This Machine Kills Wasps
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This Machine Kills Wasps with MJ Hibbett & Chris Thorpe-Tracey, The Highchurches, Lilla Multipass, Leslie Bloom and Verity Grebble
This was a special, sweaty little show, which will live long in the memory of all who attended. It was a bit of a last minute job. Chris and Mark have a beautiful project in which they’re doing a new, stripped down album of Hibbett songs accompanied by piano. They’re songs from the sadder end Read more
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This Machine Kils Wasps with MJ Hibbett and Chris Thorpe-Tracey / The Highchurches do a gig on a barge in Shoreham
Tickets are now on sale for a special This Machine Kills Wasps in Brighton on Friday 15th August. MJ Hibbett and Chris Thorpe-Treacy have both been massive influences on my life, my music, and my philosophy. Hibbett writes amazing songs and taught me you don’t need anyone’s permission to make music; Chris writes amazing songs Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps with Lachlan Werner, Charlie Vero-Martin, Leslie Bloom, JoJo Maberly, Queen Mab and The Highchurches
I struggle the day after shows. After the high, and the interacting with many wonderful people, comes the low, and the barely being able to get out of bed or leave the flat. I finally made it out just after seven pm yesterday evening, and something very lovely indeed happened. I walked straight into Queen Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps Featuring Coal Porters, Laurie Black, The Highchurches, Jen Zheng, and Mary Flannigan.
A belated write up of the final Wasps of 2024, a lovely night where I learned a very important lesson about anxiety (it’s bad, and there should be less of it). My main worry was the Coal Porters fans, and whether they’d go for any of the other acts. I don’t really know what I Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps with Jason Pegg, The Highchurches, Jamie Mykaela, Blank Peng and Rob Duncan
Cor that was a good one. Initial signs were troubling. Ticket sales were a bit sluggish compared to February, with Brighton a bit show’d out after a May of the Fringe and The Great Escape, for fans of the arts and artwashing respectively. But in the end we had a pretty much full room for Read more
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Promoting shows in our collapsing digital realm
I’ve got a show in Brighton next week! It’s being headlined by Jason out of Clearlake, who I interviewed here. I’ve booked some clowns and written some songs about the end of the world, it’s going to be good. Telling people about a thing is tricky nowadays, as far as the internet is concerned. Offline, Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps with MJ Hibbett, The Highchurches, Jo Burke, Shelf, Selena Mersey, and Mikey Bligh Smith
I arrive early, and the sound guy is already there. Conveniently, his name is Guy. Guy, the sound guy. Sound guy Guy. Guy Guy sound. He is friendly, and Australian. We have a nice chat, and as he sets up the stage, I learn his interest in experimental rock, music theory, and production. This is Read more
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‘I am basically Taylor Swift with Cheaper Trousers’: an interview with MJ Hibbett
Note: this interview first appeared in my newsletter, which you can subscribe to here. Indiepop legend and writer of some of the most life-affirming songs, well, EVER, Mark “MJ” Hibbett, is headlining my show This Machine Kills Wasps on Thursday 8th Feb at the lovely Folklore Rooms in Brighton. To celebrate this FACT I got Read more
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