www.hopeandsocial.com presents: Hope And Social / Joanna Briggs / Gary Stewart / Chris Tye

“Brilliant, uplifting and inclusive. That was amazing, here’s your cheque”
Michael Eavis, Glastonbury Festival

Hailing from Leeds, Hope and Social are slightly more than your average indie band.
Here’s what they say about themselves….

We’re a band who do things a little bit differently. We wear blue jackets. We play mind-blowing, balls-to-the-floor, anything-for-a-laugh, much-more-for-a-tear, heart-on-your-sleeve, foot-on-your-monitor gigs. Not gigs. Shows. No, not shows…events. We’re gloriously and fiercely independent. We formed the UK’s first fan-funded record label Alamo Music Ltd. We’ve made just about every mistake a ‘professional’ band can make and decided that entertaining people and making the songs we love is the most important thing in music. And we like people. We like involving people. “People they are some good”.

In the tradition of the travelling bands, we guess we’re a bit like a Yorkshire E-Street Band… meets Arcade Fire… meets The Faces… meets Dexys Midnight Runners… meets Prefab Sprout… at a party… in an argument about who gets to have sex with David Bowie.

Here’s what some other people have to say about them….

“a big sound from this impressive outfit…inspired, anthemic, great” – Q magazine

“one of the UK’s top five live bands” – The Independent

“I Really like Hope and Social!” – BBC Radio 1 – Greg James

“smash-your-head-into-the-wall brilliant” – Entertainment Weekly
“…one of the best acts around…” – Manchester Evening News
“possibly the most complete band ever” – Tim Hornsby
support comes from Joanna Briggs, Gary Stewart and Chris Tye
www.hopeandsocial.com

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