Brighten The Corners presents experimental guitar pop group Blue Bendy play The Smokehouse on Wednesday 29th October.
Support comes from Gasoline Green.
“Beneath the thick veneer of droll affectation, this London-via-Scunthorpe band writes with uncommon poignancy about the nature of art, ambition, and success.” 8/10 Pitchfork
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Time: 7.30pm - 11pm
Venue: The Smokehouse, Ipswich
Tickets: £12+bf
Age Restrictions: 14+ (14- 15s must be accompanied by an adult) -
Blue Bendy have stretched out into vast new sonic terrain with their debut album ‘So Medieval’. Their two lead singles “Mr Bubblegum” - a joyously intricate piece of experimental guitar pop - and the frenetic, propulsive yet incredibly deft sprawl of “Cloudy”, saw the band reach new heights creatively. Of the former, The Guardian enthused: “indie is riddled with addled, verbose frontmen right now, but none so rapturous as Blue Bendy’s Arthur Nolan: here he dances all over splayed post-rock and micro-cataclysms.”
In one of many glowing reviews, Pitchfork described the album as “defiant, high-stakes art-rock” whilst The Independent described Nolan as a “cherub gone through the wringer” in their recent profile.
Having toured as main support for Squid and Cola as well as playing packed out tents at festivals like End Of The Road and Green Man, Blue Bendy have struck a balance between being obviously skilled musicians, writing complex, layered, overlapping and ambitious compositions, while also utilising space, breadth, and restraint. Their music is bursting with dynamism, exploring push-pull dynamics that results in something ceaselessly unpredictable.
It results in a sound that is rare for a new band: as experimental as it is confident and assured, as tender as it is visceral, as quiet as it is loud, as bloody as it is teary.
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Gasoline Green are an experimental indie rock band from Colchester, Essex. Taking inspiration from the likes of King Crimson, Swans, Slint and The Microphones, the band presents a unique and exciting sound in the local music scene. Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Baker, the band features Harry Heard (Butterfly Handshake) on drums, Nathan Smith (Butterfly Handshake, Noiseless) on bass, Frank Caplan (Doll Face, Blackout) on guitar, Jack Thomson (Doll Face, mindroot) on guitar and Felix Davey on violin. The band released their third album ‘GD’ in March of 2025.