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SEX IS DISGUSTING - BOX ELDERS

We're excited about

Box Elders

. In fact, not only are we excited about them in general, we are specifically super excited about putting on a show for them alongside

Mazes

,

Hygiene

and

Black Mamba Beat

on Wednesday 2nd December at

The Greenhouse Effect

, Brighton. You should be too, unless you don't like rock & roll, garage, punk rock, KBD, fuzzy-pop, the Minutemen, cheap beers, dingy basements, smoking terraces, distros, smiling people, dancing or life. All of which are elements integral to this show – either as real physical things or as influences. If you don't like those things you should be worried for yourself. However, I guess everyone needs things spoon-fed to them in 2009, so let me put some musical jelly onto the spoon of the internet and shovel it down your reading mouth, then your ear mouth. Just let me disentangle my feet from this awkward metaphor… … aaaand, there we go, I'm free. Box Elders are from Nebraska and are three gentlemen who have crafted one of the finest LPs of 2009,

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Alice & Friends

, which was released on

Goner Records

(

Jay Reatard

,

Carbonas

,

Ty Segall

, etc). Their label says: "Redd Kross rides with the Clean on a rollercoaster full of freshly spun cotton candy while funhouse mirrors sparkle with the reflections of confetti floating in air". We say that you should look forward to poppy garage played in outlandish outfits, under a roof damp with sweat and atop a floor damp with beer. Also playing are Mazes, who we posted about last week, but hey, no such thing as too much of a good band. They are back in Brighton for the first time since the release of their "Bowie Knives" 7" on

Sex Is Disgusting

and play fuzzed-out blissful pop-rock for fans of the Clean, Pavement and Guided By Voices. We will have the remaining twenty or so copies of their record there on the night so if you want a copy: don't sleep. We also have Hygiene playing, who our good friend Luke Younger described as "a cheeky threeway between Crisis,

Bingo Master's Breakout

-era Fall, and Cockney Rejects. Music for when you're fighting in the streets of Southwark with the psycho mafia outside the town hall". Throw in lazy references to Television Personalities and ruminations on London life in 2009 and you have Hygiene, one of the best British/Canadian punk rock bands since forever. Opening proceedings are Black Mamba Beat, who consist of a

Black Time

-r and a couple of buddies getting together to make some raucous Minutemen-influenced punk rock. No one is safe– the trust fund punks, the party-shy, the skater-haters, the Watt-deniers. Black Mamba Beat will accept nothing more than the total annihilation of all the above, or at least a few cold tins of beer in exchange for their lives. If you aren't moved to come by the show or separated by several miles from Brighton, then at least I just gave you four awesome bands for the price of one, right? Otherwise, see you at the show, watch out for the old smoking dudes with dogs on strings outside, and the slippery stairs. You can find the pop gem "Jackie Wood" by Box Elders

here

.

SEX IS DISGUSTING