Hard-Fi today unveil their brand new single ‘Looking For Fun’, taken from their long-awaited new studio album, Sweating Someone Else’s Fever - out on June 19 via V2 Records.
The new guitar-driven anthem sees Hard-Fi at their very best. “Looking For Fun’ is inspired by the last line on The Clash’s White Man In Hammersmith Palais”, explains frontman Richard Archer. “It’s about trying to find the joy in life whilst everyone’s trying to kick you in the nuts.”
Written and recorded throughout 2025 in their synonymous ex-taxi-office-turned studio Cherry Lips, and produced by frontman Richard Archer alongside longtime collaborator Wolsey White, the forthcoming album – their first in 15 years – looks outside the window to the fractured present, and paints it in bold musical strokes, with the same sharp-eyed social commentary that powered their classic debut Stars of CCTV, but with fresh perspective, new sounds and hard-earned freedom.
Listen to ‘Looking For Fun’ on the Brentford Official playlist.
Named after an El Salvador saying about not fighting other people’s ego-based battles, Sweating Someone Else’s Fever represents Hard-Fi unburdened: playing together again, free from pressure, making music for the joy of it.
First single, ‘They Ain’t Your Friends’, arrived just last month with suspicious swagger, directing its fire at the fake allegiances of the online world and the hypocrisies of the modern music industry. Exploding onto the airwaves the track has seen support from the likes of Jo Whiley, Virgin Radio’s Track Of The Week, as well as being added to the daytime playlist on Radio X. Their return has also been hailed and welcomed by the likes of the NME, Clash, Rolling Stone UK & many more.
The album follows the band’s reunion sparked during lockdown, when Archer livestreamed Stars of CCTV and was stunned by the warmth of the response. A comeback show at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town sold out in minutes, reminding the quartet why they started. From there came 2024’s Don’t Go Making Plans EP, and then, naturally, new music.
And with that, the band have also announced three huge headline dates in December – London, O2 Academy Brixton, O2 Institute Birmingham & O2 Ritz Manchester, seeing them back where they belong, on the country’s biggest indoor stages.
Ahead of this, the band are also set to perform in front of 60,000 rugby fans at the Allianz Stadium, Twickenham on Saturday May 16 for the Harlequins Big Summer Kick-Off, following in the footsteps of previous performers including Kaiser Chiefs, Pete Tong, Feeder and Jess Glynne.
