Sword II
the hope & ruin
tue 8 sep · 8.00pm
£13.50
HH Presents: Sex Mask + Polite Bureaux + Humane + Minor Dents
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Hidden Herd Presents:SEX MASK Championed by NME as “Australia’s next big export”, Sex Mask are a three-piece alternative post-punk band from Melbourne. Comprised of Wry Gray (vocals/lyrics), Vinnie Moncada (drums/production) and Kaya Martin (guitar/synth), the band’s electrifying fusion of proto-post-punk and writhing no-wave cool has drawn comparisons to artists ranging from The Strokes to Bloc Party to Idles. With millions of Spotify streams to their name, Sex Mask have earned glowing praise from Dork — who featured them as Hype cover stars — as well as BBC Radio 6 Music, The Line of Best Fit and Clash Magazine. Experiencing Sex Mask live is all gas, no brakes. Renowned for their urgent, propulsive and wildly fun performances, the band have toured Australia with Sleaford Mods and the UK with Radio Free Alice, while also supporting Fcukers, Big Special and Fat White Family. They have also appeared at festivals including SXSW, The Great Escape Festival, Dot To Dot Festival and End of the Road Festival. + Polite Bureaux + Humane + Minor Dents 18+
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Bradford's polite bureaux released their album 'except your skint' in august 2025 and were picked for hidden herd's brighton new music night that september. The sound is wiry lo-fi electronic beats and jagged post-punk riffs under gritty spoken-word rants about everyday life in a fractured system. The title came from a line scrawled on a gas bill envelope during a pub night.
“a fist-pumping collision of gritty spoken-word venom and jagged electronic beats”
“the energetic, genre-blurring electronic post-punk project of Joe Smith, driven by wiry lo-fi beats and razor-sharp lyrical rants about everyday life”
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A brighton trio whose debut ep, sitting with the fish, arrived on local label rose hill records in january 2026. Their sound runs on motorik drums and long kosmische grooves, with cornet, clarinet and synth drifting over the top. It was engineered and mixed by julian tardo at church road in hove.
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Osaka Sun
band · surf rock · dream pop · shoegaze · brighton, uk
A brighton band who put bright surf guitar against hazy dream pop and a wash of shoegaze. Their debut ep is out in september 2026 and gets a launch show at the folklore rooms, with the set built for the immersive end of that sound.