antics clubnight: Kid Wave // Bully

Info Antics - foolish, outrageous, or amusing behaviour. Also an album by Interpol. Now one of the freshest club nights in the North-West.

Line-Up Kid Wave

“London-based quartet Kid Wave make an appealing style of guitar pop, fuzzy and warm, not really adhering to any particular trend.” –Brooklyn Vegan

Kid Wave was formed by writer, singer, guitarist Lea Emmery when she moved to London from the East coast of Sweden, where she found drummer Serra Petale, originally from Perth in Australia, and bass player Harry Deacon.

Joined on guitar by Mattias Bhatt, who hails from the same town in Sweden as Lea, Kid Wave started playing shows around the capital, and last autumn took to the road on tours with Childhood, The Wytches and The Orwells.

With singles All I Want and Gloom getting lots of love from BBC6 Music, XFM and beyond, the band have their debut album lined up for release on the legendary Heavenly label at the start of summer 2015.

Bully

Bully is a young Nashville four-piece blasting out of the gates with high-powered grunge punk reminiscent of the beginnings of indie rock. The band is fronted by Alicia Bognanno, an audio engineer who has been cutting her teeth on the soundboards of indie clubs and studios in recent years. After opening for the likes of Best Coast, JEFF the Brotherhood, and Superchunk, Bully is ready to grab their own audience.

The dynamic melodies and high-speed percussion section help Bully cut through the noise quickly and repeatedly. Tracks like “Milkman” and “Brainfreeze” lay it all on the line with scrappy energy until the last crunchy bass note fades out.

Fraser A Gorman

With his violent shock of vertical curls, three-piece suit and excitable roguish charm, Fraser A Gorman cuts a striking figure. Similarly, the music the 23-year-old Melbourne-based singer-songwriter makes stands out amidst any scene or sound.

Fraser was born in Torquay, a suburban outpost of Geelong, the large coastal city an hour’s drive from his relocated Melbourne digs. The high-school year below his pal Stu Moore from King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Geelong is the sometime home to much of Australia’s motor industry, and like its American cousin Detroit has become something of a hot-bed for talented young ne’er-do-wells without much else to keep them out of trouble. Like most aspiring Geelong creatives, Fraser eventually migrated to Victoria’s cooler capital city.

Indeed, Melbourne’s been responsible for an undeniable wealth of recent great guitar music in its many twisted, bleary-eyed forms, with Fraser representing the latest in this impressive legacy.

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