In between almost every song at Reading & Leeds 2024, Michael Bingham took the opportunity to remind the crowd: “We’re Spiritual Cramp, from San Francisco, California!” Now, our gracious host has booked us a direct flight to his hometown, in the form of the six-piece’s second album RUDE. Soundtracking our journey is DJ Crash on the imaginary Wild 87 Radio, channelling the spirit of QOTSA ’s Songs For The Deaf.

Setting up the hometown scene where we find these ‘ infamous ’ rudeboys, Go Back Home finds our resident anarchist, Mr. Bingham (who now lives in LA) voicing his love affair with the Golden City, where ‘ everyone knows this town is mine ’. Somewhat of a lone wolf in this muddled world – other than his six friends, as he once told K! – he shrugs that ‘ nobody came ’ on At M

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