About this Event

229 Presents Bellevue Days and Sad Blood



Tickets - £5 advance // £6 on the door

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Bellevue Days

Croydon 4 Piece - Bellevue Days recalls The Xcerts as their most boisterous, Manchester Orchestra at their most anthemic, and Weezer at their perfect-pop-crunch best. Having released one of the most exciting debut EPs of 2015 ('The Sun Came Up When We Were Young'), Croydon 4-piece Bellevue Days kicked off their 2016 with a video to accompany latest single 'Ripped Jeans' With the track premiered by Zane Loweas his #WORLDRECORD on Beats 1 Radio at the tail end of 2015. Bellevue Days embarked on a nationwide tour with DIYmagazine supporting Tigercub in march 2016 and performed this year at 2000 Trees with lots more to come

...Bellevue Days are:

...Alan Smith (Vocals/ Guitar)

...Dan Lukes (Guitar/ Vocals)

...Joe Blackford (Bass/ Vocals)

...Jack Pavitt (Drums)



"A gut-punching cut of intelligent and anthemic rock, cut through with an everyday paranoia that's destined for huge, uniting festival slots" - DIY Mag



Top 15 EPs of 2015: "vibrant, atmospheric and forward moving"- Upset Mag



20 Acts To Watch In 2016: "They're going to be huge" -Punktastic



"Probably my favorite band in the whole world" - Alex Baker,Kerrang!

https://www.facebook.com/BellevueDays/



Sad Blood

After failed attempts at careers in both professional wrestling and standup comedy (due to a lack of any discernible athletic or comedic ability) George Phillips turned his hand to songwriting.

He picked up a guitar and started writing songs about his failures in life and love focusing mostly his failed imaginary relationship with pop sensation Taylor Swift.

But he needed a band. After attempting to recruit drummer Daniel Goldberg and bassist Krys Bascombe approximately 22 and half times, they finally relented and Sad Blood was born.

With a raft of emo, power-pop twinged songs they entered the studio in 2015 to record their debut EP. They called it “Ultimate Worrier”.

After a lengthy fictional court battle with Ms. Swift over their ill advised Bad Blood based band name, the band returned to the studio to record their sophomore effort and christened it “Legion of Gloom”, learning nothing from their previous problems with pun-based nomenclature.

The band are about to release a video for the song “Heavy Petting Zoo” from the aforementioned double entendre ladened EP.

You can catch Sad Blood on tour supporting the likes of Moose Blood, Dead! The New Tusk and other bands sympathetic to their catchy, pun-based ditties.

https://www.facebook.com/sadbloodband

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-6KlOvUoDw



Gelato

https://www.facebook.com/GelatoMusic

Having performed with many bands in the lead-up to the creation of GELATO, band founder and lead singer Drew Wynen knew the kind of music he wanted to create. The band recorded their first, self-titled EP with Tobin Jones (Bo Ningen, The Pearl Harts) which was released in March 2015. The debut EP was well received by many notable names in the London music industry such as BBC6 Music, Amazing Radio and various other radios/blogs. GELATO are a mix of Alternative, Punk and Garage, with hook & riff filled rock keeping it loud and fast whilst maintaining a melodic and tight sound (think Queens Of The Stone Age combined with the likes of At The Drive-In & Dinosaur Pile-up). With a steady gigging schedule, growing fanbase, the release of a second EP (‘Daydream’) and various support slots for bands such as LTNT, BONES & more, GELATO make up a dynamite trio that are certainly a band to look out for.



"In just under 10 minutes Gelato have proved to me they have what it takes to stand tall up there with their contemporaries. A proper slice of high energy, grunge-tinged, power pop just the way I like it. Man, they are up there with the likes of the very excellent Dinosaur Pile-Up and Brawlers for me. Three tracks may not be much to go on but the prospect of an album from Gelato excites me far more than anything released by The Foos or QOTSA for many years and that statement there should be enough to make you go and check them the hell out."



- UBER ROCK -



"Having made a potent and impressive introduction to themselves with their self-titled debut EP earlier this year, UK rockers Gelato more than back up its success and potential with successor Daydream. It is also a release which only grows more impressive over time, though it needed few plays to confirm suspicions that Gelato is a fresh breath for UK rock."



- RINGMASTER -



Timeless Lizards

An alternative indie rock band with a physcedelic tinge.

https://facebook.com/timelesslizards

/https://soundcloud.com/timelesslizards/daze

https://youtu.be/F_t18sRLPNA