BRIGHTON: The Prince Albert

Sunday 29th December, 2019

7:30pm

Event information

BAND OF HOLY JOY
The Band Of Holy Joy 2019 model is a sleek beat outfit that owes as much to indie music in the proper sense of indie as it does to the Brechtian connotations of past Band Of Holy Joy incarnations. They have lineage but
never dwell on it preferring to forge forward. They have a history too but never let it drag them back. For the past few years they have been quietly growing and gestating and now they have emerged fully reborn with renewed purpose of sound and vision.

They are a six piece of drums, bass, guitar, visuals, sixties organ and vocals, I couldn't tell you who they sound like, but they love The Subway Sect, The Jefferson Airplane, Mary J Blige, Gray, Funkadelic and the like, and when they play they possess the stage and make a beautiful racket, tell passionate tales and fill the room with light and wonder, they same to be on a mission of some sort, a mission of intent and possibilities, of old punk sensibilities honoured, and glamour in age portrayed.

https://www.bandofholyjoy.co.uk/

ASBO DEREK

Asbo Derek's sound is classic garage punk rock and they have a lot of (important) message songs but all have great choruses to join in with and many come with a running gag and punchline. There are songs about demanding outmoded hairstyles, going to see shit bands when you’re stoned (the bouncy ‘On The Night That James Were Excellent’) and odious middle-class couples slumming it on a bendy bus around town.

https://asboderek.bandcamp.com/releases

Venue information

BRIGHTON: The Prince Albert

0	48 Trafalgar Street Brighton BN1 4ED
>	www.princealbertbrighton.co.uk/
!	01273 730499
`	Gigs are held in an upstairs room, up two flights of stairs. There is no lift or accessible toilet.