life
Independent Venue Week Tour
with
SUGARSTONE
WHINGE
Friday 31st January 2025
The Ferret, Preston
LIFE play The Ferret on Fri 31st Jan as part of a short run of dates for Independent Venue Week 2025.
LIFE
LIFE are an alternative band from Hull. The creative 4-piece are proudly independentwith a strong DIY ethic built around community. LIFE have released 3 albums on their own DIY label: Afghan Moon. 2017’s Popular Music (BBC Radio 1’s Albums of the Year shortlist), 2019’s A Picture of Good Health (BBC 6Music Albums of the Year shortlist & AIM Award nominated (Best Second Album) and 2022’s critically-acclaimed North East Coastal Town.
Praise for North East Coastal Town:
“Certainly one of the best things they’ve ever released” Steve Lamacq, BBC 6MUSIC
“LIFE’s third album displays levels of tenderness the band have never reached before” DIY MAGAZINE
“Thoroughly satisfying, a tremendously inspiring album.” - Louder than War
“One of my favourite albums of the year” - Lauren Laverne, BBC 6MUSIC
The band have amassed a strong fanbase across the UK and Europe via their loyal LIFERS DIY group as well as garnering a reputation for putting on an energetic yet intimate live show. LIFE have played major UK festivals including Glastonbury, Latitude, Reading & Leeds Festival as well as having success in Europe at festivals including Printemps de Bourges & Les Suits Secretes (FR), Paleo Festival (CH), Rock For the People (CZ), Pukkelpop (BE), Best Kept Secret & Left of the Dial (NL), Pohoda Festival (SK), showcasing at SXSW (US) twice, Reeperbahn and Nouvelle Prague. LIFE have also toured with friends IDLES & Nadine Shah as well as appearing on TV features with groups such as Primal Scream & Jehnny Beth.
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SUGARSTONE
If Ridley Scott made Blade Runner today, you can bet he’d hire Sugarstone to score his night club scenes. The cyberpunk, futurist sonic landscape created within the bands discography, and indeed reflected in the style of the band themselves, has landed them prominent support slots for Kid Kapichi, The Blinders, Witch Fever, VLURE, Calva Louise, CLT DRP, and Tokky Horror. With a slew of sold out headline gigs across the North West, Sugarstone are becoming a household name - for the quirky and questioning music fans of the cyberverse, and indeed our universe, alike.
The once alternative rock outfit have been shmoozing a genre shift for some time; with a proclivity for the unexpected and unusual, Terrible Tendencies their new EP has certainly solidified the Preston natives into their new sound. Tender Hook Championed by BBC Radio 1 Introducing Rock ‘Track of the Week’, ‘Single of the Week’ on BBC 6 Music The Finest Hour with Guy Garvey & by Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran on Whooosh! (Sirius XM).
+ WHINGE
A meeting of 4 jaded old friends from the underbelly of the NW music scene, Whinge began as a cathartic outlet & an attempt to press pause on the unrelenting passage of time.
Fuelled by nihilism & a playful eye for self-deprecation, one pub conversation too many saw their myriad of musical backgrounds meet their unpredictable approach to life, with the end result: ‘Whinge'. Like the best bands; more a gang than a group.
Post-punk informed DIY garage-rock played with gay abandon, Whinge live shows veer from intense & frenetic to creeping & sardonic.
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The Ferret presents:
LIFE
Independent Venue Week Tour
+ SUGARSTONE
+ WHINGE
Friday 31st January 2025
The Ferret, Preston
Tickets on sale now: skiddle.com/e/40471583
Ages 14+ (under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult)
Accessible ground floor venue & facilities.
Dog-friendly venue.
