Our recent recommendations for The Louisiana
With their Plague Pit pals, Cryptbreaker are brewing the most rotten, stinking, bubonic-blackened hardcore Bristol’s ever seen. Come feast on Dungeon Rot in this headline celebration of the new EP, with surplus sacrilege from Priest Crippler’s anti-clergy deathgrind and Exterminatus’ downtuned Warhammercore. Battle-jacket-worthy FFO: Venom, Driller Killer, Final Dose, Hellhammer.
Celebrating the release of Cryptbreaker's new EP 'Dungeon Rot'
Sell out warning! Cyberspace sensation Good Flying Birds pull together 90s twee-pop melodies, ramshackle fuzz and Elephant 6-style whimsy – this is Midwest indie just like mama used to make! Warming up the Louis for ‘em: Soft Boys-evoking power-poppers Bramwell, lugubrious local janglers The Cindys, and Vehicle’s misty-eyed garage. Extremely dreamy FFO: Apples in Stereo, The Vaselines, Teenage Fanclub.
Cellar Door presents Good Flying Birds + The Cindys + Vehicle + Bramwell
Rising local oddities The Scuttlers give the Windmill Scene a run for its money, slinging anxious art rock laden with twitchy rhythms and jazzy freeform detours aplenty. Cellar Door’s gonna spoil you as ever, so there’s a hefty helping of killer support from Uncle Junior’s raucous math-noise, Why Horses’ grubby dance-punk and Paper Hats’ post-hardcore tenderness. Stacked!
The Scuttlers + Uncle Junior + Why Horses? + Paper Hats
Get into the long line to join pôt-pot’s eerie motorik dream: a breathing harmonium drone rock nebula, rolling forward in rhythmic lockstep through walls of garage-psych guitar fuzz and sardonic vocal haze. It’s a 21st century Nuggets-worthy parade FFO: Neu!, Spacemen 3, Ulrika Spacek, Stuck, Good Flying Birds.
Lisbon/Ireland based psych rock & kosmische
Knee-slapping UK roots and Americana from Newcastle’s renegade Rob Heron - ripping through an original repertoire of blues, rockabilly, swing and country like it’s 1955 all over again. Blink and you’ll think it’s Sun Records….. radical revivalism FFO: Pokey LaFarge, The Dead South, Curtis Eller, Sierra Ferrell.
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra: Where rockabilly meets blues, country, swing and soul! Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have been gleefully trampling over genre boundaries for over a decade now, chucking rockabilly, blues, country, swing, soul and more into their musical gumbo, but always sounding mostly just like themselves. Plus support from Bristol's own Country Rockabilly trio, The Swamp Puppies.