The Dream Machine return with 'Fort Perch Rock' PLUS UK Tour

Offbeat Wirralian five-piece The Dream Machine hit the road in November and ‘look through a backwards telescope’ to release…

FORT PERCH ROCK

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The Dream Machine – Fort Perch Rock
From The Fort Perch Rock EP – OUT NOW
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The Dream Machine, the purposefully perpendicular diversion from samey and slavish content-era beat combinations, return to release their first new music of 2025, the wheeling and wailing MC5 and Stooges-reminiscent, Fort Perch Rock. Half-inched from an EP of the same name, dropping a further three, heady songs into line behind it, the coastal five-piece’s newest rush of inspiration arrives as they tool up for seven UK-wide live dates this November.

Suburban fatigue, substance experimentation and juvenile investigations into record collections of otherworldy weight catalysed The Dream Machine’s emergence in 2021, releasing the sporadic acid-rock of three EPs over 18 months before their self-produced, debut album, Thank God! It’s The Dream Machine arrived in 2023. With the Fort Perch Rock EP being the first new music released since 2024’s follow-up long-player, Small Time Monsters, followers of bracing, bug-eyed psych-punk-rock-and-roll are permitted to hope for even more to come.

A band as much of the city as of the sea, The Dream Machine’s Fort Perch Rock is named after a promontory point of national defence in New Brighton, facing Liverpool’s shoreline. The garrison, now monument, landmark and café, remains as much an imposing edifice of colonial power as the last sign of establishment interest in The Dream Machine’s overlooked northern seaside town.

Zak McDonnell: “The title track, ‘Fort Perch Rock’ is like looking through a backwards telescope at a song, it’s a tiny smashed up version of a band playing at their loudest. Fort Perch Rock is a whole place and a feeling. It’s a look back at beauty pageants and outdoor swimming baths of the 1950’s, then a sharp look down at your ice lolly, hairy and melted in the sand. We were musically inspired by The Red Devils, The Stooges, Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Coral, 60’s nugget psych, R.L. Burnside and Jim Henson.”

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The Dream Machine’s Fort Perch Rock EP completes with additional triple B-side tracks, Daddy Rollin (In Your Arms), Like I Always Do and Smells Like Rain. As with previous releases, every track is self-produced by the band, made up of McDonnell (vocals and guitars) Matt Gouldson (guitars), Jack Inchboard (bass), Harrison Marsden (Keyboards) and Isaac Salisbury (drums).

No strangers to the back of a van having toured the UK extensively on their own breeze, as well as supporting artists including The Coral, The Charlatans and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, this November sees The Dream Machine retrace steps and forge new paths on the following live dates: