Bdrmm have launched a crowdfunder after a non-payment from a competition has left them prone to being unable to tour later this 12 months.
The Hull shoegaze band have stated that they’re owed £6,500, an impressive sum that’s left them struggling to fund their upcoming autumn tour.
Detailing their state of affairs within the fundraiser’s description – dubbed the “bdrmm obtained effed over” fund – the group stated that they “don’t take this determination frivolously”.
Posting a hyperlink to the crowdfunder on social media this weekend (September 1), they wrote that “resulting from astronomical rises in touring costs and the unlucky latest occasion of us not being paid for a competition, which we poured all our money into to get to, now we have discovered ourselves at a really unlucky and determined state of affairs, within the type of a crowdfunder”.
They went on: “We don’t take this determination frivolously however because of the referent competition circumstances (of withholding to pay us a promised €6.5k – and value us upwards of £3k to journey too) this looks as if the one manner forwards to assist us in overlaying our upcoming tour prices. we’d respect something you can provide to assist us in these upsetting occasions. to be on the receiving finish of basically being stolen from is crushing.
Bdrmm shared that, along with the crowdfunder, they’ve additionally dropped costs on all merchandise on Bandcamp and plan to place funds in direction of ferries, flights, petrol and “basically us having the ability to convey our upcoming EU/UK tour to you all”.
“Thanks all in your fixed assist and we hope to see you in October,” they concluded.
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— bdrmm (@smellybdrmm) September 2, 2023
In a follow-up video, frontman Ryan Smith thanked everybody who has contributed thus far, and stated that “feeling all that love” was “fucking unbelievable”.
As of at present (September 3), the band are at 59 per cent of the fundraiser goal – £3,871 of their £6,500 objective. You’ll be able to contribute to it right here.
Chatting with NME again in June about their second album ‘I Don’t Know’, the band shared their pleasure for this 12 months’s dwell marketing campaign. “I simply can’t wait,” stated Smith. “I’m simply going mad enthusiastic about it. We haven’t actually had an album marketing campaign as a result of the primary one was in lockdown so we don’t know something about it. We’ve put rather a lot into it so I’m excited to simply take pleasure in it and soak it up.”
In a four-star overview of the document, NME stated that the Hull four-piece have been on “red-hot kind, including: “The band’s 2020 debut chimed with mid-pandemic gloom. This brighter set of songs finds a brand new manner ahead.”
