Here at Absent Kelly, we’re always on the lookout for a potential “Next Big Thing” and we think we’ve found a contender for the title, in the form of Billy Bibby & the Wry Smiles.
Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles is a new musical venture fronted by singer-songwriter and former Catfish and the Bottlemen lead guitarist Billy Bibby. The band have spent their summer, not only releasing their latest single, the ludicrously catchy “Are You Ready?”, but also hitting the festival circuit hard, playing at Kendal Calling, Blackthorn Music Festival and Coastline Festival to name just a few. With a style that shifts from commercial, sing-a-long anthems through to folk and country inspired, Frank Turner-esque tunes, Billy and co are a real treat and hotly tipped!
Billy will be taking to the stage of the freshly refurbished Brixton Jamm. The London nightlife hub has re-specked it’s live room adding not only extra space, but also the first ever Martin Audio MLA Compact sound system in a UK venue, not to mention a shiny new lighting rig too!
With big things indisputably on the horizon for Billy and his band and plenty of influential eyes on him, this bill is set to be chock full of emerging talent that is sure to turn heads.
Here at Absent Kelly, we’re always on the lookout for a potential “Next Big Thing” and we think we’ve found a contender for the title, in the form of Billy Bibby & the Wry Smiles.
Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles is a new musical venture fronted by singer-songwriter and former Catfish and the Bottlemen lead guitarist Billy Bibby. The band have spent their summer, not only releasing their latest single, the ludicrously catchy “Are You Ready?”, but also hitting the festival circuit hard, playing at Kendal Calling, Blackthorn Music Festival and Coastline Festival to name just a few. With a style that shifts from commercial, sin...
