What’s On

The expression of hard-fought optimism encapsulates The Good Kind, an album exploring themes of sexuality, relationships, community, and illness. Our Girl’s trademark dynamics permeate the record, from heavy guitars and soaring lead lines to ear worm choruses and intimate vocal moments. Filled with warmth and honesty, The Good Kind is a celebration of determination – of choosing to recommit to what matters, against all opposition. “A lot of the songs are about taking setbacks and turning them into superpowers” says drummer Lauren Wilson.

“I only realised then, when I thought it out loud,” begins singer/guitarist Soph Nathan on ‘Relief’, the first single released from the album, “And I feel better now”. This song is aptly named, invoking a long-awaited exhale – the feeling of finally emerging from a long and lonely period of uncertainty and self-doubt. Beginning with a single airy strum, Nathan’s reverb-drenched guitar attaches itself to Joshua Tyler’s grounding bass chords, as Wilson’s quietly insistent drum beat throws its weight behind Nathan’s words of reassurance: “You’ve gotta see it to believe it/ Well, I see it in you already.”

This song speaks honestly to the life-giving importance of queer community. From the warmth and immediacy of her delivery, Nathan could be comforting a friend. But as ‘Relief’ builds from that cautious opening to a determinedly, driving force, it becomes clear: these aren’t empty platitudes. Nathan believes in you, because she’s learned to believe in herself.

Hardwicke Circus – UK Tour with support from Antics.

Meet the six–piece band who are not only turning heads with the confident glide in their stride; they’re literally bulletproof”. The Sunday Times

Fast building a reputation as the most exciting band to emerge from the UK in recent years, their sound brings comparisons with the brio of the E Street Band and the dark passion of classic Doors, but with plenty of British authenticity in their high-voltage Carlisle attack. Proudly based in the border city, they have supported Bob Dylan and Neil Young in Hyde Park, performed at the Isle of Wight and Glastonbury Festival (at the request of Sir Paul McCartney), toured with Bob Geldof’s Boomtown Rats, and played over 1000 other shows across the UK & Europe, including the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen, a sold-out tour of the Czech Republic and a fifteen date tour of UK Prisons. The Hardwickes have just played their first show in Italy, joining the likes of Rival Sons and Gary Clark Jr and opened the main stage at Kendal Calling 2024.

Currently in the studio recording their third album, previous releases include ‘The Borderland’ & ’Fly The Flag’, both met with rave reviews and airtime on BBC Radio 1, 2 and 6Music. Mojo Magazine – a leading UK music publication wrote: ‘Produced by Stiff’s Dave Robinson and with guests Earl Slick (David Bowie) and Terry Edwards, the Carlisle quintet’s second album rocks Dexys-level dynamism: Motown dancers, E Street shuffles, baritone ‘bom boms’, stirring brass and ballads laced with romance and humour’.

Their live prison album ‘At Her Majesty’s Pleasure’ features guest performances from the inmates, and you can read more about this truly mind-blowing experience here: https://shorturl.at/uwxCY

Because this a band who don’t do anything by halves. Proudly independent, HC have formed their own record company ‘Alternative Facts Records’, releasing their own music and soon other great artists from the north of England who might not be heard above the rabble of the London-centric scenes. As their label motto puts it so well: We lead, Others follow, But can’t keep up.

Singles & B-Sides Tour

So you know 10 Years Asleep, Really Scrape the Sky, Lucy’s Down and Eat Yourself Whole right? Maybe Armchair Anarchist and Two Headed Yellow Bellied Hole Digger?

But how about Celebrated Working Man? And what about those B-sides?

Over five years in the early 90s Hull’s finest indie rockers produced almost 30 tracks that never made it on to albums; the likes of Everything’s Changed Since You’ve Been To London, Kissing Under Anaesthetic, I’m In Love and Another Bad Dose of Home Truths.

For the first time ever the band will play a set including all their A- sides and a selection of their favourite back up tracks.

Approximate times:
19:00 doors open
19:30 support
20:15 Kingmaker

While WH Lung’s name might suggest a nod to the likes of WH Auden and similarly austere literary figures, it actually comes from a Chinese supermarket in their native Manchester. This deliberate blurring of high and low culture is part of the appeal of the enigmatic three-piece (Joseph E on vocals/synths, Tom S on guitar and Tom P on bass), their songs juxtaposing simplicity with free-ranging experimentation. But even more key is their ability to seamlessly meld genres – krautrock, post-punk and synthpop, most prominently – to create songs that are fresh and exciting yet familiar-sounding and accessible.

South London’s Honeyglaze occupy the same sort of space as indie rock explorers such as Black Country, New Road and English Teacher, but stretch and shape their own particular furrow.

Details TBA

Gengahr’s critically acclaimed debut album turns 10 next year and to celebrate the band are hitting the road to play their breakthrough album in full.

They will be visiting a few of the very same venues that first welcomed the band back in 2015 as well as a selection of other small venues across the country, paying homage to these vital spaces where bands develop both their sound and audience.

Green Mind presents… acts TBA

Massive night of two of the biggest bands to spring out of the 1990s! Not Radiohead celebrate the music of Radiohead in this, the 30th anniversary of the era defining album, The Bends, while Nerdvana bring the stagediving and moshing peak of Nirvana to life!