Coming up this week at The Sunflower Lounge we have pop four-piece Club Drive on Tuesday, rhythm’n’blues trio King Salami & The Cumberland Three on Thursday, and Saturday sees Liverpool’s swaggering psychedelic outfit The Vryll Society. Check out the full listings below:
Eyedress announces Birmingham show
Eyedress is 26 year old Idris Vicuña from Manila, the Philippines. He presents his debut album proper – Manila Ice– out 12th May via Lex Records.
HVMM play Birmingham show
From the West Midlands rises the heavy-laced rock of HVMM. When was the last time you went to a gig and felt that teenage combination of fear and excitement? Picture a sepia-lit stage with four smartly garbed musicians staring out steely eyed. Collarless cotton, cravats, smoked chrome glinting on resting Fenders: the scene feels theatrical, anachronistic, subversive.
King Salami & The Cumberland Three play Birmingham show
This is London’s greatest and most sensational rhythm’n’blues-punk band. And this is a band that truly represents London, being a mongrel mix of Caribbean, France, Japan and Spain.
Introducing: Flyte
Flyte are Will Taylor (vocals, lead guitar), Nick Hill (bass, vocals), Sam Berridge (keyboards, guitars, vocals) and Jon Supran (drums, vocals). The band has spent the first months of 2017 in Australia putting the finishing touches to their debut album with Courtney Barnett producer Burke Reid, a collaboration that delves deep into new sonic territory to create a modernist but timeless sound that revels in coming-of-age nostalgia, cinematic synth melodies and prolific storytelling themes of life, love and death.
Introducing: Mantra
West London rock band Måntra would rather stand up and deliver music with a message for the left-behinds and the disenfranchised in these increasingly polarised times. Frontman/guitarist Simon Stark formed Måntra with two friends from Ealing, Richard Leeds (bass) and Rob Emms (drums), as an expressive outlet for these subversive sentiments, underpinned by their shared musical influences.
Wovoka Gentle announce Birmingham show
Wovoka Gentle are an experimental folk three-piece from London, comprised of William Stokes and twins Imogen and Ellie Mason. Taking its root in folk and Americana songwriting, the Wovoka sound draws upon the psychedelic soundscapes of the late 60s as well as contemporary experimental, jazz and collage music; marrying classic instrumentation with sampling, analogue synthesis and sound manipulation.
Peaness to play Birmingham show
Three piece indie-pop band Peaness formed in Chester, England in late 2014. Their debut EP No Fun was released Aug 20th 2015 and the trio have gigged extensively up and down the country over the last couple of years, winning “the hearts of unsuspecting listeners across the length and breadth of the DIY scene, right through to BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens“.
Moon Sugar to play Birmingham show
Moon Sugar are an alternative, indie rock & roll outfit from Birmingham, UK that formed in 2014. Originally formed as a 3 piece (consisting of Dave Cross, Jon Williams and Adee Shaw), they started out gigging small social/sports clubs to friends and family. As the need for a bassist and drummer intensified, Moon Sugar recruited the skills of Ellis and Chris on Drums and Bass respectively.
Sound of the Sirens announce Birmingham show
There’s a certain transcendent magic that happens when two contrasting voices coalesce in perfect harmony. Imperceptibly, they can raise you from the temporal to the spiritual in the breath of a song, and set you floating among the firmament infused with a sense of wonder – just like Sound of the Sirens.