Meatraffle

Friday May 24th Blang Presents: Meatraffle Sergeant Buzfuz Pink Eye Club at Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road, London SE15 3BE http://ivyhousenunhead.com/ TicketS £10 wegottickets Doors 7:30 10 15 Meatraffle Emerging from the South London community which spawned The Fat White Family and Warmduscher, Meatraffle's grooving cocktail of dubby bass lines, electro-rock rhythms and blasts of trumpet soundtrack songs which veer between the heartfelt, the acidic and the comic. The band have played two sessions for Marc Riley on BBC 6 and Steve Lamacq played tracks from last year's Base & Superstructure LP six times. "It?s funny as fuck, but deadly serious. Revolutionary socialism never sounded so appealing 5/5" NARC MAGAZINE "like Bowie in an alternative universe" RICK ASTLEY, BBC6 ROUNDTABLE ?The best band in the country bar none? FAT WHITE FAMILY "a pop-tastic delight, they belong to a long tradition of forward thinking working class pop" ECHOES AND DUST " Like many of the great British artists they channel (Ian Dury, PIL) the record is full of humour... A boot up the arse of the largely apolitical British music scene" MORNING STAR 9 15 Sergeant Buzfuz Sergeant Buzfuz are a mix of earworm melodies, punk energy and witty passionate stories of ordinary working folk. Their critical reviews are in reverse proportion to their record sales. But they've played three live sessions for Marc Riley and Tom Robinson on 6 Music. So there. Other fans include writer Ian Rankin and 6 Music's Gideon Coe who played tracks from last album Fox Pop (2020) five times on his show. Buzfuz leader Joe Murphy founded the Blang record label in 2005, growing from the monthly live nights he promoted at London's 12 Bar Club. "That is what, I do believe, you call a pop tune" MARC RILEY, BBC 6 MUSIC "Wow, that was awesome" SKY SAXON "wrapping a fiery political core inside layers of charming, playful, psychedelic pop" JOYZINE "if you want comparisons you can start with The Kinks, The Velvet Underground and Squeeze" THE PUNK SITE " psychedelic flavours and punky raw guitars" FAME MAGAZINE " a perfectly crafted antidote to chart pop " BEEHIVE CANDY 8 15 Pink Eye Club Pink Eye Club is South London?s one-man-disco-machine and self-confessed nerd Haydn Davies. Crafting high-energy electronic music on a laptop, Pink Eye has been gathering a growing cult following through his explosive live sets at his packed out regular club nights ?Pink Eye?s Sunday Roast? at Windmill, Brixton and ?Pink Eye?s Paradise? at The George Tavern, Stepney. Pink Eye Club?s sound channels the euphoric high of a Saturday night out following the drudgery of a 9-5 week, it?s a heady sound influenced by a love of club culture and all things pop, whilst his quintessentially British lyricism tells relatable everyday stories of ordinary life, with its touchstones sitting somewhere between the gritty realism of Sleaford Mod?s disillusion and The Streets' savvy and witty urban observations. "Pink Eye Club is a man, a microphone and some banging house music...one of the most unpretentious and open, articulate voices emerging right now." JUNO "Appearing like the Maharaja of Brixton, open shirt, laptop his sceptre, Pink Eye Club?s set galvanised the crowd and reminded us of the elated joy we feel in his presence." HIDEOUS MAG Blang is an independent record label based in London and Sheffield. Check the 43 min documentary film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzZl2ZVbpzE www.blangrecords.com The Ivy House (as The Newlands) was a key venue on the pub rock circuit of the 70s, witnessing shows from Dr Feelgood, Kilburn And The High Roads, The 101ers, Elvis Costello, etc. An attempted buy-out by a property developer in 2012 was thwarted by the local community. It became the UK's first pub to be recognised as an Asset Of Community Value and London's first co-operatively-owned pub. http://ivyhousenunhead.com/ Nearest tubes: Peckham Rye and Brockley (both Overground Line). Buses: 484 goes from both above to Ivy House. 343 goes from Ivy House to Peckham Rye station, Elephant & Castle and London Bridge. www.blangrecords.com