12/11/2025
🕶️ THIS Fri 14th Nov… .popes + +
📍 ⏰ 7pm
🎟️ Tickets on Headfirst
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🫱 HOLY POPES 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
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
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 p**s 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.
