Gorilla Riot
+ Thieves of Liberty + The Black Shucks
Sun 23 March 2025
7:00pm 
The Adrian Flux Waterfront Studio This event has now passed
About Event
Gorilla Riot are a 5-piece, dirty rock n’ roll blues machine. Utilising a dual-pronged guitar attack with multi-part vocal harmonies; they play raucous blues-based rock, combining elements of grunge, stoner, and country to create a full-on high energy sonic experience.
Mainman, Arjun Bhishma, surrounded himself with the best talent in Manchester to form Gorilla Riot. Arjun, is joined by Charly T. (guitars & vocals), Deggy (bass), and Matt Talbot on skins with Luci Vee joining the band on stage as backing vocalist.
They have built their reputation as a hard living, hard playing, genre-straddling rock n roll band that can draw forth tears of joy one minute and then the pain of a heart-felt lament, the next. They have entered the charts twice in recent times… on ‘Earache Records presents New Wave Of Rock N Roll’ compilation album, as well as NWOCR Volume 1 – both hitting Top #10 in their respective charts.
Equally at home acoustically or electrically, they have toured extensively with headline shows in Spain and France, and across the UK. That reputation saw them invited to join sold out shows with REEF and also Airbourne and The Darkness.
Gorilla Riot released a 4-song acoustic EP entitled SOLACE, ahead of this new full-length studio album, SALVATION, in October 2024.
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