Adventures in Pop: CHOPCHOP

Tue, 07 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm UTC+01:00

69 High Street, TN343EW Hastings, United Kingdom | Hastings

The Jenny Lind
Publisher/HostThe Jenny Lind
Adventures in Pop: CHOPCHOP
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The brainchild of Montague Armstrong, Rippengal and The Barbarian Horde, Adventures In Pop is a monthly night of original, creative music from left-of-field with a different featured headliner each month.
This month we welcome Brighton-based post punk, art rock, prog band CHOPCHOP:
“CHOPCHOP’s music snakes round its orator like a slippery thing, cymbals replaced by the clatter of hubcaps on toms, cutlery-jammed guitars – there’s an itchy jazzy vibe to the melodics, fuelled by a fertile imagination full of bruised shapes and punkish angles.
Performance artist Xelís de Toro dances the jagged edges superbly in an urgent, jerky Giacometti centrepiece that has a David Byrne-like drive to his contortions, enraptured in a stream of consciousness simplicity and a razor-sharp intellect.
The sounds that surround him are tensive, built up on darting dynamics, eerie keys and smeared trumpet that Schaumburg your head with surprise. A mosaic whole, crawling and crackling, mining mantra-like to vocal abstracts that punch out their confines. Their last track is a beautiful contraction that secures a well deserved applause.”
- Live review
Michael Rodham-Heaps at FREQ mag,
on CHOPCHOP at Moth Club, Hackney
“A fantastic life affirming noise… wildly original”
Tom Robinson, BBC 6
“The extraordinary chopchop – better, more ferocious, more astonishing every time I see them”
“Never seen anything like them… left me with the strange urge to watch a Marx brothers film”
https://chopchopsounds.com

Support from house bands - The Barbarian Horde (the Squeeze of Hastings) and Montague Armstrong Rippengal (Anglo-Latvian electro-folk)
FREE ENTRY - but contributions for the performers are encouraged and welcome via the Jenny 'gig jug' :)
18+

https://montaguearmstrong.com
https://www.facebook.com/montaguearmstrongshop
https://www.instagram.com/montaguearmstrong
https://www.facebook.com/thebarbiehorde
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