TRUPA TRUPA / Flights of Helios / Paul Lodge
Schedule
Thu, 22 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Jericho Tavern | Oxford, EN
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TRUPA TRUPA
https://trupatrupa.com/
DON'T MISS the first outing in Oxford for this psychedelic post punk band from Gdańsk, Poland.
Currently in the UK to record their 3rd session for BBC Radio 6's Marc Riley, Trupa Trupa are touring with their recent EP "Mourners", produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Idles, Amy and The Sniffers). Released by Glitterbeat Records, the album has been met with critical acclaim, with praise from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Brooklyn Vegan, BBC, to name just a few.
"Trupa Trupa look to confront evil. This is a very strong band."
Iggy Pop, BBC Radio 6 Music
"The first album was great, but this one, I just think, is even better." Henry Rollins, KCRW
“The band’s music blends off-kilter melodies, dense instrumentation and lyrical explorations of the darkest side of the human condition”. The Guardian
"The Polish band’s latest shows that they don’t make protest music so much as process music, indulging the ugliest aspects of post-punk and post-hardcore as a means to protect what’s good and beautiful in this world." Stuart Berman, Pitchfork
FLIGHTS OF HELIOS
https://flightsofhelios.co.uk/
Flights of Helios swim the bright fertile waters of indie maximalism (Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, Jeff Buckley, Echo and The Bunnymen, Wild Beasts), while weirder currents creep in from the depths (Swans, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Velvet Underground, King Crimson).
The band have played BBC Introducing at Glastonbury, Wilderness
and Truck festivals, and been aired on BBC 6 Music by Steve Lamacq, Gideon Coe and Don Letts. In recent years they've supported Caroline, Acid Mothers Temple, and Tara Clerkin Trio, and members have been blessed to play in Damo Suzuki's Sound Carriers. Flights of Helios' discography includes full-length album 'Endings'(2018) and ten singles.
"A thing of beauty"
The Line of Best Fit
PAUL LODGE
https://paullodge.com/
Professor at Oxford University making music of a philosophical nature. Informed by his lifelong engagement with philosophy and literature, Paul Lodge sings from the same place of mystery and wonder as Bob Dylan, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, and Joanna Newsom.
Paul Lodge's music has been featured on BBC Radio Oxford Introducing and BBC Radio Cumbria, and he debuted his 2022 album "Preludes To Wordsworth" in the poet's house Rydal Mount.
“Listening to Paul Lodge reconciled me to Bob Dylan being given the Nobel prize. I did get it before, but what he did with Wordsworth helped me grasp something else.”
Ben Okri, Booker Prize-winning author and poet
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