ME REX Brighton
ME REX live in Brighton at Green Door Store on 17th November!
Get tickets until 6pm on the show day with only a £1 booking fee or from Dice
Stage times:
Sunny Side Down: 7.45pm
ME REX: 8.45pm
ME REX is made up of longtime friends Myles McCabe (Guitar/Keys/Vocals), Phoebe Cross (Drums/Vocals) and Rich Mandell (Bass/Keys/Vocals/Production). Based in London and Brighton, the band have carved a distinct niche for themselves. Over the course of two double EPs and one shuffle album trio have continued to evolve with their blend of introspective lyricism, “surging, gargantuan hooks” and soundscapes.
ME REX defies genre boundaries and typical song structures, while touching on themes of friendship, forgiveness, loss and joy wrapped in sweeping metaphors of alchemy and mythology. Across the bands catalogue they weave in influences taken from art and lore, from the idea of “Comets as harbingers of change and gateways to other realms” to ancient foundational narratives and their real-world reflections, managing to shape them into something closer to modern humanity.
On ME REX’s new album, Giant Elk, due out in October 2023, McCabe and co. play into their penchant for storytelling by exploring what it means to be human in various different forms following a story of “continual fracturing and regeneration, illustrating the process of growing through loss and grief, set against the backdrop of societal and climate collapse.” The result? Eleven earworm tracks that deliver a catharsis that you’ll keep wanting to discover over and over again.
With each ME REX release the band have continued to captivate crowds, most notably at End Of The Road, Latitude Festival, SXSW and 2000 Trees Festival, and in November 2023 they’ll be hitting the road around the UK in support of their album. Bridging the gap between worlds of indie, folk and post-rock, ME REX are most comfortable when they’re sonically breaking the constraints most commonly found among their peers: cementing their place as one of the most exciting and innovative collectives of their generation. https://merex.bandcamp.com/album/plesiosaur
Plus Sunny Side Down. https://linktr.ee/SunnySideDownBand
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11112023 – Soft Machine. Lewes Con Club
11112023 – Dark Horses. Green Door Store
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15112023 – Autobahn. The Green Door Store
24112023 – bdrmm. Patterns
26112023 – Abracadabra. The Prince Albert
28112023 – Ozric Tentacles + Gong. Chalk
28112023 – The Rural Alberta Advantage. The Prince Albert
30112023 – Flat Party. The Prince Albert
01122023 – Mickey Callisto. The Folklore Rooms
02122023 – Don Letts. Lewes Con Club
09122023 – John Otway. Lewes Con Club
12122024 – CIVIC. The Hope & Ruin
13122023 – Modern Nature. Lewes Con Club
21012024 – John Craigie. The Prince Albert
30012024 – John Francis Flynn. Concorde 2
18022024 – Michael Cera Palin. The Hope & Ruin
20022024 – Pip Blom. Chalk
23022024 – JOHN. Concorde 2
27022024 – Jordan Mackampa. Chalk
06032024 – Beans on Toast. Chalk
08032024 – Lime Garden. Chalk
21042024 – Martin Turner ex Wishbone Ash. Lewes Con Club
28042024 – Focus. Lewes Con Club
Fully accessible, on one floor. Disabled toilet, ask at bar for key. Full gender neutral toilets. Warning, cobbled floors which are uneven in places. If you require a carer ticket, please contact us at info@lovethyneighbourmusic.co.uk with evidence such as a blue badge or access card. If strobe lighting or standing for long periods of time is an issue, please contact us in advance so we can make arrangements.
ME REX Brighton
ME REX Brighton