Live Music in Tunbridge Wells | The Sussex Arms

While often compared to bands like HAIM, M83, The Naked and Famous, MUNA & CHVRCHES, EEVAH’s offering is a totally unique blend of electronic gadgetry, Nicole Hope Smith’s famously velvety vocals and Richard McNamara’s ambient yet dynamic guitar style.

Happy/Sad anthems built around evocative lo-fi ambiences and thunderous drums with relatable lyrics and massive choruses…being ever present online, the multi-instrumentalists have had the support of Radio 1 but EEVAH is really all about the ever growing online community that’s building around them.

Sea Driver – “Kent based post-punk for hermits, musos and Bet Fred entrepreneurs. Dancing rhythms and b-movie guitars peering into British politics, public discourse and self medication. Two Eps deep, since 2021 featuring on BBC introducing, spotlighted by The Unsigned Guide and nominated for independent radio awards.”

Lunch are an indie punk group formed in London.

“Our music is high-octane, angular indie punk but our sound pulls from post-punk, noughties indie and undertones of 90’s alt rock. Sometimes weird, always direct. We like to call the mixture Party Punk.”

Lunch combine the stabbing guitars of GANG OF FOUR and the deep aggression of PIXIES with the sing-shouting lyricism of DO NOTHING and SHAME.

““Dark Indie party hooks meet lyrical lunacy meet post-punk vocals and drums, and the whole thing’s just cracking carnage.”

• Sarah Gosling (Outsiders/Radio X)”

Having smashed their way onto the alternative scene in 2018, SJ continue to push boundaries, winning over audiences globally with their unique brand of intense, dark and dynamic alt-rock. The band have enjoyed numerous sold-out headline shows, major support slots, and the likes of Marshall Amplification, Natal Drums, and Spotify showing their faith in what SJ are creating.

There are moments of delicate beauty (with comparisons to Mogwai and The Cure), thick and dirty desert style riffs, other wordly atmospherics and massive pop hooks – all laying a solid foundation for new singer Estelle Mey’s blistering vocals.

Since joining Salvation Jayne in 2022, the bands sound has evolved even further, becoming more diverse than ever before, with Mey darting effortlessly between beautiful glassy falsetto vocals and a machine that throws machetes relentlessly through the tracks.

You’ll find everything here, from electro pop and post-rock, through to doom and hardcore.