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The Bug Club + support

The Welsh indie rock band from Monmouthshire are newly signed to Sub Pop for their 3rd LP, and are back in Northampton for Independent Venue Week.

Monday 27th January 2025
7:30pm til 11:00pm
Minimum Age
16+

Monday 27th January 2025
7:30pm til 11:00pm
Minimum Age
16+

The Bug Club + support

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The Bug Club + support


The Bug Club + support

The Bug Club

Music Genres

Indie | Indie Pop

Brands

The Black Prince

About

SBD Presents

THE BUG CLUB

MONDAY JANUARY 27TH

An Independent Venue Week show

The way you’re saying it, “prolific” isn’t the right word for The Bug Club. You’ve got to say it with the trademark Welsh lilt and pay due homage to this inimitable band’s origins in the renowned hit factory of Caldicot, South Wales. Do that, and you’re about right with how to summarise a group who’ve released ten singles, three albums, two EPs, three things nobody knew how to describe, and an album under a different band’s name, all since 2021, and while playing 200+ gigs a year.

Initially comprising the songwriting core of Sam Willmett (vocals/guitar) and Tilly Harris (vocals/bass) with Dan Matthew (drums), The Bug Club started plying their trade in 2016. They were signed by UK label Bingo Records in Autumn of 2020. BBC 6 Music’s Marc Riley was an early champion, hammering the single, booking the band in for a session as soon as it was allowed, and rightfully praising songwriters capable of singing the whole alphabet in a two-minute song and making it work.

On their third LP ‘On The Intricate Inner Workings Of The System’, their first for Sub Pop, the band serves up a beefy slab of their speciality Modern-Lovers-meets-Nuggets garage rock. There’s B-52’s call-and-response fun mixed with AC/DC power chord grunt. Leaning towards fast-paced punk, opening double salvo “War Movies” and “Quality Pints” sets out the stall: duel vocal piss-taking, surreal takes on everyday topics that go full circle and become profound, riffs all day long and then all the next day too. “Quality Pints” deals with the pressing concerns of any conscientious touring outfit, taking to heart the rule of the three R’s as penned by renowned fellow pints fan Mark E. Smith of The Fall. Repetition, repetition, repetition. If it’s that important, which it is, it’s worth saying again. “War Movies” dresses distorted chugging with a comprehensive ‘best of’ list for the genre, with Sam Willmett offering a solo casually chucked out in a way that will make your dad promptly give up any resurgent guitar playing ambitions. And “A Bit Like James Bond” tackles the UK’s sleaziest undercover export at the same time as the embarrassing ego problem that besets much of its population - but it’s only heavy(ish) in the fun, loads-of-riffs sense. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ckxeEAvSQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gkvh7tUKYU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAINB7NOAL4

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7eiTMbuHYUPjrAMjIhAVDB

https://www.facebook.com/thebugclubband

https://www.instagram.com/thebugclubband

https://thebugclub.bandcamp.com/

@ The Black Prince

15 Abington Square, Northampton NN1 4AE

Doors 7.30pm

The venue is 16+ [under 18s to be accompanied by a legal guardian]

The multi-story St Michael's car park [entrance on St. Michael's Road, exit on Abington Square] is a 40 second walk from The Black Prince

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15 Abington Square, Northampton, NN1 4AE

Venue Rating

4.5 / 5 based on 995 reviews

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