It Hugs Back Concert History

A noise pop quartet from Kent, England. Formed in January 2006 by guitarist and singer Matthew Simms and bass player Paul Michael, soon joined by electric organ player Jack Theedom and more recently by drummer Will Blackaby, after a succession of other drummers (Dimitri Sudell, Lorraine Baker, Billy Cunningham).

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It Hugs Back Tours & Concerts

Date Concert Venue Location
Sep 30, 2011
Emmy the Great / Grace Petrie / It Hugs Back The Soundhouse Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Sep 18, 2011
Emmy the Great / It Hugs Back
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The Glee Club Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Sep 17, 2011
Emmy the Great / It Hugs Back Cecil Sharp House London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 28, 2009
Maps / It Hugs Back / Cajita Start The Bus Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Sep 11, 2009 –
Sep 13, 2009
Bestival 2009
MGMT / Major Lazer / Passion Pit / Florence and the Machine / Diplo / Lily Allen / Fleet Foxes / Massive Attack / La Roux / Mika / Marina / Metronomy / Plan B / Elbow / Chase & Status / Paloma Faith / Friendly Fires / Bat For Lashes / Underworld / Doves / Rusko / Klaxons / Kraftwerk / Dirty Projectors / The Horrors / Frightened Rabbit / The Growlers / The Bloody Beetroots / Little Boots / Ghost / The Big Pink / Skream / Soulwax / Tinchy Stryder / Hudson Mohawke / Just Jack / Jack Peñate / Seasick Steve / Efterklang / Squarepusher / Delphic / Michael Nyman / Vetiver / The Low Anthem / Benga / Carl Cox / Fake Blood / Crazy P / Fujiya & Miyagi / Caspa / Freemasons / V.V. Brown / 65daysofstatic / Hockey / The Field / The Future Sound Of London / Lindstrøm / Grum / Laura Izibor / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / London Elektricity / James Yuill / The Qemists / Scuba / Buraka Som Sistema / Riva Starr / DJ Food / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis / Layo & Bushwacka! / Frankmusik / Dub Pistols / Toddla T / Maps / Chew Lips / 2manydjs (DJ Set) / The Boy Least Likely To / Erol Alkan / Krafty Kuts / The Acorn / Martyn / Casiokids / Dent May / Beardyman / The Subs / Lemonade / Gilles Peterson / The Pretty Things / Natty / Goldie Lookin Chain / Wave Machines / Tommy Sparks / DJ Yoda / Alix Perez / Coki / Tom Middleton / PVT / The Ragga Twins / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Plastician / Polly Scattergood / Damian Lazarus / Speech Debelle / Reso / Chris Coco / Micachu & The Shapes / Rox / Takura / Peggy Sue / Cosmo / Stardeath and White Dwarfs / Foamo / Golden Silvers / Jaguar Skills / ALTERN 8 / A.Skillz / Man Like Me / Boy 8-Bit / Fight Like Apes / Mr. Hudson & The Library / Kinny / Alessi's Ark / Esser / Eat Static / Ohbijou / Filthy Dukes / L-VIS 1990 / Annie Mac / Cagedbaby / Raffertie / Ebony Bones! / Pole / The Mummers / Zane Lowe / Greg Wilson / Drums of Death / Optimo / Blue Roses / Jaymo & Andy George / Hat / Derrick Carter / The Hot Rats / The Cuban Brothers / Kry Wolf / Björn Again / A1 Bassline / Benji B / Loose Cannons / Appleblim / Lizzy Parks / Luke Pritchard / Heartbreak / DJ Friction / Tim Sweeney / Sound of Rum / Hijack / Skint & Demoralised / Justin Robertson / Baddies / It Hugs Back / The Time and Space Machine / Oris Jay / Kasra / Trojan Sound System / 2020 Soundsystem / Lucky Elephant / Lee Mortimer / The Shutes / Kid Carpet / Lark / Orkestra Del Sol / Napoleon IIIrd / XO Man / Sunny Day Sets Fire / King Roc / Rob da Bank / Joe Gideon & The Shark / Sportsday Megaphone / They Came From The Stars I Saw Them / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Tayo / Pete Gooding / Blindfold / GoldieLocks / The Wild Geese / Annie Nightingale / Black Acid / Fabio And Grooverider / The Argonauts / George Pringle / The Workhouse / DJ Derek / Krysko / Monsters At Work / Eddy Temple Morris / Jazzie B / Dawn Chorus / Flying White Dots / Bastila / Skibunny / Outmode / YILA / Rachel Barton / MC Rage / MC Wrec / The Duloks / Robert Luis / Beat Boutique / Fear of Theydon / Fresh Legs / Free Peace / Gaz's Rockin' Blues / Goodbye Stereo / Huw Stephens / The Shanklin Freak Show / Cordelier Club / Firas / Ross Allen / Correspondence / Michael Cook / Bobby Friction / bloco electro / i!AMYOU / Sombrero Sound System / Crimes Against Pop / Gimpo / Johnno / Dublime / Gramaphone / Ergo Phizmiz and the Midnight Florists / The Shellac Collective / dj charge / The Big Hairy Band / Fake Bush / A Child Rasputin / DJ Aggro / The Adventurists / Daisy Heartbreaker / The Beat Show all bands
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Robin Hill Country Park Isle Of Wight, England, United Kingdom
Aug 28, 2009
Hot Club de Paris / Titus Andronicus / Turbowolf / It Hugs Back / Crystal Fighters / The Invisible / Post War Years / Bear Hands / Tronik Youth / The Crookes / Fiction / Mazes / Super Tennis / Publicist / Holy State / Three Trapped Tigers / My Tig...
Hot Club de Paris / Titus Andronicus / Turbowolf / It Hugs Back / Crystal Fighters / The Invisible / Post War Years / Bear Hands / Tronik Youth / The Crookes / Fiction / Mazes / Super Tennis / Publicist / Holy State / Three Trapped Tigers / My Tiger My Timing / Tomb Crew / Friendship / Youves / Skull Juice / Thee Vicars / A Grave With No Name / Loverman / Deep Sht / Vitamin Club Show all bands
Vibe Bar London, England, United Kingdom
Jul 09, 2009 –
Jul 11, 2009
Bilbao BBK Live 2009
Depeche Mode / Dave Matthews Band / Kaiser Chiefs / Placebo / The Ting Tings / Editors / Jane's Addiction / Basement Jaxx / Echo & the Bunnymen / Primal Scream / The Gaslight Anthem / Chris Cornell / Babyshambles / Fischerspooner / Supergrass / Vetusta Morla / Asian Dub Foundation / The Phenomenal Handclap Band / El Columpio Asesino / Motor / Cycle / Expatriate / Lain / Baddies / It Hugs Back / Ama Say / Jueves Show all bands
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Kobetamendi Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
Jun 30, 2009
Bon Iver / Alela Diane / It Hugs Back / Beth Jeans Houghton / Villagers
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Hyde Park London, England, United Kingdom
May 14, 2009 –
May 16, 2009
The Great Escape 2009
Mumford & Sons / The xx / Cage The Elephant / The Temper Trap / Kasabian / Marina / Metric / Bombay Bicycle Club / Metronomy / Peter Bjorn and John / Citizen Cope / The Maccabees / Crystal Fighters / Noah & The Whale / Django Django / Wavves / LIGHTS / Fink / Chairlift / Everything Everything / Black Lips / Blind Pilot / Dan Auerbach / The Joy Formidable / Villagers / Enter Shikari / The Charlatans / CSS / Mystery Jets / Ane Brun / William Fitzsimmons / Little Boots / White Denim / Mr Hudson / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / The Big Pink / The Boxer Rebellion / Asaf Avidan & The Mojos / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Just Jack / Connan Mockasin / Heartless Bastards / Gang Of Four / Johnny Flynn / Slow Club / Ben Kweller / fanfarlo / Wolf Gang / Dan Black / Sea Power / Little Comets / School of Seven Bells / Cloud Control / Arkells / Cursive / Girls / Datarock / Beast / The Low Anthem / Idlewild / The Handsome Family / Titus Andronicus / Holy Fuck / Bell X1 / Hockey / Patrick Wolf / V.V. Brown / Racoon / Cocoon / The Veils / Wintersleep / Dan Mangan / Triggerfinger / British India / The Twilight Sad / Moriarty / The Soft Pack / Vivian Girls / The Invisible / Hey Rosetta! / And So I Watch You from Afar / We Have Band / Jesca Hoop / James Yuill / We Are the Ocean / Soap&Skin / Emmy the Great / Sophie Hunger / Thomas Dybdahl / Teenagers / The Hundred In the Hands / The King Blues / The Rumble Strips / I Blame Coco / TTNG / Frankmusik / Lightspeed Champion / Teitur / Maps / De Staat / The Pipettes / Chew Lips / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Neil Halstead / Liam Finn / The Acorn / The Leisure Society / Bashy / Casiokids / Evil Nine / Pulled Apart By Horses / Manel / Future of the Left / Naive New Beaters / Sharks / Futurecop! / Crystal Antlers / Marnie Stern / Juliette Lewis / Black Box Revelation / Times New Viking / Leona Naess / Evan Dando / Dananananaykroyd / Turbowolf / Polly Scattergood / Micachu & The Shapes / Speech Debelle / General Fiasco / S.C.U.M / Rainbow Arabia / Telepathe / Johnny Foreigner / Freeland / Riz MC / Smoke Fairies / Kap Bambino / Three Trapped Tigers / Trailer Trash Tracys / Peggy Sue / Lawrence Arabia / Solid Gold / Gran Ronde / Golden Silvers / Zach Hill / Dan Smith / Let's Wrestle / Hanne Hukkelberg / The Phantom Band / Abe Vigoda / The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble / Brakes / Fight Like Apes / Friendship / Iain Archer / Broken Records / Kissy Sell Out / Hjaltalín / The Apples / Sky Larkin / I LIKE TRAINS / Lay Low / Esser / Yves Klein Blue / Karkwa / Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu / DM Stith / Mirrors / Amazing Baby / Engine-EarZ Experiment / The Mae Shi / Woodpigeon / The John Steel Singers / Ohbijou / The Gay Blades / Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / Phantom / We Are Wolves / Pure Reason Revolution / Filthy Dukes / 80Kidz / The Answering Machine / Grasscut / The Bewitched Hands / Theodore (UK) / The New Wine / The Shining / Miranda Lee Richards / Colourmusic / The Ghost of a Thousand / Alan Pownall / Shapes / Anita Blay / zZz / The Miserable Rich / Medusa / Post War Years / Kid British / The Deer Tracks / Flashguns / The Computers / Blue Roses / Duchess Says / Mika Miko / Thomas Tantrum / Aziz / Melissa McClelland / My Latest Novel / Beth Jeans Houghton / Die! Die! Die! / Ocelot / Banjo Or Freakout / I Was A King / My Tiger My Timing / Trip / Fan Death / Mutiny On the Bounty / Luke Doucet / Dark Horses / Found / Spires / Bearsuit / The Rogues / Hatcham Social / My Sad Captains / Exlovers / The Week That Was / Grammatics / I Heart Hiroshima / Heartbreak / Advaita / Fever Fever / Skint & Demoralised / Blakfish / Race Horses / Sweethead / The Boy Who Trapped the Sun / Harrys Gym / Your Twenties / LoveLikeFire / Mongrel / Phantom Limb / The Voluntary Butler Scheme / Baddies / The Chapman Family / Mechanical Bride / It Hugs Back / DE DE MOUSE / A Grave With No Name / Sad Day for Puppets / Mpho / Mike Bones / Official Secrets Act / Hot Leg / Yes Giantess / Tonight Is Goodbye / Gable / Thomas Truax / Dag för Dag / Crave / Betty and The Werewolves / Slaves to Gravity / The Brute Chorus / SJ Esau / Bang Bang Eche / Invasion / Ipso Facto / Magic Magic / Kurran and the Wolfnotes / Brian Borcherdt / Joe Gideon & The Shark / Swarathma / Soft Toy Emergency / Rebekah Higgs / Hexes / Calories / Males / Elle Bandita / Indigo Children / The Alexandria Quartet / Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy / Cuchillo / Throats / Gentle Friendly / Roses Kings Castles / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Ulterior / Gloria Cycles / Absent Elk / Mothlite / Catherine A.D. / Perfect People / Kaputt / Rosie & The Goldbug / Fanzine / Kasms / The River Phoenix / Adam Heldring / Screaming Tea Party / Koko Von Napoo / Gold Teeth / Swanton Bombs / The Locarnos / Tucker / Video Nasties / This City / Hospital Bombers / Planet Earth / Jaakko & Jay / Our Fold / Christopher Rees / The Mark Inside / Me My Head / Hoodlums / Citadels / Telegraphs / The Last Republic / Electric City / Betty Steeles / Panama Kings / To the Bones / Dirty Stop Out / Birdengine / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Riddim Saunter / Threatmantics / Come On Gang! / Lyrebirds / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / TV Off / Tom Allalone & The 78s / Mean Poppa Lean / Giantess / Superfuzz / Ruby Jean & the Thoughtful Bees / Emily Baker / Kids Love Lies / 4 or 5 Magicians / Lightsgoblue. / The Moi non Plus / The She Creatures / Barringtone / Artefacts for Space Travel / London Blackmarket / Youves / Dimbleby & Capper / Nathan FLutebox Lee / The Balky Mule / Charlie Ash / Televised Crimewave / You Animals / The Shiny Brights / Ultimate Power Duo / Juliette and the New Romantiques / The Great Shakes / Lion Club / valerie francis / Kate Rogers Band / Rory McVicar / Joe Rose / Arthur Delaney / Pocket Lips / Hot Silk Pockets / Natccu / PUNCH & THE APOSTLES / Luke Doucet & Melissa Mcclelland / The Rouges / Cubrik / ANGEL PIER / Battletorn / Last Mango in Paris / Lonely Ghosts / Bonne Aparte / Snish / Girl In A Thunderbolt / Ezra Bang & Hot Machine / tin can telephone / Rodney Fisher / Charlie Calleja / Rgbs / i!AMYOU / Little Lost David / Meme Love / Nullifier / Baby Venom / Astro Firs / DJ Pdex / Geometri / Hunting the Minotaur / Butcherd Beats / The Electric Flowers / This Tawdry Affair / Cassie & The Cassettes / The Train Chronicles / ROCK i.D. / Northernxposure / Riot Lights Show all bands
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The Great Escape 2009 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 14, 2009
May 11, 2009
BRAHMS / Holy Fuck / It Hugs Back Oran Mor Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
May 04, 2009
Holy Fuck / It Hugs Back Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
May 02, 2009
Butthole Surfers / It Hugs Back La Laiterie Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
May 01, 2009
Holy Fuck / It Hugs Back Mariaberg Rorschach, Switzerland
Apr 24, 2009
Holy Fuck / It Hugs Back / Radioclit ABClub, Ancienne Belgique Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium
Mar 12, 2009
Threatmantics / It Hugs Back / The Temper Trap The Lexington London, England, United Kingdom
Feb 21, 2009
The Joy Formidable / It Hugs Back / Betty and The Werewolves / The Pony Collaboration / The Puncture Repair Kit Portland Arms Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Feb 10, 2009
Wintersleep / It Hugs Back Bar Academy Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Jan 21, 2009
It Hugs Back / Theoretical Girl / The Joy Formidable The Wilmington Arms London, England, United Kingdom
Dec 03, 2008
Josh Rouse / It Hugs Back Union Chapel London, England, United Kingdom
Nov 13, 2008
The Boy Least Likely To / Clinic / High Contrast / Pete and The Pirates / Stephen Fretwell / Legowelt / Young Marble Giants / Johnny Foreigner / Goldie Lookin Chain / Dananananaykroyd / James Yuill / Skinnyman / The Joy Formidable / Thomas Tantrum...
The Boy Least Likely To / Clinic / High Contrast / Pete and The Pirates / Stephen Fretwell / Legowelt / Young Marble Giants / Johnny Foreigner / Goldie Lookin Chain / Dananananaykroyd / James Yuill / Skinnyman / The Joy Formidable / Thomas Tantrum / Euros Childs / Micachu / Future of the Left / Indian Jewelry / Eugene McGuinness / Rolo Tomassi / The School / Chipmunk / Broken Records / Golden Silvers / Agaskodo Teliverek / volcano! / Durrty Goodz / Amazing Baby / The Big Pink / Tubelord / It Hugs Back / Sportsday Megaphone / Jay Jay Pistolet / SJ Esau / Chew Lips / Cats In Paris / Little My / Acid Casuals / Klaus Kinski / Flashguns / Das Wanderlust / Pete Greenwood / Casiokids / Pulled Apart By Horses / Dan Marshall / Little Comets / Mac / Richard James / Camera / Aidan Smith / King Cannibal / Threatmantics / Fernhill / Rod Thomas / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Rob da Bank / Vito / Yucatan / The Afternoons / Serafina Steer / Peggy Sue / The Chapman Family / Friends Electric / Pagan Wanderer Lu / Portasound / Thomas Truax / Radio Luxembourg / The Yellow Moon Band / Stray Borders / ORCOP / Lifting Gear Engineer / The Voluntary Butler Scheme / Hemme Fatale / Cate Le Bon / The Lovely Eggs / Josh weller / Mc Mabon / Picture Books In Winter / Skinny Man / Truckers of Husk / The Hidden Persuader / dufraine / Clare Maguire / silence at sea / Ectogram / Sweet Baboo / The Evils / PSI / Genod Droog / T.E.E.D / Muscle Club / cymbient / mr huw / Martin Carr / Gallops / Chrome Kids / Dead Residents / Colorama / Connan Mockasin / Paul Hawkins / Derwyddon Dr. Gonzo / METABEATS / Telegram From The Queen / John Mouse / Zwolf / Gwyneth Glyn / Mr Duke / Y Diwygiad / Skátar / Fredrick Stanley Star / Seindorff / Alex Dingley / The Last Republic / Mc Saizmundo / The Stilletoes / Little Eris / Georgia Ruth Williams / wrightoid / Fred Jones / Nick Lewis / The Blue Wall / LLWYD / The Ash and The Oak / Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences / John Head / Zail / New Tea Party / Jen Jeniro / Right Hand Left Hand / Yr Ods / Sild / Ffred Jones / Frederick Stanley Star / Nia Morgan / Butterflies With Beards / Sophie Mac / Cyrion / Danblagroyd / Eilir Pierce / BeatboxFozzy / attack + defend / James St. James / Random Elbow Pain / Pixel H8 Show all bands
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Bestival 2009
Sep 11 - 13, 2009
 Isle Of Wight, England, United Kingdom
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Sep 11 - 13, 2009
 Isle Of Wight, England, United Kingdom
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Bestival 2008
Sep 5 - 7, 2008
 Isle Of Wight, England, United Kingdom
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Genres:

Rock
Indie
Indie Pop
Shoegaze
Kent Indie

Concerts Per Year:

2011 3 concerts
2009 15 concerts
2008 7 concerts
2007 5 concerts

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