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29/03/2024

🚨 THIS WEEK IN GIGS 🚨

Both York’s were in town, Old World and New… Something’s stirring in the Dales and the East River.

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13/03/2024

“I first started painting on envelopes to make writing thank you letters less tedious!”

Artist embellishes her envelopes with watercolour fantasies; an admiral-come-jester, a Moka pot with legs, a bagpipe or perhaps a pig… what’ll be your poison?

“It quickly became a fun and addictive way to celebrate my close friends and family. I like the way that the envelopes pass through multiple hands and letter boxes, sometimes picking up scuffs and extra stamps along the way.”

Rarely do I find myself pinching and zooming in on this app, but when Clover posts a feast of these delights, it’s impossible not to. The colours, the composition, the creativity in design… the Clover! Each one makes you feel something, and isn’t that nice? 🍀

21/02/2024

Some dreamy fotos taken by the equally dreamy .florence at our Valentines show 💭 💘

03/01/2024

What do YOU listen to on the Last Bus home? We’ve collected a heap of delicious answers over the years so have put them all in one place, over on our Spotify. 8.5 hours of pure Bus bliss… don’t miss your stop. X

🔗 Link in the usual place 🔗

21/12/2023

LAST CHRISTMAS I GAVE YOU MY BUS.

Faces of the Bus… and what they listen to on the Last Bus Home!

Taken last night. Thank you to everyone who came down and an extra special thanks to .rodney.jr.and.the.cowboys & , we love you very much. What a way to see off 2023.

Merry Christmas all, see you in the New Year 🎀

02/12/2023

Last Christmas I gave you my Bus.

It’s a Yuletide miracle! Come and BOING with us in the name of festive cheer… Very excited to finally have The Stingrays joining us with Dean Rodney Jr. supporting, along with his cowboys. Time to dance.

This will be the Last Bus of the year, so we hope to see all of your lovely faces there. Godspeed!

Ticket link in shbio 🎫

20/12/23
rodney.jr.and.the.cowboys

04/10/2023

🎧 What do you listen to on the Last Bus home? 🎧

BLONDE - FRANK OCEAN

The lovely floating in the blue of the Big Top tent just before they took to the stage 🎪

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28/09/2023

self-titled 2020 release was hailed as ‘one of the most ambitious albums of the year’… and rightfully so.

Catapulting yourself into the world with an all-encompassing rock-opera-odyssey as your debut album is either utterly daft or genius. Luckily for Natalie Findlay, and Jules Apollinaire it turned out to be the latter.

They’ve just joined Baxter Dury on the European leg of his tour and are in the run-up to the release of their sophomore album, JJUUIICES. We think they’re the coolest so were super excited to catch up with the Anglo-French duo. We asked them the important questions, mainly regarding coffee, White Claw and JJUUIICE. And some other bits too.

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13/09/2023

🎧 What do you listen to on the Last Bus home? 🎧

OPEN EYE SIGNAL - JON HOPKINS

(“V v loud”)

The delectable in a sea of Fir trees just before he took to the Folly stage at 🌲

11/09/2023

🎧 What do you listen to on the Last Bus home? 🎧

MARIJN - THOR KISSING
I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE (BUT I WON’T DO THAT) - MEATLOAF

The super-group of dreams. PERSONAL KINK ( X ) playing games in the forest at 🏆🤹🏻‍♂️🎪

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08/09/2023

🎧 What do you listen to on the Last Bus home?🎧

BLACK NIGHT - FRANK SINATRA JR.

Our firm festival favourites, donning their big red heads post-set at ❤️

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02/08/2023

Got sent these scribbled pages the day after our collab night with with the caption ‘An homage to whoever u’s are’. ⚔️

Wanted to pin it to our digital notice board. For the love of scribbles.

TRANSCRIPT: Scrinscranbamalam- went to the Sebright Arms on Saturday. First time. Hoot.

I wore this little blue silk scarf which, I admit, I wasn’t quite sure entirely worked, but heck somehow, in the Sebright it worked. A pub to make silk scarves drop their anxieties and forget themselves.

Reckon this was aided by the almost instant arrival of a man in a copious turquoise shirt which cuffed and billowed in all the most fashionable ways. It made my scarf look like an Alice band. Caught myself dropping a little bow as he took to the stage.

The set was trancelike, a subliminal message, a spoken word, an open/closed utterance of deadpan truth delivered in a throwaway. Yes hello my eyes said to the keyboard player. Hello those heavy eyes answered. I like it here I thought. Went to get a pint upstairs.

Out, out you sweaty fiend and find yourself on a picnic bench. Shuffle down, budge up, sip your Guiness amongst the photographers, play-writes, singers and publicists. Shake hands, swivel your scarf. How pleasant this is before you descend again into the Manchester shaped cavern of yesteryear but not like the one they refer to in the Parent Trap. The grungy, sweaty, rumpus yesteryear of perfectly poised anarchy. Buzzard x3, Kate’s stomping sole x4. Non stop d***h d***h, yeah yeah yeahs. Like I don’t even know if these guys can sing but there’s nothing like the noise.

Night concludes with an honest little boogie on the pub floor. A couple of boys with scant facial hair knight me ‘cravat girl’ and the soft seriousness of the DJ turns up what I believe was ‘Greece is the word’ to mark my fever dream complete. Could be wrong. Nonetheless was all poetry.

Hugs with strangers, someone introduced as ‘photocopier’ Nick? Already sad to leave. Home then for Kate and her little silk scarf for the Last Bus comes and it’s surely time to retreat.

Please say it’s not a one off. The Seb, bus girls and bus boys. Heck.

30/07/2023

If the title of Viv Albertine’s autobiography ‘CLOTHES, MUSIC, BOYS’(x3) shines a light on the main points of interest to anyone under 25 then the Northern Soul scene of the 1970’s was this mantra’s perfect manifestation. It was built for the young and frisky because it was all about pent-up energy, all about dancing. It wasn’t about posing and looking cool - just the opposite. It was about cutting some beautiful shapes and looking even cooler.

It was a scene about the music, about those undiscovered RnB hand-grenades that made your body twitch and your mind explode. And as the dancing didn’t start until after midnight, it was a no-go for light weights - you had to be young and devoted, a dance-hall devotee.

It was born out of the late 60’s when Mods wanted to dance, but not to the charts, so went looking for high-tempo soul classics that nobody had ever heard of. And they were out there - they just had to be found. Boxes of records poured in from Philly and Chicago to be devouredby this elegant little group of style-makers from the north of England who danced like turbo-charged fiends at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester in their Sta-Prest suits and button-down shirts.

When more space was required they moved to 1000-plus capacity dance halls in Wigan and Blackpool and the famed weekly Northern Soul ‘all-nighter’ was born (Wigan Casino
would end every night with the same 3 era-defining classics - ‘TIME WILL PASS YOU BY’ by Tobi Legend, ‘LONG AFTER TONIGHT IS OVER’ by Jimmy Radcliffe and ‘I’M ON MY WAY’ by Dean Parrish).

And the look was fantastic. It evolved - the boys favoured flared, high-waisted Oxford bags usually paired with a vest and the girls circle skirts with a fitted shirt or tank-top. Both deemed brogues a good choice of footwear. You couldn’t feel constrained-you had to be free-as the dances were acrobatic. They were a sea of balletic movement - hands waving, feet sliding, endless twists, twirls and splits and vast amounts of sweat.The sprung-floors bounced to the
rhythmic pulse of thousands of speed-fuelled Nijinsky’s.

And then the plug was pulled in the late 70’s and it was all over. The light’s came on and the dancing stopped.

26/07/2023

Our Last Bus X night was hot 🥵🔥

Thanks to for making it so damn good. And for the photos ❤️‍🔥

If you missed out on this one, we’re putting on another night tomorrow at with & .music ,,, ticket link in our bio ☆

19/07/2023

If you were sixteen in 1945 you went straight from being a h***y, hormonal kid to dressing and acting like your parents. And then everything changed - in 1954 Elvis released ‘Thats All Right’ and TEENAGERS were invented. Suddenly, they had their own music, spoke their own language and wore their own clothes.

Not counting the biker-look - Brando’s iconic gay image of black leather, white t-shirt and blue jeans - the first identifiable teenage-look was the Rocker-Billy one of Elvis and Gene Vincent. We then move into the 60’s and Hippies, which again was American and really just a progression from the Beatniks. Swap a turtle-neck and a roll-up for a kaftan and a joint and you’re there. Then this factionism moves across the pond and it gets altogether more sartorial.

It’s the late 60’s and ‘Swinging London’ is in full flow. British teens want to look good, NEED to look good and so out of the East-end tailor shops come Mods and Skinheads (alongside their arch enemies, the Rockers). To the soundtrack of The Small Faces and early Rock-Steady and Tamla, they proudly wore their razor-sharp outfits like uniforms and danced the amphetimine-fuelled two-step ’til the early morning sun came up.

We then move into the 70’s with Glam-Rock as well as Soul-Boys and Northern Soul. Roxy Music and Bowie are dominant though until the impossibly stylish S*x Pistols kick down the door and punk arrives. Then come the New Romantics followed by Suedeheads and Casuals, those early sportswear afficionados whose king was Lacoste and whose home was the football terrace.

And then it dies - well, the fashion bit does. House music arrives and style is out, it’s now all about M**A and comfort. So 25 years of teenage tribalism comes to an end but its been beautiful. And underpinning it all is S*X and in particular British boys relationship with their own sexuality. I mean, what other country could’ve produced the fiercely dandified and heterosexual Teddy-Boys of the oracle 50’s?

And of course the difference is in the detail. Mick Jagger’s doppelgänger, the American Steve Tyler of Aerosmith once sang “Dude looks like a Lady”; whereas Jagger...well, just IS a lady.

It’s all in the detail…££

18/07/2023

Doesn’t it look inviting… Thrilled to announce that we will have supporting .music next week at our next 🏹

First release SOLD OUT, so move fast… £9 Second release link in our bio blah blah blah.

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16/07/2023

(2/2) Faces of the Bus… and what they listen to on the Last Bus home.

16/07/2023

(1/2) Faces of the Bus… and what they listen to on the Last Bus Home.

14/07/2023

The most colourful ransom note you ever did see.

We’re putting on another show! In two weeks. Back at our trusty old with the masterly .music 🗺️

Come down & see the frontman play some of his delicious solo stuff. Support TBA.

£7 tickets available through the link in our bio. Not 75p. Soz.

07/07/2023

We’re throwing a party next Saturday at the Sebright with our loves and it’s going to be a special one.

☆ VERY excited to announce that we’ve got the lovely joining downstairs with a special b2b DJ set from the deliciously divine & taking us into the early hours. Come and shake a leg ☆

Still some tickets available on DICE - link in our bio.

Don’t snooze & looze. We warned you.

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21/06/2023

Happy Summer Solstice one & all. To celebrate, we got our friends to curate a playlist for all you sun worshippers.
“A selection of music that touches on the initial inspiration of The Stingrays sound.”
✭ Link in our bio ✭

Get ready to see a lot more Stingray stuff over here very soon. Exciting stuff.

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14/06/2023

For fifty very lucky people, in a very special room… we are overjoyed to be collaborating with .map to present sensation brasileiro on his first London headline show.

Things like this don't grow on trees...

✭ Monday 26th June ✭

Head to our bio for ticket link and to hear our treasure tale… £5 of your ticket covers corkage, it’s a byob situation.

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12/04/2023

Today is our fourth birthday. 🎂

In a nostalgic act of self-indulgence we are revisiting some of our very first interviews we conducted and checking back in, 4 years later, to see how they’re doing. Starting with the first band we ever interviewed, we’ve got .

Over the last four years, the Paris-based duo released' ‘None of This Matters Now’, a meal of an album, played to a sold-out crowd, spent time working on exciting newness in NYC and have toured all over from Germany to Mexico, and places in between. We caught up with & looked at our life together thus far. 💘💘💘💘💘
Link in bio.

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06/04/2023

Photos from Jack Dunne’s project ‘The Highgate Men’s Pond’, taken in the summer of 2022, in which he interviewed a group of regular swimmers and focused on the unbelievable health benefits of cold water plunging, particularly mental health.

“If you don’t end up going to the Ponds, I hope the vulnerability on display by men here is refreshing and relatable. I suggest you read these interviews and see if what is being said resonates with you. I also urge you to go swimming in any of the ponds in Hampstead Heath as I believe action is essential to truly understanding the benefits.”

💧 💧 💧 Go to .and_spaces to read more 💧 💧 💧

04/04/2023

Signing to in 2021, are part of a madly exciting web of Australian artists making waves over here in the UK.

Over the last couple of years their strong indie-pop-rock sound has progressed and become a little bit more synthy, especially with the release of their latest ep, Midnight Driving, a synthy sunshine collection of Casablanca-esque vocals, jangly guitar hooks and instant grooving bass lines.

We caught up with Vinnie to talk about joining on their upcoming UK/IRE tour and to get some sunburn advice. Link in bio.

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20/03/2023

For the past two years Jemima Terry has collected and photographed discarded paper fragments found on London streets in her ongoing series ‘paperyness’.

Fascinated by the tactile appeal of these paper artefacts, which bear inscriptions and accidental traces of handling, kpresents intimate yet fleeting glimpses into the minds and lives of anonymous strangers. Obsessed by the chance quality of these found objects, and the addictive material properties of paper, Jemima draws attention to the visual effects of text, marks, folds and rips, as well as the possibility of meaning in the banal.

There’s few things as beautifully personal as a hand-written note so thank you for bringing such joy to our mindless scrolls... 📝💛

07/03/2023

Following the arrival of her debut EP released last year on , was in London playing a bunch of shows with her band back in January.
It was their first UK tour, so we kidnapped them for an afternoon to talk about everything London has to offer, like scotch eggs and charity shops.

🐙Tap the link in our bio to get the run-down on their time over here 🐙

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12/01/2023

31.01.23 ✨ The first Last Bus Live of the year! Starting as we mean to go on.

Over the moon to announce that our favourite will be joining us at the Troubadour to play an acoustic showcase on 31st January 🚂 From Paris to Earl’s Court…🚂

They’ll be playing bucket-loads of new songs for your lucky ears, so come & celebrate us all making it through January in one piece.

🌟 Support TBA 🌟

🎫 Get your tickets through our bio 🎫

24/12/2022

Some photos of our delicious Christmas show with & shot by the equally delicious 💌

🕊Christmas Eve love to one & all from the bus🕊

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