“This is out first time in America, we feel a bit out of our depth” Calum admitted, “this is a song about the sh*t town we’re from” he said, before going into their mixtape-only song, ‘Hot Head Chippenham’. “Thank you for coming to my birthday ’s a bit rude because I didn’t invite any of you!” Ewan joked before ‘Meat on my Bones’, and their song ‘Milk It’ could only start with the lyric, “Holy cow!”. “This is our first time here, you all seem lovely”, they said early into their thirty-minute set filled with a cacophony of sounds- disco/funk beats against found sound samples (a la Beck), and verse influenced by early hip-hop MCs like that of De La Soul. The opening band’s lead singer was celebrating his birthday so the headliners, in tribute, decided to all wear the same Bad Sounds t-shirt that featured a closeup of the singer’s smiling mouth on the front.īath, UK-raised, Bristol-based five-piece Bad Sounds (Ewan Merrett-keys/vocals Callum Merrett- vocals/samples Charlie Pitt -bass Sam Hunt-guitar Olivia Dimery- drums) is bad in the way that people would use the term in the 70’s- as in they’re baaaad! The buzzing band has already made waves overseas, playing most major European and UK festivals in support of last summer’s debut full-length, Get Better (Insanity Records) and has North America in their sights next.
The occasion was another in the series of local Go Shows- club concerts featuring breaking artists and sponsored by local radio station GO96.3, this outing featuring brother/sister-led Broods and two brother-led Bad Sounds. “It’s Ewan’s birthday today.so we’re all wearing his teeth!”