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Billy Mahonie + Lower Slaughter
The Prince Albert, Brighton
Doors 8pm / Start 8.30pm
£14 + booking fee / £18 on the door
Standing
Age restrictions – over 18’s

Formed in the first wave of British post-rock alongside the likes of Mogwai in the late 90s, John Peel favourites Billy Mahonie are set to return with the first new music from their original line-up in some twenty-four years. Whilst their debut album ‘The Big Dig’, released in 1999 on Too Pure Records, is considered a classic of the post rock genre, Billy Mahonie always crafted their intricate music with memorable hooks and melodies and performed it with energy and gusto. Theirs was not an aimless, meandering sound, instead the songs and attitude were rooted in punk rock, and still are. Billy Mahonie put the rock into post-rock.

Lauded by many as one of Britain’s influential finest Live bands in the late 90s and early 00s, previously released on Fierce Panda, Static Caravan, and Southern Records, Billy Mahonie instrumental rock quartet are back on tour. Taking in many of the towns and cities previously played (Glasgow, Leicester, Cambridge, London, Brighton) and some new places, the band members have never felt so stoked to get out on the road.

The classic lineup of Gavin Baker, Hywell Dinsdale, Howard Monk and Kevin Penney are bringing the new album Field of Heads, out in May on their newly formed label: Whistling Sam Projects, to Brighton.

Lower Slaughter

Four-piece lurching noise-rock since 2014, returning from a recent hiatus with a new line-up and all-new music!

The four piece describe themselves modestly as a band “who make loud riffs” though The Quietus description of “lurching noise-rock that occasionally works the angles but is chiefly a showpiece for big fuck-off riffs that call to mind Pissed Jeans, Nirvana and Harvey Milk” may be more accurate.

Since their debut album release in 2017, the band has garnered high praise from the likes of The Quietus, All Music, Loud & Quiet and Flush The Fashion, as well as finding fans in BBC Radio 6 presenter Shaun Keaveny, BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens & cult comedy legend Stewart Lee, among others, whilst sharing stages with the likes of Pigs x7, JOHN, Ditz, Hey Colossus, Gnod, among others!

“One of the most unique noise rock bands to have appeared in the past five years.” The Quietus
“Ferocious, riff-heavy, angry punk!” Huw Stephens
“This is catharsis in youthful noise.” Loud & Quiet
“Politically and socially conscious, but it’s also an absolute blast.” All Music