Overpass
Thu, 5 Nov 2026 · 19:00 · Electric Bristol, Bristol
Live Nation Presents Overpass In their short history, Birmingham’s overpass have inspired an ever-growing fanbase with songs pulsating with youthful exuberance and the vulnerabilities of young adulthood. Their shows have been just as life-affirming, providing a dopamine burst of wall-to-wall singalongs and an all-in-this-together communion. As they approach the release of their debut album, ‘Elsewhere, Always’, overpass are primed to take that personal connection to much bigger audiences. For a record made with such confidence and conviction, the dichotomy of ‘Elsewhere, Always’ is that it is born from uncertainty. It’s a maelstrom of twenty-something existential confusion, an approach neatly encapsulated by its lead single, ‘Union Station’ - arguably their first song to truly have the arena-filling, airplay-hit potential. ‘Union Station’ was inspired by hearing a conversation about our dog-eat-dog world. “The idea of life being one big competition freaked me out a bit. I never wanted to fight for jobs or houses or compare myself to everyone else,” begins vocalist/guitarist Max Newbold. He compares its Springsteen-ish imagery of a fictional train station and its endless destinations and possibilities to “the place you run to when you’ve mentally checked out, even if you’re doing it with a half smile and a bit of self-awareness. It ties into the album’s message: growing up clueless, making mistakes, and realising that not having it all figured out is fine.” That restless, vagabond anxiety simmers throughout the record. Hitting the sweet spot between the band’s anthemic core and driving rhythms which echo The War On Drugs or Tom Petty, the melancholic ‘Is This Real?’ faces the lightning bolt realisation of “being worn out by life’s pressures as they all become a bit too real.” And such stresses inevitably lead to the insomnia described in ‘Sandman’, with Max’s sleep-deprived lyricism complemented by its woozy, off-kilter contrast between its Slowdive-tinged shoegaz…