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Tired of Acting Cool? A Night of Live Music and Short Stories.

  • The Rose Hill 70 Rose Hill Terrace Brighton, England, BN1 4JL United Kingdom (map)

Tigers and Flies

FRIDAY 18TH JULY 2025 | 7PM | £7 Adv / £10 OTD / Unwaged FREE

Gathering Speed Presents - Tired of Acting Cool? An evening of live music and short stories, that aims to eschew the cliqueness that can manifest in environments of creativity. No networking allowed; smirking, thinking, dancing and chatting, however, are all encouraged.

Musical Performances:

Autocamper - OR, the perfect pop antidote to the city’s predictable post-punk machismo. Like a Northern kitchen sink rendering of The Vaselines’ call and response motif, vocal duties are shared by Jack Harkins and Niamh Purtill—their world-weary reflections on bedroom tiffs and hungover misdemeanours capture the jangle pop spirit of the ‘80s without the C86 revisionism.

Tigers and Flies - OR, Cowbell-wielding horn-blowing 5-piece Tigers and Flies provide energy without sacrificing melody. They make wonky guitar music with a hearty punk affliction. Inclined towards the lighthearted and mundane, Tigers and Flies are full of contradictions, and that is their greatest consistency.

Earlier Event: July 12
Monte Carlo Record Release Party
Later Event: July 19
Love Is Everywhere