Cold Culprits, aka Andy Watson, is based near York. After living in Essex and Hertfordshire for ten years, Andy moved to Yorkshire where he discovered York’s many open mic nights. He bought a guitar and performed for the first time in February 2017, which resulted in a slot at a local beer festival in April 2017, and the formation of an indie rock band in 2018. In the summer of 2019, the band decided to stop making original music to focus solely on playing indie rock covers on the pub circuit. That’s when Andy started to learn drums and keyboards, to create original music as Cold Culprits.

If you’re into Kasabian, The Slow Readers Club or Reverend and the Makers then Cold Culprits could be for you. If you like the songwriting style of Elbow, Joni Mitchell or Patti Smith then you’re going to enjoy the lyrics of Cold Culprits. Influences include Neil Young, INXS, Bjork, The Clash, The Doors and The Germs, and even a little bit of The Prodigy mixed in among it all. Cold Culprits is all about getting stuck in and doing things yourself. The debut single, We Will Bleed, was recorded in Andy’s front room.

The name Cold Culprits is a reference to The Germs, a 1970s LA punk rock band, referencing germs as the culprits of the common cold. The Germs were unstable, self-destructive and incoherent. They also wrote some beautifully poetic lyrics in the few short years before they imploded and their lead singer committed suicide.