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"A Stokes Croft triple-hitter of underground fire: Holy Popes channel post-garage punk into animalistic distortion and visceral noise; Vile Imbeciles gurgle experimental high-guitar hell with rhythmic jank; and Repo Man collapse rock into shards of sax, ping-ponging bass lines and plunking riffs. Relentless FFO: The Fall, The Stooges, The Birthday Party."
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A gig held at Cafe Kino on Friday 14th November. The event starts at 20:00.
- Sunglasses After Dark Presents:
- HOLY POPES + VILE IMBECILES + REPO MAN
- Fri 14th Nov
- Cafe Kino
- Doors: 7:30pm
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- HOLY POPES -
FFO: The Stooges | The Jesus Lizard | Fugazi
https://holypopes.bandcamp.com
Bristol-based post-garage/punk trio. Formed by Dom Knight (ex-Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster) and drummer Luke Bujniewicz in 2020, the band’s acerbic, over-driven first offering is as good a window as any into the gritty, distorted world of HOLY POPES.
Newly signed to Hull-based independent label Man Demolish Records (NEWMEDS), Holy Popes’ visceral debut album reflects a twitching, erratic take on post-garage punk.
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- VILE IMBECILES -
FFO: The Birthday Party | Captain Beefheart | Boredoms
https://vileimbeciles.bandcamp.com
Vile Imbeciles first emerged in Brighton in 2005. Born from the wreckage of The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, their sound is a raw blend of experimental rock, hell, and post. And of course, it's weird. After a long hiatus they have returned with new material driven by the relentless pursuit of musical innovation and riddled with angular rhythms and raw post-rock sounds.
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- REPO MAN -
FFO: The Fall | Swans | The Pop Group
https://repoman1.bandcamp.com
Repo Man have been delivering music that sneers at the obvious since 2011. Four albums in, most recently ‘Me Pop Now’ (2023) plus a collaborative album ‘Midlands Life Crisis’ (2024) as Repo/Tetkov/Lord, (taking the sound OUT into frenzied improvisation) these are coffee crunching exhortations for denizens of floor stomping and finger clicking intensity. Vocalist Bojak is the piss flicking,spittle-inflected bastard father of many heard and (un)herd styles. The Repo mutant takes its form from the historic toil of Oldham, Bradford, Kidderminster, Worcester, gushing through the sluice into Bristol, slammed with an Avonian lump hammer into malformed shape.
Oozing free-jazz sax splatter and fiercely intertwined guitar/bass attack slicked to lubricious rhythmic pelt, the band has built a fierce live reputation performing shows alongside the likes of Lydia Lunch’s Big Sexy Noise, Enablers, Big Brave, USA Nails, DUDS and GNOD amongst others.
Intensity is a given.
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Sunglasses After Dark
Shady Bristol Gigs
@sunglassesafterdarkbristol
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
- HOLY POPES + VILE IMBECILES + REPO MAN
- Fri 14th Nov
- Cafe Kino
- Doors: 7:30pm
-●-●- -●-●- -●-●-
- HOLY POPES -
FFO: The Stooges | The Jesus Lizard | Fugazi
https://holypopes.bandcamp.com
Bristol-based post-garage/punk trio. Formed by Dom Knight (ex-Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster) and drummer Luke Bujniewicz in 2020, the band’s acerbic, over-driven first offering is as good a window as any into the gritty, distorted world of HOLY POPES.
Newly signed to Hull-based independent label Man Demolish Records (NEWMEDS), Holy Popes’ visceral debut album reflects a twitching, erratic take on post-garage punk.
-●-●- -●-●- -●-●-
- VILE IMBECILES -
FFO: The Birthday Party | Captain Beefheart | Boredoms
https://vileimbeciles.bandcamp.com
Vile Imbeciles first emerged in Brighton in 2005. Born from the wreckage of The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, their sound is a raw blend of experimental rock, hell, and post. And of course, it's weird. After a long hiatus they have returned with new material driven by the relentless pursuit of musical innovation and riddled with angular rhythms and raw post-rock sounds.
-●-●- -●-●- -●-●-
- REPO MAN -
FFO: The Fall | Swans | The Pop Group
https://repoman1.bandcamp.com
Repo Man have been delivering music that sneers at the obvious since 2011. Four albums in, most recently ‘Me Pop Now’ (2023) plus a collaborative album ‘Midlands Life Crisis’ (2024) as Repo/Tetkov/Lord, (taking the sound OUT into frenzied improvisation) these are coffee crunching exhortations for denizens of floor stomping and finger clicking intensity. Vocalist Bojak is the piss flicking,spittle-inflected bastard father of many heard and (un)herd styles. The Repo mutant takes its form from the historic toil of Oldham, Bradford, Kidderminster, Worcester, gushing through the sluice into Bristol, slammed with an Avonian lump hammer into malformed shape.
Oozing free-jazz sax splatter and fiercely intertwined guitar/bass attack slicked to lubricious rhythmic pelt, the band has built a fierce live reputation performing shows alongside the likes of Lydia Lunch’s Big Sexy Noise, Enablers, Big Brave, USA Nails, DUDS and GNOD amongst others.
Intensity is a given.
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Sunglasses After Dark
Shady Bristol Gigs
@sunglassesafterdarkbristol
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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