Garageland Brighton - The Varukers, Negative Measures, Ättestor, Existenz

Presented by: Garageland

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0	BRIGHTON: The Pipeline
P	Friday 3rd June, 2022
N	7:00pm

Event information

Garageland London brings the party to the seaside with our eighth instalment of Garageland Brighton at The Pipeline!!

£8 advance £10 otd

The Varukers
https://www.facebook.com/thevarukers

The Varukers are a UK D-beat band formed in 1979 by vocalist Anthony "Rat" Martin, which produced its most influential recordings in the early 1980s. The band are one of the first to play in the musical style of the hardcore punk band Discharge, known as D-beat. Also, like Discharge, The Varukers' lyrics carry an anarchist political ideology.

Negative Measures

https://www.facebook.com/NegativeMeasures

Controlled chaos. Tense, heavy hardcore punk from Brighton.

Too punk for the hardcore kids and too hardcore for the punk kids.

negativemeasures.bandcamp.com

Ättestor
https://www.facebook.com/attestorpunx

Brighton based Attestor have pounding drums and guitar tone worthy of heavyweights like Poison Idea. Songs that chug along or accelerate. Vocals shouted into the void peek out from the wall of sound. Attestor’s songs are personal (aren’t all songs?) but living in the society we do, personal quickly becomes political.

Understandably, if you have to deal with fascists coming to your town and bastard landlords driving up rents you’ll end up with songs like Greedy Landlords. Choruses like Always Antifa are based on real life not some abstract concept. With a shouty chorus here and there to drive the message home, of course.

Many people sat up and noticed when this collection of songs first came out. They had a live performance planned but it was cut short by this goddamned virus. A physical release was the obvious next move whilst we await the return of live music.

Motörhead style umlauts adorn the A of Ättestor giving the whole look a feel of Scandinavia. You pretty much get what you would expect. If you like your punk fast and heavy all tied up with a monochrome bow then this is for you.
Elements of the heaviness of bands such as Wolf Brigade can be heard with crushing guitar and relentless drums filling the gaps in the downstrokes. Every now and then there is a hint of Totalitar.

Records surely have to follow? This band are definitely one to watch.
- Louder Than War

Existenz
https://www.facebook.com/existenzpunk/

Existent played around 100 gigs in Sweden, Denmark and England between 1982-87 with bands as Anti-Cimex, Asta Kask, UK Subs, One Way System, English Dogs and on. They released a 7” “Listen” and a 12” “Let´s get drunk before it´s too late” Now they are back in full strength since 2017 in the original line-up, touring Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and Germany so far.

In 2019 the split record “They Can’t Control It” was released. In 2020 the album “Meltdown” saw the light and on January 21st 2022 the single “ Point Of No Return” was released on all streaming services and as a video as well.
40 years of Punk 1982-2022! Raw, fast and dirty Punk Rock at its best with its roots in the eighties.

Booking agency: RMP Musik: jacob.lundtofte@rmpmusik.se

Record company: HepTown Records: rob@hepcat.se

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/17zLmk1PbfaHcuxf1rcoel

HepTown Records - YouTube:
https://youtube.com/c/Heptownrecords

Existenz (bandcamp.com):
https://existenz.bandcamp.com/