Batbait • Cold Beaches

You should come if you like… Wet Leg, Sleater-Kinney & The Breeders

BATBAIT (10:00 PM) (Indie rock - Zurich, CHE) Who are Batbait and how do they manage to create such intense and strangely beautiful music? ) A sound that goes far beyond distorted guitars and driving rhythms.

Here, the sound unfolds not to skim the surface, but to reveal deeper layers. Glitter in the noise. Against the blissful gaze. When the patriarchy falters, it resonates like Batbait. Accessibility is renegotiated when they tear through their tracks.

Here, DIY is not a style, but a lived reality. The four musicians relentlessly develop their own musical language, freed from conventional boundaries: distortion, waves of reverb, and jerky rhythms intertwine to create a complex and multifaceted experience.

Music, lyrics, visual arts, and aesthetics merge in their overall creation, centred on self-determination and autonomy. Batbait shows that rock music not only needs a lot of space, but can be loud and raging while also being thoughtful, joyful, and sensitive.

By combining sound with meaning, they create a journey that escapes the limits of any rock subgenre and carves its own path – radical and independent.

Between strength, nonchalance, and discretion: after their first album “Dirty Clothes” (Irascible Records, 2022), “Working in the Garden” was released in October 2025 on Irascible Records. And yet, Batbait still manages to cook pasta, even in cold water.

v=1Wov5tlt4Hg COLD BEACHES (9:00 PM) (Indie pop - Stay Hungry Records - Paris, FR) Cold Beaches has crossed the Atlantic and offers their latest album Ambient Joy, which balances vitality and melancholy to propose a unique indie-pop universe. Led by the charismatic