This Will Destroy Your Ears

This Will Destroy Your Ears were born in 2018 in the southwest of France and hit the UK roads straight away, sharing stages with USA Nails, JOHN, and Black Midi. That first tour—in a battered Renault Master affectionately nicknamed Georges by the Brits—set the tone: loud, raw, no-nonsense, and fiercely DIY.
In 2019, the band recorded their debut album CLEAR with Dorian Verdier (JC Satàn) and Boris Lehachoir in their self-built Angresse HQ, pARPAINg, before having it mixed in London by Wayne Adams (Petbrick, Green Lung). It was released on their own label, Cowboy À La Mode. Moving back and forth between the French and UK scenes, This Will Destroy Your Ears kept gigging, collaborating, and growing. In 2022, they took part in À TOI À MOI, a 12″ split celebrating “musical mingling,” alongside Shoefiti (FR), The Eurosuite (UK), and Naguals (UK).
That same year, they received support from The Inspector Cluzo and hit the road again (with LIFE, among others), releasing their second album Everybody Knows Mickey, recorded with Henri D’Armancourt (Steve Amber, The Psychotic Monks), mixed by Alex Greaves (Heavy Lungs, LICE), and released via Cowboy À La Mode, À Tant Rêver Du Roi (FR) and Brutalist Records (UK). The album was warmly received on both sides of the Channel and drew attention from the French national press.
From 2022 to 2024, the trio played extensively alongside bands like Slift, METZ, Frustration, Pogo Car Crash Control, PENICHE, and Stuffed Foxes, refining a live sound that’s raw, noisy, sometimes tender — and always loud. Because yes, This Will Destroy Your Ears love people… they just tend to tell them a bit too loudly. Meanwhile, they built Recording United, their own studio nestled in the heart of Kontainer, a multidisciplinary hub in the Landes — part Warhol’s Factory, part Death By Audio’s DIY activism.
Their third album, FUNLAND, is the first to be entirely recorded there. Inspired by their UK tours — and especially the decaying Technicolor charm of Blackpool — the album takes its name from a run-down amusement park: a magical mess of dying slot machines, sad clowns, and buzzing neon. A pop nightmare postcard, somewhere between David Lynch and Stephen King.
Produced and mixed by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls) and mastered by Katie Tavini (Bloc Party, Los Bitchos), FUNLAND will be released on October 10, 2025 via Luik Music (BE), À Tant Rêver Du Roi (FR), Cowboy À La Mode, and Conicle Records (on cassette, of course).
Supporting them on the night will be
Red Swan
Preaching politics and poetry, Red Swan emit a ‘whimsigrunge’ sound; determined to promote societal change through their punk attitudes and hopeful lyricism, the band are inspired by the works of System of a Down, Sleater-Kinney, La Dispute and Rage Against The Machine.
You’ve got Bexx on vocals, Hayden on vocals and guitar, Dan on the bass & Jonny on drums
HAVE HOPE
Picture House
Picture House are an indie dream-pop band, led by Jo Carson and Paul Gumma with Mike Vaughan on drums. Their music weaves reverb-soaked textures, hypnotic rhythms and ethereal melodies into immersive soundscapes. The band have had notable support from BBC Introducing with airplay across BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio 1. For fans of shoegaze and atmospheric indie pop, with echoes of The Cure, Hazel English, Wild Nothing and Sea Lemon.