The next MMIS show is guaranteed to improve your life. We're bringing Fortitude Valley to town - the DIY/indiepop supergroup who offer up irresistible tunes packed with hooks and hope. With support from Sheffield's very own infinitely charming Precious Metals plus Manchester/Sheffield upstarts Big Other. Fortitude Valley Fortitude Valley is the brainchild of Laura Kovic. Taking influence from the likes of The Beths, The Go-Go's and Pavement. What results is a ludicrously addictive cocktail of heart-stopping indie-punk power-pop melody and a back catalogue of songs thatll be living in your head, rent free, for evermore. The band has shared a stage with Los Campesinos!, Allo Darlin', Gruff Rhys and The Wave Pictures. Laura previously played in psychedelic pop band Tigercats, and the band also includes members of Martha and Fast Blood. Precious Metals Precious Metals formed in Sheffield in 2018. Their beachcombing post-punk riffs, psychedelic keys and earworming alternative pop harmonies have the band surfing somewhere on the Pacific Ocean between 90s Olympia and Connan Mockasin's tripped-out New Zealand. Their lyrics are inspired by bottled messages found in post-industrial waterways, the social politics of Cold War Germany, Mongolian wildlife or, in the case of Portholes, were written entirely by a pair of schoolgirls from Rotherham. Big Other Big Other are an alternative indie rock band from Manchester who take inspiration from Sonic Youth, the Pixies, Veruca Salt and Fugazi. Their sound has been described by reviewers as "screeching and sprawling ... with compelling and quick-witted lyrics" and "a gripping wall of sound".