Pigeon Pit & Cheap Dirty Horse Brighton

About

PIGEON PIT
Pigeon Pit is the self described maximalist journaling songwriting project of Olympia, WA front-woman Lomes Oleander. With a scrapbook approach to storytelling, Oleander pieces together vignettes of a contemplative struggle for self-acceptance throughout her life: From the anarchic punk scene of surf town Santa Cruz, CA that served as her foundation in the early 2010s, to chemical escapism in dank basements in Seattle, bouncing throughout queer North American counter-culture by old cars and freight trains, and teaching kindergarten.

Artistically reinvigorated by a temporarily debilitating injury in 2020, Oleander began fleshing out her sound with a full band featuring violin and pedal steel guitar on Feather River Canyon Blues, channeling both psychedelic country and DIY pop pun, evoking Gram Parsons, the Weakerthans, and PS Eliot. In songs exploring queerness, grief, attachment, and political struggle for a better world, Pigeon Pit maintains a DIY ethos, playing packed intimate punk house basements and free generator shows while also making an appearance on NPRs Tiny Desk and touring with Laura Jane Grace and AJJ.

Leash Aggression is the second full-length Pigeon Pit LP of 2025. In January, they released Crazy Arms, which saw the group apply their expansive collage approach sonically, weaving field recordings of birds and laughter into a dense lyrical landscape further augmented by cello and electric guitar. On Leash Aggression, a contrast of bare-bones instrumentation lets the songs speak for themselves while showcasing their maturity as a live band. Its their most explicitly political record to date, and Oleanders songwriting acts as immersive world-building where possibility is more than science fiction. She proposes love for humanity, rather than fear of certain futures, as a political motivator and hope as an invitation to act in the face of bleakness, instead of something made impossible by it.

CHEAP DIRTY HORSE
A 6-piece queer-trash folk-punk band from Nottingham, UK. There are usually six of them and they are horses. They have a banjo, an acoustic guitar and an accordion, but also an electric guitar, a bass, and a drum kit. They write songs about stealing things, trans rights, and octopuses. Their friend Cloughster once said, I may have never got to see Bomb the Music Industry! live, but at least I got to see Cheap Dirty Horse. This is actually true but if it wasnt they still wouldve put it in this bio.

Plus special guest ELENA SIRETT(they/them): a folk-punk musician from North London specialising in theatrically honest solo acoustic songs. Their work wittily expresses the extreme emotions they experience as someone with borderline personality disorder. Elena also produces events for their project Attention Seekers, where they platform mentally ill, neurodiverse and disabled creatives. On top of that, they are a stage manager and a part of the creative team for Creature immersive.