Flesh Creep EP Launch + Support from Birmingham Bands!

FLESH CREEP + THEBIGHELL + MACHIAVELLIAN ART + MONOXIDE BROTHERS + NOT SOUP

SATURDAY 18 JULY 2026
Castle & Falcon, Birmingham

Hardcore PunksFlesh Creepperform in support of their anticipated EP ‘GLIMMER’, released the day before on the 17th July on Music For Nations! 

FLESH CREEP

Birmingham-based band Flesh Creep proudly describe themselves as “friendly people that make unfriendly music.” With roots in hardcore but unconstrained by it, their sound blends frantic aggression with pop sonics, wry humour, and a deliberate rejection of genre machismo.

THEBIGHELL

Machiavellian Art

Machiavellian Art emerged from overlapping circles of punk, noise, and general disillusionment. The group writes by instinct, not design. Pressure systems, fractured basslines, and scraped guitar shapes forming around whatever anxiety is leaking out at the time. Some of it becomes structure. Some of it doesn't. The music sits in the space between overload and erasure, a response to the constant barrage of information, distraction, and modern control systems. Grit, repetition, dead channels, brief flashes of melody trying to break through. Nothing resolves cleanly. Machiavellian Art document the feeling of living inside the machine as it grinds on.  

Monoxide Brothers

Monoxide Brothers are a Birmingham-based electro-punk and experimental noise duo, known for raw, beat-driven live sets with sharp synths and intense rhythms. Emily Doyle (she/her, synths & beats) and Sophie Hack (she/her, vocals & synths) make up the duo. Their EPManic Pixie Dream Pop, released last November, is a cathartic collection with one eye on the crumbling walls of Britain's economy and the other on the social injustices seeping into its streets.

NOT SOUP

NOT SOUP are an unassuming 4-piece hailing from the Birmingham underground scene. These experimentalists have their toes in multiple genres to create their own hard to place and distinctive sound using blend of complex time signatures, disorientating riffs and lightly humorous and surreal lyrical imagery. NOT SOUP are gaining a cult following for their mind-bending live performances and unpredictable experimental sound.