ctrl LIVE: shame (UK), Brainwasher (RO)
Schedule
Tue, 28 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Str. Constantin Mille, nr. 4, 010142 Bucharest, Romania | Bucharest, BU
ctrl LIVE: shame [UK] [LIVE][Post-Punk][Alternative]
It’s been two years since shame wreaked havoc on our stage, and this autumn, they’re back for another legendary show on Tuesday, October 28.
“Our shows aren’t performance art - they’re direct, confrontational, raw.” We felt that. And we’ve been waiting for more.
Crucial to this incendiary new outlook was producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen). From their initial meeting, Congleton’s no-bullshit approach became a guiding force to streamline the band’s ideas.
Stamped throughout with Shame’s trademark sense of humour, the album takes on the big issues of today and gleefully toys with them. With Trump in the Whitehouse and Shame holed up in Salvation Studios in Brighton, they cast a merciless eye on themes of conflict and corruption; hunger and desire; lust, envy and the omnipresent shadow of cowardice.
Musically, too, the record plays with visceral new ideas. Making electronic music on tour for fun, Coyle-Smith had previously seen the loops he was crafting as a separate entity to the things he wrote for Shame. Then, he realised, maybe they didn’t have to be. “This time, anything could go if it sounded good and you got it right,” he says.
Post-punk fury. Electronic grit. Indie hedonism. Sounds like a mosh pit waiting to happen.
BRAINWASHER
Supporting this wild ride, they deliver restless noise for the disillusioned digital age.
Fresh blood from Bucharest’s underground, they play like they’ve got nothing to lose and everything to scream about.
Explosive and unfiltered, their sound slams together hardcore urgency, dance-punk swagger and a taste for the chaotic.
Loud, fast and gloriously feral - they are not here to play it safe.
The band tackles social imequality, class divide, and the sterile realities of digital life - all through a sharp, often self-reflective lens.
🎫 75 Lei • Presale via the link in bio
🎟️ 95 Lei • General sale
Where is it happening?
Str. Constantin Mille, nr. 4, 010142 Bucharest, Romania, Strada Constantin Mille 4, 010142 București, România, Bucharest, Romania
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