So here it is Merry Chumpsmas...

Rose Matafeo and her (festive?) friends will be rolling into town for one night only.

Door at 7pm.

Timings are subject to change

This is an 18+ event. 

Chumpsmas: Rose Matafeo & Friends

Rose Matafeo

comedy

Comedy

Margate

Whereelse?

Join us to celebrate an exciting 2023 for Tonetic Records with a showcase of recent work from their artists.

FEATURING:

Ruby Tipple - Ruby pours themes of life, nature and human connection into her introspective acoustic ballads.

SAPHYR - Creates emotional melodic rap. Sampling beats sourced from across the internet, SAPHYR lays down killer vocal hooks and serene harmonies that speak to a generation.

ellhan - Exploring a new found passion for beats and samples, ellhan creates mesmerising & euphoric House soundscapes.

Tonetic records is a Margate based creative music community that amplifies young voices.

This is a 14+ event

Tonetic Records End of Year Showcase

SAPHYR - Lipton Ice

Saphyr - Lipton Ice

Ruby Tipple

Gigs

Kent Pop Exchange Presents

Claire Pitt Wigmore & The Echograms - Blues affected indie from a talented Thanet based guitarist & singer-songwriter, accompanied by the Echograms on bass & drums.

Shedding Velvet - Middle Kent 4-piece playing a punky and energetic take on garage rock.

The SuperMicks - Infectiously up-tempo contemporary blues rockers from Ramsgate-- anthemic, danceable, and fun!

FREE ENTRY

\--The Kent Pop Exchange is a new live music showcase brought to you by the Where Else? community as a means to help incubate and platform new sounds to have been unearthed from Kent's underground music scene.

The aim of the Kent Pop Exchange is to provide a nurturing and supportive environment that enables Kent’s musicians and bands to hone their craft, broaden their support networks and cultivate active audience participation.

As an organisation made up of working class people we aim to elevate and platform a diverse range of backgrounds, voices and perspectives.

All ages

Elsewhere Margate

Kent Pop Exchange: The SuperMicks & Friends

The SuperMicks - HomeTown

CLAIRE PITT WIGMORE

MEMORIALS is the new band of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire, Better Corners, It Hugs Back, UUUU). As a duo these multi-instrumentalists cover plenty of ground on stage, juggling instruments in a set up resembling that of a 5-piece band. Their sound touches on the many points for which they are known, veering from melodic songwriting to psychedelic noise, free jazz freakouts, tape loops and drones, and then back again. Their debut double album - Music For Film: Tramps! & Women Against The Bomb - is out on 12 May 2023 via The state51 Conspiracy label.

ALL AGES

Memorials

**ELZ presents: BABESLAM: ALL I WANT 4 XMAS IS U!!!!** A sexy little poetry slam with a twist! 10 performers will have 3 minutes each to compete for the BABESLAM title. This can be poetry, performance or comedy - as long as it’s 3 minutes long! Performers can use the theme ALL I WANT 4 XMAS IS U!!!! as inspo.

**How it works:** Each performance will be scored by 3 random members of the audience. The highest score wins, and the winning performer will headline the next slam. Expect laughs, lager, and lots and lots of words.

**Special guests:** This festive Babeslam will be supported by none other then Harry Baker, UK and world grand slam champion. Our headliner will be Babeslam's last winner, Thanet's fastest rising star, Blondey.

**How do I get a slot?** BABESLAM is dedicated to giving a platform to the freshest and newest voices in Kent. You do not need any prior experience to sign up for a slot. To sign up for a slot, or to access more information, contact ELZ at @poetryelzz (instagram) or babeslamslots@gmail.com.

This is an 18+ event

BABESLAM: ALL I WANT 4 XMAS IS U!!!

The Social Singing Choir invites you to a very different kind of 'Christmas Carols'. On 15th of December we're putting on a Christmas Singalong to raise funds to support the incredible work of the 'The Gap Project'

It's our version of a carol service where people can come along to sing with the choir. There'll be lots of singalong moments with the choir singing live harmonies, we'll also be showing off the Christmas numbers we've been working on. It will be Christmas classics instead of hymns (think Carol Of The Bells, Mariah, etc etc). After the performance, there'll be DJs, a raffle and a prize for the most Christmassy outfit.

Margate's Social Singing Choir was formed in 2017 with a simple idea, no auditions, no need of previous experience, just a place in the community to sing some awesome songs together and have a good time. They have played shows across the south east, supporting SELF ESTEEM as well as performing at the opening of the Turner Prize. The Social Singing Choir have also featured on several recordings including Swim Deep's album Emerald Classics, very.com Christmas advert and The Welcome Chorus album. Last month the choir recorded a campaign for The World Wildlife Fund.

Social Singing Choir - Charity Christmas Concert

Margate Social Singing Choir

A split 7" single launch with some of Kent's finest punks!**  
  
THE HELLFIRE ORCHESTRA**  
are a rock band with both the punk spirit of folk music, and the folk spirit of punk music. They emerged unpredictably from the Smugglers Records world and - though recognizably formidable - found love most at the fringes of that scene, amongst those with a taste for the counter-cultural punk ethos.

Their 2nd full album at the time of writing remains still tantalisingly unreleased, as they forge on and explore an even less dulcet 3rd album persona.

Percussive and noisey guitars, caustic drumming and pithy, snarling lyrical tapestry atop - they’ve stepped away from their initial folk parentage and now stand in intoxicating new territory.

FFO The Beastie Boys, Gilla Band, Black Midi, Amyl and the Sniffers, M(h)aol, The Pixies, Alan Moore, Otoboke Beaver…  
  
**MORON BUTLER  
**'Formerly The Long Knives, Moron Butler mix post-punk minimalism, poetry, and just a dash of drone. The result is something that bows to the rich tradition of English and American punk music, while also pointing forward with intensity. Music for the gnashing of teeth'

The Hellfire Orchestra x Moron Butler release show

The Hellfire Orchestra

I’m Not Kara-Okay was created to give people the chance to sing and sing along to the emo, grunge, punk-pop, metal and alternative tracks they love, in one big cathartic celebration of the darker side to music. So reach into the wardrobe past those ironed white work shirts and grab your black punk-pop band merch hoodie and black eye liner. Because despite what they said, it wasn’t a phase, it’s part of who you are. So stop running and start singing.

I'm Not Kara-Okay! : Alt Karaoke Night

party

Party

Very excited to welcome Ania Magliano and Chloe Petts back to Chump’s for our first ever Double Bill!

That’s 2 shows, 1 ticket (with a short interval in-between obvz) on Jan 17th at Where Else.

They both took Edinburgh by storm this year with critically acclaimed, sell out shows. Ania’s was ranked #1 in Time Out's 'The 11 best comedy shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023' list.

Chloe followed her sold out Edinburgh run with yet another sold out run at soho theatre both of which garnered endless rave reviews.

But we all know you can’t trust those journalists, so you’re gonna have to come along and find out for yourself how brilliant these two are!

Door at 7pm.

Timings are subject to change

This is an 16+ event. 

Chump's Double Bill: Ania Magliano and Chloe Petts

Ania Magliano

Chloe Petts

Vittorio Angelone: Who Do You Think You Are? I Am! - Tour Preview

Vittorio recently sold out the entire Edinburgh run of his new critically accalimed show 'Who Do You Think You Are? I Am!'.

Before he takes it on tour across the UK in early 2024, he's coming to Margate for a intimate performance as a tour preview.

Vittorio Angelone is an Italian-Irish comedian who grew up in Belfast. After moving to London to train as a classical musician he eventually made the predictable switch to stand-up comedy. He has risen through the ranks of the comedy world at an incredible speed, building a following with stand-up clips, podcasts and sketches amassing millions of views online.

He has supported huge names on tour including Russell Howard, Jason Manford, Adam Rowe, Shane Todd, and Dan Nightingale.

In 2022 he sold out his debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe and was nominated for Best Newcomer at the prestigious Dave Comedy Awards.

He has been seen on BBC One, Channel 4, TVI Podcast, and as a guest and guest co-host of the Have A Word Podcast.

Door at 7pm.

Timings are subject to change

Chump's presents: Vittorio Angelone 'Tour Preview'

Vittorio Angelone

English Teacher come to Where Else? for Independent Venue Week 2024!

An ALL AGES event

English Teacher

English Teacher - The Treacle Trap Door

In 2022 Twang-Pop Post Yacht-Rock Soft Psychers Hutch had an astounding first year releasing three singles, picking up a strong organic following, hitting the festival circuit, receiving BBC and international radio attention, making the glastonbury longlist 2022 and selling out both of their headline shows.  
  
2023 has already seen Hutch on tour, taking their Brighton-crafted twang to all new cities and audiences. As well as securing festival slots for the summer and playing sold out shows across the first few months of the year, they are busy writing and recording new material as well as creating live sessions in staple Brighton venues. As the bands sound becomes more mature and refined, their local and national following marches on: stronger in numbers. If you want to see “a band as good as ‘Rumors’-era Fleetwood Mac” jump aboard the train to twang town and strap in, we’re going to the moon.

“Ultimately we’re left grinning from ear to ear having witnessed a band as good as ‘Rumours’-era Fleetwood Mac” - Nick Mcallister, Brighton Source

ALL AGES EVENT

Hutch

Mechanical Bull

The UK’s only DEVO tribute act.  
  
Greetings to spuds and mutants. We are not DEVO, but we are We Are Not DEVO! Yes!

Performing choice cuts of gonzo mutato classics from throughout the career of Akron, OHIO’s finest sons; a labour of love and sincerity bringing the message of Devolution to the good spuds of the UK.

This is a 16+ event

We Are Not Devo: Devo tribute

We Are Not Devo

PADDY YOUNG: HUNGRY, HORNY, SCARED

Nominee: Best Newcomer - Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023!!!

He's hungry. He's horny. He's scared. He's in the gutter but he's looking down on all of you.

CHUMP’S is excited to welcome Paddy Young back to Margate fresh from a sell-out, award nominated run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Paddy was a big inspiration for us starting Chump's and it was a joy to have him on our June mixed bill show alongside Chloe Petts and Sam Campbell.

‘Young is surely on the road to stardom’ ★★★★★ Rolling Stone

'Excellent ... I advise you to buy a ticket before he sells out' ★★★★★ EdFringeReview

'Surely destined for greater things' ★★★★ The Scotsman

‘One of British comedy’s most intriguing new voices… a confident, breezy debut’ ★★★★ The Independent

'Among his clique's most livewire and exciting performers... an extremely fun, buzzy show' ★★★★ Chortle

'One of the most exciting new comics I've seen for a long time' Joe Lycett

As seen on Channel 4, ITV2, Sky and Stewart Lee's recommendation list. Over 10 million views online.

Door at 7pm.

Timings are subject to change

Presented by Chump's, Berk's Nest & Parkas

Chump's: Paddy Young 'Hungry, Horny, Scared'

Paddy Young

"one of Britain’s best-kept musical secrets" - NME  
  
While the world became socially distanced in 2020, Hull’s post-shoegaze, dream pop, heavy guitar effects quartet bdrmm made the kind of impact with their debut album any young band would dream about. Released on the small Sonic Cathedral label in July that year, Bedroom was hailed as “a heady, forward-thinking shoegaze distillation” by Clash magazine.

Three years on, the band’s new album I Don’t Know takes the adventure somewhere else. It’s contemporary shoegaze in a way but much, much more. Again recorded at The Nave studio in Leeds with producer Alex Greaves (Working Men’s Club, Bo Ningen), the band’s trademark effects-laden guitars and motorik Neu! grooves have now been augmented by piano, strings, electronica, sampling and even occasional dance beats. Fragile ambient pieces line up against pulverising guitar chords, sometimes within the same song. There are ambient washes and delicate piano pieces, while influences or reference points veer from Radiohead to My Bloody Valentine to the Cure to Brian Eno - perhaps - the minimalist classical of the likes of Erik Satie. Whatever has produced it, it’s a bigger-sounding, more tuneful, really rather fantastic second statement by four young men who are rightly sure about what they’re doing and loving every minute of it.

bdrmm

Gush

Bdrmm - Question Mark

Having graduated from his early, Mercury Music Prize-nominated incarnation as East India Youth, William Doyle has since emerged under his own name as one of the most experimental and exciting British songwriters and world builders working today. His most recent records, 2021’s art-pop masterpiece ‘Great Spans of Muddy Time’ and 2019’s dizzyingly ambitious ‘Your Wilderness Revisited’ drew comparisons to Radiohead and Brian Eno and claimed their place on end of year lists, with the Metro ranking the latter “among the best albums of the century”. 2024’s hotly anticipated follow-up is Doyle’s most ambitious, dynamic and immediate record yet.

William Doyle

William Doyle - Millersdale

A force of the unnatural. A pop-star fed through a Nutribullet. A human bag of speed. The fourth horseman of the queer apocalypse. Lynks is here.

There is nothing quite like Lynks. An unpasteurized shot of electro-punk chaos compressed into the shape of a human man, wrapped up in a gimp mask, creating tiny queer utopias wherever they goes. And what utopias they are; sub-blowing, criminally danceable beats, anthemically witty lyrics about the darkest corners of modern life, and pure, unapologetic, camp excess colliding in a fog of sweat and confetti.

While evoking the electro-clash roots of Peaches, the industrial chant of M.I.A., the sardonic drawl of Courtney Barnett, and the theatrics of Lady GaGa, Lynks’ music stands alone as something totally unique. And this uniqueness has earned them acclaim from the best; support tours with Metronomy and Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, guest-host spots on Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6Music show, and personal praise from Elton John, to name just a few.

Off the back of instant classic ‘USE IT OR LOSE IT’, which fueled Lynks’ ascent to new heights, landing them a Spotify billboard, their own New Music Fix show with BBC6Music who lent the track 15+ spins, and thousands of new fans from viral music video clips, Lynks is doubling down with the anthemic ‘NEW BOYFRIEND’.

A twisted, queer lovechild of LCD Soundsystem, Metronomy and Confidence Man, ‘NEW BOYFRIEND’ struts into your headphones like a Scissor Sister on shrooms. An irresistible four on the floor beat, meets a swaggering nu-disco bassline, while crunching guitars, distorted drum fills and plucked analog synths wrestle for the spotlight. It’s over this disrespectfully earworm-y backdrop that Lynks lays out a tale as old as time in a Murphy-esque drawl; codependent exes trying, and failing, to achieve a clean break-up. Night-out ambushes, knee-jerk lashings out and “just stay on my sofa” deceptions collide as Lynks implores their ex to “get a new boyfriend”, so they can finally move on with their life. It’s brutal and hilarious (“friends DON’T give each other head”), yet still maintains the beating human heart that charges all Lynks’ music. Underneath all the bravado, this is a song about two people who love each other deeply, and yet can never be together.

This is an all ages event. 

Lynks

Lynks - Pedestrian at Best

Lynks - Use It Or Lose It

THE ULTIMATE STONE ROSES ARE THE ONLY TRIBUTE TO THE ROSES TO HAIL FROM MANCHESTER.  
  
EACH MEMBER IS A DIE HARD FAN OF THE ORIGINAL BAND WHO HAS DEDICATED THEMSELVES TO MASTERING THE MUSIC OF THEIR HEROES. PLAYING SONGS FROM THE SEMINAL FIRST ALBUM, THE SECOND COMING AND EARLY FAN FAVOURITES LIKE ‘SALLY CINNAMON’ AND ‘MERSEY PARADISE’, THE ULTIMATE STONE ROSES GIVE THEIR AUDIENCES THE MOST AUTHENTIC STONE ROSES EXPERIENCE.

This is a 16+ event. 

The Ultimate Stone Roses

The Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums

Bingo Fury conjures a glitzy - altogether seedy - Broadway sheen. Although very much a solo songwriter, Bingo’s compositional process relies on contributions from his entire band - bassist Megan Jenkins, and drummer Henry Terrett have been playing together since their teens. In one of their various incarnations, they recruited local avant-jazz legend, cornet player Harry ‘Iceman’ Furniss, with guitarist and percussionist Rafi Cohen later completing the line-up.

Influenced by classic songwriters as much as pioneers of alternative experimentation, the songs can often land like a jazz standard that got lost multiple times on its journey to the present day. Some pit stops are obvious: the haunting balladry of Nina Simone and Leonard Cohen, and the arresting no-wave of James Chance and The Lounge Lizards.

this is an all ages event

Bingo Fury

Bingo Fury - Power Drill

The music of Atlanta trio Omni has always swung fast and hit hard. And Souvenir, their fourth album and second for Sub Pop, packs their biggest punch yet. Inactive during the majority of the pandemic–the longest downtime in their history–they approached this recording with lots of pent-up energy. Guitarist Frankie Broyles, singer/bassist Philip Frobos, and drummer Chris Yonker converted their creative fuel into sharp, driving songs that land immediately, sporting chopping riffs, staccato beats, and wiry melodies.

Omni

Delicacy

Almost nothing is a new band from Scottish musician and writer Roddy Woomble

The debut album was written and recorded throughout 2021/22 in collaboration with four different producers – Scott Paterson (Protection), Andrew Wasylck, Le Junk, and Luciano Rossi

Almost Nothing is an exercise in artistic freedom, the album shifts from electronica to moments of shimmering art pop - a genre fluid record - melodic, poetic, catchy and just confusing enough to escape full comprehension.

Roddy Woomble and Almost Nothing

My Secret is My Silence

Roddy Woomble

Almost Nothing

There is no disputing that 2023 has been the biggest and most incredible year in Funke and the Two Tone Baby’s career. From being hot-tipped by the Guardian as a show-to-see at Glastonbury Festival, support from Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music, and a brand new album that FATEA have called ‘a milestone for independent music’. What’s even more incredible, is that 2024 is already taking shape to be bigger. Much bigger!

Having just secured two support tours alongside 90’s pioneers EMF and electronic legends Dub Pistols, Funke and the Two Tone Baby announces his own 16-date tour across the UK’s finest independent venues, the Reacclimate Tour Part Two.

Equipped with keyboards, samplers, triggers and a beaten-up blues guitar and harmonica, Funke takes you all the way from a big blues stomp, to acid-house glitches and what IMPRINT calls ‘Ed Sheeran’s acoustic looping with Jack White’s aggressive blues vocal, through the lens of a ska dance beat’.

Uncategorised, uncharted and impossible to pigeonhole, Funke and the Two Tone Baby delivers relentless energy, high-end originality, and a one-man dance frenzy like no other. Now is the time to get on the front row of this one-man band revolution.

\-‘The record offers a steely determination to come back into the world fighting, via, blues, funk, big-beat and heartbreaking love songs’ - Louder Than War

An all ages event

Funke and the Two Tone Baby

Not Enough Bonobo

“Soul Pioneer” **WONDERLAND**

“VC Pines just keeps getting better and better with every new track he releases”

**JACK SAUNDERS, BBC RADIO 1**

"A cocktail of realism and indie magic.” - **CLASH**

“VC Pines, something very special going on here” **HUW STEPHENS, BBC RADIO 1**

“His tunes are huge, emotional stories that have the power to both devastate and reassure”

**DORK MAGAZINE  
  
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VC Pines (Violet Coloured Pines) is Jack Mercer, the smart, articulate alt-soul singer-songwriter whose gripping tales of love, loss and late nights in London keep growing in depth and sophistication. After acclaimed EPs Concrete (2021), Skully (2020) and Indigo (2019), Jack’s ready to release his first VC Pines album, which tells the tale of “someone struggling with mental health, juggling relationships, friendships, addictions and emotions, while being a creative person.

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