Bull / XUP / Slow Monk / Kveis

Sloppy Kisser Presents…
BULL// XUP// Slow Monk
Bull:
Causing a stir in Yorkshire and further afield, York’s Bull is the perfect meeting point of early-1990’s American slacker rock and classic British song-writing.” – Louder Than War

“Their 90s tinged alternative rock music recalls all the best, and most emotive, skyscraping riffs sounds coming from the likes of Pavement, Dinosaur Jr. and The Pixies, as well as the likes of Smashing Pumpkins and Wolf Alice”
– Soundsphere Magazine

“Songwriter Tom Beer is the lyrical force fronting this exciting four-piece. They are moving too fast to be labelled. Their repertoire defies categorisation, swooping between garage pop evoking the spirit of the Ramones or the Velvet Underground, then the next minute taking you into the shoegazey territory of Ride or Slowdive from the mid 1990s.” – York Mix Magazine

Soundcloud.com/bulltheband
Instagram.com/bulltheband
Twitter.com/bulltheband
https://bullband.bandcamp.com/

XUP:
it’s pronounced zoop…
xup is Lane on vox n other noises – including: the mustang bass, telecaster gee-tar + the drums. We don’t need the telecaster when we play live.

Formerly of Nine Black Alps (erstwhile founder member) and bassist in legendary uber post-Sonic punks The Strap Ons, this journey has seen Xup move from London and back to Manchester. Xup is the kind of emotional, almost philosophical urban angst that drove punk rock to evolve and mature and capably manages to be quietly menacing. The urgent post-Siouxsie grit is mesmerising. The ever so slightly honeyed vocals sit on this barbed wired bed like it’s the most natural of things.

Sounds something like Joy Division making an art-house B movie starring Sonic Youth and Patti Smith…

Possessed of a predatory post punk prowl and gouged by a distractively dead eyed sparsely detached noir stained schlock. It aches and howls with a deeply penetrating psychosis that at times makes Siouxsie and the Banshees’ ’the scream’ sound like a sunny walk in the park… A torn and tortured beauty…

www.xupmusic.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/xupmusic
www.twitter.com/xupmusic
www.xupmusic.co.uk
www.cherryvitriolrecords.com

Slow Monk:
Providing the background music to Buckfast adverts since 1991.

“They’re very good” – Danny Igoe

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