FREE ENTRY - Bau Cat / Casper James & The Corntown Orchestra
Schedule
Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
14 High Street, NP20 1FW Newport, United Kingdom | Newport, WA
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Outline Newport Presents:Bau Cat
Casper James and the corntown orchestra
FREE ENTRY
14+
Bau Cat are a three-piece from the seaside town of Prestatyn in North Wales, blending golden-era Laurel Canyon pop with surf-jangle sparkle, New Wave cool, garage grit, and psych-soaked harmonies. Drawing from ’70s cosmic country and shot through with DIY indie energy, their sound is bold, genre-blurring, and thrillingly new.
Abby Butler (lead vocals & bass), Jim Davies (guitar & vocals), and Jack Wells (drums & vocals) create music that’s as emotionally rich as it is sonically adventurous.
Think the lush vocal stacks of Crosby, Stills & Nash clashing with the raw urgency of the pre-fame Beatles in Hamburg, not the icons, but the hungry young band grinding through smoke-filled clubs, learning survival through sound. Add in the technicolor swirl of Love, and you’re close to the sonic heart of Bau Cat.
They’ve already built a name for themselves with headline tours, standout sets at Green Man, and headlining the Toad Hall Stage at Glastonbury. Their infectious live energy and evolving sound have earned support from BBC Introducing and BBC 6 Music.
With new releases on the way, Bau Cat are stepping into their moment.
23-year-old gritty alt-country vagabond Casper James is joined by The Corntown Orchestra, named after his hometown in the deep South...Wales.
A cult collective of rag-tag musicians spontaneously join this honky tonk ensemble in a
Rolling-Thunder fashion. This carousel of eccentrics weave in and out of each performance, sometimes overflowing stages with a jangly wall-of-sound,
other times sharing intimate laments that bring you home.
Since their formation in 2024, Casper James and The Corntown Orchestra have performed countless festivals and packed-out headline shows at iconic
grassroots venues, such as Vortex, London. Their debut single is due to be released in the summer of
‘25. Prepare to cry in a corner or grin with nostalgic joy to the evocative cow-folk chaos of Casper James and The Corntown Orchestra.
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