Broken Witt Rebels

Saturday 08 January 2022, 6pm - 9:30pm

The Waterfront Studio

+ kezia + holden james

Artist Statement:

Just a quick note to wish you all a Happy New Year.

Finally getting back on the road was everything to us in 2021 . Seeing our extended family , making new friends and getting to present OK Hotel in the way we had originally intended when the album came out .

The dates weren’t without their hurdles and the looming shadow of Covid affected us all . You guys , the venues , support artists , hotels , the list is endless . Closure of venues in Wales and the uncertainty in the UK has inevitably meant that decisions have to be made about the second half of the tour .

The remaining dates will therefore be rescheduled for later this year . The new dates will follow as soon as possible, we are aiming for April/May, and all tickets will be valid .

It’s not the best news but we will spend the time writing and recording and will be back on the road as quickly as possible .

See you in 2022

Love

Broken Witt Rebels.

please note: this is a rescheduled event. all original tickets remain valid.

14+ (under 16's to be accompanied by an over 18)

Broken Witt Rebels are ready for stadiums. They wrote their new album OK Hotel with them very much in mind… The album is a soaring, game-raising statement. From upbeat, modern-Nashville-meets-cutting-edge-pop opener "Running With The Wolves" to the lo-fi intimacy of "Birmingham", it’s packed with the sort of transatlantic anthems that scream ‘‘21st century maverick’.

Life-long friends Core and Davis grew up on the same council estate near Birmingham city centre. As 18-year-olds, they bought guitars from Argos and started picking up licks by ear at a local indie night. An early noughties diet of the Libertines, Kings of Leon and Arctic Monkeys convinced them that this was their life path… And yet, for all the evocative nods to the USA, it’s the band’s home city that provides the record’s most powerful undercurrent. "Birmingham" acts as a love song to the place they were born in “and will die in”. And it all comes back to the refrain ‘and in Birmingham is where I found my feet, and in Birmingham is where I’ll lose my teeth’. “I can’t remember there being a song about Birmingham, unless it’s Birmingham Alabama,” Core reasons. “But these are our experiences, this is where we’re from; the line ‘a broken blue nose is poetry in motion, and all the villains have broken bones’, that’s referring to the football clubs Aston Villa and Birmingham City, they were always fighting… Football has always been part of our culture growing up, so we wanted to get these kind of references in.

FFO: Kings of Leon | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Kaleo