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"Cherished local four-piece Shoun Shoun erupt in Siouxsie-summoning battle cries, moody post-punk dirges and goth-cabaret theatrics. Propelled by a punishing rhythm section and thick plumes of goosebump-inducing distortion, this is uncompromising ferocity FFO: Savages, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gilla Band."
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A gig held at The Croft on Monday 8th December. The event starts at 19:45.
Shoun Shoun
With Grubbing and Phlegmonade
7:30pm doors
£8 Adv
Shhh Someone's Coming! Presents...
SHOUN SHOUN
('shoon-shoon')
No wave. No logic. Somewhere between art rock and electronica. Using broken technology to make very human moments, Annette’s songs take sharp, twisted routes making your feet move one way and your head in very much another. Stuttering drums, liquid sex bass, post punk squonk and sporadic noise constitute a sound like no other.
Shoun Shoun are the sum of their parts: Berlin has spent years battling ferocious noise in Bristol bands like Big Joan, Male, The Final Age and Rose Kemp, but finally felt an uncontrollable urge to do something totally different. The result is a set of songs of alienation, masculine toxicity, racism, French criminals, and sex brought to life by musicians whose collective CV includes other Bristol legends like The Fantasy Orchestra and Chikinki.
"A bit like a British answer to a cross between Japan’s Shonen Knife and Iceland’s The Sugarcubes but with a shitload of garage rock and post-punk painted all over its rear end." Roppongi Rocks
"They had me in the first 10 seconds on their new single Stuck...” Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6
grubbing
(fka big pigeon) crawl out of hibernation with a jittery fusion of art-pop, drum-and-bass pulse, and serrated violin. Their songs twist through digital love, domestic rituals, and quiet despair — turning modern chaos into something oddly cathartic.
FFO: Deerhoof, Gilla Band, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Phlegmonade
After fermenting away in the studio for a few years, this psyche-punk/ art-rock outfit are now emerging onto the local scene to show what they've been working on. Phlegmonade is a concoction of absurdist comedy theatrics, philosophical meditations and sharp as a switch-blade cultural commentary. Fortified with complex, asymmetrical rhythms, hypnotic melodic hooks and contrasting dissonance with candy-floss harmonies.
FFO: Tropical Fuck Storm, Water From Your Eyes, Sonic Youth, Protomartyr
"It’s an adrenaline shot of no-wave-esque distortion, and it carries enough mental static to grind your internal cogs into a blissfully dysfunctional haze... Phlegmonade have alchemised a sound that sits somewhere between philosophical subversion and gleefully absurd destruction. Ode to a Machine is the first hit of what’s sure to be a mind fuck of a legacy." Amelia Vandergast, A&R Factory
Monday 8th December
The Croft, Bristol
£8 Adv
Doors 7.30, first band at 8.
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
With Grubbing and Phlegmonade
7:30pm doors
£8 Adv
Shhh Someone's Coming! Presents...
SHOUN SHOUN
('shoon-shoon')
No wave. No logic. Somewhere between art rock and electronica. Using broken technology to make very human moments, Annette’s songs take sharp, twisted routes making your feet move one way and your head in very much another. Stuttering drums, liquid sex bass, post punk squonk and sporadic noise constitute a sound like no other.
Shoun Shoun are the sum of their parts: Berlin has spent years battling ferocious noise in Bristol bands like Big Joan, Male, The Final Age and Rose Kemp, but finally felt an uncontrollable urge to do something totally different. The result is a set of songs of alienation, masculine toxicity, racism, French criminals, and sex brought to life by musicians whose collective CV includes other Bristol legends like The Fantasy Orchestra and Chikinki.
"A bit like a British answer to a cross between Japan’s Shonen Knife and Iceland’s The Sugarcubes but with a shitload of garage rock and post-punk painted all over its rear end." Roppongi Rocks
"They had me in the first 10 seconds on their new single Stuck...” Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6
grubbing
(fka big pigeon) crawl out of hibernation with a jittery fusion of art-pop, drum-and-bass pulse, and serrated violin. Their songs twist through digital love, domestic rituals, and quiet despair — turning modern chaos into something oddly cathartic.
FFO: Deerhoof, Gilla Band, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Phlegmonade
After fermenting away in the studio for a few years, this psyche-punk/ art-rock outfit are now emerging onto the local scene to show what they've been working on. Phlegmonade is a concoction of absurdist comedy theatrics, philosophical meditations and sharp as a switch-blade cultural commentary. Fortified with complex, asymmetrical rhythms, hypnotic melodic hooks and contrasting dissonance with candy-floss harmonies.
FFO: Tropical Fuck Storm, Water From Your Eyes, Sonic Youth, Protomartyr
"It’s an adrenaline shot of no-wave-esque distortion, and it carries enough mental static to grind your internal cogs into a blissfully dysfunctional haze... Phlegmonade have alchemised a sound that sits somewhere between philosophical subversion and gleefully absurd destruction. Ode to a Machine is the first hit of what’s sure to be a mind fuck of a legacy." Amelia Vandergast, A&R Factory
Monday 8th December
The Croft, Bristol
£8 Adv
Doors 7.30, first band at 8.
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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