About this Event

Gravy Train Presents:



Weirds

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HCBP

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Dwell



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The Crofters Rights

Sunday 4th June

19:30 - 23:00

£5 Adv



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Step into the kaleidoscopic world of WEIRDS , and you’ll be engulfed in a glorious, sonically technicoloured smog. After honing their craft over several years on the Leeds circuit, the band are now armed with colossal debut album, set for release 12th May on Alcopop! Records. The record establishes WEIRDS trademark sound as one that features lush, viscous layers that you can almost feel and taste, intricately positioned to create an escapist and mesmerising experience.



WEIRDS recently revealed Valley Of Vision, the first single from their debut , in the form of a spectacularly cinematic and eerie music video. Perking up the ears of Huw Stephens, the track has gone on to receive spins from BBC Radio 1.



Recorded with Matt Peel (Pulled Apart By Horses, Eagulls) at The Nave, an atmospheric Leeds studio built into a converted church, WEIRDS set out to create a dark, heavy, psychedelic record which still had the pop structure and hooks to make people dance. Following on from 2016s Weird Sun EP , the band intentionally wanted to create light at the end of the sonic tunnel with their debut to provide a sense of relief from the lyrically brutal narrative. The studio location was significant in coining the album title, derived after bassist Matthew Vaughan had observed a flock of starlings in the courtyard, triggering a trail of thought on colonial behaviour and how is transcends to multiple species - including humankind.



"Like a vulture ravaging a corpse" - Paul Smith, NME



"A deranged take to sludgy, in-your-face noise" - DIY



"Their no-frills sound has both an immediacy and a certain mysticism" - The Skinny