Sprawl Magazine

Sprawl Live 7:

Martial Arts


Martial Arts return to Nottingham for their UK tour on the back of the newly released From the Burn Off EP. Emerging from Manchester and the ever-growing No Band Is An Island collective, the five-piece have built their reputation on tense, angular post-punk rooted in the UK DIY circuit, drawing on a shared ecosystem of experimental indie, spoken urgency, and art-rock drive.

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Drury Hill


Drury Hill are a four-piece between Nottingham and Leeds, making soft rock, slacker pop and post-folk songs with a distinctly DIY vibe. Following their Nottingham-made EP Fields, the band signed to Leeds label Private Regcords in 2026, releasing Eye To Eye / River — two songs marking a quieter, more considered turn in their sound.

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TBA

DJ’s:
Sprawl Collective

Date: 19.09.2026

Venue: , Nottingham
All Ages / BYOB

Tickets:

www.sprawlmagazine.co.uk/live

TONIGHT

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HONESTY


Leeds collective HONESTY blur the lines between club music, shoegaze and electronic experimentation. Formed by George Mitchell, Matt Peel, Josh Lewis and Imi Marston, their sound moves between ambient textures, garage rhythms and rave-adjacent intensity. Their debut album U R HERE arrived in 2025 via Partisan Records.

FFO: Mount Kimbie, Burial, shoegaze, UK garage

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BATHING SUITS


Bathing Suits fuse noise rock, techno and industrial abrasion into something equal parts confrontation and release. Loud, physical and relentlessly danceable, their live shows thrive on tension, volume and sheer momentum.

FFO: Model/Actriz, Gilla Band, Psychotic Monks

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KIOSK


Leeds duo Kiosk combine post-punk, synth-driven electronics and DIY club culture. Built around drum machines, analogue synthesis and heavily processed bass, their sound shifts between dreamlike atmospheres and driving dancefloor energy.

FFO: Crystal Castles, Beach House, Su***de

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TERZA RIMA


Terza Rima make understated guitar pop from Nottingham. Echoes of The Wake, Orange Juice and Her’s run through the songs, but so does a sense of place: city centres after dark, empty streets, familiar faces and the strange poetry of everyday life. Built around chiming guitars and melodic basslines, their music favours patience and atmosphere over immediacy.

FFO: Her’s, The Wake, The Drums

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DJs



Date & Venue

06.06.26 /

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arrive this Saturday with a sound shaped by hardware, repetition and beautifully strange influences. Fighter plane engines, hospital machinery, pirate radio and industrial electronics all find their way into the Leeds duo’s world.

Signed to Private Regcords, Bella and Maz operate somewhere between EBM and darkwave, favouring physical hardware over laptop production. The result is music that feels tactile, immediate and alive.

Their double single Heaven Sent / Sure Shot locks into relentless rhythms, with detached vocals floating above elastic basslines and evolving electronics. Influences range from DAF, Severed Heads and Throbbing Gristle to NEU!, Tangerine Dream and Aphex Twin, but KiosK never feel like the sum of their references.

Part of Leeds’ thriving underground scene, they’ve built a sound that belongs entirely to them, existing somewhere between the battle, the hospital and the dancefloor.

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“I hope they start moving is all. I wanna see everyone dance.”

bring their relentless live show this Saturday. Born from Leeds’ basement circuit, their early gigs were twenty minutes of noise, distortion and dancefloor chaos, built around one mantra: always dancey, always loud, always sexy.

Part of the same creative ecosystem as KiosK and HONESTY, Bathing Suits focus on something more immediate: getting bodies moving. Their sound, often described as “industrial trance”, crashes together pounding techno, post-punk abrasion and pop hooks.

Their KILL Bathing Suits EP, produced by Benny Howell, balances Berlin club rigour with Leeds DIY ferality, while the visual side of the project is just as important. Lighting, fashion and aesthetics aren’t decoration, they’re part of the structure.

Everything is intentional. Nothing is polite.

Bathing Suits live this Saturday.

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HONESTY hand it back,
transformed.

Leeds-based collective HONESTY create with a single aim: self-acceptance. A sonically masterful blend of genre-bending synth and rock, as at home on an indie stage as it is on a dance floor. “Euphoric and ugly at the same time, communal but also deeply lonely.” In mapping these contradictions, they track the uneven terrain of young adulthood alongside you.

Their sound refuses genre classification, as does everything about them. There’s no pressure to fit neatly into one identity or role. Most of the four-piece grew up in guitar bands, indie rock the usual binary, yet pirate radio, rave culture and visual art all bled through. The move away from traditional band structure was part of a wider aim.

Pairing releases with visual art, HONESTY treat it as “part of the emotional language of the project”. Their work with designers explores the fluid space between art and music, with no hard border between where one ends and the other begins. Live, that extends into visuals, lighting, AV and rotating collaborators, creating an immersive environment you disappear into rather than simply watch.

Everyone brings different experiences, cultures, tastes and emotions into the process. The friction builds something no single person could make alone, resisting any echo chamber.

“The live show now feels less like recreating songs and more like building an environment people can disappear into for however long we have onstage.”

Even in darker moments, there’s a sense of transcendence. HONESTY’s music holds space for projection, from club detachment to night bus stillness, those in-between transitional spaces.

Man hands on misery to man, and HONESTY hand it back,
transformed.

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bring their full AV live show and immersive collision of synth, rock and visual art, built for release not restraint this Saturday at alongside &

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Sprawl Live 6:

BATHING SUITS


Operating under the mantra “Always dancey. Always loud. Always sexy,” Bathing Suits channel abrasive guitars and pummelling techno into a visceral, sweat-soaked noise-trance assault. Their sound thrives in the tension between chaos and rhythm — jagged, unrelenting, and built as much for the club as it is for the pit.

Their latest single “Empathy” — alongside the EP Kill Bathing Suits — is already making serious noise on the underground circuit, cementing their reputation as one of the most confrontational and body-moving new acts around.

FFO: Model/Actriz, Gilla Band, Psychotic Monks, techno, noise rock, industrial club

HONESTY


HONESTY are a Leeds-based electronic and club music collective formed in 2020 by George Mitchell (Eagulls), Matt Peel, Josh Lewis, and Imi Marston. Rejecting traditional band structures, they operate fluidly as an ego-less studio project that blends ambient, UK garage, shoegaze, and techno. Signed to Partisan Records, they released their acclaimed debut album, U R HERE, in early 2025

Through evolving audio-visual shows, DJ residencies, remix work and collaborations, HONESTY continually reshape themselves — their output fluid, rave-infused and driven by a sense of reinvention. Where they go next remains wide open.

FFO: Mount Kimbe, Burial, Shoegaze Textures, Live Visuals

KIOSK


Leeds based electronic duo Kiosk make dance-punk influenced by the city’s diverse DIY scene. Their sound shifts between postpunk inflected dance beats, dreamy soundscapes and pounding techno noise, combining drum machines and analogue synthesis with raw lyrics and heavily processed bass.

FFO: Crystal Castles, Beach House, Su***de

DJ’s:


Date & Venue:
06.06.26 /

Tickets:
/ Link in bio
www.sprawlmagazine.co.uk

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Sprawl Live 6:

KIOSK


Leeds based electronic duo Kiosk make dance-punk influenced by the city’s diverse DIY scene. Their sound shifts between postpunk inflected dance beats, dreamy soundscapes and pounding techno noise, combining drum machines and analogue synthesis with raw lyrics and heavily processed bass.

FFO: Crystal Castles, Beach House, Su***de

BATHING SUITS


Operating under the mantra “Always dancey. Always loud. Always sexy,” Bathing Suits channel abrasive guitars and pummelling techno into a visceral, sweat-soaked noise-trance assault. Their sound thrives in the tension between chaos and rhythm — jagged, unrelenting, and built as much for the club as it is for the pit.

Their latest single “Empathy” — alongside the EP Kill Bathing Suits — is already making serious noise on the underground circuit, cementing their reputation as one of the most confrontational and body-moving new acts around.

FFO: Model/Actriz, Gilla Band, Psychotic Monks, techno, noise rock, industrial club

HONESTY


HONESTY are a Leeds-based electronic and club music collective formed in 2020 by George Mitchell (Eagulls), Matt Peel, Josh Lewis, and Imi Marston. Rejecting traditional band structures, they operate fluidly as an ego-less studio project that blends ambient, UK garage, shoegaze, and techno. Signed to Partisan Records, they released their acclaimed debut album, U R HERE, in early 2025

Through evolving audio-visual shows, DJ residencies, remix work and collaborations, HONESTY continually reshape themselves — their output fluid, rave-infused and driven by a sense of reinvention. Where they go next remains wide open.

FFO: Mount Kimbe, Burial, Shoegaze Textures, Live Visuals

DJ’s:


Date & Venue:
06.06.26 /

Tickets:
/ Link in bio
www.sprawlmagazine.co.uk

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