Hold onto your hat and get ready for one of the most over-the-top rock n’ roll bands of all time.

Hail­ing from Japan, the King Broth­ers (Myspace page here) make it their busi­ness to some­how mash-up the ele­ments of every vital era of rock n’ roll music and then utter­ly demol­ish it. They approx­i­mate the sound of the Germs back­ing Howl­in’ Wolf — with his hand caught in a garbage dis­pos­al unit.

Pro­mot­er Bren­dan writes:

Few live acts make me drop my beer. When the King Broth­ers played Auck­land a cou­ple of years ago they did just that and left a trail of blind wor­ship­pers in their wake, set­ting rock­’n’roll music and any­thing else in their path on fire.

This incred­i­ble live act make noto­ri­ous leather-stovepipe nutjob rock­ers Gui­tar Wolf seem like Scots sad­core drips Belle and Sebas­t­ian. They take the blues into pri­mal scream ter­ri­to­ry, and in the live set­ting they glee­ful­ly pound your face in the resul­tant flam­ing gloop.

In sup­port are Welling­ton’s own excel­lent spazzy speed-rock­ers Knife Fight.

For bet­ter or worse, you will soon be able to divide your life in half — a time before you heard The King Broth­ers, and after. Oh, it’s gonna be explo­sive. You can count on it.

THE KING BROTHERS w/ KNIFE FIGHT
THURS 3RD MAY
SAN FRANCISCO BATHHOUSE
DOORS 8PM

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT REAL GROOVY