THE NINTH WAVE SET FOR SOUP KITCHEN SHOW
TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER
The Ninth Wave are one of the most intoxicating new bands around. They head to Manchester’s Soup Kitchen on Thursday 14th September. Tickets go on sale on Monday 2nd September, available from www.gigsandtours.com.
The four-piece make majestic dark post-punk laced with stealth pop hooks, cooked up with a firmly DIY ethos — at one 2016 gig in their hometown of Glasgow, they created a makeshift stage from disused palettes in a railway arch. But, unlike many of their scene’s peers, they treated their scrappy live shows as if they were being periscoped to the world, dressing accordingly in razor-sharp outfits straight from the iconic ’80s counter-cultural club night Blitz. As well as cementing a reputation as a must-see live act, and alongside their two early EPs being lauded by BBC Radio 1 and The Guardian, their style nous led to organic collaborations with fashion iconoclasts including Saint Laurent’s Hedi Slimane and London’s most disruptive new designer, Charles Jeffrey. “We never started with a mindset of ‘We want to be like this band,’” says frontman Haydn Park-Patterson, with a decisive tone. “We're always trying to do something new.”
Integral to that is the four-piece’s yin-yang synergy, meshing the stately vocals and song writing of Haydn with the melodic nous of bassist and vocalist Millie Kidd. Take their 2019 single “Half Pure” — a narcotic mesh of crunching industrial textures with icy synths, and a gargantuan chorus that’s the stuff of goth-pop dreams — with pointed lyrics that skewer pack-mentality thinking. “Now you’ve misplaced your face, you’ll wear another one instead,” Haydn ominously intones, singing as if he’s getting rid of something with a bad taste. “Sometimes people don't think for themselves anymore,” he explains. “You're fed a certain way to think and a certain way to act, which is quite scary. ‘Half Pure’ is a lament about the frustration of existing inside our plastic WW3.”
The Ninth Wave will be bringing that uncompromising message to the Soup Kitchen in Manchester on Thursday 14th November.
Tour Date(s):
Thursday 14th November – Manchester Soup Kitchen