Wine Lips + Bad Nerves

Wine Lips (@winelipsband) have quickly escalated into a full-blown, full-time, full-on international phenomenon. Their debut album took them across North America followed immediately by an intensive and unexpected tour of Hong Kong and China in 2018. During the pandemic the band crafted their groundbreaking third full-length "Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party" (recorded by Simon Larochette at Sugar Shack).

The new record "Super Mega Ultra" is an absolute beast. Recorded again by Simon Larochette at The Sugar Shack in Ontario, the album is jam-packed with supersonic ear-scorching auditor delicacies. SMU is probably Wine Lips' most ambitious undertaking to date, exploring new thematic territory while firmly maintaining their signature psych garage punk rock panache.

The bastard child of a Ramones/Strokes one night stand, Bad Nerves (@badbadnerves) play ferociously fast distorted pop songs. They proactively seek to make the type of in-your-face, opposite-of-sterile rock music that the genre was built on. The Essex five piece speed punk band want to play as much as they can for as long as possible, in the hope of inspiring the next generation, before it's too late. It feels as though they have arrived just in time.

In addition to other-worldly projection-mapped visuals that are both beautiful and brutal, Psensibil (@psensibil) is the permanent VJ for Sweet Country Meat Boys, an annual staple at Expansion as well as the festival's Visual Art Director.

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