RASCALTON
“2018 is a tough year to be in a four-piece rock band. The days of humongous label advances, instant chart success and a spread of magazine front covers have been replaced with a seemingly endless cycle of toilet touring, dismal streaming numbers, and widespread indifference from the wider music community. Add a degree of regional snobbery amongst the industry into the mix and the likelihood of breaking a Scottish act seems increasingly unattainable. But yet, under what appears to be a seemingly endless black cloud of despair, an exciting scene bubbles quietly away beyond the wall.
Rascalton, A 4-piece indie rock outfit from Glasgow, are part of a new wave of Scottish acts who are reclaiming the word “band”, bringing it back to its roots of self-expression within a community, of like-minded individuals sharing art as not only a means of enjoyment but of survival.”
+ BILK
www.facebook.com/bilkbandpage”
‘Give Up’ is the debut single release from new Essex based working class indie 3 piece Bilk. Having all just turned 18 years of age Bilk write honest songs to inspire the youth of today, their music being a social commentary to the challenges facing young people today. The band spent last year gigging extensively in Essex building a strong grassroots following, leading to their debut play on BBC Introducing at the end of 2017. With influences ranging from the Jam, The Streets and the Arctic Monkeys through to Eminem and Dizzee Rascal, Bilk are a truly young modern indie band with an attitude and message they are determined to reach the masses. Getting ‘bilked’ is slang for when a cabbie (singer Sol Abrahams’ father is a London black cab driver) has a customer that runs off without paying the far..”
+ GUM SOUL
→ Thursday October 18th at Moles, Bath.
→ Doors: 7pm / Tickets from www.moles.co.uk
→ +14 (Under 16s to be accompanied by an adult)
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Venue
Bath BA1 2EN
UK