Name: Cigarettes for Breakfast
Start: 2025-12-04T19:30:00+00:00
Location: 13 Turner Street, CT11 8NJ Ramsgate, United Kingdom

Cigarettes for Breakfast is a Philadelphia-based band known for their lush soundscapes and raw, emotive, fuzzed-out performances, capturing the essence of shoegaze and dream pop greats, such as My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive. The bedroom project of Matt Whiteford, along with an ever-changing cast of members and collaborators, has taken the hearts of listeners, making waves out of the DIY music scene and onto the stage with renowned acts like Slow Crush, The Asteroid No. 4, and Mahogany, among others.
After collaborating with former band members and mix engineer Jeff Ziegler on their debut album “Join the Circus,” Cigarettes for Breakfast's founder, Matt Whiteford, took things in the opposite direction and wrote, recorded, and mixed their sophomore LP Slow Motion on his own. The album takes a more personal, vulnerable, and inward approach to the songwriting while further expanding upon his modern take of the “classic” shoegaze and dream pop sounds. “Cigarettes for Breakfast...seems to take up the ideas of the very first (and then still fresh) The Jesus and Mary Chain in search of the perfect love song… from outer space.” - Daniel Flores — Rolling Stone.
In the era of the “the single” with shorter and shorter attention spans, Slow Motion is an immersive experience intended to be listened to all the way through. “This eleven-track voyage wraps you in a rich blanket of flavour and blissful highs fused with melancholic lows.” - Natalie Patrick — EARMILK. The live band, currently consisting of Matt Whiteford, Anthony Rossi, and Martin Buechler, embarked on their longest tour to date, selling out of the first pressing of the record and playing Slow Motion in its entirety across the US. “This project has the potential to go incredibly far — beyond the walls of local, underground venues.” - Kayla Moreno — New Noise Magazine. Slow Motion is out now wherever you listen to music.