SUGAR HORSE

Sugar Horse are:
Ashley ‘Ash’ Tubb – guitar, vocals
Jake Healy – guitar, keyboards
Chris Howarth – bass
Martin Savage – drums

Sugar Horse live in concert 2025:
dec18th The Crofters Rights Bristol/UK

discography:

Bristol’s experimental rock provocateurs Sugar Horse are back with their second video single, ‘Would You Like Me To Be The Cat?‘, following last year’s ‘What’s Your ETA? Let’s Have a Tear Up‘.
Released via Fat Dracula Records, the track signals a shift for the quartet, teasing new directions while staying unmistakably Sugar Horse.
“Sometimes you’ve just gotta pretend to be The Cure and there’s no better time than the present,”
the band explains.
“We wanted something new, something grand. We’ve done the whole ‘Endless Space Doom’ thing to death, so this is a new chapter. Lyrically, the song reflects how confusing this silly, terrible world is – how standing by moral truth can make you feel insane, ill, or abhorrent. But we have each other, and that has to be enough.”
Formed in 2015, Sugar Horse emerged from Bristol – a city known for graffiti stencils, gut‑rot cider, and a strange reverence for the moral crusade of trip-hop.
Four restless minds decided music hadn’t been punished enough, and what followed was a relentless output of EPs, albums, and singles that blurred the line between brilliance and mania.
Since 2018, they’ve dropped at least one record a year – a prolific streak reminiscent of Harsh Noise loners or The Fall – but with the added distinction of being genuinely compelling.
Their debut album, ‘The Live Long After‘ (2021, Small Pond Records), arrived like fireworks in a vicarage:
beautiful, deafening, and utterly confounding to anyone clinging to Britpop nostalgia.
Collaborations with Pupil Slicer, Conjurer, IDLES, Mike Vennart, LLNN, Black Peaks, Nuala Honan, and wych elm followed, cementing their reputation as the UK’s most gloriously unpredictable genre‑benders.
Then came 2024’s sprawling, self-aware ‘The Grand Scheme of Things‘ via Pelagic Records – ambitious, pretentious, infuriating, exhilarating.
It made listeners uncomfortable, delighted, and undeniably intrigued.
Now, with two new experimental singles, Sugar Horse continue to frustrate, confound, and challenge.
More weirdness, more left turns, more puzzles aimed squarely at anyone still foolish enough to follow them.
Because Sugar Horse aren’t here to please.
They’re here to exist – loudly, unapologetically, and entirely on their own chaotic terms.