SUEP + The Moats | Brighton

SUEP Brighton

SUEP live in Brighton at ALPHABET on 17th April! Get tickets above, or from SeeTickets.

“To be filed under ‘perfect pop music.’”– Marc Riley, BBC6

“SUEP playfully subvert every little life-struggle into cohesively winsome tunes.”– The Quietus

“SUEP deconstruct pop tropes in order to find a fresh space to assert themselves.South London underground favourites SUEP announce their debut album Forever out 27th of March, via Memorials of Distinction, with the incredible new single Highway II. The track shows SUEP at their best – glistening synth pop with Marr-esque jangle, sweet but emotionally incisive. Singer Georgie Stott – also known for being the keyboardist of the recently ended Porridge Radio – is at peak performance, marrying catchy melodies with off-kilter storytelling.Receiving acclaim across BBC 6 Music and the indie press for their ‘car boot sale’ pop music, SUEP rummage through the jumble bin of music history, selecting and reassembling its best parts into something playful, strange and deeply artful. The band are affiliates of the Gob Nation collective – including The Tubs, Sniffany & The Nits, Ex-Void, and others., described by the Guardian as uniting around “a leftfield sensibility, lacerating wit and snotty attitude.”

With a slightly darker edge than their delightful EP Shop or last year’s groovy The Rain, Highway II tells the story of hope slamming into disappointment – a Valentine’s date gone wrong. Tears, cigarette breaks, running makeup and snotty sleeves paint a picture of painful emotional dislocation. It comes with an incredible, multilayered dance-routine music video from frequent collaborator, artist Jess Power.

Singer Georgie Stott says: “The lyrics for this poured out of me on Valentine’s Day when me and my partner went out on a date in the Limehouse area, over the river from where we lived in Rotherhithe. I got drunk too quickly, he got grumpy, and tears started streaming down my face because I just wanted to have a nice romantic time. We made up in the Canary Wharf Wetherspoons at the end of the night, but I went to have a cigarette before, to get out all my sobs and wrote all the lyrics on my phone in one go. Then at a practice studio we quickly wrote it around some chords I made up in the room.”

Forever is a confident debut, a masterpiece of modern indie songcraft. Across the album SUEP dip into country, synthpop, garage rock, post punk, and pub rock, but always retain their signature penchant for melodic hooks, snappy structures and straight-to-the-heart lyrics. Artfully unpretentious, the album was recorded by friend Matt Green, best known for his work with The Tubs, and mixed by Mike O’Malley of the band caroline. Led by Georgie Stott and Joshua Harvey, SUEP have become fixtures of south-east London’s underground through a series of shared living spaces, improvised studios and DIY venues. Now with George Nicholls (The Tubs, Joanna Gruesome, GN Band), William Deacon (PC World), and Louis Forster (The Goon Sax, Expiry) completing the line up, their debut is finally on its way.

Georgie met car-boot-camera-salesman Joshua aged 18 in Winchester. Forming an instant bond, they proceeded to spend 72 hours together chatting and laughing, before forming a punk band with 2 friends. When Georgie went to university in Brighton, Joshua ended up living rent free on the floor of her squalid, now demolished, East Slope dorm-room for the entire year. They spent their time driving around the hills of Sussex, going to boot sales and listening to music very loudly on the speaker he’d hooked up to his creaking Morris Minor. The duo started experimenting with playing each other’s songs under the name ‘SUEP’ after moving into the Pupil Referral Unit – a property guardianship that once housed wayward adolescents. An early formulation of the band fell apart after various breakups led to a member escaping to Australia, but after moving to London they soon locked in with Nicholls, Deacon and original bassist Oliver Chapman (who departed shortly after ‘Forever’ was recorded). During this era, Georgie and Josh lived in the Red Lion Boys Club – an ex-youth centre that hosted artexhibitions, raves and their weekly practices. Georgie lived illegally in a cupboard, just large enough for a double bed, and working as an early morning bakery delivery girl, while Joshua lived on a mezzanine platform he built out of scaffolding – the floor beneath full of obscure electronics and musical detritus.

It’s in the echoey expanse of the Boys Club sports hall that the 2022 EP Shop was recorded, and in which the songs of Forever were first honed. Lead vocals on the album are shared between Georgie (7 tracks), Joshua (2 tracks) and Oliver (1), and a spirit of easygoing collaboration exudes through every track – no member overplaying, everyone slotting in for the greater whole. Forever is a glimpse into one of the best bands on the scene, not fitting into any trend, but also never fading into obscurantism – SUEP are a band that wear a joie de vivre loosely but fashionably. Now is their time to shine. https://memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com/album/shop-2

+ The Moats: Characterised by a blown-out, twin guitar attack, underpinned by a persistent, taught rhythm section. Chiming 12-string melodies cut through, while fuzzed up, glam-y Eno-esque lead parts shine. The Moats trade in ramshackle pop that references lofty Laurel Canyon touchstones such as The Byrds and Neil Young, before sending them via San Francisco jangle and garage rock, through to Aussie punk and beyond.

Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
03022026 – Junior Brother. Prince Albert
17022026 – caroline. Chalk
20022026 – Mermaid Chunky. Revenge
26022026 – Maria Somerville. Green Door Store
19032026 – Gong + Henge. Chalk
20032026 – Beans on Toast. Concorde 2
26032026 – Heavenly. Hope & Ruin
26032026 – Joan Shelley. Lewes Constitutional Club
07042026 – Bibi Club. The Prince Albert
15042026 – Martin Carthy. Lewes Constitutional Club
16042026 – Martin Carthy. Lewes Constitutional Club
17.04.2026 – SUEP. Alphabet
20042026 – Lande Hekt. Prince Albert
22042026 – Oslo Twins. Prince Albert
25042026 – New German Cinema. Folklore Rooms
29042026 – Acid Mothers Temple. Hope & Ruin
01052026 – Love. Concorde 2
02052026 – House of All. Hope & Ruin
05052026 – Lorelle Meets The Obsolete. The Hope & Ruin
07052026 – LYR. Komedia
10052026 – Sean Rowe. Green Door Store
10052026 – Lucrecia Dalt. Chalk
19052026 – Charlie Parr. Green Door Store
25112026 – Ozric Tentacles. Lewes Constitutional Club

ACCESSIBILITY : We operate within a Grade-II listed building, built in the 1860s. Although built as a school for working-class children, we do not have the facility to give unencumbered access to users with physical access needs. There are two large staircases to the live room. We are looking to improve our accessibility for all users, any requests for special requirements please do communicate with us and we will endeavour to meet your needs.

SUEP Brighton

SUEP Brighton