Getdown Services Tickets

With punchy, eclectic grooves and snapshot lyrics that capture everything from bus fines to Jamie Oliver, Bristol's Getdown Services are just the tonic needed in 2025.

“These two just made the world a happy and funny place again,” reads a comment on YouTube underneath a live session of Getdown Services’ 2023 single ‘Cream Of The Crop’. The session, to use the word loosely, comes ‘Live From The Bathroom’, where we see Josh Law lament overpriced chips and vacuous, gentrified culture from a bubble bath, while Ben Sadler minds – and, ahem, does – his business eating a meal deal from the toilet. Both the track and the video are excellent starting points for a duo who have, since their 2023 debut album Crisps, become one of the buzziest bands in the UK and toured relentlessly. 

Law and Sadler met at school in Somerset before moving to Bristol and Manchester respectively, remaining as friends and often sending each other music. Borne out of the boredom of lockdown, in the early 2020s the duo’s collaborations became more regular and in 2021 they released ‘Bad Weather’, their first single as Getdown Services. A mid tempo, lo-fi bop with understated vocals, it was followed by ‘M5 Overdrive’, a sleek and groovy track inspired by the road separating their homes. Successive singles continued on a winding path that exhibited Getdown Services’ eclectic sound – though it quickly became clear that a through-line was as a taste for synthy grooves, raspy guitars and monotone vocals and sobering but comically dry lyrics that capture real and concrete snippets of life for the average person in the UK; “post-brexit apocalypse disco” became an early tagline. 

Crisps, the band’s debut album, was released on Bristol-based label Breakfast Records in 2023. Fusing a conversational vocal style nodding to Mike Skinner with LCD Soundsystem-eque disco-punk beats, there are plenty of fun surprises in between, despite an underlying sense of “drudgery, boredom and dissatisfaction,” as they put it in a Rolling Stone interview. But this ennui surely soon dissipated as the band’s popularity began to snowball, with Law and Sadler embarking on a seemingly never ending tour schedule. In 2024 they released the EP Your Medal’s In The Post, which, with its nu disco banger ‘Caesar’ and sludgy, headbanging ‘Dog Dribble’, injected a new raucous energy into their live performances.