Sad Girl Rave is a celebration of the anthems that you sing your heart out to and give you the power to get through life. ﻿🥀🖤

Join us if you love Lana Del Rey, Mitski, Adele, Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Muna, Florence + The Machine, Lorde, beabadoobee, Suki Waterhouse and more.

Celebrating your birthday between Dec 5th - 19th? Then you get free entry. E-mail us on hello@throwbackevents.co.uk with the subject ‘Sad Girl Bristol' to claim.

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California Love Christmas Special

Get ready to party like it's the '90s and '00s at the California Love Christmas Special! Join us at The Lanes in Bristol this December for a festive night celebrating the best of old-school hip hop and R&B. With classic tracks from iconic artists like Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliott, and Aaliyah, this event will have you reminiscing and vibing to the best jams of the era. Expect an unforgettable night of music, dancing, and holiday cheer, all in the heart of Bristol’s coolest venue. Don’t miss out on this Christmas special!

Date: Saturday 20th of December 2024

Venue: The Lanes, Bristol

Music: 90s & 00s Hip Hop & R&B

Vibe: Festive, nostalgic and full of holiday cheer!

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California Love 90s & 00s HipHop Christmas Special

Formed in Bristol in 2021, Saloon Dion have crafted a sound that effortlessly combines the rawness of 1980’s punk with the sing-along melodies of 1990’s Manchester.

Over the past two years, they’ve canvassed the British Isles, sharing the stage with the likes of Sprints, Pip Blom, and Opus Kink.

In 2023, they spread their wings further afield and performed at SXSW, Texas, where they summoned cowboys to convenience stores and shared a stage with Renee Zellweger.

There’s a chemistry that permeates the music, a sense of kinship, a resonance with the audience. It's five friends, doing what they love with the people they love night after night.

Saloon Dion

Saloon Dion - Struck

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H-O-T-T-O-G-O! If you are HOT TO GO then come dance at the Pink Pony Rave! 💗🦄

Chappell Roan just got a well deserved number 1 album and we are celebrating by throwing a party to worship Chappell Roan and friends!

DJs will be playing :

Chappell Roan / Charli xcx / The Last Dinner Party / Mitski / Sabrina Carpenter / Reneé Rapp /Olivia Rodrigo/ Billie Eilish / Taylor Swift / Dua Lipa / boygenius / Phoebe Bridgers / MUNA / Troye Sivan & more.

If Kink Is Your Karma then get ready to sing your heart out all night long!

Celebrating your birthday between January 10th & 24th ? Then you get free entry. E-mail us on hello@throwbackevents.co.uk with the subject ‘Pink Pony Bristol' to claim.

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Belako from Mungia (Basque Country) and formed by Josu and Lore Billelabeitia, Lander Zalakain and Cris Lizarraga, began in May 2011. In March 2013, they released their first full album: Eurie.

They soon started achieving different music prizes (Rollin Stone Magazine’s Best New Artist 2014 and many others) and playing in several international festivals, such as the Mad Cool of Madrid, FIB Benicassim, Vive Latino, Primavera Sound, SXSW, Finsbury Park or Reading & Leeds. The really exciting thing for the band would come in September 2017, where they began a world tour going through many countries: Russia, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, USA, Germany, France, England, Scotland… During this tour, they continued getting important prizes, such as RNE’s Critical Eye for Best Modern Music, Independent Music Awards for Best Artist and Best Live or the Iberian Music Award for Best Live performance 2018. 2020 is the year of Plastic Drama, the 4th album of the band, their most ambitious, reflexive and vindictive work having great reviews by NME, The Line of Best Fit, Gigwise, El Universal, Mondo Sonoro...

The retro-futurist sounds that the band characterizes doesn’t follow any concrete style but mixes raw punk-rock and hot environments of the symphonic electronics. In spite of singing the majority of their songs in English, the band is also proud to sing in Basque. The shows are full of energy with the freshness and motivation of the four young members of the group.

Belako

Belako - Orein Orain

Combining the creative values of Wilco, Sonic Youth and Sparklehorse with the immediacy of The Velvet Underground and The Clash. Eades have adapted and evolved over the last couple of years - continually touring around the UK, as well as over the shores into Europe. Finely poised between indie rock and alternative 90’s. Their tight self-produced sound is glued together by the songwriting and vocal swapping partnership of Harry Jordan and Tom O’Reilly. The story-telling approach of their writing has crystallised into a winning calling-card.

This ‘build it and they will come’ approach has already seen enviable successes. Photoshoots with iconic photographer Rankin for HUNGER, shout outs from The Guardian, live sessions at Abbey Road Studios, and stand-out sets at Left Of The Dial and The Great Escape, amongst other tastemaker festivals, mark the band out as serious contenders.

No longer green to the industry - and working on their own terms - Eades are putting theory into practice. Comfortable in their own skin, and taking the wins as they come, there’s no lack of ambition to take their riveting concoctions to the masses. All of this is beholden to a quietly confident maturation that speaks to a band in complete control.

Eades

Eades - Fade Away

Population II is a band dedicated to its disengagement, constantly working on refining their imposing, yet unpretentious sound. A trio consisting of singer/drummer Pierre-Luc Gratton, guitarist/keyboardist Tristan Lacombe and bassist Sébastien Provençal, Population II are masters at both improvised madness and sophisticated composition, delivering heavy psychedelic rock infused with feverish funk rhythms, a hint of jazz philosophy, a burst of energy reminiscent of punk's early days, and a love of minor scales that harkens back to the roots of heavy metal. The band's uniqueness is reinforced by Pierre-Luc's unique voice and his introspective, nostalgic and offbeat lyrics.

Their sources of inspiration are diverse and not limited to music: the Detroit garage rock and psychedelic funk scenes of the late 60s, the Canterbury scene of the same period, the German experimental rock of the 70s and Miles Davis’ eclectic era collide, bound together by the swampy decor of Pointe-Calumet and, above all, by the deep friendship and undeniable chemistry emerging from its three members. The band has always kept their distance from the Montreal music scene, preferring to develop their idiosyncratic style on their own. The result is a sound that transcends time, immune to the trends that dominate the current indie landscape. Population II thus imposes themselves as an unfathomable entity emerging from the depths of the swamp, characterized as much by hazy ambiences as by cathartic explosions.

Population II

Population II - R.B.

Hutch

The colourful, kaleidoscopic sounds of Brighton jangle-psych band Hutch are suffused with whimsy and a desire to break free from the mundane. Setting their stall on celebrating the wonders of the natural world and their own giddying adventures within it, snails, rainbows, wintry lakes and radiator shops rank high among the band's subject matters of choice.

Formed by Jack Pritchard, Dan Shepherd, Charlie Bogg, Owen Bullock - with Eva Lunny guesting on Harp and Synth for studio recordings - Hutch have been gigging prodigiously since their live debut in 2021, regularly selling out venues in their native Brighton.

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Trip Westerns

Formed in the clearing mist of 2021, Trip Westerns are a 5 piece rock n roll outfit, based in Brighton with “their roots comfortably buried in the soil of mid-20th century rock and R&B, intertwined with lashings of surf and psychedelia - reveling in the twangy notes of spaghetti western soundtracks (see Ennio Morricone).” - Otis Hayes.

The band have quickly built a reputation across Brighton’s scene as one of the city’s most vivid and dizzying live acts in their brief existence, twisting the town’s famous narrow cobbled streets into a Sergio Leone desert backdrop, alongside nods to sun-soaked 60’s R&B and 21st century fuzz-drenched garage rock.

Hutch + Trip Westerns

Mechanical Bull

Hutch - Mechanical Bull

Trip Westerns

Hutch

Trashed began by releasing their debut single 'Waste Away' at the start of 2019. Shortly after, the full EP 'Yours Not Mine' (produced by Neil Kennedy and Kurt Fagan) was released, and the band began touring the UK and working on their second EP 'Faceplant' which came out in Spring 2020.

Their second EP’s release was impacted by the pandemic, with the release date being missed by distributors. The EP still helped the band grow and develop their sound. Over the pandemic, Trashed accumulated an album’s worth of material and went back into the studio with Neil and Kurt in 2021.

'Happy in Hindsight' is the band’s first full-length album. With the songs being written during a global “rough patch”, the album’s lyrics are introspective and cathartic and the sound more defined. Two of the singles got on BBC Radio 1, with Nels Hylton playing 'Decay' and 'Memories'. The Bristol date of their album release tour sold out, their first sell out headliner.

In 2023 founding members Sam Yesner and Ben Wood decided to leave the band to focus on other areas of their lives.

Frontman Jimmy Embleton-Smith found new drummer Mike Boken and bassist Oscar Manners and released the single 'I'll Stay Away' (produced by Ian Sadler) at the start of 2024. The song was played on BBC Radio 1 by both, Nels Hylton and, Alyx Holcombe. The band sold out the Exchange in Bristol on the single release tour, their biggest headline show so far. Now Trashed are preparing to release new music and tour.

Trashed

Trashed - Insecurities

GENEVA JACUZZI

Few artists embody the contradictions and possibilities of Los Angeles like Geneva Jacuzzi. A pioneer of low fidelity, bedroom recorded avant-pop, her work spans not only music, but performance art, live theater, set design, costuming, makeup, and set decoration - the auteur theory realized as ongoing art practice. She is simultaneously championed by underground venues, DIY spaces and art galleries, as well as prestigious institutions like The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), The Broad Museum, and The Getty. Across two decades of activity, Jacuzzi has toured her surrealist strain of theatrical synth-pop and staged dada exploratory installations in more than forty countries across the world.

RIKI

The evolution of new romantic icon Riki is as dynamic as it is undeniable. 2020 saw the release of her widely acclaimed self-titled debut for Dais Records, reimagining moody new wave synthetics across a vibrant palette of melodic melancholia, prompting a string of rapturously received tours and festival appearances.

The recent unveiling of Riki’s sophomore LP, Gold, marks another tier in her art-pop ascension. Produced by Telefon Tel Aviv’s Joshua Eustis, and echoing eclectic 80’s touchstones from Saâda Bonaire to Strawberry Switchblade and Bryan Ferry to Bananarama, Gold ultimately transcends its influences, fusing private heartbreak with anthemic emotion in swooning, singular fashion.

Geneva Jacuzzi + Riki

Geneva Jacuzzi - Dry

Riki

Geneva Jacuzzi

Stuffed Foxes have been described as delving into the realms of psych, even shoegaze. However, the sextet remains firmly rooted in ROCK. Noise! Unearthed... First and foremost, they claim the 'derangement of all senses' with trance as a means of provocation. Blame it on their six members living in a community. Six distinct individuals concealed within a permissive whole, often subject to interpretation. Their first album, 'Songs/Revolving,' is set for early 2022, and each time, it's an obvious revelation: the brilliance, the coherence, the absence of repetition, even rare lyrics against the instrumental illusion... And only a few months later, its mirror image, 'Songs/Motion Return,' is no exception.

Stuffed Foxes

Stuffed Foxes - Sabotage

The Bristol-formed group, named by DIY as ‘boundary-pushing’, have unveiled their latest track, produced by band members Eric Davies and Claudia Vulliamy in their East London studio. The track was mixed by Matteo Buccomino and mastered by John Webber.

Marking a new era since their highly-praised 2023 debut EP Back To Nothing (released via Ali Chant’s Fascination Street Records), ‘Sally’ brings us straight in with a punchy and relentlessly catchy bassline. Clean and intricately syncopated, this track is a lusciously textured showcase of Oslo Twins’ evolving sound, which is venturing into cleaner, more electronic territory.

Hidden in the song’s infectious beat and joyful synths, there is a tone of yearning and melancholia. Pithy and vernacular lyrics in the verses hint at hidden emotions, while the chorus reveals what’s behind the cool facade:

“Each release only seems to get catchier.” Line Of Best Fit

Oslo Twins

Oslo Twins - I See Mountains

Skinner is a DIY slouch rock musician based in Dublin who writes, records and produces songs about growing up and overcoming a dirt-flecked 21st century existence.

The DNA of no wave and post-punk acts like The B52s, James Chance and the Contortions and ESG through to alt-rock touchstones Pixies and Morphine combined with a talent for grunge-nodding self-production and pockets of elevated instrumentation is oozing from Skinner’s music.

Skinner

Skinner - Geek Love

congratulations are four friends who found each other at the right time, fell into each other’s arms and started making music they liked; boasting an impressive array of different influences, unashamedly intertwined into their songs. Think girl/boy centred vocals and eccentric fuzzed guitars lying on a bed of break beats and thunderous bass.

Fiercely DIY, congratulations craft their songs with all four members meticulously involved in every aspect of the recording, production, and artwork. Then, donning their scrupulously prepared uniforms of green, blue, red and yellow, the band deliver blistering, frenetic live performances, dripping with the sweat from their growing audiences.

For fans of Pom Poko, Jockstrap and Sleigh Bells.

“It’s like a car boot sale of all great pop mashed together in a bricolage of boogie” - Louder Than War

Loved by BBC6’s Marc Riley who invited the band for a live session at BBC Salford in Manchester, more radio play from John Kennedy at Radio X, Melita Dennett at BBC Introducing, Jess Iszatt and Nels Hylton at BBC Radio 1.

Congratulations

congratulations - Ice Tea

Independent Band from Greater Manchester, UK.

‘Disarming shoegaze, raucous, feedback-laced post-punk that rings out with the echoes of DEAFDEAFDEAF’s Mancunian forebears.’

'A mile away from the average indie b\*llocks and a marker for the Next Next Wave. DEAFDEAFDEAF cement their place in the rich vaults of Manc music with their own twist of subnormal soundscapes.' - Louder Than War.

'The Band perfectly executes a range of dynamic levels, knowing just when to throw an abundant amount of harsh noise at you resulting in an all more powerful feeling of intensity.' - SPEW.

'Touching on all of the unsettling emotions typically found in the melancholy genre, DEAFDEAFDEAF refuse to shy away from the truth.' - Gigwise.

‘Comparative to the records, the live set exhibits chaos and intensity that has to be experienced firsthand to truly appreciate the immense talents of DEAFDEAFDEAF’ - VOICE ‘DEAFDEAFDEAF have carved for themselves. Undefinable by genre, yet akin to influence, the boys have really pulled together an impressive roster of tracks – especially this early on in their career. Notably building a name for themselves in the live music industry as one to watch, they have a certain grace in creating atmosphere and forging chaos in even the most unconventional of spaces.’ - YUCK

DEAFDEAFDEAF

DEAFDEAFDEAF - Nothingness

Tempesst are twin brothers Toma (vocals & guitars) & Andy (drums) Banjanin, Eric Weber (guitars), Blake Misipeka (bass).

In 2020 they released their debut LP “Must be a dream” (2020), receiving positive coverage in the mainstream press (NME, DIY) and were reviewed by The Line of Best Fit, Earmilk and The FT. They were played on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 and BBC Radio London. Toma was interviewed live on BBC Radio 1 by Jack Saunders and Tempesst was named BBC Future Artist. The album has gone on to stream in the millions.

Tempesst returned in 2023 with “Prisoner of Desire”, receiving positive coverage in the media with feature pieces in the Rolling Stone, Dork, Clash, Clunk and The Line of Best Fit. The Prisoner of Desire tour was the band's largest to date, with a landmark performance at London’s Islington Assembly Hall and sold out shows in Manchester, Paris and Berlin.

Tempesst

Tidal Wave

Tempesst - Tidal Wave

Returning with a new album on the way, We Hate You Please Die reveals the pages of their intimate diary filled with angry lyrics, influenced by punk and riot grrrl movements.

On stage, the sincerity of Chloé, Mathilde, and Joseph evokes emotions, frenzy, and transmits the energy of their liberating universe. Balancing tension and violence, the trio draws inspiration from both noise and introspection.

We Hate You Please Die

We Hate You Please Die - Adrenaline

Los Angeles based musician Charles Moothart (Fuzz, Goggs, Freedom Band) released previous solo work under the moniker CFM. Now working under his full name, as change is the only universal truth, Moothart's latest album Black Holes Don't Choke (out now on In The Red) is made up of "love songs for the apocalypse." It is his most self-assured solo release to date. Heavy riffs alternating with spacious tunes, and a live set that vacillates from fast and loose to groovy and heady. Moothart is now touring with a live band comprised of 4 veterans of the Los Angeles music scene with too many credentials to list. This lineup brings a new sense of dynamic while holding on to grit and drive. All of these factors crack open a new chapter for the Californian multi-instrumentalist.

Charles Moothart and the Fast Band

Charles Moothart - Roll

Charles Moothart

Since their official formation in April 2019, Spyres have racked up over three million streams on Spotify alone, with break-out singles Otherside, Fake ID and I Don't Care, all receiving an incredible outpouring of radio support from the likes of BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders, Radio X’s John Kennedy, BBC Introducing Scotland’s Phoebe I-H and Vic Galloway. The reaction to the band has been mirrored in press with fevered endorsements from DORK, Gigwise, The Scottish Sun, Daily Record, Tenement TV and Distorted Sound at a glance.

Making a name for themselves on stage, Spyres supporting credentials include The Jesus And Mary Chain, Nothing But Thieves, The Snuts, Soft Cult to name a few. In spite of the pandemic, in 2021 Spyres made serious ground in the live space in their own right. Their headline show at Glasgow’s King Tuts on the Summer Nights programme sold-out in less than 24 hours of the onsale date, and months later, the band sold-out London’s Old Blue Last, Glasgow’s Stereo and Edinburgh’s Mash House. In addition to this, Spyres made their debut at a number of major festivals; TRNSMT, Neighborhood, Live At Leeds, including a headline slot on the This Feeling stage at Isle Of Wight Festival.

Spyres

Spyres - The Thing

eat-girls is a three-piece band, carefully crafting songs in their apartment. Through many genres, pop, post-punk, minimal synth, kraut, dub, these songs work through their train of thought and, akin to a dream, paint obsessing and intriguing shapes. On stage, Amélie, Elisa and Maxence use their three voices, bass, guitar, synths, computer and various objects to revamp their produced material.

Their debut album 'Area Silenzio' it out now, on the german label Bureau B.

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