Tickets are now available for TRUPA TRUPA & WIZARDS CAN’T BE LAWYERS at The Grace!
Wizards Can’t Be Lawyers
FORMED ON THE THE STREETS OF NOTTINGHAM
With their unique blend of surf rock and post punk Wizards Can’t Be Lawyers have made a name for themselves as one of the must-see live acts in the city. Following the release of their debut single “Paying For A Friend” they embarked on a short UK run, culminating at a sell-out show in their hometown venue The Bodega.
Singles ‘Mercury Man’ and “In The Hive” will also feature on their debut EP “WCBL”, released on 31st January . New tracks
include the spooky, funk driven ”Creatures of the Night’ and 80s rock throwback ‘Ladies Night/ Gay Bowling”.
Trupa Trupa
Trupa Trupa is a rock, psychedelic, post punk band from Gdańsk, Poland. According to Metro, they are combining post-punk and psych with skill. “The Beatles sing Joy Division oversimplifies them but doesn’t misrepresent them”. According to The Guardian, “the band’s music blends off-kilter melodies, dense instrumentation and lyrical explorations of the darkest side of the human condition”. The Times compares them to Sonic Youth, Radiohead and the Manchester scene in the 80s. According to Mojo, their “gripping and energetic record packs a serious punch”. KEXP highlights “ominous guitars, stern rhythms and haunting melodies” and The Quietus agrees. As Pitchfork describes, “Trupa Trupa are the rare dystopian post-punk band to embrace optimism and levity as necessary survival mechanisms. They may not have the perfect prescription for a better world, but they welcome you to imagine one together”. Trupa Trupa are Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Tomek Pawluczuk and Wojtek Juchniewicz. They made their first international appearance in 2015 with the album “Headache” published by a British label Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records. A year later they signed to French Ici d’ailleurs, to release a remastered version of “Headache” on vinyl. In 2017 the band recorded and put out “Jolly New Songs” published additionally on a Japanese label Moorworks. In 2019 Sub Pop released Trupa Trupa’s single “Dream About”. The same year the band was also featured on a cassette split with a Texan alternative legend The Suspirians, published by an American label Whited Sepulchre Records. In September 2019 the group published “Of the Sun” album. The release was a result of international cooperation of Glitterbeat Records (Europe), Lovitt Records (USA), Moorworks (Japan) and Antena Krzyku (Poland). In March 2020 the labels published the band’s EP “I’ll find”. Latest album „B flat A” was released in February 2022 by Glitterbeat Records and Antena Krzyku (Poland) and was nominated to Fryderyk Award (the equivalent of Polish Grammy). Trupa Trupa has been featured in line-ups of a number of significant festivals worldwide, including: Primavera Sound, Desert Daze, Rockaway Beach, SXSW, Iceland Airwaves, Off Festival and Open’er to name just a few. Amidst of the pandemic TT also took part in a legendary NPR Tiny Desk session. Their tracks were featured on BBC 6 Music, played by Marc Riley, Iggy Pop, Mary Ann Hobbs, Steve Lamacq and Gideon Coe. Henry Rollins presents TT on his shows regularly. The latest Trupa Trupa releases got some notable airplay also on The Current, WFMU, KEXP and NPR.
