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Pop Mutations & Freakender present:
Fruit Tones + Eel Men
+ Special Guests
Friday 14th June
The Old Hairdresser's
18+

Advance tickets available at citizenticket.com/events/pop-mutations

FRUIT TONES is a rock & roll gang from Manchester.
Nothing artificial - this is the real deal. Real music played by real people for real reasons. No budget. No gimmicks. No nothing. They’re the kinda guys The Shangri-La’s sang about - true professional amateurs!
The bands first album, ‘Natural Selection” dropped 2019 via Greenway and Fuzzkill Records and took the three piece from Manchester to Europe, both coasts of America, a slot at Willy Nelson’s Luck Reunion festival, sharing the stage with heroes Flamin' Groovies and The Gories and even a Marshall headphones collaboration alongside Iggy Pop.
Recent sophomore LP 'Pink Wafer Factory’ out via ALIEN SNATCH! and FUZZKILL RECORDS morphs tales of the daily grind into a glitter coated blast of ultra catchy garage punk n roll. This is music to quit your day job to!
Self recorded, produced and mixed in an old Manchester cotton mill and mastered by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring) it’s all there - Buddy Holly’s hiccups, budget Stones production, blown-out licks that’d make Chuck Berry blush, Dr Feelgood steam-rollin’ pub rock energy, ghosts of early country and blues, wonky stop-starts and a kind of demented honky tonk choogle that brings Loaded era VU to mind, or more recently Natural Child.
They pick the ripest fruits of the past and effortlessly blend them together like they invented it all. The album is a dance party blueprint, and your Beatle boots will be soaken wet in no time!
Championed by Marc Riley the Fruits have been in constant rotation on BBC 6 music including 3 live sessions throughout 2023. The factory floor is coming to a stage near you and it’s rigged to blow. Ask for a good time, I give you Fruit Tones - the hit that won't quit.

Eel Men 4 piece from London who feature members of bands such as Ten-O-Sevens, Dead Meat, Thee Spivs, Dying Shames, Atomic Suplex, and Slugga. Formed in 2021, faced with the explosion of the world, they have made use of the adversity. Reflecting the instability of the present and the microcosm of North London, prioritising angular guitars, straight rhythms and fanatical storytelling.

Eel Men 4 piece from London who feature members of bands such as Ten-O-Sevens, Dead Meat, Thee Spivs, Dying Shames, Atomic Suplex, and Slugga. Formed in 2021, faced with the explosion of the world, they have made use of the adversity. Reflecting the instability of the present and the microcosm of North London, prioritising angular guitars, straight rhythms and fanatical storytelling.