Blue Bendy
Announce UK Tour
Including Black Country, New Road support at O2 Brixton Academy on 31 October
Blue Bendy are easing back into life with a run of UK tour dates pegged around their support slot with Black Country, New Road. The band are also headlining their biggest London show to date at Oslo in Hackney on 5 February. Full dates listed below.
Since releasing their critically acclaimed debut album ‘So Medieval’ last year, the band have been on an unusual journey. Forced to cancel what should have been a celebratory headline album tour just days before it was meant to begin after members of the band left the group, their future was seriously in doubt. But they worked on it, put their heads down and went back to the drawing board to work on new material and find new bandmates. All of this has now been done, and the band are stronger and sounding better than ever before. With new music nearing completion, Blue Bendy are dusting off their instruments and heading back out on the road to do what they do best and will be debuting new material alongside their most loved songs.
Fans who want to get the first tickets can sign up to the bands newly launched substack, and once they sign up they will receive the link sent out to them before anyone else. Sign up here.
Blue Bendy’s debut album ‘So Medieval’ captures all the musical foibles, idiosyncrasies and departures from the norm which the band have displayed across their previous releases. Expressing their sound over the course of a full record for the first time, ‘So Medieval’ is an explosive mix of genre, atmosphere and emotions. The end result is something rare for a new band: a debut album which is as experimental as it is confident and assured, as tender as it is visceral, as quiet as it is loud, as bloody as it is teary.
Having toured as main support for Squid and Cola as well as playing packed out tents at festivals like End Of The Road and Green Man, Blue Bendy have struck a balance between being obviously skilled musicians, writing complex, layered, overlapping and ambitious compositions, while also utilising space, breadth, and restraint. Their music is bursting with dynamism, exploring push-pull dynamics that results in something ceaselessly unpredictable.
Blue Bendy are Arthur Nolan (vocals), Dina Willock (bass), Joe Nash (guitar), Oliver Chester-Nolan (guitar), Olivia Morgan (synth) and Tristan Petsola (drums).
Blue Bendy UK Tour Dates
18 September – Edinburgh, Mash House
19 September – Manchester, Gullivers
20 September – Bristol, Rough Trade
28 October – Oxford, Little Bully
29 October – Ipswich, Smokehouse
31 October – London, O2 Academy Brixton*
5 February – London, Oslo
*main support to Black Country, New Road
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