Matt Wellham
After years of photographing and filming the London music scene, Matt’s now based in Sydney, Australia. A lover of the post-punk and alternative movement, he can usually be found in the grassroots venues, camera in one hand and a beer in the other.
Opus Kink have announced The Sweet Goodbye, with dates lined up at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town, King Tuts and a mammoth run of festivals.
Brighton’s Opus Kink, a CLUNK Magazine staple, have announced their debut LP ‘The Sweet Goodbye’ is arriving July 31st via So Recordings. Along with the single, the band have dropped lead single ‘Come Over, Do Me Wrong’ and announced a UK & EU autumn headline tour.
Showcasing their ever-mutating brand of jazz-and-country-laced punk, the enigmatic sextet have crafted a sound as elusive as it is recognisable. Partnering with Grammy Award-winning producer Craig Silvey (Florence & The Machine, Baxter Dury, REM, Kronos Quartet, Sam Fender) and engineer Dani Spragg (Wunderhorse, English Teacher, Black Midi), ‘Come Over, Do Me Wrong’ sees them dive headfirst into driving, swampy rock territory, with its Ethio-jazz inspired horn riff reinforcing their growing status and unique musical sensibilities.
Lead single ‘Come Over, Do Me Wrong’ brings an atmospheric, Americana flair to their sound, with a reverb drenched guitar that could be pulled straight from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. It’s moody, swampy and gives Opus Kink a totally unique sound amongst their UK contemporaries.
Detailing their album’s lead track, frontman Angus Rogers revealed: “Half of any good thing is its proximity to its end; half of any good thing is the reason it cannot be yours. ‘Come Over, Do Me Wrong’ is a song about the hallucinogenic qualities of a doomed love affair and its toxic allure, the mad philosophical leap of ‘I don’t care what you do as long as you do it to me.’”
The band have a mammoth live schedule kicking off imminently, as the six-piece will be hitting the festival circuit extensively this summer ahead of their album release, with a full UK and European headline tour to follow in the autumn. There’s no excuse not to catch their energetic live offering in 2026.
Watch the video for ‘Come Over, Do Me Wrong‘ here:
Catch Opus Kink at the following:
3 APR – So Long Good Friday Festival, Liverpool (UK)
4 APR – Houseguest Festival, Glasgow (UK)
5 APR – Parish, Huddersfield (UK)
10 APR – Wanderfal Festival, Falmouth (UK)
22 MAY – Foul Weather Festival, Le Havre (FRA)
23 MAY – Bearded Theory, Derbyshire (UK)
21 JUN – Where It All Began Festival, Huntingdon (UK)
4 JUL – Rochester Castle (w/ The Libertines) (UK)
14 AUG – Les Perséides Festival (FRA)
26 SEP – Float Along Festival, Sheffield (UK)
17 NOV – Bootleg Social, Blackpool (UK)
19 NOV – King Tuts, Glasgow (UK)
20 NOV – Wardrobe, Leeds (UK)
21 NOV – Band On The Wall, Manchester (UK)
22 NOV – Cobalt Studios, Newcastle (UK)
25 NOV – Thekla, Bristol (UK)
26 NOV – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London (UK)
28 NOV – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (UK)
5 DEC – Point FMR, Paris (FR)
6 DEC – Le Grand Mix, Lille (FR)
8 DEC – Rotown, Rotterdam (NL)
9 DEC – Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
10 DEC – VOLT, Sittard (NL)
11 DEC – Helios 37, Cologne (DE)
13 DEC – Badehaus, Berlin (DE)
14 DEC – Bahnhof Pauli, Hamburg (DE)
16 DEC – Botanique, Brussels (BE)
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