New Corporate Retreat Gig!
Buy a ticket now! (£8 + 65p booking fee)
Corporate Retreat is getting together again to play a gig at The Exchange, supported by Cats on the Moon and Cathal Dowd, who are all wonderful people.
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Buy tickets here right now, or you probably suck and your friends will laugh at you and say, "Hey, look at this loser who didn't buy tickets to the best gig in Bristol in November, at least probably, because I don't know what other gigs are going on in November yet. Even still, look at this loser. They probably dress poorly and also smell bad. If only they had bought tickets to go see Corporate Retreat. Then they'd probably be more attractive and I would want their babies. So many babies, who also would one day grow up and ask their parents where they were on 7th November 2024, which of course would be at The Exchange in Bristol seeing Corporate Retreat as they made out and really sealed the deal on this relationship that blossomed into something truly beautiful that night as some weird guy who sounds like an American was screaming at us." ... They'll say that we're sure.
Where am I?
Welcome to the front page of Emo in Bristol. Enjoy some fine music from some fine people in Bristol, and maybe the odd post or two about acts you should check out.
Latest Releases
Corporate Retreat
"Everything is fucked!"
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"We just haven't really tried it yet."
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Gunkus
More great mellow stuff from Patrick.
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Who are you?
We are a rag-tag group of musicians in Bristol. We love making music together. Andrew Wray is the primary maintainer of this website, and loves to promote Emo, Punk, epunk and more! All-in-all, we are:
- Andrew Wray (Leonardo Lemuel)
- Patrick Fenton (Gunkus)
- Chris Beale (Chris Vox)
- Mike Owen (everyone's friend)
- Together... "Corporate Retreat!" (Our punk band in Bristol)
- And various other acts...
What even is Emo, anyway?
Start with what Emo is not.
Emo is not:
- My Chemical Romance (okay, maybe that first album?)
- Green Day (That first album tho)
- Blink 182
- Bullet for My Valentine (sorry guy!)
- Fall Out Boy
- Most of the 1990's and 2000's
- Wearing fashion
- Being sad because your girlfriend fucked Todd
- Those stupid fucking belts
Emo is:
- 1983 - Rites of Spring
- 1985 - Embrace
- 1989 - Cap'n Jazz
- 1990 - Drive Like Jehu
- 1993 - Braid
- 1995 - The Promise Ring
- 1995 - Rainer Maria
- 1995 - Bright Eyes
- 1995 - Cursive
- 1998 - Rilo Kiley
- 2001 - Desaparecidos
- 2005 - Algernon Cadwallader
- This guy (Love you, Sam!)
- "The bands that Sam Grudgings will tell Andrew aren't Emo, but they are. Like, it's all a matter of perspective, and honestly if you feel it in your heart then you know it's like..."
- Too many bands and songs to name
- "The stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard in my entire life." ("Come on, man!")