Tugboat Captain + Home Economics
Entry Requirements: Over 18s only
Tugboat Captain are a rotating crew of friends and family – recording, rehearsing and releasing music out of a terraced house in South London. The band have spent the last year gathering attention across the DIY Pop community through their relentless touring, homemade videos and bittersweet pop songs. Variously compared to Belle and Sebastian and The Wave Pictures, the band have garnered a reputation for their riotous live shows - frequently combining bassoons and nudity. Since forming, the band have released a pair of records, the latter 'Everybody Seems To Think That I'm A Raincloud', being awarded No7 Album of the Year by For The Rabbits and featuring Reddit endorsed single 'Don't Want To Wake Up On My Own'. In spite of the total DIY attitude the band have managed to accumulate over 500,000 streams on their Spotify, significant international radio play and a feature on Netflix Original series Terrace House.
Be Strong, Smoke Less is the brand new single from London DIY Pop ensemble Tugboat Captain and another sonic expansion beyond their homemade, lo-fi roots. Written loosely about a conversation between frontman Alexander Sokolow and his mother, the track addresses the difficulties of trying to be the best person you can be for somebody else whilst similarly wrestling with the fact that that task is always somewhat impossible. Having toured the track extensively over the last year Be Strong, Smoke Less has already become a firm fan favourite with God Is In The TV having already described it as having ‘the most twee pop intro we’ve ever heard’. The release on March 15th will be followed by the band’s biggest and most ambitious DIY tour yet, spanning from Scotland down to Cornwall - the Be Strong Tour.
"There aren’t many acts that can capture the equal sense of hopefulness and melancholy that embodies the desire for modern day romance quite like Tugboat Captain" Wax Music
"Curiously Wonderful" God Is In The TV
"Best Live Show Of 2017" - We Are Uncollective
"One of the most fun bands on the planet" Lost In The Manor
"No.7 Album Of The Year (Everybody Seems To Think That I'm A Raincloud)" For The Rabbits
"An unstoppable imaginative force of indie music created on its own terms" Bitter Sweet Symphonies
"Guitars mingle effortlessly with purpose as the trembling harmonies swim amongst the atmospheric foundations, each characteristic beautifully thought-out and rich with feeling" GoldFlakePaint
HOME ECONOMICS are a four piece jangle pop band from Glasgow. Despite not having been together for long they have drawn comparisons to The Bats, The Vaselines and The Wedding Present along with fellow Scottish acts the Spook School.
“Idiots’ is just a killer clatter of brash guitars and spiky attitude, performed with disgust at the idiots it’s written about. It puts me firmly in mind of the legendary Vaselines when they were at their noisy best. This is always a good thing.” Overblown