Brighten The Corners Presents Bristol duo Getdown Services at The Smokehouse on Friday 12th April 2024. Support comes from Generation Feral.
“Released via Breakfast Records, ‘Crisps‘ is a 42 minute riot of irreverent lyrics and 80’s disco sounds. Described as apocalyptic disco, It’s witty, it’s slightly cynical, it gets the body grooving.” Clunk magazine
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Time: 7.30pm - 11pm
Venue: The Smokehouse, Ipswich
Tickets: £8+bf
Supports: Generation Feral
Age Restrictions: 14+ (14- 15s must be accompanied by an adult) -
Getdown Services are a two piece from Bristol that provide a sweat soaked, tub thumping, groove infused experience. Squint your eyes and it’s a stag do on a karaoke machine but open your mind and you’ll find it’s at least 500% more enjoyable than that.
Having been described as Sleaford Mods meets LCD Soundsystem, word has spread rapidly of their anarchic and high energy rapport with the audience, leading to sell out headline performances and a loyal following in their home city of Bristol. Their fast-rising popularity is the natural result of two close friends collaborating and creating something to be enjoyed, not just by themselves, but by as many people as possible in one shared experience.
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Generation Feral is the brain flower of Izzy Liddamore, a female solo artist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based between Cardiff and Essex. A self-confessed ‘sad piano lady’ inspired by the likes of Kae Tempest and Fiona Apple, her sound is divisive, split between her indie-acoustic ukulele loop pedal moments and dramatic, piano-led deep cuts, dipping into spoken word over the course of her sets.
Her genre is hard to pin down in this way – self-described as ‘punkish piano ballads for tender scumbags’. She writes on Britain and how it’s broken, with aim to musically depict the experiences of being part of the new wave of adults in 2023 – often scapegoated as the ‘feral generation’. Generation Feral is her space to freely observe society and all the strange human tendencies we have as humans, politically, mentally, all of it – and bring it into the light. Her debut EP, life looks best sideways is a window into the life of a 20 something in 2024 – tackling themes such as the cost of living crisis, loneliness and generational trauma in an attempt to find the motivation to get out of bed.
Her spoken word single ‘newborn adult’ saw play on 6music and was championed by Tom Robinson, as well as on both BBC Essex and BBC Wales. She has gigged profusely in England and Wales, supporting artists such as KEG, Pet Needs, The Meffs and Luke La Volpe, and is looking to branch out more nationally in 2024.