Bedford Falls + Toy Hospital

sleepy eyed proudly presents :

Bedford Falls, straight outta South Wales (UK), has been blending the noisier end of 80’s college rock (Hüsker Dü, Dinosaur Jr.) with the more energetic end of 90s indie rock (Superchunk, Jawbox, Swervedriver) and a touch of classic Power Pop (Big Star, Teenage Fanclub) for over 20 years.

With their fourth album, a co-release between Brassneck Records and Engineer Records, the band leans, somewhat, into their noisier tendencies.

However, Pop nuggets can still be found, as evidenced by lead off track “The Hurricane Takes The Wheel”, an upbeat ode to the joys, and challenges, of parenthood.

Born as a lockdown recording project by Kirkcaldy’s Martyn Rollo Rose, He released the album ‘Changed Priorities Ahead’ on Christmas day in 2020 under the moniker Toy Hospital. Since then, Toy Hospital has morphed into a full band rounded out by Ed Ritchie on bass, Paul Grant on guitar and Kyle Watson on drums. The Emo / Alt-Rock band are now based in Edinburgh.

The songs have shifted and developed as the band have expanded into its current format and the singles ‘Body Heat’ and ‘Live at EFR’ were released as full band recordings towards the end of 2023.

Following on from this, as the album ‘Changed Priorities Ahead’ was originally released before a live show was ever played, it never got the release show it deserved. This has now been rectified. In conjunction with John Anaya’s Humpback Recording, the band returned to their hometown to hold a special recorded event in The Humpback HQ, a beautiful old church and formerly a venue known as ‘Kokos’.
On the night, The band performed the entire record live from front to back, with the audience receiving copies of the finished recording afterwards.

The band continue to work on new material and remain keen to play live whenever they can.