A group of tried-and-true musicians got together and found the sort of camaraderie and kinship you typically only find once in a lifetime. They didn’t overthink it. They didn’t waste a second. They simply left their blood, sweat, and tears on tape—like they’ve always done. For as much as Better Lovers represents the union of former Every Time I Die members Jordan Buckley \[guitar\], Steve Micciche \[bass\], and Clayton “Goose” Holyoak \[drums\] with The Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato \[vocals\], and musician (Fit For An Autopsy/END) and GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, Will Putney \[guitar\], it really cements the bond of five friends around a shared vision. That vision is as uncompromising, unapologetic, and undeniable as anything they’ve individually done, yet it’s refined by experience and a commitment to a future together.

They’re in it for the long haul. Jordan ended up back in Buffalo, NY, jamming with Steve and Goose during the winter of 2022. After working with Will on the last two Every Time I Die records, they shared a handful of early demos with him to produce. As the year progressed, Jordan caught Greg on the road with Jerry Cantrell in Las Vegas, mentioning the new music. Once ideas solidified, he shared them with the vocalist who replied at 3am one night in December.

“The text said, ‘Let’s give these motherfuckers what they want’"

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FORM Presents

Better Lovers

I Will Remain

Better Lovers - 30 Under 13

unpeople

Blanket

Gigs

Brighton

CHALK 

ELVANA: ELVIS FRONTED NIRVANA

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Elvana: Elvis Fronted Nirvana

Elvana

Starting his musical journey aged five in Paris, Cian Godfrey (aka Somebody’s Child) took to playing the piano in the family apartment. Upon moving back to Ireland, he gained an interest in songwriting, enabling him to tell his own stories. These narratives often reflect upon difficult mental health experiences, as well as the endearing happenings of a youngster growing up in Dublin.

A groundbreaking voice in the Dublin music scene, Somebody's Child has fast become one of the hottest prospects in Ireland, with early singles receiving enthusiastic support from national radio (RTE Rising Artist 2020). An appearance on The Late Late Show followed, as well as an opening slot for Kaiser Chiefs at Dublin’s 3Arena just before the Covid shutdown.

Three EPs followed in quick succession (‘20-Something’, ‘Hope, Amongst Other Things’ and ‘Staying Sane’) which both consolidated support at home and found new supporters in the UK, namely BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders, who interviewed Cian as his ‘Next Wave’ artist on two occasions.

The band’s snappy and energetic live show had already been creating a word-of-mouth buzz by the time of Somebody’s Child’s debut headline tour at the back end of 2021, which culminated in sold out shows in London (Colours), Dublin (Button Factory) and more.

It wasn’t long before seminal NYC indie label Frenchkiss Records (The Drums, Local Natives) came knocking, signing the band and putting them into the studio with Mikko Gordon (Arcade Fire, The Smile) in London to record their debut album, which will be released in early 2023.

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Somebody's Child

Somebody's Child - Distance

Lizzie Esau

An unstoppable force in new rock, 2023 has seen Those Damn Crows fly to dizzying new heights. Triumphantly headlining a sold-out Swansea Arena the day after achieving a #3 spot in the UK Top 40 Album chart with their latest album 'Inhale/Exhale' was a fitting denouement to their infallible rise in the industry over the past few years. The band have gone from strength to strength since landing an Official UK Top 15 Album with their sophomore album 'Point Of No Return' \[2020\], having received honours such as nominations for Best British Band and Best British Single as part of Planet Rock Radio's The Rocks 2022 awards and the Bridgend Mayor's Annual Citizenship Award in recognition of bringing their hometown community together via their ever-growing weekly videocast CrowCast.

Hailing from the valleys of South Wales, UK, the Bridgend quintet are now nationally renowned as frontrunners in modern hard rock, bolstered further by their unmissable live shows. Their live flights have seen them share stages with Skindred, Monster Truck and Funeral For A Friend, perform to huge crowds at the likes of Steelhouse Festival, top the bill at Planet Rock's Winter's End and play the main stage at Download Festival 2022, as well as selling out headline shows at the likes of Cardiff Castle and Chepstow Castle.

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Those Damn Crows

Sin on Skin

Those Damn Crows - Who Did It

FORM Presents

HARD-FI

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Hard-Fi

Hard-FI - Better Do Better

Tom A. Smith

Hard‐Fi

Lout Promotions present

Tigercub

'The Perfume of Decay Tour'

plus guests

Friday 20th October 2023

at Chalk, Brighton

£15 adv

Doors 7pm

Over 14's only

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Tigercub

Tigercub - Beauty

James And The Cold Gun

Lout Promotions present

Skindred

plus Blackgold

Friday 27th October 2023

at Chalk, Brighton

Doors 6:30pm

Over 14's only

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Skindred

Skindred - Nobody

BLACKGOLD

Hidden Orchestra is an imagined orchestra compiled in multi-instrumentalist/composer/producer Joe Acheson’s studio using many separate recordings of guest musicians from a wide variety of backgrounds, combined with feld recordings, bass, and intricate layers of drums. Alongside the solo studio albums, the live band has been an integral part of the project from the start.

The music is a melting-pot of Joe's extremely varied musical experiences and infuences from an array of genres from across time and around the world, and has been described as electronic music made with acoustic instruments and natural sounds. Music built on contrasts, at once anxious and calming, dark and light, fast and slow – full of abstract emotion which is open to the listener's interpretation.

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Hidden Orchestra

Hidden Orchestra - Antiphon

Hidden Orchestra - The Revival

Arms and Sleepers

Venbee

venbee, Dan Fable - low down

FORM Presents

BRISTON MARONEY

\+ Abbie Ozard

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Briston Maroney 

Freakin' Out On the Interstate

Briston Maroney - I've Been Waiting

Abbie Ozard

BRISTON MARONEY

EMBRACE

\+ TOM SPEIGHT

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Embrace + Tom Speight 

Refugees

Embrace - Gravity

Tom Speight

Embrace

FORM Presents

CRUMB

\+ Special Guests

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Crumb

Locket

Crumb - Locket

Lout Promotions present

Gentleman's Dub Club

plus guests

Doors 6:30pm

Over 14's only

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Gentleman's Dub Club

Gentleman's Dub Club - Dancing in the Breeze

FORM Presents

ALABASTER DEPLUME

\+ Special Guests

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Alabaster DePlume

Alabaster dePlume

FORM Presents

CMAT

\+ Special Guests

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CMAT

I Don't Really Care for You

CMAT - I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!

Whilst making his new album The Last Rotation Of Earth, Christinzio’s relationship with his fiancé crumbled after nine inseparable years. The album follows this break-up amid long-term struggles with addiction and declining mental health. The outcome is an extraordinary record, with Christinzio describing it as “more cinematic, sophisticated and nuanced than anything I’ve done before.” He goes on to describe how the separation altered his creative focus and caused him to “scrap 95% of what I’d already recorded”, finishing The Last Rotation Of Earth in two months and making what he believes to be his most vital album.

That Christinzio has bettered his previous album is an achievement, given that Shortly After Takeoff received the best reviews of his life. “A masterpiece,” said The Guardian’s 5 star review, “a half hour or so that roils with anxiety, stuns with beauty and, occasionally, provokes laughter.” Even then, fate intervened when the album was released in April 2020, just as Covid and lockdown kicked in, so he was unable to tour the record until late 2021. The Philadelphian then joked, “I can't wait to make an album that isn’t surrounded by some awful tragedy.”

Personal Trainer

Known for their rousing and electric live shows, 2023 will see Personal Trainer take to the stages at some of the finest festivals, SXSW, Eurosonic, End of the Road Festival and more and play their biggest headline to date at a sold out Paradiso in Amsterdam.

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BC Camplight + Personal Trainer

I'm Alright In The World

Personal Trainer 

Lout Promotions present

Atreyu

plus guests

Thursday 23rd November 2023

at Chalk, Brighton

Doors 6.30pm

Over 14's only

This is an 14+ event

Atreyu

Becoming the Bull

London two-piece BOB VYLAN are unique. One vocalist (Bobby) and one drummer (Bobbie). One being a vital and focal mouthpiece, the other a rhythm maker and keeper, one audience ringleader, one master of the calm. They are a band that embraces both chaos and peace, a band that thrives on independence and creating their own path, a band known for mosh pits and pit hugs. They have a unique and ever evolving sound, one that crosses styles and genres, doing away with the traditional and embracing new and more unique sonic dimensions. They incorporate these styles within their music in an attempt to bridge and blend genres and subcultures together. It is this very unique style and sound that has found them embraced by rock, rap, punk, dance and alternative crowds alike.

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Bob Vylan

The Delicate Nature

Kid Bookie

Panic Shack

Zak Abel

Zak Abel - Love Song

The star of Portlandia, Fred Armisen, will be heading on a full UK tour for the first time, bringing his show Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome to our shores. Tickets go on sale Wednesday 27th September at 10am.

Fred Armisen is one of the most diversely talented performers working today. He is an actor, comedian, voice artist, screen writer, producer, singer and musician best recognised as a cast member on NBC’s Saturday Night Live from 2002-2013, which won him a Peabody Award.

His career began as a musician in the Chicago based post punk band Trenchmouth as well as the Blue Man Group. His transition to comedy came with the 1998 underground short film Fred Armisen’s Guide To Music And South By Southwest which followed him through the Austin, Texas South by Southwest musical festival posing as a journalist.

As co-creator and co-star of the famed sketch comedy series Portlandia, Armisen was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 2012, 2013 and 2014. He was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2014. In 2013 Armisen, along with the other writers won a Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Comedy/Variety Series, and they were nominated again in 2014 and 2018. Portlandia received the prestigious Peabody Award for excellence in 2011. Fred’s film career features many small, but memorial roles including characters in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Eurotrip, Tenacious D And The Pick of Destiny, Battle Of The Sexes and Zoolander 2. He also leant his voice to the features Super Mario Bros., The Lego Ninjago Movie and the Smurfs. Television credits include 30 Rock, Modern Family, Parks & Recreation, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job and Yo Gabba Gabba to name a few.

Armisen was recently seen on Netflix in his original stand-up comedy special Fred Armisen: Stand Up For Drummers.

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Fred Armisen

I Don't Know Him

"After establishing a following in Zambia as well as in Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Botswana in the 1970s, the band slowly dissolved in the Eighties and eventually stopped playing altogether. Chiseling for amethysts in a dirt pit in Zambia, co-founder Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda, now 70, thought his days of performing were over." Rolling Stone

WITCH (We Intend To Cause Havoc) were the biggest rock band in Zambia in the 1970s and spearheaded a new genre dubbed Zamrock, fusing influences that ranged from the Rolling Stones to Black Sabbath and James Brown and mixing them with traditional African rhythms and bush village songs. At t the peak of their popularity, the band often needed police to keep fans at bay while their lead singer Jagari – whose name is an Africanisation of Mick Jagger’s – riled up crowds by stage diving from balconies and dancing manically as the WITCH’s blend of psychedelic rock and African rhythms permeated the surrounding atmosphere.Jagari is the charismatic sole surviving original member of the band. As Zambia’s economy stagnated and the country buckled under the AIDS crisis, WITCH fell apart. Jagari retreated to a life of quasi-anonymity as a university music professor before being wrongfully arrested during Zambia’s toughest hour. Now a man in his 60s, he spends his time mining gemstones hoping to strike it rich, until very recently the band being just a nostalgic memory of his youth.

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WITCH + Holiday ghosts

WITCH - Avalanche Of Love (feat. Sampa the Great)

WITCH

Holiday Ghosts

JOY. presents  
The Amazons  
\+ Swim School

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The Amazons

swim school

FORM Presents

THE ORB

Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and U.F.Orb performed in full

(+ Special Guests)

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The Orb (Live) - Adventures…+ U.F.Orb Live

Golden Clouds

The Orb - The Cult of Youth Ambient Mix, Pts. 1 & 2 (feat. David Gilmour)

The Orb

FORM Presents

ALICE PHOEBE LOU

\+ Special Guests

Brighton CHALK

Tuesday 5th December 2023

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Alice Phoebe Lou

Witches

Alice Phoebe Lou - She

Loving

FORM Presents

SHYGIRL

\+ Special Guests

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Shygirl

Shygirl - SLIME

FORM Presents

BRUTUS

\+ Special Guests

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Brutus

Brutus - Blind

In celebration of their 4th album release ' False Lankum' out March 2023 via Rough Trade Records, Irish folk quartet LANKUM will be joining Melting Vinyl for this very special headline show.

Descending from the Irish capital city of Dublin, LANKUM are a contemporary folk quartet who remain loyal to the traditional ideals of the genre whilst also embracing the modern and the unexplored. Despite being heavily in touch with their musical and ancestral roots, LANKUM is an artistic entity which explores alternative stylistic elements through their use of traditional instrumentation and compositional structures, indulging in musical components commonly found in genres such as more modernised Indie-folk, neofolk, Drone/Noise, Slowcore, and Experimental.

LANKUM's sound is highly intriguing, beautiful, and at times very unsettling being built upon the foundations of traditional Irish folk vocals, haunting string arrangements, powerfully reverberant percussion, and creaking guitars amongst many others. This quartet uses music to create emotional scenes which are strange, intense, uplifting, and excitingly refreshing for a roots genre, making LANKUM a virtuosic group within the experimental contemporary.

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Lankum

Lankum - Go Dig My Grave

2023 brings a resurgent SKINNY LISTER who kick started the year with an epic tour of the USA supporting friends Flogging Molly and Anti-Flag. Covering the full breadth of the country, the band have reignited their American fan base after a few years away, and plans are afoot for more shows in the latter part of the year including the Salt Dog Cruise in November.

Before that though, the band are busy writing and recording their sixth studio album. Their trademark shanty punk style will be front and centre on the new record, with the songs telling tales of live shows and travelling on the road. Due for release in the Autumn on Xtra Mile Recordings alongside a UK headline tour, further details on both will be unveiled soon.

The band’s career continues to see them passing the growing flagon of their experiences with every album and tour. They’ve led an endless parade gathering fans old and new, from the respected folk circuit to the riotous Download Festival, igniting pogoing mosh-pits at each. Over the past ten years they’ve travelled from rain-soaked London to the vast arteries of the USA, upgrading from narrow boat to Salty Dog Cruise, played huge tours across Europe and North America with Frank Turner, Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly as well as headlining themselves across festivals, sweatboxes and ever-larger venues.

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Skinny Lister

Skinny Lister - Bavaria Area

Lout Promotions present

Gogol Bordello

plus guests

Saturday 16th December 2023

at Chalk, Brighton

Doors 6:30pm

Over 14's only

This is an 14+ event

CHALK

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