Please Please You presents
Bull
Captain Starlet + Eugene Gorgeous
Thursday 6th October, Doors 19:30
*This show is now sold out! Thanks everyone!*
Yay! A very special show for us. York heroes Bull have had a great time since the release of their ace debut album last year.
‘Discover Effortless Living’ made them a host of new fans…
“That’s really good, I really like that” – Elton John
Anyway, we’ve been shouting about how great the are for a while now and we’re proud to offer a York headline show at The Crescent with entry a ridiculous £1 in advance!
There will be zero guestlist and tickets are limited so don’t hang around if you want to come.
Bull:
Formed in 2011 by vocalist and songwriter Tom Beer and guitarist Dan Lucas, Bull’s mission is simply to make the music they wanted to listen to, inspired by their heroes, from the Modern Lovers and Pavement to the Kinks and the Pixies.
The rest of the band came together through a mix of friendships and happenstance. Drummer Tom Gabbatiss joined after he and Tom jammed together in bars while they were back-packing round Thailand, and Kai West joined on bass having played with York cult heroes the Littlemores. More recently Tom’s sister Holly Beer has joined them on keys and vocals, taking lead vocal on the track Magazine on the band’s latest EP, and adding a new dimension to the band’s trademark indie racket.
An exercise in eclecticism, ‘Stuck between the Virtual and Physical World’ is made up of 4 tracks that find the band experimenting in new genres. “The EP is split between two kinds of music, but it’s still very much BULL” Tom continues. “It’s newish territory for us as a band, we were inspired by more time in lockdown and more time in the studio to mess around. This resulted in a sort of post punk sound on ‘Stuck!’ and ‘Tired of being treated like a Twit’, and the dreamy synth rock on ‘Neil Buchanan’ and ‘Magazine’. But as ever with us – the songs are what we’re about.”
The EP is the first new material since they released their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Discover Effortless Living’ in 2021.
On the airwaves, the band have received support from Chris Hawkins and Steve Lamacq at 6Music, Huw Stephens at BBC Introducing and Clara Amfo, as well as being acclaimed by fellow musicians like Declan McKenna and Elton John on his Beats 1 show.
Please Please You presents
Bull
Captain Starlet + Eugene Gorgeous
Thursday 6th October, Doors 19:30