Australian melodic blues unit Howling Bells will be dominating the stage of The Sugarmill, Friday 27th March 2026.

With Howling Bells’ last performance as a full band in Stoke being almost twenty years ago, we’re ecstatic to welcome the country-folk-rock group back through our doors for a night of  hazy, melancholic mastery.

Heavily inspired by the filmography of David Lynch and French New Wave cinema, the band experiments with dark, apocalyptic lyricism and ethereal arrangement to create transportive soundscapes cemented in brooding mastery. NME described it perfectly as ‘the sound of PJ Harvey hitching a ride with The Velvet Underground through Twin Peaks.’

Their brand new album ‘STRANGE LIFE’ will be out Friday 13th February, 2026. 12 years ago, the band’s record ‘Heartstrings’ released. On the decade between the release, the band say ‘the one constant that remains, is the way in which we create music. The bond we share as humans and musicians, is the same. Our fierce drive and desire to connect musically has never dwindled, only dimmed momentarily.’

General sale live Tuesday 9th December 2025 10AM.