Lande Hekt / Fightmilk / Melanie Baker @The Cumberland Arms

Name: Lande Hekt / Fightmilk / Melanie Baker @The Cumberland Arms
Start: 2025-10-03T18:45:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-03T22:45:00+01:00
Location: The Cumberland Arms

Schedule

Fri Oct 03 2025 at 06:45 pm to 10:45 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Cumberland Arms | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

Blancmange Records and The Cumberland Arms presents a night of chorus-drenched, introspective indie bangers!
Tickets: https://wegottickets.com/event/674018/
Lande Hekt
Lande Hekt’s music is born out of self-reflection, social and political awareness, and her capacity for evocative storytelling. Having explored this personal song-writing approach with her former band, Muncie Girls, with their punchy yet tender punk-flecked songs, Lande released her debut solo record Going To Hell in 2021 via queer and trans run independent label Get Better Records. Going To Hell presents its raw honesty amongst understatedly luminous melodies and candid, unpretentious lyrics which contemplate, among other things, her experience coming out as gay. Lande’s music sits beautifully alongside such essential artists as The Wedding Present, The Sundays, The Replacements, Sleeper and Sharon Van Etten.
With her debut album barely a year old, 2022 saw Lande armed with a whole new collection of song-form vignettes and musings on her life and experiences with second album House Without a View (partnering again with Get Better Records and Prize Sunflower Records in the UK). Kicking off where the last record left off, House Without a View continues to explore ideas of queer identity, as well as her changing relationship with gender, dealing with childhood trauma, and confronting the isolation and period of adjustment brought by the pandemic. Lead single ‘Gay Space Cadets’ daydreams about a life of excitement and adventure instead of being “forced to buy into capitalism and become a pathetic, losing player in a game that you hate.” Although there’s darkness and sadness within the record, there’s also some shining beacons of positivity and a light-hearted side, albeit with a side of frustration.
Lande has toured in the UK, Europe, Canada and Australia supporting the likes of Alvvays, Laura Jane Grace, The Beths, Throwing Muses and the legend that is Tricky. She has also played at Glastonbury festival, as well as events for The Big Issue and Corbyn’s Labour Party.
In 2023, Lande Hekt continued her poignant musical introspection with two new singles ‘Pottery Class’ and ‘Axis’. Bittersweet ‘Pottery Class’ captures the feeling of yearning for someone and longing for a space to share with that person. In the song, Lande reflects: “we could move to the city, go to shows and join a pottery class / But you’d always be overwhelmed by everything that moves too fast / I don’t care where we live, I just want you back.”
Second single, ‘Axis’, conveys wistful and fleeting thoughts of loneliness and the desire for freedom, transforming elusive feelings into concrete experiences: “Late nights keep me down but it’s different from how it used to be / Birds fly past the window and Lola wishes she was free.” After spinning in a hazy stream-of-consciousness amongst hypnotic guitar-driven instrumentals, Lande resigns “It’s always the bad days that keep me from pushing forward.”
Fightmilk
Fightmilk is Lily, Alex, Healey and Nick - a London-based four-piece who write sweaty, loud, shouty pop songs about such universal concerns as yearning, death, being bitten on the butt by dogs, and bridezillas.
With two critically acclaimed albums released on Reckless Yes, and tours across the UK, Germany, and Norway under their belts, 2024 saw them release No Souvenirs - their rougher, rawer third album, on Fika Recordings & INH Records.
For fans of spiky lyrics, hefty riffs, and full-throated yelling, Fightmilk are a formidable live band, with reviews honing in on their stage presence and magnificent command of relatably raw power-pop. This autumn they’ll be touring an arsenal of new, weird, Goosebumps-inspired songs.
Melanie Baker
Melanie Baker is a rising indie artist newcomer based in the North East of England. Her direct and honest lyricism capture themes such as queer identity, self-reflection and the anxieties of modern life. Her songs will take you on an emotional and confusing rollercoaster with her unapologetic and sometimes uncomfortably honest lyrics paired with a sonically alluring, irreverent, grungy grit.

Doors 7pm
Tickets £12 Adv
£16 OTD