The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis live in Brighton at Lewes Con Club on Saturday 15th February!
Get tickets until 6pm on the show day with with only a £1 booking fee above, or from Seetickets.

Stage times:

Bruno & The OUtrageous Methods of Presentation: 8pm

The Messthetics & Jame Brandon Lewis: 9pm

Tickets available on the door.

Joe Lally was onstage, playing at full throttle, when he realized that his band had found a true kindred spirit. It was the fall of 2021 and the Messthetics — the instrumental trio of Lally on
bass, his former Fugazi bandmate Brendan Canty on drums and guitarist Anthony Pirog —were at Brooklyn venue the Bell House, digging into their uptempo riff workout “Serpent
Tongue.” Joining them for the piece was a special guest, acclaimed jazz saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, making only his second cameo with the group after a drop-in at another New
York show back in 2019. That first meeting had been a success, but this time, Lewis’ presence sparked something new. “It pushed the song like crazy,” Lally recalls of a passage when Lewis and Pirog began trading fiery solos. As the intensity kept building, the bassist felt simultaneously challenged and
exhilarated. “You’re just holding on and going, ‘It sounds great,’” he remembers telling himself. “‘Just keep going.’”

That imperative — the sense that there was more to explore within what began as an ad hoc union among the four musicians — lingered after the performance ended. Now, Lewis, Pirog,
Lally and Canty are ready to unveil their first full-length album as a quartet. Recorded in just two days in December 2022 at Takoma Park, Maryland, studio Tonal Park, with engineer Don
Godwin, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis features nine tracks that capture the combustive chemistry Lally originally sensed onstage while expanding the collaboration in all
directions.

Though the configuration heard on The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis is relatively new, it builds on long-standing musical relationships. Lewis and Pirog first met around a decade ago at a session led by free-jazz drummer William Hooker and instantly hit it off, going on to work together extensively in Lewis’ own groups.

+ BRUNO & THE OUTRAGEOUS METHODS OF PRESENTATION– “an incendiary frontman, the outsider’s outsider, somewhere between Rob Tyner and Napoleon Dynamite…a force of nature” – Shindig live review

Legendary Bristol-based teen-punk phenomenon Bruno returns with more golden gems of power-pop, garage-punk, nihilistic electro-void darkness and plain super-catchy teeth-rattlers. As seen playing with Damo Suzuki, Babyshakes, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Beak, Schizophonics, His Lordship, Guitar Wolf, The Scientists and a whole bunch more.

His debut 7” single ‘Special Edition/Sitting Around’ was released last year (recorded in Zak Starkey’s studio when he was 14 and featuring Glen Matlock on bass) and is sold out / lost in France (the last box fell out of the van and were stolen…)

…Bruno is manic, frenetic and a whirlwind onstage…You can’t take your eyes off Bruno…his rambling intros are very Jonathan Richmanesque at times and he encompasses everything that is great about outsider rock’n’roll…He throws the shapes, attacks the guitar and is every inch the rock star fuelled by a pure mania and love of the art form…” – Louder Than War

“I also caught a garage-tastic performance by Bruno And The Outrageous Methods Of Presentation.. the new Sensible tip for the top. Yeah baby!” – Captain Sensible

“crazed, brilliant, minimalist experimental post-punk. If Mark E. Smith, Captain Beefhart, and Kim Fowley were all raised from the grave by a tweaking necromancer and charged to raise a babe from infancy to teenhood, you might get something akin to Bruno Wilkinson” – Counterzine

Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
02022025 – The John Martyn Project. The Old Market
03022025 – Tristwch Y Fenywod. Green Door Store
14022025 – Jake Xerxes Fussell. St Luke’s Church
15022025 – Messthetics. Lewes Constitutional Club
20022025 – BABii. Green Door Store
21022025 – Rats on Rafts. The Prince Albert
21022025 – MAQUINA. The Hope & Ruin
22022025 – She Drew The Gun. Revenge
01032025 – Personal Trainer. Chalk.
09032025 – Sean Rowe. Lewes Constitutional Club
10032025 – Carter Sampson. Prince Albert
12032025 – Helen Ganya. Alphabet
12032025 – Pom Poko. Chalk
20032025 – The Wave Pictures. Lewes Constitutional Club
21032025 – Pure Adult + Cassels. Daltons
22032025 – Thank + Kal Marks. The Hope & Ruin
29032025 –The Tubs. The Hope & Ruin
03042025 – Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Chalk
05042025 – Jools. The Hope & Ruin
08042025 – Divorce. Chalk
09042025 – Ronker. The Hope & Ruin
18042025 – Welly. The Charles Dickens, Worthing
20042025 – Chat Pile. Chalk
27042025 – Erotic Secrets of Pompeii. The Prince Albert
30042025 – Michael Cera Palin. Patterns
30042025 – Hannah James & Toby Kuhn. Lewes Constitutional Club
30042025 – GNOD & White Hills. Green Door Store.
02052025 – Henge. Concorde 2
02052025 – Penelope Trappes. Alphabet
04052025 – Acid Mothers Temple. The Hope & Ruin
06052025 – Soccer Mommy. Chalk
13052025 – Snapped Ankles. The Old Market
16052025 – The Bevis Frond. Lewes Constitutional Club
29052025 – Throwing Muses. Chalk
30052025 – MJ Lenderman. Chalk
01062025 – Shonen Knife. Concorde 2
06062025 – Willi Carlisle. Alphabet
13062025 – Niamh Regan. Folklore

Accessibility: We operate the Buddy Scheme at our gigs. The Club is accessible for wheelchairs with management. It’s all on one level apart from a small threshold at the front door for which we have a portable ramp. The toilets are not Building Regulations Part M compliant, but one of the WC’s is reasonably accessible. Visiting outside gig times should present no problems, but please email music@lewesconclub.com ahead on gig nights so we can meet and greet and reserve a space with a view of the stage. 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.

The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis Lewes 

The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis Lewes