The Blue Aeroplanes at The Fleece Bristol on Friday 04 Dec 2026

The Blue Aeroplanes are Bristol’s longest-running band, an art-rock institution acknowledged as an influence on REM, Radiohead and countless 80’s/90’s post- punk/alternative bands.

They have been an indie band, a major label band and were the first UK post- punk band to use folk instrumentation, as well as pioneering a combination of spoken and sung lyrics.

They are also involved in several other projects, such as running the legendary Bristol venue The Fleece, and they have close connections with BIMM Bristol, where vocalist Gerard Langley is lecturer and Head of Songwriting (most prominent ex-student, George Ezra).

Combining poetic vocals and a three-guitar attack that encompasses rock, folk, punk, mainstream and avant-garde influences, the Blue Aeroplanes are a genuinely uncategorisable live experience, After all this time, still nothing like anything else.