This site and Panic Pocket go back a long way, I premiered their debut single back in 2018, booked them to play shows and generally delighted in their growth from minimal bedroom experimentation to polished indie-pop perfection. The brainchild of best friend duo Natalie Healey and Sophie Peacock, on their debut album, Mad Half Hour, Panic Pocket morphed into a four-piece band, taking all the grit and comedy of everyday life and spinning it into a collection of brilliant sing-along pop classics. With the album recently released via Skep Wax, today the band are premiering the video accompanying the record’s penultimate track, Mr Big.

A song that originally saw the light of day back in 2018, Mr Big has been given something of a makeover for his appearance on Mad Half Hour, as Natalie explains, “as it’s one of our oldest songs, we wanted to try something new for the album version”. This fresh take seems to lean into the song’s collective spirit, with the thick power-pop-influenced guitars and bassy-synth tones adorned with gang vocals as they share their tale of, “a frustrated friend trying to stop her pal chasing after a toxic man by reminding her BFF that, actually, theirs is the timeless love story they’ve been looking for all along”.

The accompanying video leans into the song’s angry disappointment becoming something of a revenge flick parody, “think Thelma and Louise meets Lady Vengeance. It’s Panic Pocket as you’ve never seen us before, battling the patriarchy with baseball bats, water guns, and a pie or two to the face”. So yes Sex In The City and its arrogant, emotionally unavailable male might not have aged wonderfully, but it just goes to show “even overwrought HBO comedy dramas can provide songwriting inspiration”, just as long as you’ve got good friends to share them with.

Mad Half Hour is out now via Skep Wax. For more information on Panic Pocket visit https://linktr.ee/panicpocket.