BILLY SULLIVAN AND BAND
Live 2024
Special Guest: PERRECY

Billy Sullivan is a singer/songwriter from Watford. Previously frontman of The Spitfires, Sullivan has embarked on a solo career since the band split back in 2022 - releasing his critically acclaimed first album ‘Paper Dreams’ back in March 2023.

Brand new singles ‘Winter Of Discontent’ and ‘Frozen Town’ have been released this year so far, setting the theme and lyrical direction for Sullivan’s new material.

"In our country, the rich and powerful suffer no punishment for lying to us, breaking ministerial codes, profiting from conflicts of interest, stealing from the public purse, breaking the law. While families struggle to pay the bills, children go to school hungry and the working class feel hopeless and defeated."

“I set out to capture a darker sound to match the current mood. Edgy, electronic but still uplifting". Recorded at Nave studio in Leeds with Alex Greaves (Yard Act, Bdrmm, Working Mens Club.

Originally formed in 2012, The Spitfires played their final show at a sold out Electric Ballroom in London back in February 2022, a fitting punctuation mark for the quartet who built a cult fan base on their own terms over the past decade with their five albums Response (2015), A Thousand Times (2016), Year Zero (2018), Life Worth Living (2020), and Play For Today (2022).

The band received support from BBC 6music, Radio X, CLASH, Louder Than War, Gigslutz, Classic Rock Magazine, Fred Perry Subculture and many more, with both critical acclaim and their independently-won commercial success underlining Sullivan’s own credentials as a songwriter of exceptional merit.

Special Guest:  Perrecy

The fact that the British cult figure Morrissey has devoted fans is nothing new in indie circles. Since the singer set out with his former band The Smiths in 1982 to give unhappy teenagers all over the world a voice, his music has found enthusiastic fans from South America to Australia. Also in Ingolstadt.

Perrecy lives and works there, and his awakening dates back to 1984, when the single “Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now” was released. Later, during a vacation in Barbados, Perrecy observed German tourists mindlessly singing reggae songs without noticing the sometimes chauvinistic content and came up with the idea of translating English songs into German and interpreting them on the ukulele.

A little later, after attending a Morrissey concert (at a time when it was not yet a political position to go to such a concert), the man, who was not yet called Perrecy, had the idea of trying his hand at the works of his favorite musician.

Shortly afterwards, the first Perrecy album “Du bist das Opfer” was released, offering a colorful cross-section of the work of the Bavarian bard with Hamburg roots. From “Dieser charmante Mann” to “Meine Freundin liegt im Koma” and “Der erste der Jungs der starb”, it contains all of the Manchester hero's top hits.