John McKay's Reactor + Miki Berenyi Trio

The Scream, the debut album from Siouxsie & the Banshees, was released late enough in the punk era to bear some claim as the first post-punk album, with only minor traces of 'punk' and enough hints of what had come even earlier to feel utterly new. Siouxsie was clearly the focus of the band, but the sonic dynamo was John McKay, composer of most of the album's music and hit singles, such as Hong Kong Garden, while simultaneously creating a wholly new guitar sound that was harsh and brittle, yet melodically intoxicating, best articulated by a confounded Steve Albini many years later, ". . . only now people are trying to copy it, and even now nobody understands how that guitar player got all that pointless noise to stick together as songs".

Many of the most influential guitarists of the past four decades credited John as a major influence, including Geordie from Killing Joke, Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain, U2's The Edge, Thurston Moore, Johnny Marr, and even the two guitarists who followed him into The Banshees - The Cure's Robert Smith and Magazine's John McGeoch.

Sixes And Sevens is a historic lost album bearing fair claim as the lost treasure of the post-punk era, the album collects eleven compelling studio tracks. A prelude to the great surprise of John's return to live performance, with a fresh new band and a number of live shows in the offing. John McKay's Reactor will feature the lad 'imself on guitar, Jen Brown (The Priscillas) on vocals, Jola (Adam & The Ants, The Priscillas) on drums, and Billy King on bass.

Miki Berenyi Trio (aka MB3) are Miki Berenyi on vocals/guitar (Lush), Kevin 'Moose' McKillop on guitar (Moose) and Oliver Cherer (Gilroy Mere, Aircooled). The three musicians first worked together during Piroshka's 2021 tour - Miki and Moose being founder members, Ollie joining to play bass.

MB3 was originally formed to promote Miki's memoir - Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success (published Sept 2022) - accompanying her live book events with Lush covers. But as the band gelled, and with offers of gigs throughout 2023, MB3 gathered momentum, touring in the UK, Europe and US throughout 2024.

April 2025 sees the release of their album 'Tripla', preceded by the tracks Vertigo, 8th Deadly Sin, Big I Am and Kinch, all released via Bella Union.