The Room + Vernons Future + Drunk Keith

Liverpool Post Punkers The Room are joined by Vernons Future and Drunk Keith! for a night of old school indie swagger and majesty!

The Room:
Liverpool post-punk band are back with new music. Formed by Dave Jackson and bassist Becky Stringer, early releases earned support from John Peel, appearance on ‘The Whistle Test’ and production from Television’s Tom Verlaine.

Dave and Becky reunited to record their new album under their original name with Darren Brown and Ethan Kyme.

Vernons Future:
Originally forged in the white heat of indie’s golden age in the 80’s, Vernons Future play at the poppier end of the indie spectrum. They think you’ll like their music if you like XTC, Blur, The Bunnymen, Lightning Seeds, The Teardrop Explodes.

After releasing acclaimed debut album ‘Smithdown Road’ (Melody Maker said it was “a fine debut in love with pop at its most unassuming and most charming”) on legendary Liverpool label Probe Plus in 1990, The Vernons (as they were then known) promptly split with members cast to the winds and spread across the world.

Reformed as Vernons Future, the band rejoined a very different indie music fray, releasing their sophomore album ‘Aquaplaning’ in 2022. Here is some of what’s being said about this record…

Drunk Keith!..
Crystal Palace-based artist, producer, singer and songwriter Keith Robert Haworth who has been creatively active since the 90s and is clearly a man who likes an exclamation mark. An early band was called HunkyDory! before he went solo as The Protagonist! releasing an album called ‘Pink Fuzz!’. The provocatively titled ‘Perfumed Ponces!’ is quirky stuff. Nothing wrong with quirk, especially when it’s this well done. The instrumental opener ‘Over And Overture’ starts off all drifty and punches its way out with deep basslines and snappy melody. The vocals, which are kind of theatrical, arrive on the showtime drum and bass of  ‘Concrete Jungle’, which comes on like something from a Terry Gilliam film. There’s a darkness here for sure, an edge. It’s like musical theatre dragged down a south-east London back alley for a good kick-in. We look forward to ‘Drunk Keith! The Musical’