"Get into the long line to join pôt-pot’s eerie motorik dream: a breathing harmonium drone rock nebula, rolling forward in rhythmic lockstep through walls of garage-psych guitar fuzz and sardonic vocal haze. It’s a 21st century Nuggets-worthy parade FFO: Neu!, Spacemen 3, Ulrika Spacek, Stuck, Good Flying Birds."
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A gig held at The Louisiana on Monday 18th May. The event starts at 20:00.
Erratic Batting Presents...
pôt-pot (Felte/Blind Head)
FFO: Beak, The Oh Sees, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
+ Baby Deltic (Bristol)
FFO: CAN / Women / Gene Clark
18th May 2026
The Louisiana
https://potpot.bandcamp.com/
If you are artist or band wanting to support the show please get in touch! @erraticbatting
Nick from Erratic Batting says:
“Listening to their new album 'Warsaw 480km', you can tell that all those intricate arrangements and subtle details, driven by a relentless rhythm, are going to feel massive live - especially as the instruments layer over each other and build towards those full-force kosmische crescendos.”
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- pôt-pot -
Pôt-pot are an Irish quintet based in Lisbon, Portugal. The band infuse the propulsive rhythms of krautrock with a phosphorescent psych-rock radiance, all underscored by harmonium drones, hypnotic vocal harmonies, and layers of rough-hewn texture. They deal in deep grooves and cooking listeners to completion.
They released their debut EP Ode To A in 2023, earning it a spot on The Thin Air’s “Best of 2023” list. "Ode To A succeeds not just in the artistic practice of the avant-garde, but as piece of an engaging, genuinely psychedelic experimental drone rock” – Stevie Lennox, The Thin Air. In April 2024, they released their second EP “GOING INSANE” on cult Porto based label Socorro, with a limited vinyl run via Ireland’s beloved Blowtorch Records, receiving much critical acclaim.
2024-2025 has been a busy period for pôt-pot, selling out shows across Ireland, UK and Portugal with a . In mid 2025, the band signed with LA-based Felte Records, with whom they release their debut album “Warsaw 480km” in September 2025 to critical acclaim - including a shortlist for Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year (Ireland's Grammys/Mercury Prize) and being named as one of BBC 6 Music's Albums Of The Year.
Evolved primarily from demos by multi-instrumentalist and lead vocalist Mark Waldron-Hyden during a period of grief and personal upheaval, “Warsaw 480km” came to life through a series of live, full-band studio sessions that document an exceptional array of talents, unified in an embrace of raw catharsis that transforms deep pain into a luminous reverie.
"The band build tension by cycling through instrumental moods, at times fit for scuzzy sweatboxes and at other for more altered states of consciousness." - The Wire
"Lysergic sonics tempered by an assured, unified sense of purpose, the scorched audio sits just on the right side of lo-fi." - Clash
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- Baby Deltic -
Bristol-based art rock 4-piece blending pulsating krautrock rhythms with bright, primitive country rock and winding psychedelic tangents.
Recently shared bills with the likes of FEET, School Disco and The Heavenly Bodes.
FFO: CAN / Women / Gene Clark
https://instagram.com/babydeltic
https://youtu.be/eGz-iItW7TQ?si=pZ7mLUWzKDJZeZxt
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Erratic Batting: adventurous sounds from the underground.
- Other Oddball Gigs -
16.4.26. Yīn Yīn @ Bristol Beacon
29.4.26. Sababa 5 @ The Jam Jar
18.05.26. pôt-pot @ The Louisiana
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Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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