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Portsmouth based 4 piece TORPEDOES play their own brand of Post-Punk, Alt-Rock, Goth tinged music. Think The Damned, The Cure, Muse, Cardiacs etc and you’re getting close.. but ultimately they sound like Torpedoes. 2024 saw the release of fourth studio album, the 21 track “Heaven’s Light Our Guide”. This beast of an album released at a time of disposable pop and short attention spans sees Torpedoes taking their angular, spikey guitar driven sound and adding increased use of keyboards. Heaven’s Light reviewed and scored 8/10 in Vive Le Rock issue 114 – which was nice!

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13th Chime formed in 1980 in the small London over-spill townof Haverhill in Suffolk. Born out of the British Punk scene: Vocalist Mick Hand, guitarist Gary O’Connor and drummer Ricki Cook were previously in The Antix while bass player Terry Taylor, played with the hard hitting three piece The Wynd-ups.

The band released three independent singles: Coffin Maker, Cursed and Fire, and disbanded circa 1983.
After discovering the three independently produced 7” singles by the 13th Chime, Caleb Bertron of Sacred Bones Records, made it his mission to track the band down and released whatever material they had, on his Brooklyn based record label.

This sparked a renewed interest in the band, which inspired vocalist Mick Hand to form a new lineup that went on to tour Europe, the US …and remarkably an evening in St Petersburg, Russia.

2022 see’s 13th Chime back on the road and in the studio. 2022 they have toured LA, played Poland and Germany plus some UK dates. Spring 2023 takes The Chime on a Mexico mini tour.
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☆The Stereotypes☆ formed in 1979 in Ilford, Essex. They released one EP, ‘Countdown’, played one gig, had a row and split up.

Fast forward to 2015 and Ash is tracked down by Dizzy from Detour Records who tells him that ‘Countdown’ is now the rarest punk single of the era. It’s changing hands for £1,500 and interest in the band is growing.
After press stories in Record Collector and numerous rags, Ash is duly tasked with tracking the original members down. Which he does because he’s annoying like that.

In March 2021, 42 years after their debut single, The Stereotypes released their debut album, ‘ForWard’. There’s new songs and revamped versions of the originals. They’ve had radio play in the UK, Austria, Belgium, France and the USA and have been interviewed in the UK and the USA several times.

They are still punk, they are still loud, they still have fights and they still love making a racket.

Get band info on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @UkStereotypes
Doors 7:30 Bar until 2am Advance tickets £10 or £12 OTD, all major credit cards accepted.