Oh my word! Look at this! Hotly tipped fun outfit Welly are set to play a ludicrously small show next month! Let’s hope they don’t bring all those amps as I’m not sure they’ll fit on stage!
Welly have today announced that they will be rockin’ on up to The Rossi Bar on Queens Road in Brighton, courtesy of local promoters Love Thy Neighbour, on Tuesday 13th October. This really is astonishing news! Talk about getting up close with their fans! For a band that last time out in Brighton headlined the Chalk venue, to announce that they are playing live at The Rossi Bar is almost beyond belief, as this venue is literally about a tenth of the size and capacity of Chalk!
It’s certain that this new event will sell out in a matter of minutes. So cutting to the chase, tickets go on presale Thursday 10th September via our Love Thy Neighbours mailing list HERE and any remaining tickets will be available via Seetickets HERE at 10am on Friday 11th September.
Branded by the NME as “Indie’s Wittiest New Songwriter”, Welly’s songs sweep up influences as close to home as Blur and Pulp and as far and wide as French ‘Chansons’ and Chicago House. But essentially, it’s dancey-punky-britpoppy stuff with Alan Bennet on the top, whilst all the time in search of endless perfection, and the delivery of punchline upon punchline on top of the cheesiest melody. Welly are perfect for now and offer up suburban discopunk for the CBBC generation.
The band are disciples of crash, bang and wallop guitars, cowbells and synthesizers through uniquely catchy Dad-danceable songs. It’s The Smiths at a school disco. Vampire Weekend in a village hall. John Betjeman on a bassline.
Crashing together the best bits of escapist pop, indie-disco, punk and DIY electronics, the group, which consists of frontman vocalist Welly (himself) and his school-mates, namely Hanna Witkamp (keyboards, maracas, tambourine, melodica, backing vocals), Jacob Whitear (bass, backing vocals), Joe Holden-Brown (guitar, backing vocals) and Matt Gleeson (guitar, backing vocals), have all been showing an early ambition to reconnect the great, grassroots British tradition via performing intimate shows in compact venues across the land.
First single ‘Shopping’, for instance, was a riotous love-letter to the UK high street, as compelled by the arch, art-rock of Pulp as the left-field bangers of Girls Aloud. Welly is quickly building a world of curtain-twitching storytelling: single ‘Soak Up The Culture’ both sends-up and pays loving tribute to the Lads-On-Tour anthem, whilst ‘Deere John’ is a rollicking tableaux of marital strife (and a lawn-mower). These were followed by ‘Cul-De-Sac’ and ‘Big In The Suburbs’ singles and their rock solid debut long-player, also called ‘Big In The Suburbs’.
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