DIY team up with gig promoters Fifth Floor for special Bristol show with Heavy Lungs

Touring season is back and we’ve got another date for your diary! DIY is chuffed to be teaming up with international concert promoters Fifth Floor for a very special show in Bristol next year.

Having first established themselves back in 2013 after hosting a secret warehouse show with The Murlocs in their hometown of Melbourne, Australia, Fifth Floor have since made a name for themselves with their secret show series, which has also taken place in the UK and Berlin, and featured performances from the likes of Fat White Family, Carl Barat & The Jackals and more.

Now, after a five-year hiatus because of the pandemic, they’re returning with a bang, and we’re joining in the fun. Their first returning show - which is being put on in association with Bristol’s own Death or Glory Promotions and Trust Artists - will be in Bristol with furious hometown heroes Heavy Lungs, on 30th January 2026. As with all secret shows, however, there is a catch: you’ll need to nab a ticket before learning the show’s location.

To be in with a chance of being at this in-demand event, head to Skiddle to secure your pre-sale ticket now. And if you need any further proof of why you need to be there, we caught up with the band’s Danny Nedelko below, to catch up on what the band have been up to recently.

DIY team up with gig promoters Fifth Floor for special Bristol show with Heavy Lungs

Hello Danny! You’ve had a busy few months recently; how was your recent tour of the UK and Europe? What were the shows like?
It was exciting as we played some cities and even countries we had never been to before! Very sweaty.

You also played in Bristol as part of Down Stokes festival; how was that as an event?
That show was one of the highlights from the UK run. Seeing your friends in the crowd and making new ones in the city that we love so dearly.

What’s the most exciting thing about the Bristol music scene right now?
The unbelievable amount of fantastic music that’s coming out.

Earlier this year, you released your second album ‘Caviar’. How’re you feeling about it all six months on from its release? Do you think it’s started to take on any new meanings now that you’ve taken it out on the road quite extensively already?
I feel proud of what we have achieved but also starving for more. MORE. I wouldn’t say any new meanings developed for me personally as that is something for the listener to do when they interpret the work through the prism of their own experiences.

How did you feel going into the making of his latest album? Did you have a very set idea in mind of what you wanted to explore on the follow-up to ‘All Gas No Brakes’, or was the process more exploratory than that?
You always feel you want to create your best work yet. As quite often with us most of the album came together at the very last minute haha. We’re getting better though I swear.

It was recorded over ten “long and sweaty” days in Bristol; how do you think that environment and experience helped to shape the sound of the record? How do you think having a time limit on studio time impacted the process?
“Long and sweaty”?! It was actually done in the midst of February’s darkness and frost. I should really fire our copywriter. Recording with Dom Mitchinson at Humm Studios was truly a homecoming. Dom recorded our very first EP and now is truly considered a fifth lung. He is absolutely incredible at what he does and brings out the best in us while at the same time managing four large personalities aha.

The record deals with a variety of different lyrical themes, including the idea of longing for a better life and being burnt out. How was it being open and vulnerable about themes such as this? It certainly feels like quite a universal feeling for people at large right now; have you found people have reacted to these songs in a particular way because of that?
It’s the most revealing I have been yet which felt immensely terrifying. Nobody tells me anything.

You’re going to be playing a very special show in Bristol with Fifth Floor in the new year; why should people head along?
Everybody should come down to that show because, to be frank with you, nobody does it better than us *drops mic, lights a cig*

Get tickets to watch Heavy Lungs live now.

Tags: News, Heavy Lungs