Rough Trade

Access Creative College students are taking their first steps into the live music scene and have prepared a show for Rough Trade that seeks to prepare them for a career in live performance. Performing a range of pieces both original and classic, supporting these young musicians on their first steps into their career will be something to be proud of.

This is an 14+ event

Access Creative College Music Performance Takeover

Gigs

Bristol

Rough Trade Bristol

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a signing with Nakhane. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest album 'Bastard Jargon' released March 31st via BMG.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the signing. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/nakhane/bastard-jargon-2

All ages

Nakhane: Signing

Nakhane - Standing In Our Way

Nakhane - Standing In Our Way - Edit

London

Rough Trade East

Rough Trade Nottingham is very excited to present a stripped back matinee performance from DMA's. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'How Many Dreams?' released on March 31st via I Oh You.

**Please note this show is a performance only there will be no in-person signing all albums will be pre-signed by the band.**

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade Nottingham on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dma-s/how-many-dreams

All ages

DMA's: Stripped Back (Matinee)

DMA'S - Fading Like A Picture

DMA'S

Nottingham

Rough Trade Nottingham

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an in-store unplugged performance and signing from Clémentine March. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest EP 'My Empty Town' released 3rd March via Lost Map Records.

*My Empty Town follows the release in 2020 of Clémentine March’s debut album Le Continent on Lost Map, and its stripped-back follow-up, 2021’s Songs of Resilience. Clémentine’s music has won her admirers throughout the music world, including BBC 6 Music’s Stuart Maconie who has featured her several times on his show the Freak Zone, and selected the song ‘Into The Distance’ as part of his Best New Music of 2021playlist. She has toured extensively around the UK and Europe, including as solo tour support for feted American indie-rock band Big Thief. In parallel with her burgeoning solo career, Clémentine has become a much in-demand multi-instrumentalist, particularly on bass, for artists including Snapped Ankles, Rozi Plain, Alabaster dePlume, Dana Gavanski, Bamboo, Yama Warashi, Naima Bock, Blue House, Bas Jan, Floating World Pictures and Haha Sounds Collective.*

*‘Silence’ is the third track from the My Empty Town EP to be released. ‘Elixir’ – a psychedelic reworking of a song from Clémentine’s 2020 debut album Le Continent, given new life by producer Toby Burroughs (POZI), and featuring Phil MFU (Vanishing Twin) on Moog and electronics, Ursula Russell (Snapped Ankles) on drums, James Howard (Blue House, Dana Gavanski) on bass and Dimitrios Ntontis on organ and synths – came out in 2020. Featuring the same line-up of players, the scuzzy ‘Isolated’was released in 2021. The My Empty Town EP is completed by the title track, a woozy bossa nova written during the pandemic, with themes of dislocation and malaise that refer to that period.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new EP on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/clementine-march/my-empty-town-ep

All ages

Clémentine March: Unplugged + Signing

Elixir - Single Version

Clémentine March

Rough Trade West

Rough Trade Nottingham is very excited to present a stripped back performance and signing from DMA's. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'How Many Dreams?' released on March 31st via I Oh You.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade Nottingham on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dma-s/how-many-dreams

All ages

DMA's: Stripped Back + Signing

Rough Trade West is very excited to present a special instore performance and signing with ARXX. This unique event celebrates the release of their debut album 'Ride or Die' arriving on March 31st via Submarine Cat Records.

*Rough Trade tip packed with infectious pop nuggets. Queer alt-rock Brighton duo Arxx  release their debut album Ride Or Die. Produced by long-term collaborator Steve Ansell (Blood Red Shoes), and mastered by Katie Tavini (Arlo Parks), the album is an infectious package of bittersweet emotions, teeming with sparkling, uplifting synths, unapologetic bass licks and soaring vocals designed to envelop the listener in a empathetic blanket of cathartic-yet-ambivalent post-heartbreak warmth. For fans of Peaness, Big Moon, Charli XCX and Haim.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/arxx/ride-or-die-2

All ages

ARXX: Acoustic + Signing

ARXX - The Last Time

ARXX 

Sunder presents…

Sunnbrella + Stay Lunar & Lorcán

Rough Trade Bristol

Sunnbrella is the brainchild of multi-instrumentist David Zbirka: His music is built on crisp guitar walls, prominent beats, and cold-pop vocal melodies. Sunnbrella's sound is grandiose, heavily tinted by the shoegaze wave and warped in a melancholic 90s vision.

FFO: JAWS, Ghum, Atmos Bloom, Bdrmm and Sea Girls

This is an 18+ event

Sunnbrella + Stay Lunar and Lorcán

Sunnbrella - Wrong

Sunnbrella

Stay Lunar

Lorcán

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a special instore Q&A and signing with A Certain Ratio. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest album '1982' arriving on March 31st via Mute.

**A Certain Ratio will be joined by guest host John Kennedy (Radio X).**

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/a-certain-ratio/1982

All ages

A Certain Ratio: Q&A + Signing

A Certain Ratio - Lucinda

A Certain Ratio

You are invited to the Gladrags Masquerade Ball for an evening of drag, burlesque and DJs on Saturday 1 April.

Be sure to wear a mask to the ball. Create your fantasy at our LGBTQ+ club-night... whether it's a carnival, mardi gras, columbina, gothic, comedic, elaborate or simple mask, anything goes...

As always we encourage you to get your gladrags on and set your inhibitions free!

PERFORMERS – drag & burlesque

Marvy Mucas – Bin Juice – Coffin Goblin – Local Woman - Nana Arthole - Marilyn Sane

DJs

Boz – Baby Tap

Pop, electro, alternative, techno and much more.

18+ event

ID may be required

FB/Insta - gladragsnotts

No refunds except in case of cancellation or change of date

\* This is an event for the LGBTQ+ community but allies are more than welcome. We have zero tolerance for any type of discrimination. If anyone makes you feel uncomfortable please inform a member of staff, security or let one of the team know. We also reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone that seems unfit to attend the event in a safe way including ticket holders with no refunds allowed \*

This is an 18+ event

Gladrags: The Masquerade Ball

party

Party

Rough Trade Bristol is very excited to present a stripped back matinee performance from DMA's. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'How Many Dreams?' released on March 31st via I Oh You.

**Please note this show is a performance only there will be no in-person signing all albums will be pre-signed by the band.**

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade Bristol on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dma-s/how-many-dreams

All ages

Rough Trade Bristol is very excited to present a stripped back performance and signing from DMA's. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'How Many Dreams?' released on March 31st via I Oh You.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade Bristol on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dma-s/how-many-dreams

All ages

Rough Trade Nottingham is very excited to present a special instore Q&A and signing with A Certain Ratio. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest album '1982' arriving on March 31st via Mute.

**A Certain Ratio will be joined by guest host Paul A Taylor (Mute).**

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade Nottingham on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/a-certain-ratio/1982

All ages

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Rough Trade Bristol is very excited to present a live in-store performance and signing with Those Damn Crows. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest album 'Inhale / Exhale' released on February 17th, via Earache.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade Bristol on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/those-damn-crows/inhale-exhale-1

All ages

Those Damn Crows: Stripped Back + Signing

Those Damn Crows - This Time I'm Ready

Those Damn Crows

Rough Trade East is very excited to present an in-store live performance and signing from Mammal Hands. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest album 'Gift From The Trees' released 31st March via Gondwana Records.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/mammal-hands/gift-from-the-trees

All ages

Mammal Hands: Live + Signing

Kandaiki

Mammal Hands

Rough Trade is very excited to present an intimate performance and Q&A from Durand Jones at Ninety One Living Room. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Wait Til I Get Over' released on May 5th via Dead Oceans.

**An intimate preview of songs from the new album, followed by a Q&A with Durand Jones and Michelle Kambasha.**

**All CD/LP purchases will be shipped at release from May 5th, 2023 via Second Class Mail.**

More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/durand-jones/wait-til-i-get-over

This is an 18+ event

Ninety One Living Room

Durand Jones: Live + Q&A @ Ninety One Living Room

Durand Jones - That Feeling

Durand Jones

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a stripped back matinee performance from DMA's. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'How Many Dreams?' released on March 31st via I Oh You.

**Please note this show is a performance only there will be no in-person signing all albums will be pre-signed by the band.**

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dma-s/how-many-dreams

All ages

Rough Trade Bristol is very excited to present a special instore live performance and signing with ARXX. This unique event celebrates the release of their debut album 'Ride or Die' arriving on March 31st via Submarine Cat Records.

*Rough Trade tip packed with infectious pop nuggets. Queer alt-rock Brighton duo Arxx  release their debut album Ride Or Die. Produced by long-term collaborator Steve Ansell (Blood Red Shoes), and mastered by Katie Tavini (Arlo Parks), the album is an infectious package of bittersweet emotions, teeming with sparkling, uplifting synths, unapologetic bass licks and soaring vocals designed to envelop the listener in a empathetic blanket of cathartic-yet-ambivalent post-heartbreak warmth. For fans of Peaness, Big Moon, Charli XCX and Haim.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade Bristol on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/arxx/ride-or-die-2

All ages

ARXX: Live + Signing

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a stripped back performance and signing from DMA's. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'How Many Dreams?' released on March 31st via I Oh You.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dma-s/how-many-dreams

All ages

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an in-store unplugged performance and signing from Alberta Cross. This unique event celebrates the release of their latest album 'Sinking Ships' released 31st March via AMK.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/alberta-cross/sinking-ships

All ages

Alberta Cross: Unplugged + Signing

Alberta Cross - Between You And Me

Alberta Cross - Between You and Me

Alberta Cross

DONUT RECORDS PRESENTS

live at Rough Trade Bristol Wed Apr 5th

PARKAS

THE IDLE SILENCE

HOLY POPES

SEBAS

\*PARKAS\*

@parkasuk

Garage rock quartet from Bristol, UK.

Specialists in dirty, disillusioned, maliciously unapologetic rock and roll.

Enjoy only at maximum volume

linktr.ee/weareparkas

\*HOLY POPES\*

@holy.popes

Bristol post garage punk

youtu.be/sBOOBMPCn6I

\*THE IDLE SILENCE\*

@theidlesilence

Noisy indie-pop band from the depths of Somerset

\*SEBAS\*

Cardiff-based king of rock!

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This is an 18+ event.

Parkas / Holy Popes / The Idle Silence / Sebas

PARKAS - Catch Me Out

Holy Popes - Jerry

PARKAS

HOLY POPES

The Idle Silence

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an in-store In Conversation and signing from The Only Ones and author Simon Wright. This unique event celebrates the release of the Simon's book 'It’s The Truth – Making The Only Ones' released April 1st.

*The Only Ones were the most important band to emerge in 1977, artistically if not commercially. Their eponymous first LP presents a wonderful sense of possibilities and excitement, of a band standing on the verge of something fantastic. And the presence of Another Girl, Another Planet – ‘arguably the best rock single ever recorded’ according to Allmusic.com – illustrates how not being a hit can extend the shelf life of a song.*

*Working from new interviews with the band members, Simon Wright documents the formation and early days of this enigmatic group and explains why they never achieved the massive success they deserved. Illustrated with previously unseen photographs, it’s an account of how four musicians from very different backgrounds made an exhilarating LP which grafted punk attitude onto rock ‘n’ roll rootstock.*

*Odds-on that your favourite musician has this LP in their collection: read this book to find out why.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new book to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE > > https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/simon-wright/its-the-truth-making-the-only-ones/paperback

All ages

The Only Ones: In Conversation with Simon Wright + Signing

The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

The Only Ones

artistsigning

Artist signing

Pots & Pints proudly presents Herb planters! Get your clay on and come and make some herby houses for your fave foliage. Using different Ceramic techniques we will guide you through how to make your masterpiece. Option to have your pot professionally fired for a small charge. PS- First drink on us!

This is an 14+ event

Pots and Pints

workshop

Workshop

Tonic keeps the Music & Poetry Party going in April with a Tonic first, headlined by award-winning poet and rapper, Woodzy! We love to inspire brand new writing, welcome creative discussion and promote some of the best and brightest music & spoken word talent in the South West and further afield.

Come join this brimming community of writers, art-lovers and all-round gorgeous folk.

HEADLINER

Award-winning Flo poet, 2x TEDx Speaker and winner of UK unsigned 2019. As seen on BAFTA winning TV show "Life And Rhymes" and also on Sky Sports "Fight Night" Live at Wembley Arena.

Woodzy was always destined to become a poet, being born on World Poetry Day. He cut his teeth at the Brit School, has openned for Stormzy and featured on BBC1Xtra. Having a poem on the tour of the Tower of London, to reaching over 1 million views on his poem "90s baby", Woodzy captivates his audience with witty wordplay, use of language and relatable topics.

His latest project "Peace Out, Peace In" Was released on March 13th 2023, bringing Spoken Word and Music together.

Aside from performing, Woodzy facilitates a variety of workshops in schools, colleges and workplaces. Looking to change people's perspective on poetry.

Woodzy continues to work on upcoming projects as one of the Flo Poets. Also working with International Poetry platform Voices In Power. Constantly looking to grow the poetry community and change the world one poem at a time.

This is a 16+ event.

Tonic 047: Woodzy

*Circus Dub / Bloke Stuff* is an album that musically celebrates the types of references found on old vinyl records from stores and charity shops across the UK. Although the music on the double album is entirely recorded and composed by Jack Wolff, he found his footing for hiphop loops as an sp404 troop, choosing through the disparity in forgetting melodies of the past.

Pairing up with metaphor master Ty Healy a number of years ago, they’re combined efforts took a turn to the world of cartoons and lucid story lines thanks to Ty’s unique ability to conjure narrative out of the smallest subject matter. “Catchy hooks and a dope vibe” doesn’t quite do this project justice despite it being 100% true, beneath the surface is social commentary, pop culture references and existential humour at its finest.

The Duo will be joined by some of Nottinghams funkiest sound crafters, and they’re 7 piece live band on the night.

This is an 14+ event

Circus Dub / Bloke Stuff [Album Launch]

Rough Trade Bristol is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Billie Marten. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Drop Cherries' released on April 7th via Fiction.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade Bristol on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/billie-marten/drop-cherries

All ages

Billie Marten: Live + Signing

Billie Marten - I Can't Get My Head Around You

Billie Marten

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a live performance and signing from Daughter. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Stereo Mind Game' released on April 7th via 4AD.

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/daughter/stereo-mind-game

All ages

Daughter: Live + Signing

Daughter - Swim Back

Daughter

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an in-store live performance and signing from Ben Gregory. This unique event celebrates the release of their debut album 'Episode' released on April 7th via Transgressive.

*It is impossible to separate Ben Gregory’s majestic, multi-faceted and emotionally wrenching debut solo album Episode from a period of profound personal upheaval. In 2019 Blaenavon, the much-beloved band with whom he released two widely acclaimed albums, was dissolving. Not unrelatedly, Gregory was receiving treatment in psychiatric hospitals. “Everything on ‘Episode’ comes back to my struggle to interpret, or reinterpret, my life and its core relationships, after having my concept of reality revoked,” he says. “This may sound dramatic, but it’s hard to know if you can trust how you feel about a partner, a situation, a future, when you’ve sat in a hospital bed, torn a newspaper to shreds, sat back and watched it put itself back together.”*

*Over a ten-day period he wrote the eight songs that would become Episode, songs which sprawl out across the vast emotional spectrum he had experienced in the months beforehand. The instrumentals that back those songs are breath-taking. Gregory – with the help of producer and old friend Blaine Harrison of Mystery Jets and engineer Matt Twaites – pushing his music to limits far beyond anything he’s reached in the past.*

*Episode is a record of unbelievable capacity, in which is to be found true catharsis, the type of record that does not come around often.*

Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/ben-gregory/episode

All ages

Ben Gregory: Live + Signing

Ben Gregory - blue sea blue

Ben Gregory - Blue Sea Blue

Ben Gregory

Rough Trade East is very excited to present a very special in-store performance and signing from Tigercub. This unique event celebrates the release of their album 'The Perfume of Decay' released on June 2nd via Loosegroove Records.

Fans will be provided with exclusive prints to be signed by the band!

All CD/LP purchases will be shipped at release from June 2nd, 2023 via Second Class Mail.

More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/tigercub/the-perfume-of-decay

All ages

Tigercub: Live + Signing

Tigercub - Play My Favourite Song

Tigercub

Rough Trade Nottingham are proud to welcome **SUDS** as part of their UK tour this April. Their first run since signing to Big Scary Monsters.

Support comes from S. T. Manville who is a singer-songwriter from the Midlands UK. He has written and produced for artists such as Burna Boy, Mabel, Mø, and Jaykae to name a few. Since launching a solo project in 2019 Manville has clocked up over 4.5 million streams, been supported by BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing, DIY Mag, i-d Magazine, Kerrang! and more, performed at 2000 Trees, Dot to Dot and Handmade Festival as well as supported OWEN (American Football’s Mike Kinsella) and Frank Turner. With a new EP, tour dates and festival performances coming later this year Manville continues to make a name for himself as one of the brightest alternative singer-songwriters in the UK.

All ages, all welcome.

This is an 14+ event

SUDS (Free Entry)

OUT TONIGHT

SUDS - Evergreen

S. T. Manville

SUDS

Rough Trade West is very excited to present an unplugged performance and signing from Pixey. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Dreams, Pains and Paper Planes' released on April 7th via Chess Club.

Some tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/pixey/dreams-pains-and-paper-planes

All ages

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