SWIM SCHOOL + PROJECTOR | Kavka Oudaan, Antwerp

Name: SWIM SCHOOL + PROJECTOR | Kavka Oudaan, Antwerp
Start: 2025-11-26T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Kavka Oudaan

Schedule

Wed, 26 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Kavka Oudaan | Antwerp, AN

Tickets 18 EUR including fees, FREE for -18!
Available from Friday 25th April, 10:00
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SWIM SCHOOL
When swim school stepped onto the stage at London’s 100 Club in January, the feeling of past meets future was palpable. Stepping onto the same stage, under that low ceiling and with the walls around them adorned by images of artists who really meant something, the band knew they had something to prove not just to the sold out crowd, but to themselves.
“That show was a huge moment for us” says guitarist Lewis. “Since the last time we played live we felt like we’d shed a skin and grown a new one, not just as a band but as people and songwriters.”
Playing as a four piece with the addition of a new touring bass player, stripping back the tech but adding real muscle, the band played the set of their lives - “a performance that etches itself into the 100 Club’s history books, and into swim school’s own story as something uniquely special.” Dork.
And it’s with that same fearless energy and expansive poise that swim school release Alone With You, the second track from their upcoming eponymously titled debut album to be released on October 3rd 2025.
“We thought this was the perfect song to release to send a clear signal about the direction in which we’re travelling and it really feels like the band we’re supposed to bes” says Billy “which is why we decided to call the album ‘swim school’....because it really is…”
“Alone With You was recorded during our second big album session with Iain Berryman (Pale Waves, Beebadoobee, Sam Fender) and we recorded it almost without thinking, like everything coming together in perfect moment between us” Alice explains “which is cool because it’s really a song about the safety of being in that company that allows you to truly be at peace.”

PROJECTOR
Since they formed in 2018, Brighton’s PROJECTOR have stubbornly gone their own way. Bringing angular industrial drum machines to hook laden alt-rock, and lush melody to frenzied post-punk, the band have never hesitated to prioritise sonic breadth and an experimental attitude to pop. It’s this confidence in craft that have lead them to tour Europe with rock giants Cleopatrick while simultaneously haunting the airplay of BBC Radio 6’s left field Steve Lamacq and Amy Lamé shows.
PROJECTOR deal in nuance of expression and the true insanity and grit of modern life, psyche and politics (although they don’t like to talk about lyrics.) With the same attitude to recording, PROJECTOR have kept a firm grip over their creative output by producing and recording themselves for the last few years.
PROJECTOR’s debut album ‘NOW WHEN WE TALK IT’S VIOLENCE’ moves effortlessly between artful derangement, aggression and the pop hooks that have regularly seen the band gatecrash the mainstream rock scene. At times it’s drenched in the dark, industrial brutalism of Joy Division, at others it’s a spectacular of hyperactive, Squid-flavoured rant-pop. The album features climaxes that stagger into acid-soaked country, warped with drum machines and lush harmonies, before leaping into blisteringly paranoid Incesticide-era grunge, topped with melting Lana Del Rey-flavour choruses.
Above all, the band’s tightly wound intensity drives the album with the strange fervour of early Pixies that reflects the energy of their live show. PROJECTOR will celebrate their debut with a UK and EU tour, starting February 2024.