{"id":219025,"date":"2025-06-27T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:19:12","slug":"live-review-have-a-nice-life-and-deathcrash-marble-factory-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219025\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Review: Have a Nice Life and Deathcrash | Marble Factory, Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 27, 2025| Dan Hillier<\/a> |LIVE REVIEW<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gracing a heatwave stricken Bristol for the final ever show at Bristol’s Marble Factory, Have a Nice Life enlivened not just their legacy, but the legacy of venue they where closing. Joined by Deathcrash, where’s what happened on the night. <\/p>\n

Deathcrash <\/p>\n

Opening tonight; Deathcrash<\/strong>. There\u2019s something just so fitting about watching a band of this nature in a room that is practically a warehouse sans any form of veneration in the middle of a British heatwave. Why, it\u2019s almost as if this is a genre intended to expended whilst enduring a level of discomfort, regardless of it being mental, or in tonight\u2019s case, borderline unbearably physical. Not that this a slight on Deathcrash<\/strong> however; they\u2019re utterly fantastic.<\/p>\n

Offering a kind of dreary slowcore that\u2019s interspersed with moments of atmospheric post rock and pressurising doom, the London quartet peddle a kind of despair that\u2019s questionably British. Simply, Deathcrash<\/strong> essentially channel that sense of lethargy and post-frustration exhaustion that comes with from having endure a life within a country that\u2019s become more or less synonymous with misery.<\/p>\n

The exasperated regret of \u2018Third\u2019 and the self punishment that characterises \u2018American Metal\u2019 encapsulates such a motif wonderfully, and quite frankly mostly physically given the sheer humidity in this room. After all, it\u2019s impossible not to feel slow burning resentment towards a life thats stacked against you from the offset when expecting it in a room that doubles as an industrialist public sauna. Deathcrash<\/strong> may not the sound of the summer (don\u2019t expect a Limmy endorsement), but they perfectly compliment the sheer authentic discount felt by all here tonight.<\/p>\n

Have a Nice Life <\/p>\n

As for Have a Nice Life<\/strong>, well, it\u2019s hard to think of a band more suited to send off this venue; and not just for their name alone. For those not fully educated in Bristolian musical history, the Marble Factory \u2013 and the greater Motion complex that hosts it \u2013 has long been an independent hub for the musical counterculture. Nestled amongst dirty concrete buildings of industry and distanced from the commercialised city centre and corporate venues, this warehouse-cum-venue has long been the home of both raves and rages. In fact, whilst musically worlds away from tonight\u2019s respective headliner, it\u2019s impossible to separate the rave scene of the South West from Motion.<\/p>\n

However, the jaws of gentrification remain ever ravenous. The towers and estates of industry that once stood amongst this venue are now either vacant or razed to the ground to make room for pristine glass, or should public rumour have it, student flats. Sadly, Marble Factory now faces the same fate. Despite the public push back, petitions and outcry, this venue has been sentenced to death, its execution imminent. Tonight is the final live event to be ever hosted here, the last show before the ground it sits on becomes nothing more than a host to towers designed with nowt but profit in mind. There\u2019s no better band to soundtracks final breath than Have a Nice Life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

From the offset, such a sentiment is inarguable. Sounding as thick as the now chewable air of this room, as elemental as this heat and trigging a visible response within the capacity crowd that borders upon heatstroke induced delirium, the American band are utterly magnificent. As the creeping unease of \u2018Cropsey\u2019 lurches into \u2018Defenestration Song\u2019 and a particularly vampiric rendition of \u2018Dracula Bells\u2019 \u2013 which proves to the catalyst for an unedited pit filled with youths unafraid of heat exhaustion \u2013 Have a Nice Life<\/strong> are utterly spellbinding to the point of full immersion. Hell, \u2018Hunter\u2019 and \u2018Science Beat\u2019 are almost enough to transport one into the cold, dark, and invitingly chilly world that their sound feels summoned from.<\/p>\n

Such is the full bodied immersion power of this band, something even Dan Barett himself doesn\u2019t seem immune to it has becomes resigned to the floor or dancing along to the palatable indie stylings of \u2018Trespassers W\u2019. But as the set progresses, the main reason behind Have a Nice Life<\/strong> being the perfect entity to close this venue becomes ever apparent; their wide appeal to all corners of counter culture. Gathered here tonight is a plethora of demographics. Greying middle aged dads, mascara-clad goth types, new age shoegaze fans, grotty extreme metal aficionados and even Gen Z younglings \u2013 one insufferably following an obnoxious TikTok trend by waving a 3DS around \u2013 are in this room. Much like the band\u2019s mercurial and extensive sound that spreads genres, and this venue\u2019s history to hosting events to all genres whilst remaining independent, Have a Nice Life<\/strong> prove to be an irresistible pull to anyone with a penchant for the esoteric or music most gloomy.<\/p>\n

Of course though, it\u2019s the final passage of the set what gets the biggest reaction. A run of hits from the band\u2019s legacy defining debut Deathconsciouness, \u2018Deep, Deep\u2019, \u2018Bloodhail\u2019, \u2018A Quick One Before The Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut\u2019 and \u2018Earthmover\u2019 incite more or less mass hysteria amongst the demographics here this evening. It\u2019s a fitting end, both to this set and to this very venue, especially with the aforementioned \u2018Earthmover\u2019 particularly levelling this building before the waiting bulldozers can even get to it first. But as everyone filters from the venue into the refreshing summer night air for the final time, it\u2019s impossible not to reflect on how this show will be remembered for years to come. We may have been waiting years and years for Have a Nice Life<\/strong> to tour the UK, but there\u2019s no doubt that this is a show that will go down into the annuals of Bristol\u2019s musical lore to be remembered forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 27, 2025| Dan Hillier |LIVE REVIEW Gracing a heatwave stricken Bristol for the final ever show at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,86562,393,4884,86563,45453,86564,86565,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-219025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-deathcrash","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-have-a-nice-life","14":"tag-live-review","15":"tag-marble-factory","16":"tag-post-rock","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114756240311919070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}