We’re stoked to welcome The Sleeveens to Grimey’s on Wednesday, September 24th at 4:00 pm for a free & all ages in-store performance before they head westward for Gonerfest 22, where they’ll performing alongside the likes of Lightning Bolt, Silkworm, W.I.T.C.H., Snooper, Exbats, Dummy, The Pylon Re-enactment Society and more. You can purchase tickets to Gonerfest 22 and read more about the Memphis based record label and record store’s long-running festival on their site here. Notably, our event with The Sleeveens is their ONLY HOMETOWN GIG OF 2025! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to rock out with us in the record shop!

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 served as a homage to the kind of classic punk Chiswick, New Rose and Stiff Records were releasing 45 years before The Sleeveens existed. And now the band is back with their brand new tour-only 7” “Downtown” on Goner Records. Copies of the single will be available for purchase in the shop at our event. Be here to snag one or pick one up at Gonerfest!