Garage-rock four-piece Finding Aurora is set to play at Le Pub on 3 December
Credit: Mitchell Williams @mitchellsvisuals
After a couple of years where live music ground to a halt, South Wales quartet Finding Aurora are back with a bang – and a homecoming show in Newport to boot.
The garage rockers are set to play an intimate show at 100 capacity venue Le Pub on 3 December to round off the year, a day after playing Manchester venue Aatma. It’s a venue the four-piece are more than familiar with – the South Wales Argus reported earlier this year that they previously sold it out when launching their 2019 single ‘Overdrive’.
It’s a blessing to be doing this again!
Samuel Wagenaar Jenkins, Finding Aurora frontman
Credit: Mitchell Williams @mitchellsvisuals
Talking about the Newport show, frontman Samuel Wagenaar Jenkins described the feeling of getting ready to play in front of local fans again as “strange”, and “like a distant memory in some ways, but also like we had played a gig the night before”.
He continued by calling the feeling of doing a hometown gig “electrifying”, likening it to the feeling of returning back home after a long trip away, and announcing that “It’s a blessing to be doing this again!”
The Newport band, which began as a bedroom project in the city in 2017, has grown since with support slots for the likes of VANT and plenty of the band’s own shows too. The members have stayed active during the pandemic, expanding to a four-piece in 2020 and taking time out to adjust to the new dynamic before coming back with two new tracks this year: The Last Call and Kickaround.
With influences including Queens of the Stone Age and Foo Fighters, the band is described on Spotify as taking “heavy influence” from later 1990s grunge and “melding with the resonance” of punk and classic rock from the 1970s and 1980s.
Tickets for the show are on sale via Dice and cost £7.50 each, with doors at 7pm.
Who is Finding Aurora? Samuel Wagenaar Jenkins - frontman Nick Williams - drums Luc Simmonds - bass Sean Spiteri - guitar
Finding Aurora's unskippable tracks: Kickaround - 2021 The Last Call - 2021 Blood On You - 2019 Overdrive - 2019 Free - 2018 Time After Time - 2018 Haley - 2018 Nick’s Gone Fishing - 2018 Hell - 2018
You can listen to Finding Aurora’s latest single here: