Hummer Release Final Album “Time To Pack Up”

Hummer have released their final full length, Time To Pack Up, via Horn & Hoof Records, the album is now available as a name your price download via Bandcamp and through streaming platforms. With a sound later compared in reviews to bands such as Leatherface, Hot Water Music, Stiff Little Fingers and early Green Day, Hummer released 2 EP’s and a full-length album, made a lot of friends, and gigged like mad up and down the country. However times change and all good things ultimately have to end, with the band, now all in their early thirties, playing their final shows in April 2022.

Work on Time To Pack Up began some 6 months on from their final gig, with final mixing and mastering boxed-off at the end of 2023; it contains a batch of newer songs which were only added to Hummer‘s live set in the last couple of years, so had not yet been played quite to death live or committed to any recordings previously. Think of it as just a last hurrah and a tying-up of loose ends, and hopefully it’ll put everyone over until the reunion that may or may not happen when one or more of the band turns 50.

“Hummer was originally started by a pair of Warrington-based early-teens in 2004, originally under the name “S.F.R”. We changed lineup a few times (as well as picking a different name), and did lots of local-ish gigs over a few years until everyone disappeared off to University. Things went slow for a little while but they eventually got back in gear as a trio of slightly more worldly and grizzled mid-twenty somethings in 2015: Will Atkinson sang and played bass, Joe Watson sang and played guitar, Matthew Cain refused to sing and played drums”