A gig held at Strange Brew on Tuesday 28th October. The event starts at 19:00.
Metropolis Music Presents
Sunflower Bean
+ special guests
Tuesday 28th Oct 2025
7pm
**Tickets on sale Friday 30 May 2025 @ 10:00am**
Sunflower Bean – Julia Cumming (vocals, bass), Nick Kivlen (vocals, guitar)
and Olive Faber (drums) – are known for their blistering live show, and they will
return to Bristol on 28th Oct 2025 to celebrate the release of their fourth album ‘Mortal Primetime’.
The band has graced the stages of countless festivals, toured with Wolf Alice,
Cage The Elephant, Beck, Interpol, and The Pixies, and sold-out international
headline shows around the world.
“Full of confidential thrills, under-the-table excitement, and rock & roll escapism”
- Rolling Stone
“Spirited interpreters of rock ’n’ roll’s eternal truths… Sunflower Bean are
equally adept at studio finesse and raucous live noise.” - The New York Times
“One of the best bands in America” - Billboard
“Though Sunflower Bean’s sound nods to past decades, it’s not vintage: The
mash-up of influences — T. Rex, the Velvet Underground, Tame Impala, the poet
Dylan Thomas — makes it new.” - T Magazine
“Moody psychedelic magic with exactly the right attitude, the NY trio are one of
the most exciting things in music” - i-D
“one of their generation’s most pleasurable rock bands.” - NME
“‘Mortal Primetime’ finds Sunflower Bean at their most assured and adventurous,
wielding their instruments like storytellers painting with light and shadow.”
- Dork Magazine
“A muscular take on 70’s dreamy AOR Laurel Canyon singer-songwriterly
sophistication abounds.” - MOJO
New York trio Sunflower Bean-vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/her)- have made a name for themselves as one of the city's quintessential indie rock bands over the past decade since forming in 2013. What started as a project of three high schoolers soon turned into a band with chart-topping releases, sold-out tour dates, international festival slots, wide-spread critical acclaim, and three remarkable full-length albums under their belt.
Known for their improvisational live performances the band has toured the world extensively, as both headliners and as support for artists such as Beck, The Strokes, Cage the Elephant, Interpol, Courtney Barnett, The Pixies, The Kills, DIIV, Courtney Barnett, Wolf Alice and more. They have also performed at major festivals like Glastonbury, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Reading & Leeds, and Summer Sonic.
Mortal Primetime, the band's forthcoming fourth album, was written and produced by Sunflower Bean, mixed by Caesar Edmunds (The Killers, Wet Leg), recorded in Los Angeles and NYC, and engineered by Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties, Boy Genius) and band.
Tickets sold by Strange Brew on behalf of the promoter, Metropolis. All ticket revenue belongs to the promoter
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Sunflower Bean
+ special guests
Tuesday 28th Oct 2025
7pm
**Tickets on sale Friday 30 May 2025 @ 10:00am**
Sunflower Bean – Julia Cumming (vocals, bass), Nick Kivlen (vocals, guitar)
and Olive Faber (drums) – are known for their blistering live show, and they will
return to Bristol on 28th Oct 2025 to celebrate the release of their fourth album ‘Mortal Primetime’.
The band has graced the stages of countless festivals, toured with Wolf Alice,
Cage The Elephant, Beck, Interpol, and The Pixies, and sold-out international
headline shows around the world.
“Full of confidential thrills, under-the-table excitement, and rock & roll escapism”
- Rolling Stone
“Spirited interpreters of rock ’n’ roll’s eternal truths… Sunflower Bean are
equally adept at studio finesse and raucous live noise.” - The New York Times
“One of the best bands in America” - Billboard
“Though Sunflower Bean’s sound nods to past decades, it’s not vintage: The
mash-up of influences — T. Rex, the Velvet Underground, Tame Impala, the poet
Dylan Thomas — makes it new.” - T Magazine
“Moody psychedelic magic with exactly the right attitude, the NY trio are one of
the most exciting things in music” - i-D
“one of their generation’s most pleasurable rock bands.” - NME
“‘Mortal Primetime’ finds Sunflower Bean at their most assured and adventurous,
wielding their instruments like storytellers painting with light and shadow.”
- Dork Magazine
“A muscular take on 70’s dreamy AOR Laurel Canyon singer-songwriterly
sophistication abounds.” - MOJO
New York trio Sunflower Bean-vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/her)- have made a name for themselves as one of the city's quintessential indie rock bands over the past decade since forming in 2013. What started as a project of three high schoolers soon turned into a band with chart-topping releases, sold-out tour dates, international festival slots, wide-spread critical acclaim, and three remarkable full-length albums under their belt.
Known for their improvisational live performances the band has toured the world extensively, as both headliners and as support for artists such as Beck, The Strokes, Cage the Elephant, Interpol, Courtney Barnett, The Pixies, The Kills, DIIV, Courtney Barnett, Wolf Alice and more. They have also performed at major festivals like Glastonbury, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Reading & Leeds, and Summer Sonic.
Mortal Primetime, the band's forthcoming fourth album, was written and produced by Sunflower Bean, mixed by Caesar Edmunds (The Killers, Wet Leg), recorded in Los Angeles and NYC, and engineered by Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties, Boy Genius) and band.
Tickets sold by Strange Brew on behalf of the promoter, Metropolis. All ticket revenue belongs to the promoter
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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