Bands like The Baby Seals are what the UK needs right now. Funny, feminist, full of righteous anger. They sing their hearts out, they create art, speak up their minds and enjoy every second of the mostly chaotic rock and roll life styles. When the opportunity to sit down with Kerry Devine, lead singer and guitarist of the trio presented itself, we couldn’t miss it. We spoke to Kerry about their newest single “Tamoo Trance”, their plans for new music and what they would play if a certain politician turned up at their gig.
“Tamoo Trance” single cover
Official bio: Following acclaim for last year’s debut album Chaos, and a recent tour with new wave legends Bow Wow Wow, Cambridgeshire’s finest feminist garage-punks The Baby Seals are sharing a fierce new single about getting stuck in a trance-like state in an online shop. “Tamoo Trance” was released on 18th November 2025 via Trapped Animal Records. Racing with a seething, swirling energy and gritty raw emotion, “Tamoo Trance” offers a fierce take down of consumer capitalism and the effect it can have on us if we let it take it hold. With lyrics such as “… don’t go on/don’t get sucked in cause 80% of what you buy goes directly in the bin”, it showcases the band’s ability to combine their trademark playful tongue-in-cheek wit with a voracious sense of rage.
Welcome to Indieterria. It is our pleasure and privilege to welcome you on our blog. Please introduce yourselves to our readers. Who is in the Baby Seals and what instruments do you play?
Kerry: Hey, happy to be speaking to you! We’re Kerry on lead vocals and electric guitar Kate on Bass and vocals and Amy (Amos) on drums and vocals.
First time we heard “Tamoo Trance” we thought it sounded like The B-52`s with Mary Timony of Helium on vocals. It is an incredibly diverse track, switching between psychedelia, art rock and grunge. Definitely a composition that can be very well received in America. Are you preparing a new British Invasion?
Kerry: We’re definitely leaning further into the garage rock vibe on this track, so loving your B52’s comparison there! We’d love to play in the US, but there are a few factors which means for the moment it’s unlikely. It’s very expensive – at least £5000 for performing visas alone… But there’s always a way!
“Tamoo Trance” follows a story of a fictional shop where “80% of what you buy goes directly in the bin”. We can think of more than one shop that embraced this policy in real life. It is a great theme especially during Black Friday/Christmas spending bonanza period. Would you consider “Tamoo Trance” a protest song?
Kerry: Yes it is – all our songs are sort of protest songs. Whether it be about boring exploitative porn, not shaming women for wanking – or taking the pleasure away entirely (fgm, which is practiced globally) or protesting about social standards of body image. Defying people’s expectations, the song’s foundations are about ‘just be you’. We spread our messages with a cheeky wink and we find we get a lot more people on board by doing that.
The newest song is also a double sided single. The second number is called “I Will Panic If I Want To Shirley”. Tell us more about the other track.
Kerry: It was written after the drummer Amos told us about a situation she had with her mechanic. Amos (Amy) has autism and finds herself facing funny situations and confrontation fairly regularly, and the song on one level was really about that experience where she nearly lost her car after the garage delivered her car to the wrong street and put her car keys through someone else’s door. On another level it’s also about the fact that we have to jump through all these little hoops and hurdles whilst also existing and witnessing climate breakdown, 24 hour life-streamed genocides etc. It’s the ridiculousness of that shared lived experience for us all, jumping through micro hoops whilst there are macro crises happening which we’re all witness to.
The band photographed by Jeff Pitcher
Baby Seals are signed to Trapped Animal Records – can you tell us more about the label and how it aligns with you as a band?
Kerry: I am a co-director of the label. When we first set the label up, we had one rule which was not to work with dickheads, so simple! Yet it’s really set us in good stead, we have the most incredible group of people around us. We’re really passionate about being an artist lead label and signing bands who would usually not be represented in mainstream music.
So far, you have released a few singles, a self titled EP from 2017 and a critically acclaimed, full fledged album “Chaos” from 2024. We heard there is a new release on the horizon. Are the rumours true?
Kerry: The rumours are true! We have a second album coming out next year. We’are still writing it at this moment and there are some bangers!
Outside of Europe, your records are released by Indonesian Green Island Music. Are Baby Seals big in Southeast Asia?
Kerry: Yes, we’re huge, we are absolutely huge! We actually have no idea, but we did make it onto some New Music Friday Spotify playlists over in Asia at least!!! We met Green Island when they reached out to our label in the pandemic asking if we wanted to work together (ie Trapped Animal) with Indonesian megastars Stars and Rabbit. Riva at Green Island is cut from the same idealistic cloth as us, it’s been amazing working with him on Stars and Rabbit and Grrrl Gang, and more recently it’s been lovely knowing we have someone in Jakarta flying the Seals flag over there for us.
Kerry, you are an accomplished solo singer and a Radio Cambridgeshire DJ. How do you manage to juggle so many roles?
Kerry: Atomoxitine and a really supportive family. Ha! Storytelling works in songs and in the job that I do – bringing people stories to air. It’s something I’m really passionate about, especially getting under-represented voices to air. Also where I work there’s a lot of training around critical thinking and that really helps from the writing element of the Baby Seals stuff. I recently recorded a piece between Palestinian and Israeli bereaved families – the conversation was around cohesion and how dialogue and understanding can bring people together. I’m not interested in division and I think that reflects a lot in our music as well.
You have been touring a lot. You shared stages with legendary Bow Wow Wow, Billy Nomates, The Raincoats and The Menstrual Cramps. Tell us about your favourite gig and where did you play?
Kerry: Get in Her Ears 10th birthday all-dayer in September this year. I love this organisation and promoter and they always have great line ups and venues. They’re really inclusive and not self-serving (unlike some)!
Amos (Amy): Munster Raving Loony Party – Taragona. The crowd were free, wild and insatiable, we had a blast.
Kate: Playing on a barge in Amien – amazing people, phenomenal venue. The Sound was great and the owner made a killer tart with a heart shaped teaser. Different gigs have different highlights, we’ve met some incredible promoters and audiences.
Last questions are always fun at Indieterria: let’s pretend JD Vance is again visiting the UK and he happens to come to your gig. What songs are on your set list?
Kerry: All of ’em!! Especially “Chaos” – “You wanted a leader didn’t you, you dumb fuck!!”
The Baby Seals Online:
https://www.thebabyseals.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/thebabyseals
https://www.instagram.com/thebabyseals
https://x.com/thebabyseals
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dPxlBjTjehWM4VRwl2bmw
https://thebabyseals.bandcamp.com/album/tamoo-trance
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHGsYmi580xcrC7q2JMQH7w
https://trappedanimal.com/collections/the-baby-seals (label)
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