Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 17hwegottickets.com/f/25394wegottickets.comOr Sobre BlauOr Sobre Blau is the duo of Andreu G. Serra (aka Ubaldo) and Kiran Leonard. In 2017, having moved to Lisbon within a couple of weeks of each other by chance, they began to improvise on the guitar toge... 000
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 17hSupport from Cambridge power-duo SOAPSUDS, aka @cwkjoynes and @domlash2026, wrangling free improv tendencies towards a curiously evocative instant composition zone. 100
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 17hNext up: OR SOBRE BLAU + SOAPSUDS - Sat 17th Oct @ NCI Centre Psyched af to bring back to town the formidable pairing of Kiran Leonard and Ubaldo as OR SOBRE BLAU. New LP "Making Friends" is totally essential asymmetrical chamber pop fused with dissonant folk. Get down the NCI to experience 4 real. 100
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Tonight!! Rough times: Doors 7:30 Pete Um 7:45 Jasper Llewellyn 8:30 Tommy Barlow 9:30 Adv tickets available for a bit or pay on the door. wegottickets.com/f/23255wegottickets.comTOMMY BARLOW + JASPER LLEWELLYNA thrilling co-headline of two new artists who should be familiar to Cambridge folks... TOMMY BARLOW The biggest thing out of Great Shelford since Scotsdales, Tommy Barlow makes muggy, foggy, hypnago... 000
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026mailchi.mp/1adc4ab00f45...mailchi.mpTOMMY BARLOW + JASPER LLEWELLYN + PETE UM - Thu 8th Oct 2026 @ The Blue MoonA thrilling co-headline of two new artists who should be familiar to Cambridge folks. Muggy melancholia straight outta CB22, and complex meanderings from a solo caroline-ist. 000
Reposted by Crushing Death & GriefDean McPhee @deanmcphee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Some footage from my gig last Friday at the NCI Centre in Cambridge with Powtes and Dunwich Bells I'm playing the title track to my new LP 'Northern Earth' - out now in record shops Cheers again to @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social Thanks to Harry for filming it 🙏 023
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Tonight!! Rough times: Doors 7:30 Dunwich Bells 7:45 Powtes 8:30 Dean McPhee 9:15 Adv tickets available for a bit or pay on the door. wegottickets.com/f/24579wegottickets.comDean McPheeDEAN MCPHEE We’re such big fans of Bradford-based guitarist Dean McPhee that we keep bringing him back to Cambridge in order to hypnotise us. Starting from roots of cosmic folk, over the years Dean ha... 000
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A slideshow / lecture / film presentation from Mississippi Records founder Eric Isaacson telling a story of global music scenes that struggled and endeavoured during periods of authoritarianism. 000
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Something a little different from our usual... A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF MUSIC (during times of authoritarianism) Wed 18th Nov @ NCI Centre, Cambridge wegottickets.com/f/28546wegottickets.comA PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF MUSIC (during times of authoritarianism)A visual and sonic presentation by Eric Isaacson (Mississippi Records) A slideshow / lecture / film presentation from Mississippi Records founder Eric Isaacson telling a story of global music scenes t... 111
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026And how about this? SHIT & SHINE + TWENTY THREE HANGING TREES - Fri 22nd Jan 2027 @ The Portland Arms, Cambridge wegottickets.com/f/28344wegottickets.comShit And Shine$hit & $hine. Hailing from Austin, Texas. Craig Clouse, the hardest working man in the business, has released everything from pounding and shiny techno to acid house, electro, funk, krautrock, hip ho... 010
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Another cracking new event: TRASH KIT - Thu 3rd Dec @ The Portland Arms, Cambridge wegottickets.com/f/28120wegottickets.comTrash KitTRASH KIT are Ray Aggs (guitar, vocals), Rachel Horwood (drums, vocals) and Clémentine March (bass). Three deeply creative individuals united by a shared musicality that surges through their bodies, h... 011
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New gig! THE SLEEVES + LOTTIE - Sun 22nd Nov @ The Cherry Pit, Cambridge wegottickets.com/f/27804wegottickets.comThe SleevesThe Sleeves are the duo of Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham, both likely known to you as one half of Modern Nature. Following an all-instrumental Mossy Tapes release last November, Cooper and Cunningh... 021
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Tonight!! Rough times: Doors 8 Sister Wives 8:30 Fuzzy Lights 9:30 Adv tix available for a bit, or pay on the door. 000
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026eepurl.com/-JHcJDCjpdeepurl.comFUZZY LIGHTS + SISTER WIVES - Sat 12th Sep @ The Blue Moon, CambridgeCambridge's own drone-folk specialists continue to wander through the mysterious sounds and shapes of East Anglia's past, present, and future. 000
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sheffield's Sister Wives weave lines of sonorous space rock together with crunchy guitars, and tales of the mountains sung (mostly), somewhat surprisingly(?), in Welsh. 000
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Fuzzy Lights roam into experimental drone territories while maintaining the crystalline folk sensibilities that havebecome their signature. The result is atmospheric and immersive sonic landscapes that mirror the fenland geography they’re documenting. 100
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Next up: FUZZY LIGHTS + SISTER WIVES - Sat 12th Sep @ The Blue Moon, Cambridge A double bill of bands marrying folk-ish melodies of these islands to overdriven psych, all with an air of the other. wegottickets.com/f/22748wegottickets.comFUZZY LIGHTSFUZZY LIGHTS Cambridge's acclaimed psych-folk quintet Fuzzy Lights return with their fifth album 'Fen Creatures'. Following 2021's critically lauded 'Burials', the band have created their most concept... 121
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026TONIGHT!! Timeline should be something like: Doors 7:00 Rachel Watkins 7:15 The Breedling 8:00 Smote 8:45 010
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026mailchi.mp/a7672e03e2e1...mailchi.mpSMOTE + THE BREEDLING + RACHEL WATKINS Mon 31st Aug @ The Portland Arms, CambridgePunishing folk-dirges at high volume that fuse maniacally repetitive and dense riffs to tales in and of the earth below. Deep laments and deeper dread all at a funereal pace and tone. 021
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Ultimately, Or Sobre Blau is a celebration of a rich and relentless friendship between two relentlessly creative spirits, and one which they want to welcome you into. 000
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026An exploration of their relationships with loved ones and with each other, OSB draw influence from Bill Orcutt, David Grubbs, The Pastels, and magic realism as they wind sonic strands into a lush lattice of dense abstractions that can burst out into expanses of dazzling radiance at any moment. 100
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Where their first album, The Piri Piri Samplers, was a collage-like cut up of loose jams and improvisations, follow-up Making Friends is a highly considered collection of back-and-forth melodies, saturated drone, unexplained percussive sounds, and widely sourced vocals. 100
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Previously we thought of the combo of experimental pop auteur Kiran Leonard and noise artist Andreu G. Serra, to be a bit of a surprise. Now, two albums in, Or Sobre Blau make perfect sense whilst maintaining an essential dynamic tension, and all this despite not playing together for over 5 years. 100
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Yes! A new gig! OR SOBRE BLAU + guests - Sat 17th Oct @ NCI Centre Cambridge wegottickets.com/f/25394wegottickets.comOr Sobre BlauOr Sobre Blau is the duo of Andreu G. Serra (aka Ubaldo) and Kiran Leonard. In 2017, having moved to Lisbon within a couple of weeks of each other by chance, they began to improvise on the guitar toge... 111
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026More usually seen fronting Cambridge doom-folk quintet Fuzzy Lights, RACHEL WATKINS is a singer and violinist who draws on the folklore and mythology of England to create beguiling and haunting dronesongs that combine hazy string loops with ungraspable vocal tones. 000
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026THE BREEDLING takes the resistance, dread, dampness, the grim, of semi-amphibious Fen life to transmogrify digital sheen into raw, primordial grit. It's a project of the untamed sounds of now, resulting in a fiery collision of The Bug, Godflesh, and Doom II: Hell on Earth. 101
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026SMOTE Primal, earthy, folk-infused heavy laments from son of the soil, Daniel Foggin. Once a solo endeavour, Smote has expanded to a fuller ensemble blending traditional instrumentation (creaking strings, funeral drums, somber winds) with thunderous synth and desolate guitar to craft drone & dirge. 100
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Up next: SMOTE + THE BREEDLING + RACHEL WATKINS - Mon 31st Aug @ The Portland Arms, Cambridge ** note slightly earlier door time of 7pm** wegottickets.com/f/19410 122
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026TONIGHT! Rough times: Doors 8pm Concrete Gazebo 8:15pm Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders 9pm Adv tickets available for a bit, or pay on the door. 010
Reposted by Crushing Death & GriefJeffrey Alexander @lidders.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Cambridge tonight !! 021
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026mailchi.mp/ee3f812e4a19...mailchi.mpJEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERS + CONCRETE GAZEBO - Tue 4th Aug @ The Portland Arms, CambridgeHeady songwriting, ethereal jazz and krauty blues stomps from psyche-lifer Jeffrey Alexander. Within the ranks of the band we've got members of Jackie-O Motherf*cker, Elkhorn, and Bardo Pond, and for ... 011
Reposted by Crushing Death & GriefI Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com · 01/08/2026Get yr @lidders.bsky.social here iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihndig... bsky.app/profile/crus...iheartnoise.bandcamp.comIHNDIGS026.6 // Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders - Seeds, by Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders5 track album 021
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Tickets from wegottickets.com/crushingdeat...wegottickets.comWeGotTicketsBuy tickets for music, comedy, theatre, film, festivals and much more - with the best service in UK ticketing 010
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026* 8th Oct - Tommy Barlow + Jasper Llewellyn @ The Blue Moon * 5th Nov - Wendy Eisenberg + Alula Down @ NCI Centre * 8th Dec - Downtown Boys @ The Portland Arms 120
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026* 4th Aug - Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders + Concrete Gazebo @ The Portland Arms * 31st Aug - Smote + The Breedling + Rachel Watkins at @ The Portland Arms * 12th Sep - Fuzzy Lights + Sister Wives @ The Blue Moon * 25th Sep - Dean McPhee + Powtes @ NCI Centre 122
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026UPCOMING THRILLZ FOR YOUR PAYDAY DELECTATION... 130
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026DOWNTOWN BOYS Tue 8th Dec 2026 @ The Portland Arms, Cambridge @downtownboys.bsky.social @subpop.bsky.social crushingdeath.com/downtown-boys/crushingdeath.comDOWNTOWN BOYSTue 8th Dec 2026 @ The Portland Arms, CB4Doors 7:30, tickets £16 adv from here and here DOWNTOWN BOYSSkronking, raging, bilingual Rhode Island politicopunx Downtown Boys hit Cambridge for the first… 030
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026WENDY EISENBERG + ALULA DOWN Thu 5th Nov 2026 @ NCI Centre, Cambridge @wendyeyes.bsky.social crushingdeath.com/wendy-eisenb...crushingdeath.comWENDY EISENBERG + ALULA DOWNThu 5th Nov 2026 @ NCI Centre, CB4 Doors 7:30pm, £14 adv from here and here WENDY EISENBERGThe multi-faceted Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as an increasingly key fixture in a range of n… 120
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026TOMMY BARLOW + JASPER LLEWELLYN Thu 8th Oct 2026 @ The Blue Moon, Cambridge crushingdeath.com/tommy-barlow...crushingdeath.comTOMMY BARLOW + JASPER LLEWELLYNThu 8th Oct 2026 @ The Blue Moon, CB4Doors 7:30, tickets £13 adv from here A thrilling co-headline of two new artists who should be familiar to Cambridge folks…TOMMY BARLOWThe biggest thing o… 120
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026DEAN MCPHEE + POWTES Fri 25th Sep 2025 @ NCI Centre, Cambridge @deanmcphee.bsky.social crushingdeath.com/dean-mcphee-...crushingdeath.comDEAN MCPHEE + POWTESFri 25th Sep 2025 @ NCI Centre, CB4 Doors 8pm, £tbc DEAN MCPHEEWe’re such big fans of Bradford-based guitarist Dean McPhee that we keep bringing him back to Cambridge in order to hypnotise us… 121
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026FUZZY LIGHTS + SISTER WIVES Sat 12th Sep 2026 @ The Blue Moon, Cambridge @fuzzylightsband.bsky.social crushingdeath.com/fuzzy-lights...crushingdeath.comFUZZY LIGHTS + SISTER WIVESSat 12th Sep 2026 @ The Blue Moon, CB1Doors 8:00, tickets £10 adv from here and here FUZZY LIGHTSCambridge’s acclaimed psych-folk quintet Fuzzy Lights return with their fifth album ‘Fen… 120
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026SMOTE Mon 31st Aug ‘26 @ The Portland Arms, Cambridge @rocketrecordings.bsky.social crushingdeath.com/smote/crushingdeath.comSMOTEMon 31st Aug ‘26 @ The Portland Arms, CB4Doors 7:30pm, tickets £15 adv from here and here SMOTEPrimal, earthy, folk-infused heavy laments from son of the soil, Daniel Foggin. Once a solo endeavour,… 151
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026JEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERS + CONCRETE GAZEBO Tue 4th Aug 2026 @ The Portland Arms, Cambridge @lidders.bsky.social crushingdeath.com/jeffrey-alex...crushingdeath.comJEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERS + CONCRETE GAZEBOTue 4th Aug 2026 @ The Portland Arms, CB4 Doors 8pm, £13 adv from here and here JEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERSPsychedelic lifer Jeffrey Alexander has been floating around the musical cos… 120
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Hey! We are bad at updating Bluesky, so let's do a quick summary of everything coming your way ni the next few months... 152
Reposted by Crushing Death & GriefJeffrey Alexander @lidders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Thanks for the Heavy Lidders love @spinal-bap.bsky.social !! UK TOUR AUG2026 2 SHEFFIELD Alder Pub w/Bobby Lee 3 SOWERBY BRIDGE Puzzle Hall 4 CAMBRIDGE Portland Arms 5 STOKE ON TRENT Artisan Tap 6 YORK Crescent 7 NOTTINGHAM JT Soar 8 LONDON Cafe OTO 9 BUILTH WELLS Kozfest 10 HEREFORD De Koffie Pot 173
Reposted by Crushing Death & GriefJeffrey Alexander @lidders.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I find it much harder to promote music - especially tours - since I quit Insta and FB and Twitt. Sad that so much of current DIY happenings rely on those shit outlets. And since ALL I HAVE is Bluesky, feels I'm screaming into the void. HAHA. That said, come to my UK shows please. Tell yr friends. 86024
Reposted by Crushing Death & GriefJeffrey Alexander @lidders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026@riotseasonrecords.bsky.social @upset-the-rhythm.bsky.social @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social @kozfest.bsky.social @astralsocialite.bsky.social @chtctr.bsky.social @pefkin.bsky.social @cafeotodalston.bsky.social @thecrescentyork.bsky.social 073
Crushing Death & Grief @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Tonight! Rough times: Doors 7:30 Naomi Randall 7:50 C Joynes 8:30 Alex Rex 9:00 No advance tickets left, maybe a tiny handful on the door (tbd) 031
Reposted by Crushing Death & GriefJeffrey Alexander @lidders.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Heyo! Come see us in Cambridge, thanks to @crushingdeathcb.bsky.social ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ crushingdeath.com/upcoming/crushingdeath.comUpcoming19th Apr – EARTHBALL 27th Apr – ALEX REX 4th May – MY NEW BAND BELIEVE 5th May – MODERN NATURE 18th Jun – BARRELEYE 4th Aug – JEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY L… 131
