CUSP

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The Manatees

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This is a 14+ event (under 16s to be accompanied by an adult)

The Manatees

The Manatees - Know You

Issy S.O

Gigs

London

Camden Assembly

Centered around singer-songwriter Dan Stock, CUSP know their way around festival-ready anthems, intimate ballads and a broad scope of classic, melodic pop-rock songs. Across their collection of early demos and recordings ‘Songs (Vol.1-3)’ they have set out an early but clear vision of how guitar music still can feel familiar and brand new at the same time.

Already with a growing fanbase which includes many of their peers, in 2023 they have begun taking their songs around the country and have been invited on tours by bands including DMA’s, The Snuts and The Sherlocks. With a series of singles ready for next year, more music, bigger stages and headline tours await in the new year.

This is a 16+ event - all under 18’s must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

Cusp - Coming up Roses

CUSP - Coming up Roses

North Shields

Three Tanners Bank

$15 Adv + Fees | 21+

Kal Marks have never made a record as personal as Wasteland Baby. Though Carl Shane, the band’s vocalist-guitarist, has made a career off of exploring blunt, uncomfortable truths through song, with Wasteland Baby, he steered Kal Marks toward something utterly new. Shane looked inward to stare down a fear that had long plagued him: What would it look like to have a child in a world that looks like this? “The album was driven by the fears I’m having about being a father,” says Shane. “The initial spark was this fear, and I thought that maybe if I could express it, I could overcome it.” 

Originally from Rochester, New York, Cusp makes ’90s-indebted indie rock that’s by turns thrashing and mesmerizing, yet always thoroughly attuned to the anxieties and paradoxes of modern life. After releasing a debut EP, 2021’s Spill, and a single with Fire Talk Records, Cusp members Jen Bender (guitar, vocals), Gaelen Bates (guitar), and Matt Manes (bass) relocated to Chicago in 2022. There, the band immediately found its place among the city’s diverse and close-knit independent music scene.

With a squall of guitar and a crash of drums, two years on from the release of their exhilarating debut EP, Chicago noisemakers Babe Report finally release their debut album in 2024, in the form of the rough-and-ready Did You Get Better, released this Spring via Exploding In Sound.

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