Autocamper + Tigers & Flies

Saturday, 19 July 2025 at 19:00 at The Holloway, Norwich

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. Cowbell-wielding horn-blowing Manchester based 5-piece Tigers and Flies provide energy without sacrificing melody. They make wonky guitar music with a hearty punk affliction. Inclined towards the lighthearted and mundane, Tigers and Flies are full of contradictions, and that is their greatest consistency. Expect songs about Margate, workplace grievances, and the mechanisation of labour.