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The Tubs + Spike | Brighton
The Tubs Brighton
The Tubs live in Brighton at CHALK on 1st October! Get tickets above until 6pm on the show day, or from SeeTickets. Ticket available on the door
Stage times tonight:
Spike: 7.45pm
The Tubs: 8.45pm
Merge Records is delighted to announce the signing of Welsh janglepop raconteurs The Tubs! The quartet —Owen Williams, Dan Lucas, Max Warren, and Taylor Stewart —are hitting the ground running, too, sharing word of new UK and EU tour dates as well as a cover of Metallica’s “Fade to Black” that transforms the seminal power ballad into the pastoral, jangle-laden epic it was always meant to be.
Owen Williams on “Fade to Black”:Signing to Merge is a dream come true for The Tubs…we’ve been huge fans since we were teens.They’ve put out some of our fave records of all time and we could tell you them all here but we don’t have the space. Call Taylor on +** **** ****** if you’d like the full list. I’ve always been a big fan of a Metallica ballad. Obviously I like the riffs too but I think there’s a weirdly beautiful and singular quality to their ballads, even though the lyrics are basically always trash. We thought it’d be fun to jangle up Fade To Black and give it a sort of folk rock reinvented outro to announce the signing.
+ Spike: Spike is the synth-pop project of Hannah McLoughlin. Released on Gob Nation Records (The Tubs, Sniffany & The Nits, PC World), Spike’s debut EP builds on a tradition of idiosyncratic British synth-pop, bringing to mind the cold-yet-intimate work of Rose McDowell and Roger Doyle. McLoughlin is a regular performer at London’s legendary experimental venue Cafe Oto, shapeshifting between dungeon synth, left field trad folk and film scoring. Collaborating with Owen Williams (vocalist and guitarist of The Tubs), Spike sees McLoughlin fully embrace her talent for pop songcraft. The E.P begins with a brooding, entirely re-worked take on Warren Zevon’s classic ‘Werewolves of London’ which teases out an unexpected melancholy from the song. Set in a Parisian hotel, ‘Tiquetonne’ interposes ‘Con Te Partiro’ into a manic ode to insomnia reminiscent of the synth aggression of The Serfs. ‘You’re Missing’ and ‘Voca Me’ combine earworm hooks with the cold clarity of McLoughlin’s vocal tone, bringing to mind Broadcast’s Trish Keenan. The record closes with the Laurie Anderson-esque vocoder ballad I Could Wait – a yearning, oblique coda
Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
01102026 – The Tubs. Chalk
03102026 – Cory Hanson. The Hope & Ruin
06102026 – Skating Polly. The Hope & Ruin
08102026 – Dateline. Prince Albert
10102026 – A Certain Ratio. Lewes Constitutional Club
13102026 – Jake Xerxes Fussell. Concorde 2
13102026 – Welly. Rossi Bar
15102026 – Burglar. Hope & Ruin
17102026 – John Craigie. Alphabet
18102026 – Kacy & Clayton. Prince Albert
20102026 – Pina Palau. The Prince Albert
21102026 – Martha Tilston. Lewes Constitutional Club
21102026 – The Sewing Club. Hope & Ruin
22102026 – Goblin Band. Lewes Con Club
22102026 – Kristin Hersh. The Old Market
28102026 – Deradoorian. Hope & Ruin
30102026 – Hollow Hand. Alphabet
31102026 – Penelope Isles. The Hope & Ruin
01112026 – Stu Larsen. The Prince Albert
02112026 – villagerrr. The Hope & Ruin
04112026 – Furrow Collective. Lewes Constitutional Club
04112026 – zzzahara. Green Door Store
08112026 – Alien Boy. The Prince Albert
08112026 – Kiwi Jr. The Hope & Ruin
11112026 – Big Brave. Prince Albert
13112026 – The Boo Radleys. Lewes Constitutional Club
19112026 – Gold Panda. ALPHABET
19112026 – Niall McNamee. Prince Albert
20112026 – Barbican Estate. Green Door Store
22112026 – mildred. Prince Albert
24112026 – Cheekface. Chalk
25112026 – Ozric Tentacles. Lewes Constitutional Club
26112026 – Chris Wood. Lewes Constitutional Club
27112026 – Dave McCabe (The Zutons). Lewes Constitutional Club
29112026 – Dylan LeBlanc. Alphabet
04122026 – Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip. Lewes Constitutional Club
05122026 – John Otway. Lewes Constitutional Club
06022027 – Jim Moray. Komedia Brighton
11022027 – These New South Whales. Prince Albert. Brighton
13022027 – Amelia Coburn. Komedia Brighton
13022027 – Seamus Fogarty. Green Door Store Brighton
19022027 – Wes Banderson. Komedia Brighton
23022027 – Mercy Girl. Green Door Store Brighton
11032027 – Anna Erhard. Chalk Brighton
13032027 – Rowena Wise. Prince Albert
14032027 – Shovel Dance Collective. Komedia Brighton
19032027 – HENGE. Chalk, Brighton
21032027 – Jeffrey Silverstein. Prince Albert
23042027 – Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan. Lewes Constitutional Club
15042027 – Focus. Lewes Constitutional Club
21052027 – Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Lewes Constitutional Club
16062027 – Shonen Knife. Lewes Constitutional Club
Accessibility: Fully accessible venue, disabled toilet at the back. Ask bar for assistance. Entrance for wheelchairs at the back of the venue. Toilets gender neutral on some nights. 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. Wheelchair area, and sofa at the side for seating, but depending on how many people are in it may affect the viewing.
The Tubs Brighton
The Tubs Brighton