The Barstool Preachers w. Bite Me Bambi

Moes Alley presents The Barstool Preachers with special guests Bite Me Bambi! Sunday, November 24thDoors: 7pm / Show: 8pm$20 in advance / $25 day of the show21+THE BARSTOOL PREACHERSThis wasnt meant to be the actual record. In fact, the twelve songs that make up The Bar Stool Preachers stunning third full-length, Above The Static, were only supposed to be ideas, a guide to what the actual album would and could later become. And so, in April 2021, together with producer Ben Hannah, the Brighton-based band set up camp at The Waterloo, a three-story pub/venue in the Northern seaside town of Blackpool, to begin the process of making an album. Or, more accurately, the process that would lead to the process of making an album. But when they listened to Flatlined, the first song they committed to tape there, it dawned on them that it actually sounded like the finished product.Its not a real studio, says frontman Tom McFaull. We just went in there with the idea of getting demoswe took a mobile recording desk and everything we needed because we wanted to dial in the sound. But as soon as we recorded that song, Ben and I just looked at each other and went This sounds massive enough to be the real thing. We were there for about two-and-a-half weeks in total. The pub was closed because of Covid, so it was just us and Fletch (the owner). Wed go to bed for a few hours, wake up, the first person up would put the coffee on and press play on whatever wed recorded the night before. We just lived it fully. We couldnt re-record this album if we tried.Thats because Above The Static truly does captures the moment which inspired it, as well as it captures the complex, ever-evolving essence of the band that made it. Formed by McFaull and bassist Karl Bungle Jeffery in 2014, these days The Bar Stool Preachers are completed by guitarists Tom Gibbs and Karl Smith, keyboardist Alex Hay, drummer Alex Whibbs Whibley-Conway and most recently Ray Waters on guitars and many other instruments, all of whom are on a constant search to evolve, something equaled only by their desire to stay true to themselves. Its that unique combination thats at the heart of this record, one that sees the band riffing off their ska-punk roots (and the ideologies which inform them), but which also ensures they break the boundaries sonically of the punk genre. With thisalbum, The Bar Stool Preachers want to both push through any preconceptions about the music they make, and ensure that what they do make doesnt just fall on deaf ears.BITE ME BAMBIHailing from Southern California, Bite Me Bambi brings sounds reminiscent of British 2 Tone and 3rd wave ska into the 21st century. With energetic songs and pedigree musicianship, BMB gets the crowd on their feet and dancing. Comprised of members from some of your favorite ska bands (My Superhero, Save Ferris, Starpool), this new group breathes fresh life into a genre that may have originaed in Jamaica, and honed in Britain, but perfected in the haze, blight, glamour and beauty of the Southland.