…and date at the Anvil in Bournemouth
Brighton-born duo WREX make electro-charged alternative rock to turbocharge heartbeats, snap necks and fill both dancefloors and mosh pits. Shades of punk, nu-metal, pop and trance collide and coalesce but never clash; a wild explosion of riffs and synths that pulls from influences as diverse as While She Sleeps, Faithless and Linkin Park. The band are set to play a gig at the Anvil in Bournemouth on 23rd August as part of a six date tour with support coming from Tom Saint.
This is the WREX blueprint: a fierce, all-enveloping wall of sound with little time for music’s outdated boundaries or conventions; creativity, joy and emotion unbound. “WREX is about letting go,” George Donoghue says. “It’s a release from everything that’s going on in the world around you, a purge of everything you’re thinking and feeling.”
The new single “Heaven’s Gate” is out now and the band explain “We draw a lot on our own personal experiences in writing, and ‘Heaven’s Gate’ is something I think that we have all lived through,” Donoghue says. “It’s about the dissolution of a relationship, and the stages that we go through in dealing with and processing that. The song was initially inspired by us watching a very close friend of ours go through a really traumatic break-up, and how helpless they felt through that.” The track sees the post-hardcore guitars of Donoghue’s youth weave through an ethereal ocean of beats that serves to spotlight Seaton’s soaring melodic harmonies.
Tour dates
Aug 16 – London – The Black Heart, Camden
Aug 17 – Brighton – The Green Door Store
Aug 23 – Bournemouth – The Anvil
Aug 24 – Bristol – The Louisiana
Aug 25 – Cardiff – Fuel
Aug 31 – Cambridge – The Portland Arms
Links
https://instagram.com/WeAreWREX
https://www.facebook.com/wearewrex
https://youtube.com/@wearewrex
