The Wytches
The Wytches Biography
The Wytches are: Kristian Bell (vocals, guitar, organ), Daniel Rumsey (bass) and Gianni Honey (drums).
They release their 2nd album (a follow up to Annabel Dream Reader) All Your Happy Life in 2016.
Catch them live and you’ll see a legion of Wytches fans, built gig by gig in the five years since Bell and drummer Gianni Honey relocated from Peterborough to Brighton to study, and roped Dorset-born bassist Daniel Rumsey into their ranks. Throughout 2012-13 they toured with Blood Red Shoes, The Cribs, Drenge, METZ, Japandroids, a time during which The Guardian noted that Bell sounded “possessed, wracked...like Alex Turner having a bad trip.”
Early singles ‘Digsaw’, ‘Beehive Queen’ and ‘Robe For Juda’, and a low-key limited edition cassette ‘Thunder Lizard Revisited’, lead to signing with Heavenly in February 2014. Debut album Annabel Dream Reader followed just six months later. Keen exponents of the DIY punk ethic, The Wytches also published their photograph book Full Time Meltdown.