Dead Pony, Slam Dunk Festival 2026 LIVE REVIEW: When you do something that you love, it shows. It’s near impossible for the energy that’s coursing through you not to flow through all that surrounds you. That’s where Dead Pony are right now; completely locked in, in a manner that you can tell they have been aiming towards nailing for some time. Just a week on from the release of their barnstorming new EP ‘Eat My Dust!’, the quartet are relishing the chance for their new creation to incite some early doors chaos. A live debut for the complex devastation of ‘Lost Inside Of Me’ shows just how deep these roots go, whilst ‘Freak Like Me’ feels more and more like a vital anthem for a new generation of rule-breakers to call their own with every outing it has. But the thing that shines the brightest is just fiercely free the band feel. Anna Shields goes from soft to sharp in the flick of the wrist, fully lost in the heaviness that bolsters ‘Everything Burns’ but also touched by the reaction t...