JOY. Present
MARMOZETS + support
Friday 5th December 2025
Patterns, Brighton
£16.50adv + fees
19:00-22:00
14+ (under 16s to be accompanied)
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While you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, it’s often possible to glean a lot about an album from its title. Take the 2014 debut album from the MARMOZETS – Becca MacIntyre, Sam MacIntyre, Josh MacIntyre, Jack Bottomley and Will Bottomley – a band that’s more than a gang: they’re quite literally family. ‘THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL MARMOZETS’ perfectly encapsulated the unpredictable yet undeniable music the Bingley band had been creating since their inception.
But what do you call the follow-up to a record which was described by Q magazine as “A very impressive, ambitious debut” and won the coveted Album Of The Year at the Kerrang! Awards, but has also seen its creators overcome personal hardships, learn valuable life lessons, and gain a sense of perspective? Knowing what the band knows now, it could only be called ‘KNOWING WHAT YOU KNOW NOW’. The presence of the legendary producer GIL NORTON (Foo Fighters, Pixies) at the helm ensures that this is the MARMOZETS’ most ambitious and accomplished offering to date.
“The second ‘those words’ came up in a conversation I said, ‘That would make a brilliant album title’,” recalls rhythm guitarist Sam MacIntyre. His sister, vocalist Becca MacIntyre (who Noisey describe as ‘an amazing fronthuman’), became so enthusiastic about the phrase that she took to covertly dropping it into her answers to journalists that remained unaware of the scoop being waved under their noses (“It perfectly summed everything we’d be through up,” she says).
The natural follow-up question those same journalists will be asking in the months to come is: what is it the band has learned that they’ve put into action on album number two? Turns out it’s that most important of virtues: patience – with regards to their interpersonal relationships (“We laid a number of issues on the table that had been stopping us moving forward,” says drummer Josh) and the creative process.
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