A Certain Ratio

A Certain Ratio Brighton

A Certain Ratio live in Brighton at Concorde 2 on 5th May 2024!
Get tickets until 6pm on the show day above, or from SeeTickets.

Times:

A Certain Ratio: 9pm

Ellen Beth Abdi: 8pm

Tickets on the door

Formed in 1978 with a core line-up of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson, adding Tony Quigley, Denise Johnson and Matt Steele for touring and studio contributions, Manchester’s A Certain Ratio embraced the ethic and culture of the late seventies post-punk explosion, sounding like nothing else around them and refusing to fit in.

ACR have released 10 albums throughout their career to date and add the 11th album in 2020 with ACR Loco, an eclectic yet cohesive record, moving seamlessly from the endlessly dreamy album opener ‘Friends Around Us’ to the infectious funk-strut of ‘Bouncy Bouncy’, via the poignantly beautiful ‘Always In Love’ and closing on the riotous ‘Taxi Guy’, a track that inconceivably manages to take in jazz, Brazilian music and acid house all in one seven-minute thumper.

ACR Loco comes fresh off the back of their most successful tour in over 20 years, “We’ve done the 40 year celebration thing,” says Jez. “It’s about the future now and where we’re going next.”

It might have been 12 years since the last ACR album but as far as Martin is concerned, the group has always been in a sense of motion and now find themselves in an ideal place where the band’s history and future are in perfect coalescence, “1980 doesn’t feel that long ago to me,” he says. “Where we’re at now just feels like a continuation.”

 A Certain Ratio continue their unstoppable run of creativity with a new EP, launching with ‘Wonderland’, the first track to be taken from ACR:EPA, out on Mute on 7 May 2021.

This EP is the first in a series that is set to continue with two further releases. ACR:EPC focusses on collaboration and is dedicated to Andrew Weatherall, who was in part responsible for the band reigniting, and ACR:EPR which they describe as “anything goes”!

https://acertainratio.bandcamp.com/

Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
05052024 – Still Corners. Chalk
05052024 – A Certain Ratio. Concorde 2
09052024 – Acid Mothers Temple. The Hope & Ruin
21052024 – Caitlin Rose & Hollow Hand. The Prince Albert
22052024 – Dana Gavanski. The Prince Albert
24052024 – Project Gemini. The Green Door Store
26052024 – Hammok. The Crofter’s Rights, Bristol
28052024 – Hammok. The Hope & Ruin
29052024 – The Lovely Eggs. Chalk
29052024 – Gen and the Degenerates. The Prince Albert
31052024 – El Moono. The Hope & Ruin
03062024 – Mildlife. Patterns
04062024 – EXEK. The Hope & Ruin
05062024 – Amelia Coburn. The Folklore Rooms
07062024 – Ex-Easter Island Head. The Hope & Ruin
08062024 – Chastity Belt. The Hope & Ruin
08062024 – Frankie Archer. Komedia Studio
11062024 – Mike Watt’s Il Sogno Del Marinaio. The Hope & Ruin
13062024 – HAAL. The Hope and Ruin
14062024 – Lewsberg. The Hope & Ruin
15062024 – The Reds, The Pinks, The Purples. The Hope & Ruin
18072024 – Love. Concorde 2
18072024 – The Klittens. The Hope & Ruin
21082024 – Wednesday. Chalk
31082024 – Jake Xerxes Fussell. Lewes Constitutional Club
07092024 – Martha. The Hope & Ruin
22092024 – Charlie Parr. Lewes Constitutional Club
26092024 – Melt Banana. Concorde 2
01102024 – Douglas Dare. Dust
03102024 – Twen. The Hope & Ruin
08102024 – The Howlers. The Prince Albert
24102024 – The Tom Robinson Band. Concorde 2
25102024 – DZ Deathrays. Green Door Store
27102024 – Art Brut. Concorde 2
06112024 – Lack of Afro. Patterns.
23112024 – The Orb + Ozric Tentacles

Fully accessible to wheelchairs, all on one level. Gendered toilets. If you require a carer at the venue, please contact us at info@lovethyneighbourmusic.co.uk for guestlist, with evidence such as a blue badge or access card. If strobe lighting is an issue or if standing for long periods of time is an issue, please contact us in advance. More information: https://www.concorde2.co.uk/faq 

A Certain Ratio Brighton

A Certain Ratio Brighton