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SILENT FORUM + HALF HAPPY + ADERYN (acoustic)

Ages 18+ £5 adv + booking fee / £7 on the door. BUY TICKETS from SEETICKETS, WEGOTTICKETS, TICKETWEB, DICE, SKIDDLE or from The Moon bar during opening hours (no booking fee!).

SILENT FORUM split their time between Cardiff, London, Bristol and Barcelona. Their sound is equally unconventional - multifaceted pop music with confident but subtle streaks of dark energy. It’s textured pop-post-punk that equally rejects three chord song structure and monochrome doom. They have been described, very fittingly, as an “uncouth Talking Heads” (Buzz magazine), sharing a sophistication and playfulness of the latter with “the progressive pop sound of XTC and the new wave idiosyncrasy of Squeeze” (Destroy/Exist). Or as Silent Forum put it, many of their songs are “punky without being punk.” Silent Forum on Spotify, Twitter, Instagram, Bandcamp

HALF HAPPY are a new act from Cardiff - only a few months old but already produced dreamy indie pop and post-punk heard in first single ‘Runaway Girl’, recorded with Tom Rees of Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard. Half Happy on Spotify, Instagram, Twitter, BigCartel, website

ADERYN blends sardonic, confessional lyrics with hooky guitars. She mixes together her indie and pop influences to create something that sounds like “Beabadoobee if she had a lot of caffeine." As a teenager she grew tired of life on a sheep farm in the Brecon Beacons and left home at 16 to become a drummer in a grunge band. She soon realised that the singers were having all the fun, running around the stage and chatting to the crowd. Besides, all that drum gear is very heavy. So, Aderyn began to write, with one goal in mind: to make music that sounds like it belongs on a classic 90s movie soundtrack. Aderyn on Spotify, Bandcamp, Twitter, Instagram

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