Outlander + HAAL Brighton

Outlander + HAAL live in Bristol at The Louisiana on 23rd April! Get tickets above, or from SeeTickets.

Birmingham, England’s Outlander have been haunting stages around the UK and beyond for the best part of a decade, bringing their gloomy, caustic brand of shoegaze to support tours with genre heavyweights Bossk and Grivo and festivals including Dunk! and Arctangent.

Emerging in 2016, with ‘Take Turns b/w I’ll Get Mine Too’, swiftly followed by 2017’s 3 track EP ‘Downtime’, the band found their sound with debut full length, 2019’s ‘the valium machine’, five patient, glacial tracks of long form slowcore inflected shoegaze.

When the world was unpaused, Outlander signed to Church Road Records and returned with 2021’s desolate Sundowning/Unconditional, their heaviest and most direct output to date, a demonstration of the band’s need to evolve and develop within the framework built over their first 5 years.

Most recently, 2024’s ‘Acts of Harm’ found the band at their most introspective, sonically exploring the vast grey area between the languid slowcore of Duster and Codeine, the dream-like shoegaze of Swervedriver and Catherine wheel and the angular, glacial bombardment of Kowloon Walled City and True Widow. An intimate coming of age record of reconciliation with adulthood, ‘Acts of Harm’ finds beauty and despair in the mundane, and explores the cycles of decline that prop-up the fragile balance of normality in modern society. A singular body of work written mostly in isolation, pulled together piece by piece during the pandemic and recorded over two years by Neil Kennedy at The Ranch Production House in Southampton. The songs move at a funeral pace and take a sombre look at human themes, from the empty stare through the living room window of ‘Want No More’, the communication breakdown of ‘New Motive Power’, the cathartic breaking point of ‘Lye Waste’ and the fraught quiet beyond.

+ HAAL: Combining elements of post-rock, metal, trip-hop and industrial noise, Bristol’s HAAL have quickly become cult favourites in the UK live scene.

Their psychotropic blend of sampling, DIY home-crafted pedals, monolithic instrumentation and immersive live visuals has seen the band play and tour alongside the likes of Deliluh, Butch Kassidy, Famous, DITZ, Treeboy & Arc and Water From Your Eyes, as well as appearing at festivals such as ArcTanGent, Dot To Dot, Wanderlust & many more. Coming off the heels of their recent singles ‘Janus’ and ‘Judy’ (and subsequent remixes by Water From Your Eyes & Crimewave), the band’s debut EP ‘Back To Shilmarine’ (Babka Records) arrives as a blistering snapshot of the band’s protean dynamism. Praise for the EP from publications and blogs such as Total Guitar Magazine, CVLT Nation & OutsideNoise444 demonstrating their craft, whilst radio-play and playlisting from BBC Radio 6’s Jamz Supernova and Nabihah Iqbal showcases their ability to pique interest from tastemakers far and wide. https://haalband.bandcamp.com/

The venue is only accessible via a flight of stairs however they can offer access via a back door at street level to the venue if mobility is an issue or you use a wheelchair. There are 3 large steps via this route so assistance to gain access and to exit the venue would be required. We can arrange this if you contact us in advance of a show. Please bear in mind that they can only allow access in between bands due to sound issues. Two disabled toilets upstairs, both gender neutral. If you require a carer at the venue, please contact us at info@lovethyneighbourmusic.co.uk for guestlist, with evidence such as a blue badge or access card. If strobe lighting is an issue or if standing for long periods of time is an issue, please contact us in advance. They can provide chairs in the venue although if the event is very busy this will impede visibility. If you wish to make use of a chair to view a gig, we advise arriving early to secure a position. They are happy to accommodate assistance dogs.

Outlander + HAAL Brighton
Outlander + HAAL Brighton