SUEP

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Pop Mutations & Freakender present:
SUEP

• Special Guests
  Saturday 11th April
  The Glad Cafe
  18+

Led by Georgie Stott and Joshua Harvey, SUEP have become fixtures of south-east London’s underground through a series of shared living spaces, improvised studios and DIY venues. Now with George Nicholls (The Tubs, Joanna Gruesome, GN Band), William Deacon (PC World), and Louis Forster (The Goon Sax, Expiry) completing the line up, their debut is finally on its way.

Georgie met car-boot-camera-salesman Joshua aged 18 in Winchester. Forming an instant bond, they proceeded to spend 72 hours together chatting and laughing, before forming a punk band with 2 friends. When Georgie went to university in Brighton, Joshua ended up living rent free on the floor of her squalid, now demolished, East Slope dorm-room for the entire year. They spent their time driving around the hills of Sussex, going to boot sales and listening to music very loudly on the speaker he’d hooked up to his creaking Morris Minor. The duo started experimenting with playing each other’s songs under the name ‘SUEP’ after moving into the Pupil Referral Unit - a property guardianship that once housed wayward adolescents.

An early formulation of the band fell apart after various breakups led to a member escaping to Australia, but after moving to London they soon locked in with Nicholls, Deacon and original bassist Oliver Chapman (who departed shortly after ‘Forever’ was recorded). During this era, Georgie and Josh lived in the Red Lion Boys Club - an ex-youth centre that hosted art exhibitions, raves and their weekly practices. Georgie lived illegally in a cupboard, just large enough for a double bed, and working as an early morning bakery delivery girl, while Joshua lived on a mezzanine platform he built out of scaffolding - the floor beneath full of obscure electronics and musical detritus.

It’s in the echoey expanse of the Boys Club sports hall that the 2022 EP Shop was recorded, and in which the songs of Forever were first honed. Lead vocals on the album are shared between Georgie (7 tracks), Joshua (2 tracks) and Oliver (1), and a spirit of easygoing collaboration exudes through every track - no member overplaying, everyone slotting in for the greater whole.

Forever is a glimpse into one of the best bands on the scene, not fitting into any trend, but also never fading into obscurantism - SUEP are a band that wear a joie de vivre loosely but fashionably. Now is their time to shine.