Everytime I see
@coldplay
play live on telly I always wonder if they remember the 3 young skallies who tried selling them mitzies at the roadhouse back room
Back in 99.
@glastonbury
Big one this. Not the size of the venue or the fact it’s only a short bus journey from Ventrelles HQ, it’s the fact that three absolutely mega bands are on the menu for you.
Opening is
@TheMeaseBand
then we fill the sandwich with a big slice of
@HolyCoves
finishing off the butty.
WE NEED YOUR HELP 👽🤚
We need everyone who knows us in here to retweet this post and gain our followship back on our new Twitter X planet !!!
We’ve had some technical difficulties out there in the twitterverse and crashlanded our old page. This is our new ship earthlings….
500 monthly followers, 904 monthly listeners just on Spotify almost three times that of last year .. Apple traffic gone up 50% this year.
Decent merch sales and plenty of new faces at the gigs. Youse lot are the blood of this band. The most important part.
Bless up. X
Right.. just posted a nice little front room acoustic version of a tune called ‘All Your Dreams Fall’ on our YouTube which is available on limited edition CD.
This is your chance to win one in one of these trendy tote bags…
Just share and like and we’ll pick a name…
Almost 800 streams for Happenstance on Spotify alone in the first two weeks, our most successful launch with no PR push this time is mega considering this was just a soft release.
Thanks for the continued support. The cash saved will allow us to get this album polished..
Got a Liverpool date being announced soon and it’s a heavy line up… as good as any mini festival in my opinion. We always strive to give you all value for money and believe me you are getting it with this date.
How did your week start?
This was how mine started. It started by being lucky.
We were delayed getting back to the van, getting there any the intended 3 mins earlier would’ve meant I wouldn’t have been writing this .
Love one another!
It’s RELEASE week!
We’ve got loads of mega content to share with you this week to celebrate the coming of the Acid Flower.
You can now Pre Save ‘Acid Flower’
Right here
It’s that time of year again,
Thanks to everyone who has
Came to a gig
Given us a gig
Recommend us for a gig
Bought Merch
Bought CDs
Shared a Tweet
Shared a video
Liked a tweet
Liked a picture
Shared a picture
Streamed us
Shared a stream….
Ya know!
X
Disappearing for a while.. we leave you the new images as a promise something is going on.
Will update with gigs that are coming up. Got some more north west action round the corner.
Enjoy the bank holiday.
In a bit.
Keep supporting new music and keep having fun.
Can’t wait to get on the road this year.
Grimsby. Blackpool, Liverpool and Manchester all sorted just waiting on a Halifax and a York date which should come through soon.
First off. Our lickul warm up at Hop & Hazlewood Tyldesley at the end of this month. Buzzin’
Mega day yesterday. Thanks to all who got down. The rain was back again in true pennine fashion, but it didn’t deter the party!
Big thanks to our brothers from Japan
@SAHAJiOfficial
for joining us up at a the
@empirerochdale
last night.
Looking forward to catching up I autumn
A rare ‘Not being funny but’ …..
Just received the next final mix of the new single and it’s all you little indie and shoegazey types wet dream.
Big is an understatement, it’s so dangerous it needs to be kept on a fucking island near Costa Rica accessed only by helicopter.
Any one want to hear the first bounce of the album?
Might let a couple people hear it ya know…
Here’s some clips from when the pre pandemic flat earth was still young. Right back at the start.
Saturday. Brighton. No corporate greed or blood on our hands.
It’s time for the independent music scene to thrive and shine.
If are going to Brighton and you want to escape the heat, then support the grass roots while you’re down there. Sat
@KikOutTheJams
r&r circus 4:30pm
Just seen on my publishing that ‘Happenstance’ got a play on a
@RadioX
sometime over the past 6 month.. we were never told about it so we have no idea who played it, but that’s worth a share innit. Nice one ‘whoever’
At
@RadioX
This is our new twitter.. delete the old one.. we’ve been locked out. Please share and grow us again!!!!
We will share a screen shot of this on Facebook and Insta so you know it’s really us.
X
Ooooh. Chufties. We’ve been ‘listened to’ by the techogofers at
@bbcintroducing
Uploader. Wonder if 2m40s of pure f-cking, unadulterated, un-cut, high grade power fleece pop will finally make the grade. Stay tuned….
reckon I’ve spoke to Simon before. The amount of bellends in this game spouting this mantra is un-real.
Shouts to
@afflecks_palace
(the band not the former teenage hang out) for calling this shite out. What do you want a band or a
Dancing Chihuahua?
Absolutely on fucking fire atm us. The absolute best Scallygaze/Fleecepop/counciljangle band by a mile… no others come close. Knocking out sounds like this for a laugh.
‘Caught By The River’
#doves
@dovesmusicblog
cover
Last kitchen sesh drop this week before the big move into the new room Wednesday.
Gonna chuck some up on the YouTube.
Enjoy the sun. Finally!
Friday 3rd November 2023 we are finally rolling out last years Download only single ‘Happenstance’ onto all streaming services. You can still purchase the song from the
@lifeshareuk
bandcamp should you wish to own it in digital form.
Boom boom boom. Let me hear ya say Bury,, BURY!!
Yes. That’s it. glastonBURY. Is having us over at Wildes 5:30pm. It’s going to get hectic in there as we are being touted as the biggest thing to play there since By-Jovi stole the show in 2018. Who’s havin it?
‘Acid Flower’ has been a fun thing to work on, a mad idea that wasn’t even going to make the album found its hook and the rest is our history.
We hope you are buzzing off it as much as we buzzed off making it for you.
Found me Dads old OG Italian 90 shirt ( unwashed, smells like Smokey pubs and Brut) and a shit load of our first ever single ‘She’s Got It Down’
England win and five of you can have a CD for free.
Spain win, and you’ll have to pay for P&p but you can still have one for free!
Quickest we’ve ever broke the 1k barrier. It’s usually takes us a month but we’ve done it in under 2 week organically in a plant pot on the windowsill.
2 weeks and still going strong.
Still a small acorn but it’s taken roots.
It’s all down to you lot really. Cheers.
On behalf of the promotors and other bands involved, we are sad, gutted and regretful to announce that our gig on Friday at The Shipping Forecast has had to be pulled.
The promotors are the fairest and soundest we have ever worked with now and respect their decision fully.
Exciting times ahead. New gaff in town. Somewhere where all these new songs I’m writing can start to make their way to the ears of the world.
The last few months have been mega. Thanks to everyone who has turned out to support us. Next up Brighton. Saturday. Font. 4:30pm
Monday fact. I once witnessed
@GNev2
playing
@BonJovi
on my acoustic guitar in another life when I was a sound assistant at
@mutvuk
Heres a young Phil risking his job by dragging some trophies onto said green room sofa when the guard had gone for wee.
Started to fuck off mucking about with promotion for an hour the other day and wrote two songs that have walked it onto album two.
#oldskool
.
How’s yer weekend your filthy sofa sitters?
Morning.
Cheers for all the reposting engagement and sharing over the last week.
You lot almost doubled our audience on here and it’s reflecting in the streams and plays.
Here’s a picture of some lads in 2018 playing to just their mates…
Thursday 27th June we’re heading to a venue that’s not been used as an original live band venue for some years but is about to be put on the music map again.
Join us with support from SAHAJI (Japan) at the mega Rochdale Empire. FREE ENTRY
📸
@TrustFox
What a beautiful soul you are and always for ever eternally will be
@BobMcDuck
x
Absolutely crestfallen is the only way I can express how I feel.
Eternally grateful for all the support he gave us.
Love to all those close to Bob.
If you were unlucky, feel free to spunk all your chrimbo savings that you were gonna break into on a ticket to see us at
@DeafInstitute
with the mighty
@HolyCoves
and
@TheMeaseBand
instead. Sorted.
2023 was a quiet year on the release front, but its was busy getting about meeting so many new faces. Hones it was a buzz. Next year is all about new music and building our fan base further so we can one day hit the road in our own right. Here’s to 2024. Thanks to you all.
X
Mint to have you all back in our lives. Can’t be more honest than that. Thanks for sharing and caring and being generally mint.
Here’s some kind of recent images of us being alive and well.
@chrismartenson
@kemz_1
Vitamin D may be a proven limiter or prevention.. but that guys not seen a healthy meal in years or he’s not had much sun this winter . Bit late nipping to boots isn’t it. Think he’s best in the hands of the professionals here to be honest... doc!
Our officially radio un-friendly overtly catchy jangly pop under three minute piece of annoyingly ear worm inducing incendiary like sonic Fleece Pop offering is available to stream from the 3rd of November….
It’s yours finally, to share and playlist and groove too. Peace.
Little wins. Not every date came through, was aiming at further afield including Scotland but it’s a start.
Sorry to anyone in other areas we’ve let down, we’ll get to you in the near future, promise. Until then, this will have to do. If you have already grabbed a brief …🙏
Just been sent a grainy digicam video of me and Phidel (Delaplains) when we were in a band called The Long March… this is shortly before I moved away to the states for five years. The Delaplains were the the reason I ended up building the Ventrelles thing up around.
‘Happenstance’ live last night at
@33_oldhamstreet
Manchester last night. Top playing a home leg in gromnof many old faces and many new. Beautiful. Big up
@Shinesband
for the vid. X
NEXT THURSDAY.. we head to Rochdale’s jewel of new live music,
@empirerochdale
to play their Empire New Music FREE MUSIC night along with our pals from Japan
@sahajiofficial
Doors are at 7:00pm and the night runs til late with and after show indie night.
Catch Phil speaking about all things Ventrelles and the possibility of us finding Alien Life, in an interview… and the premier of our new video for
#acidflower
over at
@RGMMAGAZINE
from Thursday.
🛸
Pre Save on the Streamers here 👇
Brighton. Right on.
Cheers to everyone who turned up to support us and to the many people who turned up to check us out and stuck around and got stuck in.
#NewProfilePic
📸
@TrustFox
at his absolute creative genius as always.
Get in touch for a photographer that will make you look as we do hear, how he managed it we’ll never know cos we looked rough as sandpaper that morning.
Spring is upon us…
Get looking sharp.
Ready to take orders to print.
-White chest logo
-Khaki Cover
-Emerald Flower
-Black Flower
-Navy Cover
All available to order to print from our slingin corner
Look the best and help us with the crisps bill while on tour.
Acid Flower Tees AVAILABLE SOON. Keep your eyes on our socials for the release date.
Available order to print.
Think I’m supppse to use the prefix ‘so’ here.. we’re in the middle of putting a little CD thing together for everyone to grip at our next few gigs. We’ve got some good stuff coming up, the album is finished but it’s in that inbetween worlds stage so it’s not going to be anytime
Can’t wait for the rest of the world to hear the screeching sound of the train brakes of Acid Flower tomorrow.
Thanks for all
Your support on this preview day of sorts.
Yer all mega. X
‘…reminiscent of iconic bands like Echo and the Bunnymen, Pale Fountains, Chameleons, Doves, and Ride. Ventrelles skilfully pay homage to these acts while infusing a contemporary edge reminiscent of War on Drugs and DIIV.’
@The_Pentatonic
We’ll have that!
We got referred to as Post Punk last week in a review so here’s a a bunch of serious kids angry with the world to celebrate the fact we didn’t even need to put it in our bio.
📸
@Asupremeshot
Manchester we’re absolutely over the moon to tell you we be joining
@holycoves
on
Saturday 9th November 2024 at
@deafinstitute
Manchester
Tickets will fly so don’t be shy …
All the best from a fresh faced soberish me (0.5%er Erdinger.. tasty if you are working through the festivities) and a tired of the fireworks Greyhound cross.
Take it easy.