Please Please You presents
Crumbs
Bumble B Boy + Soma Crew
Friday 17th May, 7.30pm
Tickets are £8 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.
*This is a standing show*
Crumbs
A sort of post punk indie pop band.
Crumbs are based in Leeds, where they are active movers in the DIY scene that currently thrives in the North of England. They recorded a Marc Riley session in 2016, released their first album (on Everything Sucks) in 2017, toured extensively in 2018 and 2019, playing at the Brudenell Social Club with Swearin’ and Jeffrey Lewis, and at plenty of fests such as LaDIYfest and Specialist Subject’s birthday all dayer in Bristol, A Real Cool Fest in Bradford, Mousetival in Stockton and the Cambridge Indiepop Alldayer.
They spent the pandemic creating the new, tightly-wound, irresistible pop songs that feature on brand new album You’re Just Jealous.
Album bio:
New Album From The Most Danceable Post-Punk Pop Band In The UK.
It’s like something has exploded!
Crumbs have been incubating this, their second album, for a few years now. Who knows how they kept all the energy in check. It must have been like sitting on a volcano. The songs burst out with pure pop fire, sending splinters of guitar, sharp lyrics and snatches of the catchiest backing vocals.
The rhythm section (Jamie and Gem): it’s like Delta 5 meeting Le Tigre in a dark alley in Leeds, fusing blindly and completely, and then forcing its way into the back entrance of a venue, sending volts through the limbs of the unwitting punters, forcing them to dance. This is TIGHT.
And as the lights come on and the indie kids throw themselves around, Ruth’s vocals sweetly assault their ears with anger, joy, political intelligence – and all around, Stuart’s guitar, sometimes twangly-melodic like the B52s, sometimes sweet and ringing like a memory of Scars, sometimes furious and feeding back, keeps you alert and thirsty for more.
These songs do NOT outstay their welcome. Starts and ends are cut hard: no pre-echo, no wistful, drawn-out regretful fade-outs. Crumbs have imbibed the key lessons taught by The Gang Of Four and The Au Pairs: never let the energy dissipate. But there is more than anger here. The band have smuggled a pop sweetness into the disciplined shapes of their angular songs. You’re Just Jealous has sharp edges, but it’s generous too.
Bumble B. Boy
Who, or what, is Bumble B. Boy!? Ask kids at your local park, and they’ll tell you Bumble B. Boy is a failed children’s entertainer who you’ll often find at birthday parties wearing his trademark beekeeper’s suit. Ask any music industry insider, and they’ll tell you Bumble B. Boy is the most bizarre festival sensation in the Netherlands, taking over stages at Best Kept Secret, Down the Rabbit Hole and Into the Great Wide Open last year with a unique blend of theatrics, storytelling and electric punk energy. Ask Tom Harden, the creative director and the titular Bumble B. Boy himself, and he’ll tell you that Bumble B. Boy is a famous children’s icon and media personality (or, is soon to be…).
For now, what we know for sure is that Bumble B. Boy is an art-punk musician and failed children’s entertainer, clawing his way into a successful career in the children’s media landscape. From putting on jaw-dropping theatrical live punk shows, to helplessly producing a children’s TV show, Tom Harden of Bumble B. Boy has his heart set on making a name for himself, no matter what!
Soma Crew
Please Please You presents
Crumbs
Bumble B Boy + Soma Crew
Friday 17th May, 7.30pm
Tickets are £8 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.