BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1536@berlin.askapunk.de SUMMARY:BLUES BUMPS: THE DARTS + support // Berlin Neue Zukunft DTSTAMP:20260828T100903Z DTSTART:20261127T190000Z DTEND:20261128T000000Z DESCRIPTION:East Side Delta presents BLUES BUMPS! The late-night undergroun d gigs celebrate\na special edition with THE DARTS (US).\n\nThe Seattle-ba sed garage-psych-rock band comes to Germany with their brand new\nLP “Hall oween Love Songs”.\n\n> Friday 27.11.2026\n> Neue Zukunft (Alt-Stralau 68\ , 10245 Berlin)\n> doors 20:00\, start 20:30\n> support by ARA LIL YOON an d SUPERCHERI\n> presale via TixforGigs (\nhttps://www.tixforgigs.com/Event /73522?af=c0168mzw8f7n&saf=eka3zog\n[https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/7352 2?af=c0168mzw8f7n&saf=eka3zog] )\n\n\n// BIOs //\n\nTHE DARTS (US)\, now b ased in Seattle\, Washington\, formed in 2016 with the goal\nof making gre at all-grrl garage-rock\, seeing the world\, and having a fab slumber\npar ty every night. The four women threw on vintage black slips\, kicked off t heir\nshoes\, and set out on the adventure.\n\nhttps://thedartsus.bandcamp .com/album/halloween-love-songs\n[https://thedartsus.bandcamp.com/album/ha lloween-love-songs]https://youtu.be/itmm1CMg_yQ\n[https://youtu.be/itmm1CM g_yQ]https://youtu.be/HkaR_wz7nmw\n\n[https://youtu.be/HkaR_wz7nmw]In the first year\, the band put out two\nself-produced EPs and signed with Dirty Water Records (UK)\, which then released\nthe first full-length vinyl\, M e.Ow (2017). Dirty Water then re-released the\nfirst two EPs as a second f ull-length vinyl\, The Darts (2017). The band\nimmediately went on tour wi th The Living End and Billie Joe Armstrong’s The\nLongshot\, and soon foun d themselves on big European stages like Sjockfest\,\nCosmic Trip\, and Ro ots nRoses.\n\nIn 2018\, Jello Biafra signed The Darts to his label\, Alte rnative Tentacles\, and\nreleased their first 7-inch\, Bullet (2018) and t he third full-length record\, I\nLike You But Not Like That (2018). The ba nd toured the US supporting The Damned\,\nperformed on main stages at big festivals like Punk Rock Bowling\, Hipnosis Fest\nand The Bash\, and got p lacements on top tv shows like Peaky Blinders and reviews\nin Rolling Ston e. During the pandemic\, Vox Guitars hosted a Darts’ Instagram\nLive sessi on garnering over fifty thousand viewers. In 2022\, The Darts released\nth e EP Love Tsunami on Adrenalin Fix Music (FR)\, toured it around the US an d\nEurope\, and performed a studio session on legendary KEXP.\n\nIn 2023\, Alternative Tentacles released The Darts’ fourth LP\, Snake Oil\, funded\ nentirely by fans and co-produced by Jello Biafra himself. The band went o n a\n100-day European tour\, with unique European editions of Snake Oil an d many\nsold-out shows\, plus appearances at top festivals Munster Raving Looney Party\n(Spain)\, Relache Fest (France)\, Festival Beat (Italy)\, Lo ungefest (Holland)\, and\nMuehlen Madness (Germany). The first pressings o f Snake Oil sold out in both the\nUS and Europe in less than two months an d second pressings were rushed out on\nboth continents during the tour.\n\ nWhile juggling the Snake Oil tour\, the band recorded their fifth full-le ngth\nrecord\, Boomerang\, with Grammy-winning producer Mark Rains (Hoover iii\, Death\nValley Girls) at Station House Studio in Los Angeles. Once a gain the album was\nreleased by Alternative Tentacles on different US and EU editions in March 2024\nand the release was again followed by over four months of touring in Europe\, UK\,\nand USA. The album catapulted the ban d into feature articles in Rock n Folk\,\nRolling Stone\, and many other m ajor publications\, plus appearances on France 24\ntelevision\, BBC radio\ , a heavily-publicized live show inside\n\nBarlinnie Prison for the prison ers in Edinburgh\, and inclusion on many best of\n2024 lists. During the m assive tour\, the band stopped to record two new singles\nin France\, whic h were then released exclusively on a compilation of\nsold-out-on-vinyl es sential tracks\, Nightmare Queens (2025 Adrenalin Fix Music).\nThe compila tion album continuously sold out and had to be repressed three times\nin n inety days.\n\nIn 2025\, with a new lineup of singer/founder Nicole Lauren ne (lead vocals\,\norgan)\, Lindsay Scarey (bass\, backup vocals)\, Rebecc a Davidson (guitar)\, and\noriginal Darts drummer Rikki Watson (drums\, ba ckup vocals)\, the band toured the\nentire USA alongside Dion Lunadon and SERVICE and again invaded Europe for\nseveral months\, performing on the m ain stage at huge international festivals:\nBinic Folk & Blues Fest\, Bear Stone Fest\, Relache Fest\, Boneyard Weekender\,\nRocketmen Fest\, CornRoc k Fest\, Dollfest\, Gonerfest\, and Tough Enough Fest.\n\nThe band returne d to the studio at Station House in Los Angeles and recorded the\nlatest f ull-length LP\, Halloween Love Songs (2026 Adrenalin Fix Music / Meow\nHis s Music). Nicole wrote the album with the intention of side A being\nspook y-fun Halloween kitsch for trick-or-treating as the sun sets\, and the\nda rker sound of side B rocking the after-midnight bonfire with the leftover\ ncandy. With art by Travis Knight\, the album was released in both the USA and\nEurope on March 3\, 2026. Lead track “Midnight Creep” (written by La urenne and\nScarey) is featured in a video by Frogman director Anthony Cou sins\, and\n“Apocalypse” - with Davidson and Scarey performing it - were f eatured in a\nrecent Gretsch Guitars advertisement. A huge album release t our is planned for\nthe USA\, Europe\, UK\, and Japan\, that will encompas s most of 2026.\n\n\nARA LIL YOON\nMaltese/British Post-Punk band based in Berlin. Mixing fuzzy guitar lines and\nurban wordsmithery\, their debut a lbum “Triboulet” pushes into aggressive\nMediterranean waters\, where high -energy rhythms and English poetry meet in\nsymphonic play. Expect a lot o f sweat\, a lot of dancing\, and a lot of noise.\n\nhttps://aralilyoon.ban dcamp.com\n[https://aralilyoon.bandcamp.com]https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=NYdnIwWOa0Q\n\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYdnIwWOa0Q]SUPERCHERI \nOriginally a solo four-track tape project\, it expanded into a full band with\nvocals\, bass\, synth\, guitar and drums. Their music is wild\, unc ompromising\, raw\nand energetic\, somewhere between punk and funk! The EP “Whau Whau” was released\nby Kitchen Leg Records in February 2026.\n\nhtt ps://kitchenlegrecordsberlin.bandcamp.com/album/supercheri-whau-whau\n[htt ps://kitchenlegrecordsberlin.bandcamp.com/album/supercheri-whau-whau] URL:https://berlin.askapunk.de/event/blues-bumps-the-darts-support-berlin-n eue-zukunft LOCATION:Neue Zukunft - Alt-Stralau 68\, 10245 Berlin STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:punk,post-punk,rock'n'roll,psych,garage,berlin X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

East Side Delta presents BLUES BUMPS! The l ate-night underground gigs celebrate a special edition with THE DA RTS (US).

The Seattle-based garage-psych-rock band comes t o Germany with their brand new LP “Halloween Love Songs”.

> Frid ay 27.11.2026
> Neue Zukunft (Alt-Stralau 68, 10245 Berlin)
> doors 20:00, start 20:30
> support by ARA LIL YOON and SUPERCHERI
> presale via TixforGigs ( https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/73522?af=c0168mzw8f 7n&saf=eka3zog )


// BIOs //

THE DART S (US), now based in Seattle, Washington, formed in 2016 with the goal of making great all-grrl garage-rock, seeing the world, and having a fab slumber party every night. The four women threw on vintage black slip s, kicked off their shoes, and set out on the adventure.

https://thedartsus.bandcamp.com/album/halloween-love-songs
 https://youtu.be /itmm1CMg_yQ
https://youtu.be/HkaR_wz7nmw

In the first year, the band put out two self-produced EPs and signed with Dirty Water Records (U K), which then released the first full-length vinyl, Me.Ow (2017). Dirty W ater then re-released the first two EPs as a second full-length vinyl, The Darts (2017). The band immediately went on tour with The Living End and B illie Joe Armstrong’s The Longshot, and soon found themselves on big Europ ean stages like Sjockfest, Cosmic Trip, and Roots nRoses.

In 2018, Jello Biafra signed The Darts to his label, Alternative Tentacles, and rel eased their first 7-inch, Bullet (2018) and the third full-length record, I Like You But Not Like That (2018). The band toured the US supporting The Damned, performed on main stages at big festivals like Punk Rock Bowling, Hipnosis Fest and The Bash, and got placements on top tv shows like Peaky Blinders and reviews in Rolling Stone. During the pandemic, Vox Guitars h osted a Darts’ Instagram Live session garnering over fifty thousand viewer s. In 2022, The Darts released the EP Love Tsunami on Adrenalin Fix Music (FR), toured it around the US and Europe, and performed a studio session o n legendary KEXP.

In 2023, Alternative Tentacles released The Darts ’ fourth LP, Snake Oil, funded entirely by fans and co-produced by Jello B iafra himself. The band went on a 100-day European tour, with unique Europ ean editions of Snake Oil and many sold-out shows, plus appearances at top festivals Munster Raving Looney Party (Spain), Relache Fest (France), Fes tival Beat (Italy), Loungefest (Holland), and Muehlen Madness (Germany). T he first pressings of Snake Oil sold out in both the US and Europe in less than two months and second pressings were rushed out on both continents d uring the tour.

While juggling the Snake Oil tour, the band recorde d their fifth full-length record, Boomerang, with Grammy-winning producer Mark Rains (Hoover iii, Death Valley Girls) at Station House Studio in Los Angeles. Once again the album was released by Alternative Tentacles on di fferent US and EU editions in March 2024 and the release was again followe d by over four months of touring in Europe, UK, and USA. The album catapul ted the band into feature articles in Rock n Folk, Rolling Stone, and many other major publications, plus appearances on France 24 television, BBC r adio, a heavily-publicized live show inside

Barlinnie Prison for th e prisoners in Edinburgh, and inclusion on many best of 2024 lists. During the massive tour, the band stopped to record two new singles in France, w hich were then released exclusively on a compilation of sold-out-on-vinyl essential tracks, Nightmare Queens (2025 Adrenalin Fix Music). The compila tion album continuously sold out and had to be repressed three times in ni nety days.

In 2025, with a new lineup of singer/founder Nicole Laur enne (lead vocals, organ), Lindsay Scarey (bass, backup vocals), Rebecca D avidson (guitar), and original Darts drummer Rikki Watson (drums, backup v ocals), the band toured the entire USA alongside Dion Lunadon and SERVICE and again invaded Europe for several months, performing on the main stage at huge international festivals: Binic Folk & Blues Fest, BearStone Fe st, Relache Fest, Boneyard Weekender, Rocketmen Fest, CornRock Fest, Dollf est, Gonerfest, and Tough Enough Fest.

The band returned to the stu dio at Station House in Los Angeles and recorded the latest full-length LP , Halloween Love Songs (2026 Adrenalin Fix Music / Meow Hiss Music). Nicol e wrote the album with the intention of side A being spooky-fun Halloween kitsch for trick-or-treating as the sun sets, and the darker sound of side B rocking the after-midnight bonfire with the leftover candy. With art by Travis Knight, the album was released in both the USA and Europe on March 3, 2026. Lead track “Midnight Creep” (written by Laurenne and Scarey) is featured in a video by Frogman director Anthony Cousins, and “Apocalypse” - with Davidson and Scarey performing it - were featured in a recent Grets ch Guitars advertisement. A huge album release tour is planned for the USA , Europe, UK, and Japan, that will encompass most of 2026.


ARA LIL YOON
Maltese/British Post-Punk band based in Berli n. Mixing fuzzy guitar lines and urban wordsmithery, their debut album “Tr iboulet” pushes into aggressive Mediterranean waters, where high-energy rh ythms and English poetry meet in symphonic play. Expect a lot of sweat, a lot of dancing, and a lot of noise.

https://aralilyoon.bandcamp.com
< a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYdnIwWOa0Q" target="_blank">ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYdnIwWOa0Q


SUPER CHERI
Originally a solo four-track tape project, it expanded i nto a full band with vocals, bass, synth, guitar and drums. Their music is wild, uncompromising, raw and energetic, somewhere between punk and funk! The EP “Whau Whau” was released by Kitchen Leg Records in February 2026.< /p>

https://kitchenlegrecordsberlin.bandcamp. com/album/supercheri-whau-whau

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