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).

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
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
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 04, 2009
Holy Fuck / It Hugs Back Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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 10, 2009
Wintersleep / It Hugs Back Bar Academy Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Dec 03, 2008
Josh Rouse / It Hugs Back Union Chapel London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 22, 2008
It Hugs Back Borderline London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 17, 2008
It Hugs Back The Joiners Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Oct 12, 2008
Los Campesinos! / It Hugs Back / Sparky Deathcap
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Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Sep 05, 2008 –
Sep 07, 2008
Bestival 2008
Cage The Elephant / Florence and the Machine / Fleet Foxes / Foals / Lykke Li / Hot Chip / Santigold / Little Dragon / Metronomy / St. Vincent / Pendulum / Chromeo / Chase & Status / Aphex Twin / The Human League / Laura Marling / Underworld / Noah & The Whale / A-Trak / The Specials / Sub Focus / My Bloody Valentine / Jon Hopkins / The Sugarhill Gang / The Coral / The Breeders / Sam Sparro / CSS / The Presets / Ladyhawke / Gary Numan / Grace Jones / Sébastien Tellier / Black Kids / Roots Manuva / Ghost / YACHT / The Big Pink / The Freestylers / Jamie Lidell / Hercules & Love Affair / Todd Terje / Will Young / Magnetic Man / Soko / Alphabeat / The Black Ghosts / Hadouken! / Stereo MCs / Ida Maria / Lethal Bizzle / Yuksek / Joey Negro / Lee "Scratch" Perry / Coldcut / Midnight Juggernauts / TC / Ulrich Schnauss / Laurent Garnier / Baaba Maal / The Shoes / I Am Kloot / Amy Winehouse / The Wedding Present / Late of the Pier / 808 state / Jamie Jones / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Akron/Family / King Creosote / The Duke Spirit / Roni Size / El Guincho / Stanton Warriors / Buraka Som Sistema / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly / These New Puritans / Teenagers / Carl Craig / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis / FM Belfast / Layo & Bushwacka! / Dub Pistols / Erol Alkan / Pete and The Pirates / George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic / Grand National / Slam / Jeffrey Lewis / Vessels / Barry Adamson / Micachu / Gilles Peterson / Micah P. Hinson / Natty / The Skints / DJ Hype / Red Snapper / Kode9 / Ali B / DJ Yoda / Digital Mystikz / Neon Neon / Count & Sinden / Kelly Osbourne / The Nextmen / Slagsmålsklubben / Eugene McGuinness / The Pinker Tones / Transglobal Underground / Golden Silvers / Let's Wrestle / Kennedy / Loefah / Paul Heaton / Reprazent / Kissy Sell Out / Lucid / Peter Von Poehl / Sophie Barker / Owls / Cazals / Grovesnor / Filthy Dukes / Annie Mac / Zombie Zombie / Cagedbaby / Chas 'n' Dave / Bailey / The Shortwave Set / Tawiah / Subway / Ebony Bones! / Kode9 & The Spaceape / Vicarious Bliss / Zane Lowe / Greg Wilson / Cocknbullkid / Horse Meat Disco / Magistrates / Unforscene / me&you / Thomas Tantrum / Nigel Godrich / Hat / Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong / South Rakkas Crew / Soul of Man / The Cuban Brothers / Fatal / Primary 1 / SK Shlomo / Loose Cannons / Appleblim / Royworld / Maurice Fulton / Imperial Leisure / THePETEBOX / Justin Robertson / Kevin Rowland / The Urban Voodoo Machine / Idjut Boys / Shitmat / SixNationState / It Hugs Back / Chrome Hoof / Lisa Knapp / Hey Negrita / Lucky Elephant / Kid Carpet / Lark / Le Volume Courbe / DJ Touche / Misty's Big Adventure / Babyhead / XX Teens / Josh weller / Rob da Bank / Sportsday Megaphone / Gideon Conn / Melodica, Melody and Me / DJ Scotch Egg / Mary Anne Hobbs / Jon Carter / Worm / Tayo / Rosie & The Goldbug / Annie Nightingale / The Mules / Sinden & Count of Monte Cristal / The Argonauts / The Barker Band / Katy Carr / George Pringle / The Chemists / Flipron / Kid Acne / Maths Class / DJ Derek / Think / Freefall Collective / Sparkle Motion / Officer Kicks / Eddy Temple Morris / Paul Marshall / James Priestley / Mark Moore / Pronghorn / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Last Man Standing / Subgiant / Bastila / YILA / Guillotines / Smokey Angle Shades / I-rok / Dollskabeat / The Pinkertones / Different Strokes / LAXULA / Dave Vega / Peyoti for President / Fear of Theydon / Fresh Legs / Plaster of Paris / Yellow Dog / Burning Leaves / The Fairey Band / Gaz's Rockin' Blues / DJ Chris Tofu / Goodbye Stereo / Rosie Oddie & the Odd Squad / Queens Of Noize / Firas / Boom Monk Ben / Restaurant / Thee Earls / Nick Name / Ross Allen / Jalapeno Sound System / DJ78 / The Pirate Band / Bobby ODonnell / Michael Cook / Dan Williams / Baker Boys / Russ Cuban / Rgbs / Cut A Shine / Digital Mystikz Ft Sgt Pokes / Nick Grimshaw / i!AMYOU / KATKHUDA / Sombrero Sound System / Shep-dog / Crimes Against Pop / widescreen / the last man / Recommended Daily Allowance / Brendan Long / Django Spears / Cooly Haste / Didz Hammond / Cocadisco / Ragged String Band / Barry Peters / The Glamsters / Max Sedgley and The Shoots / Hugo Frusslinky / Matt Sage / The Kurves / Adventures Close To Home / Nately / Deathray Trebuchet / Manouchska / Simon Dobbs / Blank Beats / Prints of Whales / Matt Horne / It's Bigger Than / Frank Tope / Men In Masks / Drew (US) / Gregs Greats / Daisy Heartbreaker / Sam Hare & Soul Junction Show all bands
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Robin Hill Country Park Isle of Wight, England
Nov 25, 2007
Scout Niblett / It Hugs Back / Devastations The Zodiac Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Nov 22, 2007
Scout Niblett / It Hugs Back / Devastations Thekla Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Bestival 2009
Sep 11 - 13, 2009
 Isle of Wight, England
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Bestival 2008
Sep 5 - 7, 2008
 Isle of Wight, England
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Bestival 2009
Sep 11 - 13, 2009
 Isle of Wight, England
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Genres:

Rock
Indie
Indie Pop
Shoegaze
Kent Indie

Concerts Per Year:

2011 3 concerts
2009 8 concerts
2008 5 concerts
2007 2 concerts

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many concerts has It Hugs Back had?

It Hugs Back has had 18 concerts.

What genre is It Hugs Back?

It Hugs Back is most often considered to be Rock, Indie, Indie Pop, Shoegaze, and Kent Indie.

When was the last It Hugs Back concert?

The last It Hugs Back concert was on September 30, 2011 at The Soundhouse in Leicester, England, United Kingdom. The bands that performed were: Emmy the Great / Grace Petrie / It Hugs Back.

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