Thanks to the powers that be, we have a pair of tickets to give away to Death From Above and Le Butcherettes on March 14, 2018. Fancy snapping them up? Simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following (very easy) question to info@thethinair.net: What is the title of Death From Above’s debut album? Good luck!
Mexican garage punk band Le Butcherettes with support from Sister Ghost at Belfast’s Black Box. Photos by Sara Marsden.
For the uninitiated, Le Butcherettes are a three-piece punk rock band based in El Paso, by way of LA and the streets of Guadalajara, Mexico. As founder and front-woman Teri Gender Bender has alluded to, her grounding in a deeply religious city, where ‘humble hard-working people’ live on the same streets as ‘violent kidnappers’ had a profound impact on her mind-set. This juxtaposition of good and evil would act as her musical education, informing image, lyrics and sound. Through a process of cultural osmosis Gender Bender drew inspiration from many sources, be it Mexico’s ‘raw corruption’ or American punk music –…