Follow Adult DVD down the rabbit hole into their rave-rock wonderland of characters

“Are we going into the fucking jungle?” blurts out Harry Hanson, clawing away leaves and branches as NME loses sight of the Adult DVD vocalist. “Have you got a machete?” smiles his bandmate Greg Lonsdale (synth), who’s on navigation duty. We’ve drifted astray at The Hollies in Leeds, a woodland area distinguished by dog walkers and tennis courts where the band once took photos. Lonsdale, who considered bringing his dog, wishes we’d filmed this directionless trek. “I feel very at peace,” shares Hanson, once the three of us find the path. READ MORE: NME’s top 10 shows from The Great Escape 2026 Inevitably, the main form of greenery Hanson sees nowadays is the green room. While the band have stepped up their touring exploits over the past few years, word has got around of Adult DVD’s loose, untethered riot of dance-punk. In 2023, when the Leeds group played their first international gigs at Rotterdam’s Left Of The Dial, they flew home with a European booking agent secured. Eventually, the UK caught up, as NME faced lengthy queues outside Brighton venue Komedia in both 2025 and 2026 to catch them at The Great Escape Festival. Dictated by pulsating synth riffs, all six members have thei...