When: 7pm on Monday 6 April 2020
Where: Soup Kitchen, 31-33 Spear Street, Manchester M1 1DF

PLEASE NOTE: This show is cancelled. A new date will be announced in the future – watch this space or follow us on social media for updates. Refunds are available from the point of purchase.

We’re excited to be welcoming Irma Vep back to Manchester!

Irma Vep is the on-going, evolving main vehicle for polymath musician Edwin Stevens – and on his latest album Embarrassed Landscape, due 3 April via Gringo Records, the project has reached a zenith. Primarily recorded in Stevens’s adopted home town of Glasgow over two days with frequent collaborators Ruari Maclean and Andrew Cheetham, Embarrassed Landscape is an album that breathes in a fetid skip full of millennial dread, self-effacing anxiety and doubt before exhaling it as heartbreaking songs and ecstatic abandon.

Today he shares the triumphant opening track I Do What I Want, alongside a slew of UK and European tour dates. Speaking of the song Stevens says: ‘It could be translated as a vague picture of selfish or ignorant defiance. Putting your own agenda over the well being of others. Running into the sun with your genitals in your hand. It was written before I moved back to Wales after living for ten years in Manchester, which I think spawned it. It has taken on a new meaning over the past year or so, i don’t want to tell you what to think about it but thats what it means to me!’

‘A wiry, minimalist piece of guitar pop, the surreal word play lends an outsider feel, a true dose of weird-pop that thrills at every turn’ – Clash

‘A stellar piece of wonky psych-pop’ – The Line of Best Fit

Main support comes from The Foetals – a pop group by Jolan Lewis (the frontman of The Pink Teens, fka Temple Songs, who also plays in Francis Lung’s band as well as Aldous RH). Their Meet The Foetals LP came out in 2015 via PNKSLM Recordings. Meet The Foetals was recorded by Jolan himself in two days at his own small studio in the outskirts of Manchester, trying to find a middle ground between perfect 1960s pop records and the inept DIY sound of American private press LPs – think The Bachs and The Patron Saints playing Paul McCartney covers.

Opening the show is The Capoeira Band.

PLEASE NOTE: This show is cancelled. A new date will be announced in the future – watch this space or follow us on social media for updates. Refunds are available from the point of purchase.

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