BABIES begins its’ regular monthly slot (3rd Friday of the Month) this week at The Hope, Brighton and we’ve got two stupidly good bands to celebrate with alongside the usual alterna-disco DJ rubbish…..

Headliners Tired Irie make stratospheric math-pop, the sound of Stanley Kubrick’s brain when he was obsessing over time warp effects in 2001 A Space Odyssey. Try Harder, the label that nurtured the early releases of Foals and Blood Red Shoes, have signed them up because, well, they know the score. This one’s going to be Jermemy-Packed-Man so make sure you’ve planted yourself upstairs at The Hope because there won’t be may opportunities to catch Tired Irie in such a tight setting again, indeed they head off in support of Does It Offend You Yeah! shortly after their Brighton gig. www.myspace.com/tiredirie

“Tired Irie represent something truly exciting in the British independent rock scene, something that’s set to explode in 2008” Drowned in Sound

Supporting are Pope Joan, Brighton boys who play with an addictive and invigorating sense of imagination, summoning the keyboard lines of DEVO before escaping off into Fugazi territory and climaxing somewhere miles off the musical map. www.myspace.com/popejoan

“Pope Joan are a fantastic and quirky proposition indeed” – NME

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