Indie rock legends Ultrasound and The Electric Soft Parade will playing a special joint headline gig at Bedford Esquires on Friday (November 23).
Formed in 1997, Ultrasound's epic space rock anthems saw them dubbed 'Punk Floyd' and they were immediately feted by the music press, as was immortalised in John Niven's novel 'Kill Your Friends'.
Their debut album, 'Everything Picture', was insanely ambitious, a sprawling double LP which received rave reviews and, as urban legend would have it, also bankrupted their record label.
Having split up in acrimonious circumstances in 1999, Ultrasound reformed in 2010 to play a benefit gig for kindred spirit Tim Smith of The Cardiacs. They've subsequently released two more albums, 2012's 'Play for Today' and 2016 'Real Britannia', and played a series of sold out gigs to audiences both old and new.
The Electric Soft Parade is the moniker of Brighton based brothers Alex and Thomas White. In 2002 they released the Mercury Music Prize nominated LP 'Holes in the Wall', a winning mix of psychedelic rock and power pop.
Tours with Ian Brown and Noel Gallagher followed, as did notable side projects (Brakes) and further increasingly inventive albums, the most recent being 2013's 'Idiots'.
Ultrasound and The Electric Soft Parade are playing together on just two UK dates, with the gig in Bedford a special warm up gig for their now sold out London date at the Lexington in Kings Cross.
Thomas from The Electric Soft Parade said: “In a truly bizarre bit of circle-completing, we'll be joining our childhood heroes Ultrasound for two co-headline shows. I was obsessed with them around 1997/1998. It's going to be surreal and brilliant to share a stage with them after all these years.”
Tickets are £14 in advance, available here and from Esquires bar / Slide Record store.
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