Join us at the louis to celebrate Bristol sweeties Sunglasz Vendor second album Break Glass. With support from Kissing Gate + Elwell

Sunglasz Vendor

On their blistering second album, Sunglasz Vendor capture the seething urges for excitement, change and genuine connection that most feel - but rarely act upon. Asking someone out, deleting social media, confessing your feelings for a friend, quitting a desk job: pivotal moments in contemporary life that are agonized over for far too long. Across Break Glass, the Bristol-based trio look to shatter this mould, or at least document their attempts. 

Inspired by the early-2000s radio rock that first drew the band to music, Break Glass finds Sunglasz Vendor swinging unapologetically for maximalism. The wiry three-piece - Rafi Cohen (vocals, guitar), Eve Rosenberg (bass), Finn Hodgson (drums) - is blown out to absurd proportions: mixes deliberately slammed, guitars stacked thick until the waveform chokes into a distorted, heaving mass.

The result is a shrine to the rock music of a zillennial childhood; but too self-aware for its own good. Turn-of-the-millennium titans such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Offspring, Foo Fighters, Sum 41, Blink‑182, and Linkin Park loom large in its DNA, though the result feels more like a reverse-engineered hybrid of second wave emo, post-hardcore, and indie-landfill relics.

Kissing Gate

5-piece art rock band formed in South London in 2023.

Elwell

A barrage of jangling guitars, scooping basslines and punk rock drums forms the C86-esque indie power-pop of Leeds-based elwell.