BurySOUND

07/06/2025

This year’s BurySOUND Rising Star Award winners, KRUMPETS, are playing their first headline show tonight! Details in the description.

Here are the stage times for tonight’s hoedown throwdown at The Hunter Club in Bury St Edmunds Rock City:

6.30-7.00 - PINK SERENE
7.15-7.45 - WAKE ATLAS
8.00-8.30 - LOVE MINUS ONE
8.45-9.30 - THE VITAMINS
9.45 - KRUMPETS

Doors open 6pm; bar open until 1am; all ages welcome (under-14s accompanied); £5 on the door or advance at WeGotTickets.com/washingmachineclubnight

Uh, look out!!!

07/06/2025

As anyone lucky enough to witness their BurySOUND shows earlier this year will attest, KRUMPETS are a jaw-droppingly brilliant live band, pinwheeling between whispered, harmony-drenched folk delicacy and monstrously soul-quaking grunge. Also, they sing about dogs, so THERE IS NOTHING NOT TO LOVE. Come and see for yourselves why they were crowned BurySOUND's Rising Star Award winners TONIGHT (7th June) at The Hunter Club in Bury St Edmunds!

Support from THE VITAMINS, LOVE MINUS ONE, WAKE ATLAS and PINK SERENE; 6-11pm; all ages are welcome (under-14s with a parent/carer); £5 on the door or via WeGotTickets.com/washingmachineclubnight

18/04/2025

Here are KRUMPETS being announced as Rising Star Award winners at the BurySOUND 2025 Final last Friday! Wouldn’t it be lovely if they announced a hometown headline show quite soon?🤔 The Apex

17/04/2025

TONIGHT on BBC Music Introducing in Suffolk and Norfolk, the legendary Angelle Joseph is running a massive feature about this year’s BurySOUND Music Competition, featuring an interview with winners H*LLO K*TTY FUN LAND, and big-ups for everyone who played our Grand Final at The Apex last Saturday (Rising Stars KRUMPETS, finalists THE DUTCH HOUSE, DOLL FACE and BI-NEURAL, and headliners JADED TEETH). Listen in from 8pm on BBC Radio Suffolk, BBA Radio Norfolk and BBC Sounds, or search on your Smart speaker!

The Apex The Hunter Club Arts Centre BBC Music Introducing in Suffolk BBC Norfolk BBC Suffolk BBC Sounds

16/04/2025

How to ignite the pit, H*llo K*tty Fun Land-style. Rad video by BurySOUND 2025 Final at The Apex

15/04/2025

Huge huge thanks again again again to Sam Harrison at the Bury Free Press/Suffolk News for this feature on last Saturday’s BurySOUND Final at The Apex (and for all his support of this year’s competition)!

Read the full article over at suffolknews.co.uk

The Apex The Hunter Club Arts Centre Bury Free Press

14/04/2025

Here’s the moment H*llo K*tty Fun Land were announced as BurySOUND 2025 winners at The Apex last Saturday - thanks to for the video!

14/04/2025

BurySOUND 2025 Finalists BI-NEURAL will be back at The Hunter Club on Saturday 17th May, supporting KILLERKORP and reformed BurySOUND metal legends BECKY JAGO! Click on the image for tickets and details.

On Saturday 17th May at The Hunter Club in Bury St Edmunds, we’ll be sweetly and delicately gnawing off your faces as thrash titans KILLERKORP return to finish what Henry VIII started and raze Bury’s historic medieval grid to rubble. By way of assistance, total 00s grindcore legends BECKY JAGO are reforming because it was about bloody time - expect deranged hits galore, both old and new (yes, they ARE playing ‘Baby Barbecue’). If that wasn’t exciting enough, Norwich’s incredible dancefloor destructors OI NAH, BurySOUND-disrupting prog wonders BI-NEURAL and rising metal warriors MANEATER will be opening the show. Does Bury stand a chance? No. Will we die with Smylex grins on our faces? Oh yes.

6-11pm; all ages are welcome (under-14s with a parent/carer); £5 via WeGotTickets.com/washingmachineclubnight

Yeah yeah!!!

Killerkorp The Hunter Club Arts Centre WeGotTickets Oi Nah

13/04/2025

After five amazing heats, the BurySOUND Music Competition 2025 came to a fittingly incredible end at The Apex in Bury St Edmunds last night as heat winners KRUMPETS, BI-NEURAL, THE DUTCH HOUSE, DOLL FACE and H*LLO K*TTY FUN LAND joined headliners JADED TEETH for one of the greatest nights of live music we've ever had the honour of hosting.

Congratulations to BurySOUND 2025 Winners H*LLO KITTY FUN LAND, who will receive the following lovely prizes from our beautiful sponsors:
£500 cash, plus a pair of Ray-Bans for each member, care of Vision Express; 2 days recording at Punch Studios in Ipswich; 2 tracks mastered by Digital Morpheus Mastering; merch pack by BestBadges.co.uk; 20 free items from Bandmade Merch Co; branding, logo and artwork by Leon at Phatsound Creative; a press support package for 1 single by Shy Cat Publicity; 2 days' free van hire from Neon Street Touring; a headline show at The Hunter Club in Bury St Edmunds; and 1 year's free registration with the East Anglian Festival Network.

Our Rising Star Award winners are KRUMPETS, who will receive:
£250 cash, plus a pair of Ray-Bans for each member, care of Vision Express; 1 day recording at North Acre Studio with producer Jake Day; 1 track mastered by Digital Morpheus Mastering; 20 free items from Bandmade Merch Co; and a support slot at a Green Mind show in Cambridge.

The remaining finalists - BI-NEURAL, THE DUTCH HOUSE and DOLL FACE - will receive a recording session at The Bunker at West Suffolk College with producer Andy Guy, free rehearsal time through Neon Street Touring, and a 10% discount on bulk orders with Bandmade Merch Co.

Congratulations also to our Audience Prize winner Beth G, who will receive a £25 voucher from Vinyl Hunter for her ace picture of Agnetha from ABBA!

HUGE thanks to all of the artists who took part in this year's BurySOUND for making it our musically strongest year to date - the East Anglian music scene is a brilliant place right now and we're proud to be a part of it. Thanks to all of our judges - Alec Jarman, Angelle Joseph, Catherine Lindley-Neilson, Dave Hammond, Emma Warren, Frankie Soan, Hayley Clapperton, Jack Cutting, Jason Grubb, Joe Weaver, Millie Honour, Ned Newman, Nick Pooley, Shannon Hope, Simon Cooper and Tony Bell - for giving your time and expertise; to everyone at The Hunter Club and The Apex; to all the businesses and journalists who helped spread the word; to our incredibly generous sponsors; and to everyone who came along to support emerging talent.

If you've been inspired by the artists you've seen this year, get involved - we'll be taking applications for BurySOUND 2026 from September, which gives you plenty of time to form a band/duo/collective or pick up a instrument or microphone just to see what happens.

Big love to all of you - see you next time!

Seymour and Tim
BurySOUND

The Apex

12/04/2025

TONIGHT (Saturday 12th April) in Bury St Edmunds, the GRAND FINAL of the BurySOUND Music Competition 2025 will be hitting the The Apex, as our five incredible heat winners - grunge-folk trio KRUMPETS (Heat 1), prog duo BI-NEURAL (Heat 2), indie-pop quartet THE DUTCH HOUSE (Heat 3), alt-rock four-piece DOLL FACE (Heat 4) and avant-sludge metal three-piece H*LLO K*TTY FUN LAND - take to the stage alongside our special guest headliners (and winners of BurySOUND 2024), alt-folk ensemble JADED TEETH.

Two winners will be announced at the end of the night: the overall BurySOUND winners, and the runner-up Rising Star Award. This year's prizes are as follows:

BURYSOUND OVERALL WINNER
£500 cash, plus a pair of Ray-Bans for each member, care of Vision Express; 2 days recording at Punch Studios in Ipswich; 2 tracks mastered by Digital Morpheus Mastering; merch pack by BestBadges.co.uk; 20 free items from Bandmade Merch Co; branding, logo and artwork by Leon at Phatsound Creative; a press support package for 1 single by Shy Cat Publicity; 2 days' free van hire from Neon Street Touring; a headline show at The Hunter Club in Bury St Edmunds; and 1 year's free registration with the East Anglian Festival Network.

RISING STAR AWARD (runner-up)
£250 cash, plus a pair of Ray-Bans for each member, care of Vision Express; 1 day recording at North Acre Studio with producer Jake Day; 1 track mastered by Digital Morpheus Mastering; 20 free items from Bandmade Merch Co; and a support slot at a Green Mind show in Cambridge.

Additionally, all the remaining finalists will receive a recording session at The Bunker Studio at West Suffolk College with producer Andy Guy, and free rehearsal time through Neon Street Touring. All BurySOUND competitors will receive a 10% discount on bulk orders with Bandmade Merch Co.

There will also be an audience prize - a £25 voucher from our friends at Vinyl Hunter for whoever does the best drawing of their hero!

6-11pm, all ages welcome (under-14s with a parent/carer), £5 on the door or advance from The Apex box office, by calling 01284 758000 or online at www.theapex.co.uk

Let's do this!!!

The Apex

11/04/2025

Big press thanks, part 2: massive thanks once again to Sam Harrison at the Bury Free Press/Suffolk News for this splendid preview of tomorrow’s BurySOUND 2025 Grand Final at The Apex in Bury St Edmunds! Sam has championed BurySOUND all the way through this year’s competition and we are extremely grateful to him for all of his support. To read the whole article - with mentions and photos of KRUMPETS, BI-NEURAL, THE DUTCH HOUSE, DOLL FACE, H*LLO K*TTY FUN LAND and JADED TEETH - search for suffolknews.co.uk and BurySOUND.

The Apex Bury Free Press

11/04/2025

Big press thanks, part 1: Huge thanks to Chloe Western at the East Anglian Daily Times for this lovely preview of tomorrow’s BurySOUND 2025 Grand Final at The Apex in Bury St Edmunds! To read the whole article (which bigs up all of the artists - KRUMPETS, BI-NEURAL, THE DUTCH HOUSE, DOLL FACE, H*LLO K*TTY FUN LAND and JADED TEETH), search for eadt.co.uk and BurySOUND.

Photos by Tony Bell

The Apex East Anglian Daily Times