We are pleased to announce our Fall 2025 UK tour! Tickets are on sale now via ticketweb. You can also find links on our website www.thebirthdaymassacre.com Brought to you by @stigmata.promotions Photo by @andreahunterphotography
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SPEAR OF DESTINY + Guests Matinee show – 4:30pm, Sunday 26th October, Bedford Esquires. 2025 would not be complete without a visit to Bedford Esquires from Kirk Brandon. Kirk is back on tour this autumn with SPEAR OF DESTINY, formed in 1983 after the demise of Kirk Brandon’s post punk iconic rockers THEATRE OF HATE. For SPEAR OF DESTINY 2025 will be the year of ‘Janus”. Janus The Recordings are the choicest cuts from the band’s two biggest selling albums, Outland & The Price You Pay. 24 tracks re-recorded and re-imagined, beautifully packaged and presented on Double Vinyl, Extended Double
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STIGMATA PRESENTS LENE LOVICH Toy Box 2025 UK Tour Detroit-born legendary post-punk pop singer Lene Lovich hit the top of the UK charts with her single “Lucky Number” in 1979, and was crowned the “Queen of Quirk”, influencing a generation of pop and alternative acts, from Nina Hagen to Boy George, and from Madonna to Dresden Dolls. A normally reclusive figure, Lovich turned her back on the limelight after her third album No Man’s Land was released in 1982 amid disagreements with her record company about her unwillingness to compromise her groundbreaking visual style for the then newly emergent MTV.
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The only shows we’ll be performing this year in support of our forthcoming 40th anniversary release ‘Forces Of Evil’.Recorded in the summer of 2023 at Oxygene Studios, our new four track EP harks back to the darker era of the bands journey and mirrors the format of ‘World Of Light’, Love Me’ and “Day And Night’, filling the void between the early albums and “Live Free or Die”. Release date 25.10.2024.Expect a big slice of all the above plus Balaam classics at the shows. For those interested the opening show is in the exact same town the World Of Light
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‘ATTACKING THE SUN’ ALBUM & TOUR AND ‘FUTURE BATTLEMENTS’ E.P Byronic Sex & Exile is back on the road in the autumn to accompany their fifth album.‘Attacking The Sun’ is an album of euphoric nihilism and spiritual militancy, channeling the spirit of Dionysian cruelty and joy as it explores and explodes the ideas of de Sade, Artaud, Saint Just, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Goethe, Martucci, Di Prima, and the Cultural Revolution in China amongst others – all delivered with the distinctive Byronic Sex & Exile style of uplifting majesty and malice. The accompanying tour will take the form of a Dionysian
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This autumn marks the first ever Innsmouth Literary Festival!This will be a one day event celebrating the centenary of Weird Tales magazine and weird and speculative fiction in general.It will be held on Saturday 30th September in Bedford, UK.The Festival will include guest authors, readings, panel discussions and trade stands.Planning is currently underway, and we shall soon be announcing our guest roster, plus details of how to book tickets and stands. Check back here for details, or keep an eye on our Instragram (#innslitfest).You can also contact us at [email protected] ILF is being organised by authors and podcasters Tim Mendees
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FLAG PROMOTIONS PRESENTThe King Of Villains 2023 UK Tour featuring…AURELIO VOLTAIREROSEGARDEN FUNERAL PARTY
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GHOST DANCE+ The Venus Fly Trap8pm Friday 28th April, Bedford Esquires On Friday 28th April we welcome back to Bedford Esquires the sounds of the almighty GHOST DANCE. Anne Marie Hurst was the backing vocalist for the Goth Rock group the Elements in Keighley UK (until 1982). In December 1982, she helped form Skeletal Family. After departing from Skeletal Family in 1985, she co-founded Ghost Dance with Gary Marx (formerly of The Sisters of Mercy). Ghost Dance released several indie chart hit singles through Karbon Records, which were later compiled on the ‘Gathering Dust’ album. In 1989 they signed to
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ACTORS : The Jason Corbett-led outfit ACTORS are standing on the shoulders of titans with their brand of the style, and could almost be referred to as “post-post-punk”. In a period where we narrowcast rather than broadcast so fans and new music-seekers can firmly plant themselves in a niche, Corbett takes swings at creating sounds and production techniques that one would not usually find in a starter package of cliché plugins and samples. Backed by a stoic yet playful backing band, the frontman shows an enthusiasm while performing and recording that often isn’t seen or heard in his preferred genre.
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ROSE OF AVALANCHE Biography:Back after a break of more than 25 years, The Rose of Avalanche return with an album of their previously unavailable BBC Radio 1 sessions, and a prestigious support slot on The Mission’s 2022 UK tour.Formed in Leeds in 1984, the band came to prominence following heavy airplay of their debut single, the “apocalyptic epic” L.A. Rain, by the BBC disc jockey, John Peel. Radio 1 sessions for Peel and Janice Long followed, and L.A. Rain sat proudly at number 26 in Peel’s 1985 Festive Fifty, above songs by The Cure, The Smiths and The Sisters of
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