho Let’s Go!

The Science Of Words vinyls arrived home! Such a beauty!

You can make it yours through the link below:

https://oldbadhabitslabel.bandcamp.com/album/obhlp030-the-science-of-words

Now there are only :

5 copies left for US
5 copies left for UK
17 copies left for rest of the world

There are also copies through our distributor’s physical record shop in Exarcheia -Athens Sound Effect Records

And through the physical store of Jigsaw records in Oregon, US

Bandcamp orders for US and UK are shipped with local postage rates and without additional taxes directly by the countries!

Band has copies too for UK!

Go on and make it yours!

24/09/2025

Now The Drain on the Balcony new album “Outsider Art” is officially released. Get your copy soon!

You can read what’s written in louder than war for it in the link below:

https://louderthanwar.com/the-drain-on-the-balcony-outsider-art-album-review/?fbclid=IwdGRjcANAmIdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHj4ZG42InGdWFQTkO7YzCcwdd9HvZf2DPBq0CukNfOvYcdXQG0bs_OBYRfc2_aem_gvo-WcHv4GzARRmzFumLuw

Outsider Art is the sixth studio album by The Drain On The Balcony.

Our beloved folk punks are back!

The cd vinyl version is released by our friends at Local Undergound Recordings, Bristol, UK

localunderground.bandcamp.com

Releases September 15, 2025

The Drain On The Balcony:

Gary: Bass - Guitar - Vocals
Gordon: Guitar - Vocals
Gran: Drums - Programming - Harmonica - Lap Steel - Vocals
Martin: Piano - Organ - Synth - Vocals

With The Drainettes:

Emma: Vocals on tracks 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 11, 13
Caitlin: Vocals on tracks 05, 06
Eira: Vocals on tracks 01, 05, 06, 11
Hattie: Vocals on tracks 03, 04, 13
Jemma: Vocals on tracks 03, 04, 13

Plus guests:

Ali Cross: Vocals on tracks 03, 05, 09
Alex Scott: Sax on tracks 05, 12, 13

Produced and engineered by Rocker

Recorded 2020 - 2024 at StAR Studios, Bristol

Track 07 features the bells of St Michael’s Church, Salwarpe

Track 10 is for Catherine Turrell, who lived somewhere near Lyon around 1979

Sleeve design by PS I Love You

All songs © The Drain On The Balcony 2025

13 track album

20/09/2025

The Science Of Words album is released officially now! Shipment of your orders will start on Monday the 29th of September!

It is limited to 120 copies on blue vinyl!

This is a pure punk pop album, for all the pop kids of the world, bringing in memory our favorite girl fronted bands like the Rosehips, The Shop Assistants, The Fat Tulips, Fizzbombs, Talulah Gosh, Tiger Trap, the Primitives, etc.

A must have as it will be a classic one soon!

Formed in 2014, The Science Of Words are a four piece guitar band - based around the melodic lead guitar lines of Corinne Plant.

Corinne was previously in early 1990s band, Jack In The Green, and she is joined by Pete Bowers (ex-Rosehips, ex-Jack In The Green, Horowitz, The Total Rejection), Ian (Horowitz, Red Fox Labrador) Bass Guitar , plus ex-Basement/The Loveless guitarist, Dave Morgan-Williams.

The Science of words are:

Corinne: Lead guitar, bass, vocals.

Pete: Rhythm guitar, drum programming.

Ian: Bass

Dave: Rhythm guitar.

with a little help by Tom Adams and Tom Bath.

All songs written by Corrine with contributions by Dave. Mastered by Pete Bowers.

Artwork by Jon Aldersea/Goldphone Creative Media.

Cd’s are available through Next phase normal records!

This is the home of pop underground!

10 track album

19/09/2025

Coming soon! Stay tuned for more info…

We are back with a BRAND NEW ALBUM titled "Anodyne" to be released later this year through Old Bad Habits Label! So proud of the album produced and mixed by Bob Katsionis.
It's therefore time to announce our live gig at BAD TOOTH in exactly one month from now, October 19. Indie rock explosion vol. 2! We appreciate your support.

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12/09/2025

It’s a blast album with ten dynamites in 💥 🧨

https://oldbadhabitslabel.bandcamp.com/album/obhlp030-the-science-of-words

Thanks to Lee Paul at Outside Left magazine for the kind words!
https://outsideleft.com/main.php?story=outsideleft-week-in-music-tavtastic

08/09/2025

Great review of the forthcoming album of The Drain on the Balcony by Ged Babey at Louder than war… the perfect description of an outsider band…albums are available for pre orders in the link below. CDs through Local Underground Recordings

https://oldbadhabitslabel.bandcamp.com/album/obhlp031-outsider-art

Solihull acoustic punk band, formed in 1977 reformed in 2009. Retirement Rock meets Outsider Art but some great songwriting.