Neotribe Day Two ft AK/DK, SILVERWINGKILLER, Tommy Ball, Bag of Cans, Vigilantes, Polite Bureax, Test Plan and more

Neotribe – our all independent music all-dayer returns for 2025 with its 3rd instalment and this time over 2 days on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September.

A line up curated to present some of the UK’s best current live acts, names you will be familiar and some just breaking, but trust us this is a stacked line up where you will discover your new favourite bands, become more familiar with others and discover some of the best local bands we have. The line up is as follows;

Saturday 27th September

AK/DK

SILVERWINGKILLER

Bag of Cans

Polite Bureaux

Tommy Ball

Morton Betts

Test Plan

Vigilantes

Pre-Empted

We strongly advise you get your tickets early as you will pay more on the door

Weekend Tickets £20 Adv

Friday Tickets £10 Adv/£15 OTD

Saturday Tickets £12. Adv/£18 OTD

All ages welcome with a responsible Adult

AK/DK

AK/DK create improvised layers of fuzzed-up synths, delays and thunderous double drums. Their album ‘Patterns/Harmonics’ was lauded by BBC 6 Music and received an ‘Album of the Day’ accolade after heavy rotation from the station. Known for their high-energy and structural abandon as a live act, their stream of largely improvised layers of fizzing arpeggios and crushing motorik drums has earned them places on stages and at festivals all around the UK, Europe and South America. They’ve performed at Bluedot, Deer Shed, Manchester Psych, Latitude, End of The Road, ArcTanGent and Green Man, and have toured with Dan Deacon, The Dandy Warhols, Fujiya & Miyagi and Zombie Zombie.

SILVERWINGKILLER

Manchester based, high energy electronic two piece. Fusing world music with analogue arpeggiators, aggressive bass, live breakbeats and

vocals in English, Mandarin and Shanghainese. Inspired by human culture, science fiction and all the video games you’ve never heard of.

Formed in the spring of 2024, SILVERWINGKILLER has had a flying start, taking the UK live music scene by storm after touring with London band Fat Dog and supporting bands such as The Body & Dis Fig, Violent Magic Orchestra, Minami Deutsch and Litvrgy.

“Conjuring thunderous, dystopian, raving psychosis, the experimental duo SILVERWINGKILLER yell chants over gabba kicks and schizoid synths. I’m sure if Atari Teenage Riot found their sound in 2020s Manchester this is exactly how they’d sound.” – PINDROP ZINE

Test Plan

Test plan are looking for the sweet spot between dancing and moshing.

The London based DIY trio, formed of Rory Dickinson, Mike Fragkiadakis and Max Mason, cultivate a ferocious concoction of overloaded dance punk and monochrome noise rock, driven by their gut reaction to all things loud. Their dynamic live performances beckons a meeting point where volume and energy collide, guiding audiences across the world into their sonic onslaught

Tommy Ball
Music to make you dance, laugh, feel, think, love, wonder and feel all over again.

Bag of Cans

With the launch of their debut album ’We Are A Band’ in June 2023, Bag of Cans managed to fool both listeners and their mums around the country. Not only were they very much “a band” but one that could release songs too. In late 2024 an EP called ‘Favourite Shirt’ with such songs as ‘Favourite Shirt’ was released, following a couple of years of tours and festival appearances. Capitalising on this momentum, they then pretty much immediately decided to take a break from gigging, in what is sure to be described as “a 4D Chess move of utter brilliance” and will be studied by industry moguls for years to come as “one of the promotional plays of all time”.

Released on Fierce Panda, these collections of songs have attracted praise and airtime from BBC Radio 6 and the single ‘Hostage at the Dinner Table’ was a joint winner on Steve Lamacq’s Roundtable. The EP’s titular tune ‘Favourite Shirt’ got a load of inexplicable plays on KEXP in the states, which confused everyone even further and no one really knew what to do with that information.

As the Cans now return from their slumber, they look to the autumn to throw themselves back into a great big puddle of gigs, and splash around for someone’s amusement in their tried and tested wellies of slightly-deranged-indie-music.

Vigilantes

Powerful Indie Rock coming from the most divided town in the UK.

After a lot of introspection and staring into the mirror, Vigilantes have independently achieved success and fought their way out of a cultural desert to perform at Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Isle of Wight Festival, SXSW and support acts like Circa Waves, The Libertines and Reverend & the Makers.

Vigilantes craft a thoughtful, melodic style of indie rock that’s as anthemic as it is atmospheric with thoughtful lyricism and explosive choruses. They do it so well that they have been placed on Radio 1’s Best Of BBC Introducing playlist and had repeat airtime on BBC Radio 1, Radio 6 & Radio X. Noted by Fresh on the Net’s Tom Robinson as ‘On a mission’, Vigilantes were part of National Lottery/MVT’s Revive Live Tour in 2022 and releasing their debut album in 2025.

“In this country we have an obsession with the Libertines, so there’s a lot of stuff sounds that sounds derivative of that. Whereas this is different. It’s very slick. It’s a goer” – Mike Skinner, The Streets

“American influences with British hearts” – Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1

Pre-Empted

Pre-empted. 3 school mates from the wilds of Lancashire with a shared love of all music, time on their hands and fire in their bellies started some early jam sessions and decided to try their hands on the local open mic circuit.

Various support slots with Ronker, Snake Eye, This Will Destroy Your Ears and Deja Vega, they garnered a following with T-shirts and badges displaying their colours at local venues and beyond. That is History. This is Now. The future looks bright for these 3 stalwarts, a must see live band, exciting and unpredictable their energy and the message is infectious. Be part of something authentic, be who you are, be free to be a perfectly imperfect you, with Pre-Empted.

Polite Bureaux

Bradford, the city of Culture, formed the broken-beat-maker Joe Smith, also known as Polite Bureaux. Smith is joined on stage by his Blood Sister Maya Lili and Raver Viv Maher, introducing Ying and Yang energy live.

2023: Polite Bureaux supported Benefits, also hitting the stage later that year, performing at The Great Escape Festival 2023, releasing their latest single UAMELON, and gaining airplay on BBC Introducing with Melita Dennett and Callum French. While gaining support from the famous music & culture magazine Louder Than War.

Polite Bureaux and Dyslexic Smith attributes his words to the diabolical truths of John Cooper Clarke. Other influences stem from Underworld, Joy Division, The Prodigy, and Sleafod Mods. Ultimately, Polite Bureaux’s sound is upbeat and genre-mashing.

The siblings, born in the big cities of London and Keighley, have a family history of Irish and Filipino Malay roots. Their youth was spent much across the country than in one place. Strong family unity is what elevates Polite Bureaux from the crowd. With words that hit home and stand out as most ordinary in today’s world, Championing his youngster from the sidelines is wordsmith and poet Rob. Smith’s father plays a significant role in the lyricism of Polite Bureaux, as his poetry is used as power to pride and break stigma through the performance of music.

Expect brutal honesty and true energy in his venting on stage and in your ears. It’s always more than just a play on words.

Morton Betts
Reasonably loud and suitably energetic, Morton Betts put a fresh spin on music that sits somewhere between rock, punk, and generally alternative.

Weekend Tickets £20 Adv

Friday Tickets £10 Adv/£15 OTD

Saturday Tickets £12 Adv/£18 OTD

All ages welcome with a responsible Adult