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Saint Celebrity Return With Remarkable New Single “True Say”
Saint Celebrity are a rising independent rock band hailing from Bristol, UK, consisting of Jon Gray (vocals and guitar), Vivek Rad (lead guitar and synth), Mikey Cirelli (drums) and Graeme Knee (bass guitar). Establishing a flourishing partnership with gold-certified producer and engineer Matt O’Grady (You Me At Six, Don Broco, Deaf Havana), Saint Celebrity are pushing the boundaries of sound and style within the independent rock world.
Only one year into their journey, the band have already played a number of sold-out headline shows and released several well-received singles, each with a unique sound within the indie rock genre. Their debut single, “Shy”, earned them Artist Of The Week on BBC Radio Bristol, and this summer they were invited into BBC Radio to play a live set for a full week, where they played an acoustic rendition of a then-unreleased track called “True Say”. Such was the positive response to the track, the band decided to record it as a full song and release it as their new single.
“True Say” (produced by Matt O’Grady) is an indie-rock-dance song about the infatuation you feel for someone in the early stages of a relationship. It’s an absolute belter of a track and surely a future festival crowd pleaser. Packed with melodic synths, pounding drums, classic punk-pop guitars and a huge memorable hook, “True Say” looks set to be another success for the band and elevate them to new heights.
Speaking further on the new release, Saint Celebrity say, “This song goes through the invincible feeling of finding your lover and best friend. You feel free and truly think you can take on the world! It’s total addiction to unity and wanting to see each other all the time. The song stems from Jon’s personal experience of finally feeling like he’d found ‘the one’.” “True Say” is available to buy/stream now on all platforms.
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There’s a particular kind of hunger that defines a band on the verge — that combustible mix of raw talent, hard-won momentum, and the unmistakable sense that everything they’ve been building is about to break wide open. The Chads, the pop-punk-ska fireballers out of Sayville, New York, have that hunger in abundance. And in 2026, they are ready to feed it.
The foundation is already in place. The four-piece — Joy, Mike, Mark, and Santino — spent the past year stacking wins that most bands spend a decade chasing. They took home the WEHM Battle of the Bands, earned a coveted spot on the Jumbalaya Stage at the Great South Bay Music Festival, and walked into a WPIX Morning Show segment that put their faces and their music in front of a New York City-wide audience. For a band still in the early stages of their career, it is a résumé that commands attention.
Their debut single “The Neighbors” — a razor-sharp, high-energy pop-punk-ska hybrid pulled straight from a true story of Long Island life — announced their arrival with a wink and a riff. Tongue-in-cheek in tone but tight as a drum in execution, the song showcases exactly what makes The Chads stand out in a crowded regional scene: they can make you laugh and make you move at the same time, which is a far rarer skill than it sounds. The track is available on Spotify and has been making steady inroads on radio, building the kind of organic buzz that no marketing budget can manufacture.
Now comes the next chapter. The Chads are heading into Dream Studios with producer Jason Mekler to record their new EP — a project that represents the most significant creative investment of their career to date. Mekler’s production experience combined with the band’s live-honed instincts makes for a pairing with serious promise. If “The Neighbors” was the introduction, the EP is the statement — the recorded proof that what audiences have been experiencing in clubs and on festival stages across Long Island translates just as powerfully through speakers.
The tri-state area has been the proving ground. The world is next.
Pop-punk has always thrived on authenticity — on bands that sound like they mean it, that write songs about real places and real people and real absurdities of everyday life.
The Chads check every one of those boxes. They are a Long Island band in the truest sense: specific enough to feel genuine, relatable enough to travel far beyond the island that made them.
Watch for the EP. Watch for the tour dates. Watch for the name.
The Chads are coming — and they are bringing Sayville with them.
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