Birmingham Gigs

Synth Heacy German Indie rockers.

At the Sunflower Lounge. Tickets available from Fatsoma at £16

https://www.fatsoma.com/e/uism8rug/leoniden-birmingham-the-sunflower-lounge

Multi Genre Fest
Tickets £10 https://centrala-shop.co.uk/products/the-shits-nape-neck-zd-grafters?_pos=1&_sid=46d3df61d&_ss=r

THE SHITS
“Terrible, terrible bastards The Shits are here with all the spiritually uplifting, life affirming, serotonin boosting properties of a dark amber, ammonia stinking, three-day rave piss, in the form of new transmission, You’re A Mess. Starting with a bludgeoning, left of centre, Amphetamine Reptile punk take on The Stooges that laughs in the face of more recent flat white-sipping, pantywaisted post rock and post hardcore innovations and instead concentrates on a caustic, clangorous, bone-cracking assault on all that is right and proper. But steady your nerve, delve into their metallic, acid stripped, pig-fuck grooves and you will find a chaotic world of inverted psychedelia and jet black – fucking appalling – enlightenment waiting for you.” John Doran
https://theshitsrock.bandcamp.com
NAPE NECK
NAPE NECK is a trio from Leeds (UK) playing post-punk that’s simultaneously tangled and taut, danceable and destructed, all while resisting any attempts to be easily situated as the latest addition to a specific geographic and genre-based continuum that stretches back to Gang of Four and Delta 5.
Nape Neck’s knotted rhythms and the intersecting/overlapping vocal shouts from all three band members bring to mind Scissor Girls or Erase Errata, who also drew inspiration from the spiky tension of first wave UK post-punk and translated it through the more wild and free tendencies of DNA-descended downtown art-noise.
https://napeneck.bandcamp.com/album/look-alive-ep
ZD GRAFTERS
Birmingham’s new Parole Jazz diarchy.
Hot as magma, a brand-new project featuring the father and son rhythm section from the continually erupting volcano that is Haq123.
Zac remains behind the drum kit, Dave is on keys/effects.
Q. What is Parole Jazz?
A. Music that is allowed to be essentially free in nature as long as it abides by certain restrictions.
In this instance we have semi-improvised keyboard melodies alongside fully improvised drumming and percussion.
Since starting to play drums at the age of six, young Zac’s musical life has been ruled by the tyranny of the backbeat…until now.
The shackles are off, the metronome lies smashed in a corner – free at last to play whatever he wants.
This will be ZD Grafters’ first ever public performance – don’t miss it.
It could be amazing – it could go horribly wrong.
https://zdgrafters.bandcamp.com/community

Indie Rock at the Sunflower Lounge

Tickets £10 https://app.promotix.com/events/details/Hardwicke-Circus-Birmingham

Hardwicke Circus are a six piece rock 'n' roll band: a true rock 'n' roll collective, hailing from Annan, Ayr, Carlisle, Edinburgh & Helsinki & probably some other places that only ever existed in the 70’s.

Their music is indie rock, with a confident swagger. Evoking the early 70's post Altamont malevolence of the Rolling Stones but dragging it kicking & screaming through a modern indie custom cab until it sounds like the Stones are covering Catfish & The Bottlemen. Of course it doesn't hurt that their lead singer is a dead ringer for the young Mick Jagger & if that isn't enough you'd swear that a teenage Pete Townsend was playing guitar?
“We’re a Rock 'n' Roll band, but musically I hope we’re a whole lot more,” offers front-man Jonny Foster, a confident performer, still only 19, who seems much older and wiser than his years.

“Our record company, smart indie, came up with the phrase ‘rock and roll just got bigger’ after seeing our first performance at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow. This might be an obvious case of hyperbole and flattery but of course they might have been right - we’re always trying to put on a show!” The promoter at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut likened their show to the Stones 'Exile on Main St.'