The Punk Site 2023 Top 40: #7 Smoking Gives You Big Tits – Guts For Starters

Behind the advent window for Xmas Day, and occupying number 7 in The Punk Site’s 2023 Top 40, are Smoking Gives You Big Tits with their debut album, Guts For Starters, that was self released in July. Guts for Starters is a miscellany of joy, rage and the ridiculous. It is an ode to the Manchester, UK DIY music scene, where the seeds of this album, and band, were first encouraged and nurtured. It’s also a celebration of DIY music scenes around the world that build communities of creativity, joy and inclusivity. Those communities give us the guts to be ourselves, find our voice, and start musical projects we never thought would be possible. But best of all, they connect like-minded creative weirdo’s, who find there is somewhere they belong and there was all along. 

“After listening through this debut album, you will be fully aware of the non conformity that goes on in here to the point of actually making it something you feel totally at home with, like the title track that is apparently a song is about being totally yourself no matter how odd, my motto in a song then, and just to add to this ethos, the music/vocal is kinda out there on its own too, metal/riot girrrl and lots in-between, in fact that’s exactly what your gonna get throughout this slab of square peg in a round hole musical greatness.” (Mark Cartwright)