Cherym x brand new friend - The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham

Thu Oct 07 2021 at 06:00 pm

The Sunflower Lounge | Halesowen

New Champion Management
Publisher/HostNew Champion Management
Cherym x brand new friend - The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
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CHERYM Cherym are a three-piece from Derry in Northern Ireland with some seriously infectious songwriting credentials. Taking influence from The Smashing Pumpkins, Bikini K*ll, American Football, PUP and Pixies, the trio formed after meeting in college over a joint love of garage rock, pop punk and a desire to be the biggest band in the world.
Starting out as a kick-back against the local music scene boys club, their relentless enthusiasm and boundless energy are the perfect antidote to the drudgery of life under lockdown—a very, very bright shining light for 2021 at the end of what’s been a long tunnel.
Their self-released 2018 debut EP Mouthbreatherz racked up over 20,000 organic streams and garnered them fans all over Ireland, earning them slots at a number of prominent festivals and support roles for notable bands such as local legends And So I Watch You From Afar… and Fangclub.
They went on to win the ‘Oh Yeah Contender’ award at the NI Music Prize in 2019, which was sponsored by BBC Introducing, and Irish music bible Hot Press tipped them as one of their Hot For 2020 artists in their annual list.
The band released their latest singles ‘Abigail’ and ‘Weird Ones’ in May 2020, their most successful release yet, with support from both Spotify editorial playlists (New Punk Tracks, Punk Unleashed, Hot New Bands, Alt-Rocked) and national radio (BBC R1, BBC 6music, RTE 2FM, BBC Radio Ulster and more) with ‘Abigail’ debuted by Huw Stephens at BBC Introducing.
In February 2020, the band embarked on a series of dates with Yonaka, including sold-out shows in Dublin and Belfast, ending the year with ‘Abigail’ nominated for best single at the NI Music Prize in August 2020.
Losing none of that trademark pop punch and feedback fizz, ‘A Cure For Living’ finds the Northern Irish five-piece on fine form and bursting with energy and exuberance. Centred as always around the disarming songwriting and lilting harmonies provided by brother and sister Taylor and Lauren Johnson, yet performed by a band who’s propulsion into the spotlight since their bedroom pop days has notably sharpened them in all departments and instilled a tangible hunger to excite with the next chapter in their story. From the roller coaster clatter of ‘She Always Comes Up Smiling’, to the sugar-coated rush of ‘The Karma Party’, the tender balladry of ‘You Can’t Know Everything, I Don’t Know Anything’ and anthemic closer ‘Plastic Flowers’; like the friend you’ve always known, the Castlerock quintet’s new EP is at once familiar, but still always knows how to surprise you.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Sunflower Lounge, Halesowen, United Kingdom

Tickets

GBP 9.35

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