Big Rock Records are delighted to present
Jill Lorean
plus very special guests
Gulp
SATURDAY 22 MARCH, 2025
Rio Community Centre, Newport-on-Tay
Jill Lorean
plus very special guests
Gulp
SATURDAY 22 MARCH, 2025
Rio Community Centre, Newport-on-Tay
JILL LOREAN
The compelling new album Peace Cult released via Monohands Records makes for a bold new step in Jill Lorean's career. Front and centre of the new work is the burgeoning relationship between the trio of Jill Lorean, Andy Monaghan (Frightened Rabbit) and Pete Kelly rather than the solo project that the name suggests.
Jill enjoyed early success with her band Sparrow & The Workshop, then with Three Queens In Mourning (with Alex Neilson and Alasdair Roberts), Scottish collective Hen Hoose, and a rich body of theatre and soundtrack work.
Monaghan and Kelly infuse Jill's sketches with vivid ideas and bring the songs into electrifying shape. On record the result is an expansion of the previous palette, a rousing concoction of piano, synth, harmonica, bowed guitars, and more. Live they distil the already paired back arrangements to their core and use dynamic instinctively, often using fuzz as their guiding light to take us through Jills narrative landscapes, new shapes and colours are presented all of their own.
Peace Cult feels like being in the heart of a journey, rather than at the end of one looking back. That unsteadiness makes such a varied and interesting listen.
"A tenderly wistful musical experience" The Scotsman
"Peace Cult is sprawling and expressive, but never lost. If you've ever moaned that today's artists don't make them like they used to, they do so here, and how." SNACK
The compelling new album Peace Cult released via Monohands Records makes for a bold new step in Jill Lorean's career. Front and centre of the new work is the burgeoning relationship between the trio of Jill Lorean, Andy Monaghan (Frightened Rabbit) and Pete Kelly rather than the solo project that the name suggests.
Jill enjoyed early success with her band Sparrow & The Workshop, then with Three Queens In Mourning (with Alex Neilson and Alasdair Roberts), Scottish collective Hen Hoose, and a rich body of theatre and soundtrack work.
Monaghan and Kelly infuse Jill's sketches with vivid ideas and bring the songs into electrifying shape. On record the result is an expansion of the previous palette, a rousing concoction of piano, synth, harmonica, bowed guitars, and more. Live they distil the already paired back arrangements to their core and use dynamic instinctively, often using fuzz as their guiding light to take us through Jills narrative landscapes, new shapes and colours are presented all of their own.
Peace Cult feels like being in the heart of a journey, rather than at the end of one looking back. That unsteadiness makes such a varied and interesting listen.
"A tenderly wistful musical experience" The Scotsman
"Peace Cult is sprawling and expressive, but never lost. If you've ever moaned that today's artists don't make them like they used to, they do so here, and how." SNACK
GULP
Gulp is Guto Pryce and Lindsey Leven. They join us at The Rio after a seven-year hiatus for a stripped back guitar and vocals version of their set ahead of an appearance at the Focus Wales Festival.
Their sound has been described as a musical manifestation of the road trip; the landscape and events along the way – from the sun-squinting, flickering saturation and lens flare of the Californian desert to the gloaming of rural Welsh and Scottish homescapes.
Guto is a founding member and bass player in Super Furry Animals. He's been seen playing with Sonic Boom's Spectrum and more recently Das Koolies and Pictish Trail. Lindsey creates mixed media prints that often accompany the music she has created with the band.
Gulp's debut LP Season Sun was released in July 2014 on Sonic Cathedral (Europe) and Everloving Records (US). Gulp were last spotted on stage in 2017, before releasing their second album All Good Wishes in May 2018. 2025 marks an exciting return for the band, with new music and shows on the horizon.
Gulp is Guto Pryce and Lindsey Leven. They join us at The Rio after a seven-year hiatus for a stripped back guitar and vocals version of their set ahead of an appearance at the Focus Wales Festival.
Their sound has been described as a musical manifestation of the road trip; the landscape and events along the way – from the sun-squinting, flickering saturation and lens flare of the Californian desert to the gloaming of rural Welsh and Scottish homescapes.
Guto is a founding member and bass player in Super Furry Animals. He's been seen playing with Sonic Boom's Spectrum and more recently Das Koolies and Pictish Trail. Lindsey creates mixed media prints that often accompany the music she has created with the band.
Gulp's debut LP Season Sun was released in July 2014 on Sonic Cathedral (Europe) and Everloving Records (US). Gulp were last spotted on stage in 2017, before releasing their second album All Good Wishes in May 2018. 2025 marks an exciting return for the band, with new music and shows on the horizon.
"(Game Love's) spooked demeanour suggests The Wicker Man getting fresh with Nancy Sinatra. That's Gulp: easy to swallow, hard to forget" Guardian Guide Pick of the Week
"a thing of eyeball popping beauty that deserves to have psychotropic palm leaves wafted at its feet (and then, ideally, eaten)" Artrocker 5 stars *****