pennines

£18

Sat, 5th Sep

pennines

Moth Club, London

pennines (always lowercase) formed in Norwich in 2006, during a difficult period for songwriter/guitarist Henry Tremain. Earlier that year he had lost his close friend and former bandmate Dave Thrope (saleontomorrow) in a motorcycle accident, leaving Henry unable to even pick up a guitar. pennines began when friends Mike Wightman, Tristan “The Count” Holden, and Jem Eaves gently pushed him back into making music. What started as a casual project became, in Henry’s words, “the perfect therapy.”

The band emerged from Norwich’s then-vibrant DIY emo/indie/hardcore scene centred around The Ferryboat Inn and Mike’s Fair Do’s shows. They recorded everything themselves and gave it away freely. A two-track demo featuring “Whisky Tango Foxtrot” landed unexpectedly on BBC Radio 1 via Huw Stephens, leading pennines to share stages with bands like This Town Needs Guns (now TTNG), Colour, Tubelord, and to tour France and the UK with their close friends Fago.Sepia. Their shows became cult favourites: precise, warm, slightly chaotic, and filled with the band’s self-deprecating humour.

In 2009, life logistics and Henry’s move to London pushed pennines into an unspoken hiatus. Henry soon joined TTNG, while the band’s recordings quietly existed on old hard drives — until someone uploaded them online without permission. Those tracks slowly went viral in the DIY/math-rock/emo underground, drawing a devoted global audience who treated the songs like lost treasures.

More than a decade later, that unexpected resurgence has brought pennines back to the studio and back to the stage, with this very special show marking their first London headline show since 2009, supported by - appropriately - newly-reunited Scottish emo legends Avast!, and the awesome Real Terms, direct from Liverpool. You do not want to miss what will be a very special show.

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SHORT BIO

We’re beyond pumped to announce @pennines.band’s first London headline show since 2009 on Saturday, September 5th at @mothclub. Support comes from - appropriately - newly-reunited Scottish emo legends @avasttheband, and the awesome @realterms, direct from Liverpool.

Forming in 2006, pennines were rooted in Norwich’s then-vibrant DIY emo/indie/hardcore scene, centred around The Ferryboat Inn and Mike’s Fair Do’s shows. They recorded everything themselves and gave everything away for free, spending three years making friends across the nascent UK underground DIY/math community (I use the term “math” advisedly here; it was, of course, a fluid hyphenate of genres. People’s beanies had more in common than the music itself). Then, they stopped.

Over the following decade-and-a-half, the music they gave away quietly emerged from people’s hard drives, gradually going viral amongst a new generation of people discovering that there might be an awful lot more to this word “emo” than the culture had led them to believe.

This is going to be a very special night. Tickets via DICE and SEE. Links in the respective bios.