A gig held at The Croft on Wednesday 8th May. The event starts at 19:30.
Sunder presents…
Play Dead
+ Gold Fever & Paper Crowns
Wednesday 8th May
The Crofters Rights, Bristol
Entry 18+
£7ADV / £10 OTD
PLAY DEAD’s coming-of-age EP ‘Fly On The Wall’ releases on Friday 15th March on Blitzcat Records. It’s a record that underlines the south Londoners’ foothold on the scene. The ‘less is more’ garage punk motif of the three piece bursts at the seams on the rollicking 5-tracker, channeling the immediacy, wit and raucousness of Amyl and the Sniffers, The Chats and early Arctic Monkeys.
From a middle finger to paying £7 pints with ‘Thameslink’ - notching the thumbs up from Steve Lamacq at 6 Music - to the loose, fun-filled 90s guitar-pop flair of ‘Pretty Little Thing’: spearheading ‘Fly On The Wall’ is the energetic and slightly surreal ‘Damien Hirst Stole My Art’, emblematic of the group’s fondness for racing riffs and total nonsense.
Reflecting on the wonky single, frontman Joe Blair admits ‘The lyrics make no sense. Reading back, I think I was inspired at the time by that whole Ed Sheeran lawsuit about him allegedly nicking someone’s song…it was in that vein I imagined this song being about some kind of crazed artist who was dead set on Damien Hirst nicking all of his ideas. Pretty stupid, but I like it.’
The rest of ‘Fly On The Wall’ is PLAY DEAD revelling in the sonic elasticity they continue to stretch - from the pop-sensible social commentariat of ‘Body Image’, to the reverb-drenched, Oh Sees-style dissonance in ‘All In My Head’ that’s bound to sway upcoming UK/EU tour venues into anarchy.
Entry requirements: 18+
Play Dead
+ Gold Fever & Paper Crowns
Wednesday 8th May
The Crofters Rights, Bristol
Entry 18+
£7ADV / £10 OTD
PLAY DEAD’s coming-of-age EP ‘Fly On The Wall’ releases on Friday 15th March on Blitzcat Records. It’s a record that underlines the south Londoners’ foothold on the scene. The ‘less is more’ garage punk motif of the three piece bursts at the seams on the rollicking 5-tracker, channeling the immediacy, wit and raucousness of Amyl and the Sniffers, The Chats and early Arctic Monkeys.
From a middle finger to paying £7 pints with ‘Thameslink’ - notching the thumbs up from Steve Lamacq at 6 Music - to the loose, fun-filled 90s guitar-pop flair of ‘Pretty Little Thing’: spearheading ‘Fly On The Wall’ is the energetic and slightly surreal ‘Damien Hirst Stole My Art’, emblematic of the group’s fondness for racing riffs and total nonsense.
Reflecting on the wonky single, frontman Joe Blair admits ‘The lyrics make no sense. Reading back, I think I was inspired at the time by that whole Ed Sheeran lawsuit about him allegedly nicking someone’s song…it was in that vein I imagined this song being about some kind of crazed artist who was dead set on Damien Hirst nicking all of his ideas. Pretty stupid, but I like it.’
The rest of ‘Fly On The Wall’ is PLAY DEAD revelling in the sonic elasticity they continue to stretch - from the pop-sensible social commentariat of ‘Body Image’, to the reverb-drenched, Oh Sees-style dissonance in ‘All In My Head’ that’s bound to sway upcoming UK/EU tour venues into anarchy.
Entry requirements: 18+
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