That year, the world hit pause. Livehouse doors were padlocked, tour buses sat rusting in lots, and the entire music industry hibernated through a long, dark winter.

But IT Model was never a band that would just lie down and die.

In the summer of 2020, while most bands were still rehearsing over Zoom, they crammed into a beat‑up Ford Transit, armed with ten new songs — the full tracklist of what would become the album Good Riddance, 2020 — and set off from London, heading east. COVID test certificates stuffed the glovebox; border controls felt like defusing bombs at random. They played to twenty masked souls in hollowed‑out clubs, powered impromptu sets with generators in parking lots, and scribbled next‑day anthems around campfire light.

Key stops: London, Leeds, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin.

Iconic moment: A Berlin show was cancelled on the spot, so they set up right outside the club’s plaza. Over two hundred people gathered — it became one of Europe’s few “open‑air punk parties” of 2020.

That year, they proved one thing: noise needs no permission.