Lucy Shevchuk
Vocals, Guitar & Keys
Tomos Cooper
Drums
Benedict Rhodes
Bass
Nathan Butcher
Percussion, Synth
We're Hiring!
Lead Guitar
Square Wild are a hard hitting, genre bending, force of nature from Manchester.
Hard to pigeon hole but easy to love, Square Wild weave an intricate web of styles and influences to create something truly unique. On a bedrock of meaty and heavy riffs they layer funk, reggae, jazz, hard rock, ska, silliness and salacious grooves to great effect.
Suiting nearly any bill, they are a non-metal band who won Manchester's Metal to the Masses and played Bloodstock. They are not quite prog and won Prog Magazines Best Unsigned Band of the year in the readers poll. Square Wild will simultaneously make you raise your fist in angst and raise your knees in dance and are a colourful injection of fun and fury who are guaranteed to get any crowd up and at it.
Their intoxicating live performance consistently earns them accolades and praise wherever they go. Having appeared at festivals around the UK such as Bloodstock, Planet Rock, Not a Cult, Gig in A Field, Sonic Rock Solstice, Maid Of Stone, Nene Valley Rock Festival to name a varied few, they have been making a name for themselves as a standout addition to any bill.
Behind the scenes of their busy gigging schedule, Square Wild have managed to do pretty much everything DIY, from bookings to merch and everything in-between. Their ethos of creativity applies to everything they do and their recordings and videos are no exception, with everything being done by them in house. Their official music videos for singles 'Masquerade', 'Sloth' and 'Pins And Mould' are a great example of their creative flair, which they bring to every live gig.
2026 saw the release of Square Wild's long awaited debut album 'Otherling', a proud benchmark of their musical journey.
- "Otherling is a word for something that exists just outside definition. We’ve always been told that our music feels different, that it doesn’t sit comfortably within one genre or one scene. Rather than seeing that as something to fix, we wanted to embrace it and have continued to do so. Otherling represents being the outsider, the strange piece that doesn’t quite fit the puzzle, but becomes something unique because of it. For us, it isn’t about being different for the sake of being different. It’s about accepting that we’ve always felt slightly out of place, musically and creatively, and turning that feeling into something powerful."
The perfect way to summarise Square Wild's ever in-flux yet steadfastly unique sound. The marriage of different styles and influences, and embracing weird ideas to turn over something unexpected is part of the Square Wild machine.
The future is bright for this band as they continue to forge their path, bringing their ballistic live show to all you lovely people out there. With album 2 in the wings rearing to go, there's plenty more where that came from! Catch their ever growing live show and see what al the fuss is about.
Our Work With Ian’s Chain
After playing Sav Fest 2023 and becoming inspired by Alan and Wendy Savill’s story and their charity Ian’s Chain, Square Wild decided they wanted to help. Lucy won herself an ESP guitar at Bloodstock for being one of the favourite guitarists of the weekend on the New Blood stage. Instead of keeping the guitar and adding it to her collection, she suggested that instead the guitar was raffled off in order to raise money for Ian’s Chain charity, and helped raise over £300 for them! The raffle may be over but you can still help out and have an awesome time in the process by getting a ticket to Sav Fest 2024! Tickets here
“Ian’s Chain was set up after the death of our 23 year old son. He took his own life after a long battle with his mental health. We offer support to anyone who is in crisis and to date we have saved over 120 people from taking their own lives. We also offer support to those who have lost someone to suicide. We are qualified to train people in ASIST ( Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training ) and SafeTalk with plans to subsidise future courses. This means there will be more people trained to recognise the signs of suicidal ideation and save more lives.”
