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The Smashing Times (USA) + Sassyhiya (London) + Big Other (Manchester)
The New Headingley Club
2nd December 2024
£8 Adv and £10 on the door
Tickets
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-smashing-times-sassyhiya-big-other/the-new-headingly-club/3157387
THE SMASHING TIMES are a psychedelic twee freakbeat group from a Baltimore basement. Instruments played by humans, bare feet touching the ground. Wrinkled button downs, sweaters filled with holes, music audibly and sometimes visibly made by humans. Can you change the strings on your guitar? Maybe, can you buy me dinner? Lock up your Rickenbackers, Thee Jasmine Monk is coming to town, can they stay on your couch? Recent album ‘Bloom’ was released by Meritorio Records, featuring fractious, chiming riffs and Dan Treacy meets Stephen Pastel style vocals and an impressive collection of genuinely memorable tracks. The Smashing Times’ new album ‘Mrs Ladyships and the Cleanerhouse Boys’ will be coming out on K Records in November.
The Smashing Times are your new favorite MOD heart throbs. Is there REALLY a new Merseybeat Revolution? How many times can you really REALLY watch The Blow-Up alone in your room? Why don't you venture out the front door and take a bite of the real thing? The Smashing Times are a mainstay in the indie pop underground. The group mistrals the new modern life perfectly, the sharper world.
https://thesmashingtimes.bandcamp.com
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SASSYHIYA are Katherine Wright and Helen Skinner of cult South London queer band Barry. Now with added Neil and Pablo. Check out their new 7” on Skep Wax, a celebratory ode to Kristen Stewart no less.
https://sassyhiya.bandcamp.com
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Big Other
Dream pop deconstructionists? Post-shoegaze powerpop? The Big Other sound is as ineffable as the emotions they wish to articulate. The motif is urgency, to put as many ideas into a short amount of time as possible: think a more fragile, ‘90s alt rock rendering of Wire on speed or Stereolab with a rocket up the rhythm section’s arse, to quote notable fan Jack Harkins of Mancunian contemporaries Autocamper. The said rhythm section comprises Ben Philips (also of Chew Magna) and bassist Kane Martin (Threads), whose muscular riffs are excavated from the school of Fugazi’s Joe Lally and The Fall’s Steve Hanley, ensuring an impossibly tight unit.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The New Headingley Club, 56 St Michaels Road,Leeds, United Kingdom
