Bathing Suits

Bathing Suits is an electronic act from Leeds that combines live instrumentation with the approach of club music, performing at Hare & Hounds in Birmingham.

Bathing Suits grew out of the DIY party scene in Leeds, where the band first rehearsed in the basements that also hosted their homemade club nights. Their debut EP, KILL BATHING SUITS, released through Underplay Recordings, contains five tracks recorded and produced by Benny Howell, a Leeds and Berlin-based DJ and producer who also goes by DJ Subaru. The EP ranges from the seven-minute noise-trance piece Empathy and the feedback-heavy I Can Be A Freak to the driving four-to-the-floor track Swan Princess.

Vocalist Freyja Blevins also operates a live drum machine, and the band treat their instruments with the physical intensity found in club music. Blevins has been photographed by Hedi Slimane as part of his ongoing portrait work. Bathing Suits have received support from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 Music, KEXP, NME and Rolling Stone UK.

Hare & Hounds is a venue at 106 High Street in Birmingham whose programme centres mainly on concerts of pop, rock and indie music.