VANT play Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms on Tuesday March 7.

Their current tour follows the release of their debut album ‘Dumb Blood' which was released last month, and their recent singe 'Peace & Love'.

A life-affirming, rallying cry for global environmental awareness and empathetic behaviour, ‘Peace & Love' juxtaposes the beauty of its message with a cacophony of sound as Vant hurtle forwards with their innate balance of melody and aggression.

As vocalist/guitarist Mattie Vant explains: “We finished writing ‘Peace & Love’ in the wake of the Paris attacks. Atrocities like these are taking place worldwide on a daily basis, but it’s only when something happens so close to home that it truly grabs the full attention of our society. We live on a planet that has forgotten what the words ‘Peace & Love’ mean and what they stood for in the 60s and 70s. The power of the peace movement changed the world forever but our unity is starting to slip. ‘Peace & Love’ have become throwaway words, fashion statements, cheap symbols that have lost their value. We need to reconnect with their true meaning because, more than ever, we are living in a time that really does need ‘Peace & Love’.”

The London-based quartet’s impressive accomplishments have covered killer sets at festivals including Bestival, Glastonbury and Reading and Leeds; live shows as far afield as Japan and Norway; continuing support at Radio 1; 4 million streams at Spotify; and shows with bands as varied as Royal Blood, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Hinds and Fidlar. Along the way, their growing discography has demonstrated their ability to deliver songs of real meaning which organically flow between punk, grunge and garage rock.