Haggard Cat + support

A London headline show by Nottingham band Haggard Cat, with support from Longheads, Heavy Psych and Black Shape, at Nambucca on Holloway Road.

Haggard Cat is an English band from Nottingham, active since 2015 and built around Matt Reynolds and Tom Marsh. Their songs pair heavy riffs, pressing vocals and harsh noise with a steadily widening set of influences, placing the group somewhere between post-hardcore, alternative and noise rock. Their most recent album is The Pain That Orbits Life.

The support acts bring contrasting sounds to the bill. Longheads play psych rock, while Heavy Psych, from London, combine repetitive motorik pulses and hypnotic psychedelia with weighty guitar work, drawing on post-punk, grunge, stoner doom and 1970s proto-metal. Black Shape, a London power trio, have been likened to Sleaford Mods moving towards sludge, grunge-metal and doompunk.

The concert takes place at Nambucca, a London venue whose programme centres on pop, rock and indie concerts. The bill suits listeners who follow post-hardcore, noise rock and heavy psychedelic music, and this is Haggard Cat's London headline date on this run of shows.