Vundabar + Yot Club

Suddenly everything blew apart. Vundabar were just about to get back out on the road in the spring of 2023, and frontman Brandon Hagen underwent a series of seismic life events all at once. He exited a long-term relationship that also meant he lost his temporary home in London. A few weeks later, his father suddenly died. The band embarked on a European tour, forging ahead in the wake of personal crises. Then, as if the universe was playing a cruel joke on Hagen, he broke his arm in France. “They say grief is like losing an arm no one can see unless you break your arm at the same time, of course,” Hagen quips with his trademark humor.

Raised outside Jackson, MS, in what he calls a “white-flight neighborhood,” Kaiser grew up inside the very kind of bubble Simpleton scrutinizes, a place where physical separation mirrored both informational and emotional distance from the world beyond it. In 2019, he started Yot Club in his college dorm room, crafting a lo-fi, classically cool indie rock sound grounded under a dreamlike haze. Two years later, his breakthrough single “YKWIM?” quickly reached viral status on TikTok (today, it’s been streamed more than 1 billion times) and has since taken him around the world as a festival mainstay at spots like Treefort, Kilby Block Party and Pitchfork Paris.

Presented by PCL Presents.

This is an 14+ event, under 18s with a responsible adult