NEW BLOOM FEST headliners BASEMENT are locked and loaded for five shows ahead of New Bloom Festival kicking off this March.

With a seamless symmetry between 90s emo and grunge, channeled through a contemporary lens, Suffolk five-piece BASEMENT have journeyed through four studio albums, multiple periods of hiatus, headlined Outbreak Fest 2024 upon their return, ticked off an appearance at the iconic When We Were Young Festival and sold out the iconic Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles (3,000 tickets) within minutes of going on-sale; and all of this while also cultivating millions of streams, views and worldwide fans since forming back in 2009.

It didn’t take long for the title of Basement’s debut record, I Wish I Could Stay Here, to seem like something of a misnomer. Just a year after the album’s release, it was already becoming clear that the group had no intention of staying there–whether that just meant their historic port town home of Ipswich in Suffolk, England; or the relative confines of the turn-of-the-century emo sound they’d already deftly mastered.

The promising young band was setting their sights somewhere else as they prepared to make their landmark sophomore album, Colourmeinkindness. The record started to carry Basement to the brink of wider success, only to find the band announcing a hiatus months before it even came out–but a decade later the album’s clear influence, and Basement’s triumphant return, are proof of Colourmeinkindness’ era-defining impact.