Name: PIGEON PIT + WALTER MITTY AND HIS MAKESHIFT ORCHESTRA // Nottingham, Sept 11th
Start: 2025-09-11T18:00:00+01:00
Location: The Carousel

$PIGEON PIT + WALTER MITTY AND HIS MAKESHIFT ORCHESTRA \/\/ Nottingham, Sept 11th$

FIREJAM, RIOT GARDEN and ART AND CRIME COLLECTIVE are extremely proud to present two heavyweight American Folk Punk LEGENDS on tour in the UK this September along with a string of local support along the way.
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𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒...
★ 𝗣𝗜𝗚𝗘𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗜𝗧 ★
Pigeon Pit is a collection of stories wrapped in sunburned skin and a brave heart from a small beach town. They evoke a honky-tonk held in a punk house living room, the Olympia band finds sparks of communal joy while sorting through the stress and grief of daily life offering bittersweet snapshots that stick with you long afterwards. Centered in the now, under a backdrop of rising global fascism and AI battling it out with reality, the band is focusing on how to keep sane and still love and have fun in these dark days. The band went into recording their fifth album, “Crazy Arms” after the busiest year since their founding. They toured for the first time as a full six-piece, played high-profile gigs, like their first Tiny Desk show, played with Laura Jane Grace, and toured Australia and New Zealand. Despite obvious signs of the band’s growing popularity, they still tapped into their DIY roots in recording this one, using a friend’s basement as their studio.
𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘴...
★ 𝗪𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗙𝗧 𝗢𝗥𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔 ★ 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘰
Of all the ways for a cult band to rise out of a decade of silence, Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra chose to send their fans on a real life treasure hunt for their new album, “Yikes Almighty”. The album, a calming existential crisis set to children’s toy instruments, was dubbed to a single cassette and buried in a cave in the California desert. The band released a cryptic video that serves as the treasure map with the message “if you find it, we will release it.”
Though the bedroom folk punk outfit has not released music in 11 years, in actuality they have been consistently releasing and touring under their genre-defying umbrella name, Walter Etc. When asked why the band is split into two identities, singer / songwriter Walter himself, Dustin Cole Hayes, responded “my life is already such a mess, I decided I’d keep adding to the chaos.” It is Hayes’s cut-your-own-ear-off artistic sincerity that has made the Walter-verse fertile grounds for such strong lore and cultural myth.
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Plus Support from 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗠 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗠 𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗢𝗢𝗡, 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗣 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗘 & 𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗬 𝗙𝗜𝗦𝗛𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥