Gen and the Degenerates

Gen and the Degenerates Brighton

Gen and the Degenerates play The Prince Albert, Brighton on 29th May 2024! Get tickets with only a 50p booking fee above or from Seetickets.

What do you do, then, when it feels like the world is crumbling around you? For Gen and the Degenerates, the answer is to have fun. “I don’t want to shy away from the darkness of being a human,” explains Genevieve Glynn-Reeves (she/they). “But by that merit, I don’t want to be fully consumed by it and forget to have fun and be silly and make light of it. I think it’s really important to have these difficult conversations with a sense of lightness and humour.”

Sonically, their debut album draws from the sounds of New York punk and post-punk – think Patti Smith, LCD Soundsystem and Sonic Youth. “The key with them all is that they can be obtuse and artsy or whatever, but they’re not afraid to just write a pop song,” Sean reasons. The record has its eyes open and its tongue sticking out, bursting with witty takes on the messiness of twenty-something life in a system stacked against you. There’re songs about the absurdity of online discourse (‘That’s Enough Internet for One Day’), pretentious trend-chasing (‘Post-Cool’), the desire for a simple, stable domestic life (‘All Figured Out’) and refusing to subscribe to a social and political agenda that tries to restrict fun (‘Anti-Fun Propaganda’).

With a debut like theirs, full of personality, witty observations, and frenetic riffs, it’s clear that now is Gen and the Degenerates’ time. https://www.genandthedegenerates.com

Plus support

Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
01032024 – Shelf Lives. The Prince Albert
01032024 – Trust Fund. Green Door Store
06032024 – Beans on Toast. Chalk
07032024 – This Will Destroy Your Ears. The Hope & Ruin
08032024 – Lime Garden. Chalk
13032024 – Donny Benét. Chalk
14032024 – Bull. Green Door Store
15032024 – Grace Petrie. Concorde 2
16032024 – Tian Qiyi ft Jah Wobble. The Prince Albert
19032024 – William Doyle. Alphabet
19032024 – Flamingods. Patterns
20032024 – The John Martyn Project. Komedia
05042024 – Shovel Dance Collective. The Hope & Ruin
11042024 – Pupil Slicer. Dust
11042024 – Chilli Jesson. The Hope & Ruin
13042024 – Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan. Komedia
16042024 – Jim Moray. The Prince Albert
18042024 – Ariel Sharratt and Mathias Kom of The Burning Hell. The Hope & Ruin
19042024 – House of All. The Hope & Ruin
21042024 – Martin Turner ex Wishbone Ash. Lewes Con Club
22042024 – Maya De Vitry. The Prince Albert
26042024 – Personal Trainer & Pom Poko. Concorde 2
27042024 – The Undercover Hippy. Patterns
28042024 – Focus. Lewes Con Club
28042024 – Roger McGough. Komedia
30042024 – Roddy Woomble & Almost Nothing. Komedia
01052024 – Jane Weaver. Concorde 2
01052024 – Funke & The Two Tone Baby. The Hope & Ruin
03052024 – Drahla. The Hope & Ruin
04052024 – USA Nails. The Hope & Ruin
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
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
03062024 – Mildlife. Patterns
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
14062024 – Lewsberg. The Hope & Ruin
15062024 – The Reds, The Pinks, The Purples. The Hope & Ruin
18072024 – Love. Concorde 2
21082024 – Wednesday. Chalk
24102024 – The Tom Robinson Band. Concorde 2
06112024 – Lack of Afro. Patterns.

Accessibility:

No wheelchair access to the venue. Two sets of stairs up to the venue, no disabled toilets. 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. Would be possible to place a chair near the stage.

Gen and the Degenerates Brighton

Gen and the Degenerates Brighton