Love Fortress w/ Frightened + Barry Jitter + HOOF

Barry Jitter was arranging the third in his series of self-compiled gigs in Bristol, but grew sick of the city. So he went on holiday to Cornwall in search of good rock. He found THE Love Fortress down there sittin' on the dock of the bay and asked them to leave the country behind for the bright lights of Montpelier and the warm glow of the biggest church in town, the Old England. Support comes from friends Frightened and HOOF "HOOF HOOF" - he will also compere, as usual.

LOVE FORTRESS
Voiced and plucked by Penzance songwriting duo Isaac Tinley & Ollie Carr and composed together as a full quintet - Love Fortress made their debut at a kernowbeat event in early 2025. Initially a four piece with Karl Eggert (Drums) & Flo Sunderland (Synth/Keytar), they’ve recently acquired Henry McCabe on co-lead guitar & occasional bass to complete the line-up. With stylings of late 60s psych pop, which can skewer toward the absurdist - they are often seen wearing nice shirts.

FRIGHTENED
Frightened are in some ways a side project of the London post-hardcore band Paper Hats, but they are also riding the current British jangle pop wave in a way that nobody else is. Sam Eccleston, guitarist, self-describes them as "a jangle pop band that took several wrong turns along the way.“
FFO: Bramwell, Autocamper, The Tubs.

BARRY JITTER
Barry Jitter is the self-described “antifolk heir to the Bedminster fortune.” Penman to a set of songs only able to be categorised three ways: LOVE, INTOXICANTS, or HANGING FROM A ROPE. His upcoming debut single "Baby Blue Kodak" acts as a mission statement for his music - naïve, juvenile and overly simplistic. He normally performs with his garage/country rock trio, The Special Brew, but on this night he'll be going sober. The looseness is the unique selling point: “Barry Jitter, always different, always the same.”
FFO: Beck, Will Oldham, Daniel Johnston.

HOOF
In memoriam:
HOOF are just some guys who try to make music. There's four or five or occasionally twelve of the slot badgers onstage at any given time. If you go down to the Mardyke and meet them you can ask if they are geniuses, they'll say "maybe not now, but give it four or five months and we might finally crack it." Their songs include famous notes like A, D, G and sometimes Q as well. Regretfully, this gig is held in tribute to their fallen bassists who mysteriously expired in different branches of the countryside, (e.g: Matt evaporated at Chessel Beach, and Nicky Burger rolled his beach buggy in the Cairngorms) there were others too, but enough about them - this new guy can play it upside-down. These new songs invoke images of triangles and pentagons. I asked them if they'd ever write a truly circular song and they told me to "get fucked." At the end of the day, all I can is liken them to lichen growing on the doormat at the back entrance of the coalface of rock n' roll.
A message for HOOF: "come home, we love you, we miss you. It's not cool to be weird."

- Benjamin Ladner