TRIPLE HEADLINER - THE BEAUTIFUL BAD / SWEET UNREST / SOAKED

Sweet Unrest met in 2022, and stumbled upon an unignorable musical chemistry. This was mainly because we value the art above all else. We’re here to make tunes that put shivers on your spine and coals under your feet. The music is made for its own sake, not as a means to any kind of end. Frankly, we need to make it to feel ok, and that’s why it’s all here.

We’re fans of poetry, and to us, poetry isn’t restricted to words on a page. In fact, language alone is somewhat limited. We like how, when coloured with music, the meaning of the words can morph and wax, until they articulate feelings we all share, in a way that’s impossible with words alone. A lot of our music toes the line between sadness and joy, longing and frustration. At once, they are odes and egregious grieving, because that’s what life can be like.

But we also think that a chorus should hit you like a freight train, and send you flying around the room in a fit of chaos and disregard. Really, it’s the tension between these two impulses that defines our sound: the impulse to play with the delicate and the sensitive, but also to make a banger that punches you in the face, and is then stuck in your head for days. Keats, the poet to whom the band owes its name, called this ‘negative capability’, happily existing in two contradictory states without clamouring for one’s resolution. Our music is a celebration of that madness, that buzzing, blooming confusion. To put it in our words, ‘rock n roll is the only constant’.

Marlo’s natural ear for a banger makes sense of Jack’s broody songwriting and writhing performance. Tom’s punk penchant injects it all with an unignorable urgency, and Dan’s unforgiving drumming drives it all to a crashing and maddening catharsis. One way or another, each song is a journey from the sensitive to the exasperated and insane.

We play regularly at the Old Dispensary, but we’ve played everywhere from coffee shops in Fulham to supporting Carl Barat at Amersham Arms and Republica at the O2 Academy.

And we’re not slowing down, from now on, you’ll see a single every couple of months from us, with as many music videos and gigs as we can manage. Our first vinyl, Falling for You / Peace of Mind, was released by No Distance Records on May 17th. It 's sold in Rough Trade, and other independent record shops around London.

“A group that merges classic indie with a rougher, gobbier, sex pistols punk spirit…produced to perfection… it bursts into roaring life” - Lucy Harbron, Far Out Magazine