Aspirational Values

A night of music for miscreants and malcontents: The best up and coming bands playing live plus DJs spinning ska, soul, psych, garage, punk and more until late.

WHITE APE
Raw, compelling and sartorially elegant: surf-punk garage rock quartet from London, as heard on BBC6music's Steve Lamacq show and recently signed to Sotones. Launching debut EP Waiting To Say This.

"Marvellous jocular but oft times intense garage combo where The Cramps, The Fall and The Minutemen get given a wonky pop makeover to much effect." - Bugbear
“Deranged twisted psych punk.... sounds like a bunch of tanked-up tarantulas dressed in dinner jackets tip-toeing down a dark alleyway. Welcome to the cult world of white ape...”

LONELY JOE PARKER
White Ape's Sotones labelmate: hook-laden and emotionally intense singer-songwriter with wonderful whiskey-soaked baritone
“worth buying a turntable just to hear this.”
The Fly
“intriguing melodies… highly alluring.”
Q Magazine.com
“Stream of conscious lyrics.. like a late night busker serenading the drunks… Get it for the indie kid in your life.”
Clash Music

THE DARK RAYS
Stripped Down two-man folk punk Woody Guthrie-meets-Reckless Eric fandango