BRISTOL: The Thunderbolt

Friday 22nd November, 2024

7:30pm

Event information

SWANSEA SOUND
Indie supergroup Swansea Sound hail from Kent/Swansea, . Reuniting Hue Williams and Amelia Fletcher, the original singers of cult 1990s UK indie band The Pooh Sticks, Swansea Sound have become a popular fixture on the UK indie scene. They have released two acclaimed albums, are frequently played on the BBC and have recorded a live BBC6Music session. Described as ‘an indiepop miracle’ by All Music, SWANSEA SOUND combine a witty, sardonic, very contemporary lyrical attack with timeless guitar-pop songwriting. Latest single ‘Markin’ It Down’, which features Amelia as an unimpressed record shop worker and Hue as an ever-optimistic customer, was released in April to mark International Record Store Day. The live experience is unmissable, with Hue and Amelia playing off each other, sometimes duetting, sometimes harmonising, always entertaining, while the band (Rob Pursey – also Heavenly, Bob Collins – The Dentists, Ian Button - Death In Vegas) kick up an infectious melodic racket.

THE LOVELY BASEMENT
Bristol-based band the Lovely Basement play jangly indie pop-rock - think the Velvet Underground & Belle and Sebastian.Post-cool or too old to care?
Lovely beings in the Basement are:
Kevin Bache: guitars, vocals
Steve Dew: drums, percussion
Katie Scaife: guitars, vocals
Paul Waterworth, bass

THE REV ‘BEAT’ KINKAID
POET AND TROUBADOUR
Ex-Groove Farm/Beatnik Filmstars fella who plays off-kilter lo-fi pop halfway between Martin Newell and R. Stevie Moore’ - Jigsaw Records

‘fuzzed folk punk troubadour from Bristol’ - old bad habits records