Televised Mind Find Their Voice with Word to the Wise

Televised Mind brings a kind of momentum to the Lincoln music scene which only comes when a band finds something authentic. It all began when Ste began writing songs a bit accidently in 2021. That’s all changed now, as they are one of the most talked-about newcomers in the region. The latest single, 'Word to the Wise,' which comes out on the 5th of December, 2025, just exudes the kind of electricity which comes out when a band discovers who they are and turns the volume so high the walls rattle. This is a band who has a grip on who they are and are making music loud enough to be heard.

Word to the Wise kicked off with a very relatable opening. Ste came home from a grueling day of work and was exhausted, hardly wanting to say a word, before a mate began yapping away incessantly. This was just irritation enough to set off a spark, and from that, Ste wrote and performed his first song of 2021. It was an explosion of irritation, but of the kind that had a universal beat. The group brought the track to Farm Factory Studios in Hertfordshire, where producers Billy Lunn of The Subways trimmed it down and made it sharp and snappy, reflecting the kick of their 2000s roots without sounding nostalgic. Televised Mind instead tap into that period’s emotional rhythm and channel it through their own sense of agitation.

Televised Mind have based their sound on biting observations and hooks that attack you from an angle, before you realize just how memorable they are.  Ste’s vocal performance synthesizes enough exasperation with enough humor to support itself. The dilemmas of restraint and liberation exist squarely in this corner of Televised Mind’s sound. They are ever on the cusp of letting something anarchic seep into their tight sound. They list inspiration from “Queens of the Stone Age, Bloc Party, Idles, and Amyl & The Sniffers” but there is more than enough for them to retain their “edge” while acknowledging such obvious kin. They write with conviction about experiences from which many people can actually relate. “A lot can happen on any given night. They often find themselves pulled into long hours and long nights. Long, drawn-out conversations that you wish you weren’t having.…They work from exactly what you'd expect to find. They find themselves entrenched directly in 'the every-day’” tension with “the every-day” sound.”

Presented with the conviction of a unit that knows how to take the drudgery of the mundane frustrations of life and make it a form of catharsis. What separates Televised Mind from the rest of the pack, however, is that instead of simply trying to revitalize the punk or the rock sound, they’re more interested in rediscovering the human element of both, the spark of inspiration that led someone to grab a guitar and scream into a microphone for the very first time. This spark of inspiration can be found in "Word to the Wise." As they swell in profile, however, Televised Mind still take refuge in what originally brought them all together to start with: “the buzz of transforming common irritations into sounds that can still scream louder than the annoyance which originally sparked them off.” “Word to the Wise” is more than their next single release, however – it is instead an insight into “a band still learning to trust their gut and proving that rock still has room for new voices willing to say something real.”