DEAD PIONEERS & PETROL GIRLS

“We write a song, a year later it's more relevant than the day we wrote it. That keeps happening, and to be honest, it fills me with dismay.”

Backstage at the Camden Underworld, minutes before his band Dead Pioneers take the stage and devastate a capacity crowd with all the pain, power and primal energy of a classic punk-rock show, Gregg Deal exhales slowly. He’s been warming to his theme for almost an hour now, in much the same way an acetylene torch warms to the metal it must burn through. That theme is America, and there are few voices in punk-rock so uniquely qualified to speak on the country’s moral, social and political degradation, especially in the era of the orange despot. 

JOY. Present 
Dead Pioneers & Petrol Girls
Tuesday 14 July 2026
Green Door Store, Brighton
£20 adv + fees
19:00-22:30
18+