Put on your favourite shirt, get your pub money and lets meet Bag of Cans
Back in 2023 we had the absolute pleasure of hosting Bag Of Cans here at Sunbird Records, a great night it was and a band we have been trying to get back ever since – We were worried I had put them off by over enthusiastic response to telling them how much I enjoyed ‘We Are a Band’, how they reminded me of blur and all this whilst sat in The Bees Knees observing grown me on an indoors swing at 6pm in the evening – welcome to Darwen.
Fortunately nearly two years later they will return to Sunbird for the latest instalment of Neotribe and the Cans have been busy since making new music.
In late 2024 an EP called ‘Favourite Shirt’ with such songs as ‘Favourite Shirt’, ‘Colchester Leisure World’ and ‘Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps 2’ was released. 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.
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.
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. Again another point I was keen to reiterate to the band on that initial meeting in October 2023, that I had heard that live on 6Music whilst driving over to Sunbird for a meeting and that was the point I decided we had to book them.
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”.
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, don’t miss them this September here as part of Neotribe on Saturday 27th September. One happy punter last time said ‘Best Band I’ve Ever Seen In Sunbird Records’
This is Neotribe at full throttle. Don’t sleep on it, grab your tickets now while they last