Autocamper

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Pop Mutations & Monorail Music present:
Autocamper
plus Radhika
Sunday 13th July at The Glad Cafe
18+ show

Manchester’s Autocamper are the perfect pop antidote to the city’s predictable post-punk machismo. Like a Northern kitchen sink rendering of The Vaselines’ call and response motif, vocal duties are shared by Jack Harkins and Niamh Purtill—their world-weary reflections on bedroom tiffs and hungover misdemeanors capture the jangle pop spirit of the ‘80s without the C86 revisionism.
Autocamper were formed on a crisp, autumnal evening in October 2022; via a combination of mutual friends, anonymous internet ads and chance encounters at an Umbrellas’ gig (future Slumberland Records label mates). Honing their sound across the ever-dwindling practice spaces of the city, much of the album was thrashed out between the backrooms of pubs, half-constructed studio spaces, and a (now demolished) disused commercial kitchen unit. Though a true DIY sensibility permeates the music and ethos of the band, their debut LP sees them step up a level from previous self-recorded releases.

Radhika is a Glasgow based artist of Indian heritage. From an early age, she has been exposed to all forms of music in her creative home. Having spent her younger years immersing herself in the lyrics on the sleeves of her father’s record collection, this is what inspired her to start writing her own songs at the age of ten. She has performed at a variety of venues/festivals including Celtic Connections, The Poetry Club, Glad Cafe, Glasgow Mela and King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut.Her main inspirations are Nick Drake, Cocteau Twins and Strawberry Switchblade.