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"Another year, another audiovisual Halloween spectacular from Cellar Door, with twisted rockabilly punks Honk helming the hoedown – a prime slab of swampy, country-fried Mancunian garage FFO: The Gun Club, Country Teasers, early Jay Reatard etc. Stacked support from new synth-addled psych oddities Ya Hablo, Brighton glam punks Austen Showers and moody indie folkers Dogsbody."
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A gig held at The Louisiana on Friday 31st October. The event starts at 18:00.
After a long hiatus, we’re crawling out of the cellar for our annual Halloween Special. But this isn’t just an old Halloween bash.
Think haunted honky-tonk, tumbleweeds and scarecrows, Giovanni Juice, Dolly Parton in the moonlight…
HEADLINING:
HONK
HONK are a genre-warping party here to rewire country music. This is Trashcan Country: a raucous, rough-edged twist on twang, dragged through punk back alleys, soaked in garage-rock grit, and left to dry under a blazing sun.
WITH SUPPORT FROM:
YO HABLO
A freshly-formed Bristol five-piece fusing country, punk, psychedelia and disco. Think The Gun Club, The Amazing Snakeheads and Timber Timbre—spliced with synth wizardry from Dan Davies (@gumfmusic). It’s cow-punk chaos, ready for the masses.
AUSTEN SHOWERS
Austen Showers, you've heard the name, you may have seen the game, but what is the reason why people are hailing them as ‘A 70’s Mushroom Punk Fantasy’? Maybe it's the group's blending of Psychedelia, Disco, and punk-induced blues? Or is it their stage diving, table surfing, and mosh-calculated stage presence? Or even their gorgeous locks of hair? Who knows! But what we do know is that their one of the most sought-after bands in Brighton's music scene due to all 3 (maybe just 2 actually) of the reasons listed above. Don't believe the hype? Tough! You were gonna see them anyways because a name like that is beyond intriguing
DOGSBODY
Part folk-grunge, part unnamable. Driven by Amelia Jones’ melancholic songwriting, jazz-laced vocals and a raw DIY ethos, Dogsbody are fast becoming a staple of Bristol’s underground.
ART EXHIBITION: HOTFOOT – Geological Dancer
Feel the tectonics of your own body—attrition, accretion, erosion, compression, repetition. Work that dances deep down in time.
Visual Artists:
Evan Vickers, Polly Hardwicke, Apolline Derrien, Lauren Harper, Rachel Baber,
Julia Turner, Henry Mandeville, George Lawrence, George Hilless, Evie Pippin Luckhurst, Viveka Goyanes, Natalie Corner, Amelia Gardner, Will Hilless, Raimi Harrison, Yasmin Egin.
!!COSTUME IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED!!
Entry requirements: 18+
Think haunted honky-tonk, tumbleweeds and scarecrows, Giovanni Juice, Dolly Parton in the moonlight…
HEADLINING:
HONK
HONK are a genre-warping party here to rewire country music. This is Trashcan Country: a raucous, rough-edged twist on twang, dragged through punk back alleys, soaked in garage-rock grit, and left to dry under a blazing sun.
WITH SUPPORT FROM:
YO HABLO
A freshly-formed Bristol five-piece fusing country, punk, psychedelia and disco. Think The Gun Club, The Amazing Snakeheads and Timber Timbre—spliced with synth wizardry from Dan Davies (@gumfmusic). It’s cow-punk chaos, ready for the masses.
AUSTEN SHOWERS
Austen Showers, you've heard the name, you may have seen the game, but what is the reason why people are hailing them as ‘A 70’s Mushroom Punk Fantasy’? Maybe it's the group's blending of Psychedelia, Disco, and punk-induced blues? Or is it their stage diving, table surfing, and mosh-calculated stage presence? Or even their gorgeous locks of hair? Who knows! But what we do know is that their one of the most sought-after bands in Brighton's music scene due to all 3 (maybe just 2 actually) of the reasons listed above. Don't believe the hype? Tough! You were gonna see them anyways because a name like that is beyond intriguing
DOGSBODY
Part folk-grunge, part unnamable. Driven by Amelia Jones’ melancholic songwriting, jazz-laced vocals and a raw DIY ethos, Dogsbody are fast becoming a staple of Bristol’s underground.
ART EXHIBITION: HOTFOOT – Geological Dancer
Feel the tectonics of your own body—attrition, accretion, erosion, compression, repetition. Work that dances deep down in time.
Visual Artists:
Evan Vickers, Polly Hardwicke, Apolline Derrien, Lauren Harper, Rachel Baber,
Julia Turner, Henry Mandeville, George Lawrence, George Hilless, Evie Pippin Luckhurst, Viveka Goyanes, Natalie Corner, Amelia Gardner, Will Hilless, Raimi Harrison, Yasmin Egin.
!!COSTUME IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED!!
Entry requirements: 18+
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