Our recent recommendations for The Old England Pub
A Thursday triple threat of soaring alt-rock at the Old E, headed up by Breichiau Hir’s raw Welsh-language power-emo alongside hook-stacked pop grunge from Leicester’s DreamCage and heavy jazz-spliced post-rock from Brighton’s Mirepoix. Loud, loud, loud.
Breichiau Hir + Dreamcage + Mirepoix at The Old England Pub.
Freakishly cursed and enchanting, Evil Sword conjures a descent into the Unknown (Over The Garden Wall style), complete with goblin metal, no-wave sorcery, hypnotic bass and unhinged tales of horror. This weird and warped sonic lore’s bolstered by ancient avant-folk balladeers Scops and is utterly essential FFO: Schwet, Comus, Mortiis, Gentle Stranger, Tough Sell.
EVIL SWORD UK TOUR with scops & frances pylons at The Old England Pub.
Glacial darkwave, dreamy trip-hop and brooding electronica with a witch house flair, Bristol newcomers Keep Breathing are surefire new faves FFO kelora, IC3PEAK, Kedr Livanskiy, Salem, Crystals Castles. Catch them at the Old E alongside Southwest emo rockers Too Pretty, I’m Scared and tender indie-pop from Purpl.
Keep Breathing + Support at The Old England Pub.
Massive four-biller of shape-shifting experimentalism from the ever-generous IGH crew! At the helm: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra collaborators Raymond MacDonald + Jer Reid with their playful, freeform improvisations on guitar and sax. Plus twisted industrial noise manipulations from Bryn Ward, reverb-soaked post-doo-wop from newbies Patsy Delve, and, ofc, IGH’s ever-morphing house band.
RAYMOND MACDONALD+JER REID / BYRN WYRD+more at The Old England Pub.
More DIY avant-garde goodness at the Old E! Experimental post-punk troupe Minor Conflict bin off six-string riffs in favour of an orchestral melange of harp, cello, synths, trumpet… their folk-tinged sprechtsegung strangeness is a guaranteed hit FFO: Bingo Fury, Quade, Otala, et al. Plus sublime support from feverish punk-jazz manglers Paper Crowns and emerging art-pop priestess bonVILLE.
Klyphex Presents: Minor Conflict + Supports at The Old England