American Football

Lout Promotions present

American Football

plus guests

Saturday 1st July 2023

at The Old Market, Brighton

Doors 7:30pm

Over 14's only. Under 16's accompanied by an adult.

This is an 14+ event (Under 16's accompanied by an adult)

Gigs

Brighton

The Old Market

American Football is an American emo/indie rock band from Urbana, Illinois, originally active from 1997 to 2000. The band was formed by guitarist and singer Mike Kinsella (formerly of Cap'n Jazz, The One Up Downstairs, Joan of Arc, Owls and currently of Owen) and drummer Steve Lamos (formerly of The One Up Downstairs and currently of The Geese), and also included guitar player Steve Holmes.

The band had few live performances and disbanded less than a year after releasing their self-titled album; still, they gained critical acclaim for that album, which merged the plain-spoken, confessional lyrics of emo and the varying time signatures of math rock with a softer musical sensibility.

Mike Kinsella explained the band's name thus: "My girlfriend had been in Dublin, Ireland visiting her family. One of the things she brought home for me was a flyer for a Chicago Bears exhibition game that said: "Come see American Football, featuring the most overpaid athletes in the world." Something about that statement made me think of rock bands, most of whom are the most overpaid musicians in the world. When I suggested it as a name, the other guys thought it was dumb. Still, for whatever reason, we kept it".

The band regrouped in 2014 for two shows to promote the re-issue of their self-titled album.

This is a 14+ event

Leeds

Brudenell Social Club

2000trees is a multi award winning music festival set in the stunning Cotswold Hills just outside Cheltenham. Join us for the 2023 edition. – Winner of ‘Best Medium Festival’ – UK Festival Awards 2018 & 2022. Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes / Hundred Reasons / Skindred / Eagles of Death Metal / Deaf Havana / American Football / Rival Schools / The Wonder Years / Bob Vylan / Electric Six / Empire State Bastard / The Bronx / Loathe / Holding Absence / Kid Kapichi / Brutus / Pitchshifter / Black Honey / Cancer Bats / Employed to Serve / Kneecap / Chelsea Grin / And So I Watch You From Afar / The Joy Formidable / Tigercub / Joyce Manor / Crows / Dream State / De Staat / Martha / Casey / High Vis / Dead Poet Society / One Step Closer / Meat Wave / The Xcerts / Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties / Sprints / Microwave / Kublai Khan TX / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly / Bat Sabbath / Svalbard / The Chisel / No Devotion / LostAlone / Chubby & the Gang / Bad Nerves / Heriot / The Scratch / Prima Queen / Zulu / Militarie Gun / Narrow Head / Witch Fever / The Hurt Process / The 900 / ARXX / As Everything Unfolds / Ayron Jones / Beetlebug / BEX / Biag Special / Big Spring / BLACKGOLD / Cage Fight / Carpark / Chastity / Cody Frost / Dead Pony / Delaire The Liar / Delilah Bon / Dick Valentine / Exit Child / Enola Gay / Fleshwater / Frozemode / Funke and The Two Tone Baby / Gaz Brookfield / Giver / Going Off / GUISE / Graphic Nature / Gurriers / Hannah Grae / Hannah Rose Platt / Haunt the Woods / Heart Attack Man / House Of Women / Hypothetics / Ithaca / July Jones / Kelsy Karter & The Heroines / Kite Thief / Koyo / Lake Malice / Lakes / Lambrini Girls / Loose Articles / Lozeak / Lynks / Mallavora / Mimi Barks / Modern Error / Motherhood / New Pagans / The Oozes / Origami Angel / Paledusk / Pet Needs / Press to MECO / Prince Daddy & the Hyena / PROJECTOR / Reminders / RXPTRS / Saint Agnes / Sounds Mint / SNAYX / Spielbergs / The St Pierre Snake Invasion / SUDS / Telltale / THICK / Toodles & the Hectic Pity / unpeople / WARSHY / Ways Away

VIP TICKETS Include priority entrance, VIP parking, backstage camping, exclusive VIP bar, a glass of bubbly, pampering tent, a bag of exclusive merch from the concierge team upon arrival and so much more

4 DAY TICKETS Come join us for an intimate party before the main event of 2023. The Forest & Word stages will be open with special guest performances & a silent disco till late in The Forest. The Forest bar & a couple of traders will be open to keep you fed & watered, but the main advantage is you can pick the best camping spot before everyone else arrives & wake up Thursday morning in the festival site rather than getting stuck in traffic. This way you're guaranteed to not miss a single minute of our epic Thursday bands... (unless you sleep in that is).

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Wednesday tickets are only valid with the purchase of a weekend ticket. You will be required to show both tickets upon entry to the festival

This is an all ages event (U18s to be accompanied by an adult 18+).

2000trees

2000trees 2023 - Weekend

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Bob Vylan

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Cheltenham

Upcote Farm

The quietest voices can be the most durable.

American Football’s original triumph, on their 1999 self-titled debut, was to reunite two shy siblings: emo and post-rock. It was a pioneering album where lyrical clarity was obscured and complicated by the stealth musical textures surrounding it.

Like Slint’s Spiderland, or Codeine’s The White Birch, even Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock, American Football asked far more questions than it cared to answer. But there wasn’t a band around anymore to explain it, anyway. The three young men who made the album — Mike Kinsella, Steve Holmes, and Steve Lamos — split up pretty much on its release.

Fifteen years later, American Football reunited (now as a four-piece, with the addition of Nate Kinsella). They played far larger shows than in their original incarnation and recorded their long-anticipated second album, 2016’s American Football (LP2). The release was widely praised, but the band members still felt like their best work was yet to come.

‘I feel like the second album was us figuring it out,’ says Nate. ‘For me, it wasn’t quite done. I knew there was still more.’

This is an all ages event.

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