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Bag Of Cans + The Caterpillar Spies

THE NEW ADELPHI CLUB, 89 De Grey Street, Hull, HU5 2RU

2 Oct 2025

8:00PM

£10

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With the launch of their debut album ’We Are A Band’ in June 2023, Bag of Cans managed to fool both listeners and their mums around the country. Not only were they very much “a band” but one that could release songs too. In late 2024 an EP called ‘Favourite Shirt’ with such songs as ‘Favourite Shirt’ was released, following a couple of years of tours and festival appearances. Capitalising on this momentum, they then pretty much immediately decided to take a break from gigging, in what is sure to be described as “a 4D Chess move of utter brilliance” and will be studied by industry moguls for years to come as “one of the promotional plays of all time”.

Released on Fierce Panda, these collections of songs have attracted praise and airtime from BBC Radio 6 and the single ‘Hostage at the Dinner Table’ was a joint winner on Steve Lamacq’s Roundtable. The EP’s titular tune ‘Favourite Shirt’ got a load of inexplicable plays on KEXP in the states, which confused everyone even further and no one really knew what to do with that information.

As the Cans now return from their slumber, they look to the autumn to throw themselves back into a great big puddle of gigs, and splash around for someone’s amusement in their tried and tested wellies of slightly-deranged-indie-music.

The Caterpillar Spies feature current members and former members of  some of Hull’s best bands including LIFE, Fonda 500, Bunkerpop, Candid Faces, Chubby Mam, The Favours, Stuka and The Rocky Nest… The Caterpillar Spies play gentle, wonky songs about the inevitable reality of death, life and loving in the 21st century.

With a colourful spectrum of slo-fi  instrumentation including finger picking guitar, bass, drums, violin, piano, cello, flute, melodica, glockenspiel, tap shoes, percussion and joyous group sing-a-longs… subtle and kind… The Caterpillar Spies echo the sounds of such luminaries as Belle & Sebastian, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and 3rd album era The Velvet Underground.

Venue Details

THE NEW ADELPHI CLUB,
89 De Grey Street,
Hull,
HU5 2RU

01482 348216

theadelphiclub@theadelphiclub.karoo.co.uk

http://www.theadelphi.com/

Iconic live music venue. One of the UK's most celebrated underground clubs.

Facilities

Wheelchair Access