Name: The Sleeveens (USA) & TV Crime
Start: 2025-02-24T20:00:00+00:00
Location: The Waiting Room

The Sleeveens (First Time in the UK!)
When Irish-born Count Vaseline/The Mighty Stef songwriter Stef Murphy met Stiff Little Fingers guitar tech
Jamie Mechan in Nashville, Tennessee, it began a musical partnership of the highest order. After cranking out a few tunes at Mechan’s fledgling studio, 302 Sound, the duo started recruiting other musicians. The band was rounded out by drummer Ryan Sweeney (Cheap Time) and Eli Steele (Sweet Knives.) Dubbing themselves The Sleeveens, an Irish term for a trixter, the band got to work. After recording and releasing their highly-touted “Give My Regards To The Dancing Girls” 45rpm single on Sweeney’s Sweet Time Records, they finished off their 11 track debut LP. The quartet were soon approached by longrunning punk label Dirtnap Records (Marked Men, Exploding Hearts) for the album’s 2024 release.
The resulting LP is an homage to the kind of classic punk Chiswick, New Rose and Stiff Records were releasing 45 years before The Sleeveens existed. With earworm melodies and screaming guitars, the foursome have crafted one of the best albums of the year. Murphy’s penchant for charmingly brilliant, matter-of-fact lyricism has a similar poetic quality as Mark E. Smith or Jonathan Richman. With expert mastering by Jim Diamond (The White Stripes, The Dirtbombs) to put the finishing touches on the sound, The Sleeveens is a record that is simultaneously uncompromisingly raw and thoughtfully crafted.
“As far as I'm concerned, all and sundry can pencil in Stef as the Impending Punk Rock Van Morrison”
-Rev. Norb, Razorcake
TV Crime (First London gig since 2021!)
Nottingham Punk/Powerpop Rock N roller's came in hot with their first single "Hooligans" on Static Shock Records an absolute ear worm, followed with "Clocking In/Clocking Out" on Drunken Sailor, and their First LP "Metal Town" on Alien Snatch Records. They always put on one hell of a live set and definitely not a gig to miss!