Sarah Gower
green door store
tue 8 sep · 7.00pm
FREE
Polite Bureaux
fri
18
sep
SAUSAGE FACTORY PRESENTS IN BRIGHTON POLITE BUREUAX: Extending beyond music and punk poetry, the track "Broke Biscuits" features in the new skateboard movie 'Mutate or Die' from the legendary 'Heroin Skateboards'. Polite Bureaux AKA Joe Smith "You will see them deliver their mix of spoken word, electronic, and punk energy to the stage." - NME "It was only half three in the afternoon, but we were quickly thrown into the spirit of a Saturday night with the arrival of Polite Bureaux. The Bradford-born act AKA Joe Smith kicked things off with a punk-goes-clubbing banger full of filthy guitars and...
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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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