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#249> MARCH 20th '08 - new issue here every Thursday afternoon |
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you think he saw us? |
 Editorials,
introductions, time, space, repeat – there is no time, moon pulls and Equinox
and what makes you think there’s time for introductions, dive straight
in, read the reviews, hit the links, go explore, tied up in all kinds of
things and blood everywhere...
These are the things that
have been in our ears this week, please explore and if it sounds interesting
then just hit the links and make your own minds up, our reviews and thoughts
are mere signposts designed to guide you to the things you might like to
feast on yourselves... don’t you just love the instant hit of the www.
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IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME? |
| SF Bay Area combo (and Organ
favourites) THE MASS say they “proudly release limited CD-R EP Holocene
now boasting 4-string assault skills of Andrew Lund (Lower Forty-Eight,
Sons Oswald). Once again utilizing producer Tim Green of The F**king Champs,
four tunes showcasing blasphemous sonic headf**kery, raw death guitar flesh,
thrashing scream throat hate, warped unjazz Coleman saxophone too-distorted
fuckyou bass chugs, neck-snapping too-fast frantic drum thudding plodding
stop-on-a dime, fast/slow unorthodox approach to composition, answering
to no trend, caring for no approval, leaving all know this disc chock full
of Fuck-off old-school punk Coltrane End game, we do not care any more
about popularity contests online friend-orgies, we just wanted to say f**k
it all and make gnarliest shit of our careers, and we did, and you are
holding it now here your hands, f**king crank it sucker". www.themass.us
/ www.myspace.com/themass
Labrador
say they are “proud to present THE SOUND OF ARROWS - the band that
will lead Swedish pop into the next decade. With the deepest love possible
they gather sounds and samples from all over and turn them into lush pop
songs with exquisitely beautiful melodies”. There’s a free
download here and you can explore at - www.labrador.se |
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THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
| MUSIC
STARS WARN IRISH AGAINST BNP - Billy Bragg, Carl Barat and Pete Doherty
are amongst those who have signed an open letter to London's Irish community
urging them not to vote for the BNP in the upcoming Mayoral election. You
might wonder why they should aim it at the Irish in particular - well,
apparently the BNP have been targeting the Irish community in London with
a leaflet which claims that the BNP "is the only party who care about the
Irish. Our jobs are under threat from economic migrants and only the BNP
will stop this. The BNP value [sic] the Irish community and will defend
their interests." The letter, issued by Rock Against Racism and signed
by MPs, union types and sportsmen as well as musicians, was published yesterday
– St Patrick's Day - and says "We believe that the BNP remains an inherently
racist organisation; their past and present is based not on nationalism
or patriotism, but fascism. The Irish community in Britain and especially
in London has a long history of involvement in anti-fascist and anti-racist
activities. Everyone who rejects the BNP's politics of hate has the duty
to do everything they can to stop them. We urge the Irish community and
all communities in London to reject the politics of division and hate in
May."
CITIZEN
FISH are joined by AOS3, HEADJAM, PRESSURE DROP, KERBFACE at
the Maze in Nottingham on March 26th, now that’s what we call a bill! More
from www.myspace.com/skavillepromotions
or www.myspace.com/aos3
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John on the phone... |
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ON YOUR RADIO - WEEKLY on SUNDAYS AT 9.00pm via RESONANCE 104.4FM in London
and worldwide via www.resonancefm.com
more details here
Here's
what went down last week (now that's what we call a radio show!)
1:
TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta)
2:
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – Interference Patterns (Virgin)
3:
WHAT WOULD JESUS DRIVE? – I Think We Rushed Into This (Split)
4:
LOS CONIOS – Johnny Denime (download)
5:
A.P.A.T.T – Avajier (Pickled Egg)
6:
B FOR BANG – Helter Skelter (KML)
7:
UNCLE PEDRO – Cats (self release)
8:
BILGE PUMP – There’s No Rules To Love (Gringo)
9:
THE DIVINE BAZE ORCHESTRA – Dance (Record Heaven/Transubstans)
10:
HERZOGA - Nice Car (We Like Danger)
11:
EPIDEME – Ex-Crown (Silver Rocket)
12:
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE – Nashville Parthenon (Tomlab)
13:
BURMESE – No Blood No Cum (Heart And Crossbone)
14:
FOOT VILLAGE – Urination (Tome)
15:
PRE - Ace Cock (Skingraft)
16:
F**K BUTTONS – Sweet Love For Planet Earth (ATP/R)
17:
BLACK BONZO – Thorns Upon A Crown (Laser’s Edge)
18:
THEY CAME FROM THE STARS I SAW THEM – Monkey Typewriter (Thisisnotanexit)
19:
TIME.SPACE.REPEAT – Joy (download)
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DEMO TIME |
| We're
just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more time
for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective, when
we tell you it's good then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
BOMB FACTORY – positively
angry band rebelling against whatever you have for them to rebel against
– boredom, bosses, TV remote controls, the power tripping Police death
squads, Pot Noodle, Ford Cortinas, household pets... A refusal to sit back
and just accept defeat on the sofa watching twenty four hour television
or drinking crap larger at the bar to forget. Walk don’t run - angry, wired,
stressed out agit punk rock tension and bluster and why accept what they
throw at you? Here’s a chord, here’s another, your guitar is your weapon,
get off your arse, step away from that TV, stop consuming, form a band
(or start a zine, or put a gig on or...) – urgent wired angry punk rock
from somewhere in England www.myspace.com/burncambridgeburn
Last
week's demo of the week - KONTAKTE
Previous
demo's of the week - ATLAS / THE
HAROLD WARTOOTH / COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
/ EATEN BY TIGERS
/ MOLLOY / THE
ATROCITY EXHIBIT / 2
OUT OF 3 RULE / THE
JACKPOT GOLDEN BOYS / FANTAPLASTIC
/ YONATAN NIV
DEMO
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK |
| This
week the best new things we’ve been listening to were...
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
SSM – Break Your Arm For
Evolution (Alive) - Take Detroit garage punk rock ‘n roll and add a fine
touch of that same city’s soul as a starting point then throw the whole
thing right out the window and when the dust has settled and your mind
has focussed a little, go back out and get it all back, brush it down then
fizz it up and you have one hell of a three piece band. Deja Vu all over
again and horizons are expanded. Sounds and flavours morphed in to some
kind of post-new wave that you never really heard before. There’s moments
here that really are right out beyond, no deja vu, this is not all over
again. Detroit rock and soul and bits of kraut rock keys and transforming
synth pop crashing in to the MC5 and hell, the Motor City threw up another
one! And all of it drenched in the kind of cool as f soul Sly and The Family
dished out at Woodstock - along with quirky Devo synths and so much musical
guts and bits from here and there and sit back you got a tag. This is garage
punk rock like you never heard it before. Clever energy that doesn’t get
too clever, a band soaked in their heritage and their fizzing synths and
their reconstruction of deconstructed popular music and what you have is
one highly original sound from one very original band. The whole thing
regenerating in your face without every losing sight of the simply constructed
convention of the rock song . Brilliant album, inspired and inspiring –
The SSM Othership! The SS Mothership - www.ssmothership.tk
/ www.myspace.com/ssm
/ www.aliveenergy.com – find
it in the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk
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CHECK OUT
TALL FIRS – Too Old to Die
Young (Ecstatic Peace) – It really is lazy to say they sound like Sonic
Youth because they really don’t, they have that feel though, that attitude,
the phrasing – scrap that, they sound absolutely nothing like Sonic Youth
or Pavement or Shellac or Neil Young. Brooklyn’s Tall Firs are a classic
American alternative band. They’re mellow, refined, clever, warm, intelligent,
rewarding. Gently paced, slowing unwrapping songs and loose guitar textures
that amble in their own light, words that take their own time. Tall Firs
are rather unique and rather different in a very North American alt.folk
rock kind of way, they have the mellow otherness of classic Creedence,
they touch on a laid back Mudhoney or Thurston Moore, they have a country
rock feel without ever coming near being a country rock band. Tall Firs
know about space and time and the power of not using power and how silence
and the space between notes can say so much more. Electric-folk, Alt country,
Sonic Youth style indie noise-pop – Tall Firs are none of these, they taste
a little of them all. A shimmering drift, an all-the-time-in-the-world
feel. Strong songs, positive emotions, invitations to drift with them.
A fine album, a feel good glow, a mellow beauty, a heartily recommended
release – www.tallfirs.org or www.myspace.com/tallfirs
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TRIGGER THE BLOODSHED –
Purgation (Rising) – The sounds of extremity or maybe some great big drain-cleaning
brain-sucking machine and a relentless munching babbling cookie monster
vocalist aided by a tantrum throwing Tasmanian devil and a gang of pissed
off wasps flying right at your face. Relentless grindcore flavoured
extreme heavy metal, one dimensional in a positive way, gunning and gurning
and churning and somewhere in that never ending whirlwind of intensity
there is a sense of melody and indeed some light and shade. They’re from
Bath, they like to scream and tell and grinding bloody babbling fore and
musical laceration is good for you. They do it better than most, X marks
the spot, bring a shotgun. www.myspace.com/triggerthebloodshed
a.P.A.t.T - Black And
White Mass (Pickled Egg) - Cheese munching weird shit alert, this time
they sound like they fell through a timehole back in to 1927 with their
Mr Bungle records safely under their arm and went looking at swans and
stretching the envelope once more. Actually, they may be sounding even
more warped and out there than ever but this is actually the Liverpool
crew’s most accessible release yet. Mad hatters tea party for avant-rock
heads. You know, a.P.A.t.T really are truly unique, you really can’t say
that about many bands. Bits of Bungle bump in to cut up bits of Freaky
Funkin Weirdos and cut up twists and 20’s jazz and repetitive sound bite
samples and twisted pronk and Coloured Beads like the ones Zag has and
Crowmen falling down the stairs backwards wearing horses heads and twisted
stabs of fluid techno. Mighty Boosh chaos and strange keyboard attacks
and Zappa and more Wizards Of Twidly and Poisoned Electric Heads – must
be the scouse water. There is no way you can pin down Apehat, you get close
to catching their tail and no, they’re already off somewhere else. Twitching
punk and contradictions in several thousand motels – thing is though,
this time there’s no violent confrontation, this time is all flows and
in that uniquely quirky way they have, this is all very very weirdly good
to listen to, all bizarrely enjoyable - a.P.A.t.T in pleasant album shock.
Right now they’re in to some strange lo-fi orchestral polka... and now
some Dickensian musical with a twist that makes it nothing like really.
And now strings and klezmer and more off-hinge chaos that’s always in control,
oh hang on it just got violent! Took them eighteen tracks to boil it up
though! The therapy has been working. They sound like bee keepers, and
they believe in the Holy Toad, don’t ask who the Holy Toad is, there’s
no way you’ll get a straight answer, Cut up speeding bits, and cheese munching
weird shit – www.apatt.com or www.pickled-egg.co.uk
THE DEATHSET – Worldwide
(Counter) – The muthafuggin Deathset have an album to go with all the hype
that’s flying around everywhere (yes I know we’re as guilty as everyone,
playing them on the goddamn radio and such). Stretched out over the length
of an album it isn’t quite the ram-raiding rush it was when the single
arrived. Still, fizzing nihilism and beat-driven dance fused shouty lo-fi
punk rock abandon from deepest Baltimore and if they cut down the eighteen
tracks on here to maybe ten this would be a killer album. Sometimes less
is more. For every fine buzzing biting screaming slice of goodness here,
there’s another that just demands the fast forward button is jumped on.
When they’re good then The Deathset are a fizzed up fuzzed up beat box
abusing lo-fi ball of fractured chaos – when they’re good Tiger Force good
or Gobsausage good, they’re tangled confrontation and a twinkled toe glass
in your face, they’re a lighter lo-fi take on Pre and those synths and
drum machines sound like hey might not actually make it to the end of the
song. Abrasive scream-pop – most of the time they are good – and those
songs are short so I guess we can live with eighteen, hang on while I hit
the repeat button again, believe the hype and let them smash you with their
blast beat punk rock confrontation. www.thedeathset.com
MY UNCLE THE WOLF – My Uncle
The Wolf (Cargo) – Out of Brooklyn so it seems, armed with big riffs and
bigger attitude. Healthy mix of stoner rock, edgy blues and Zeppelin flavoured
alternative adventure. The album opens up with a powerful slice of driving
galloping stoner metal that’s pushing in to the Kyuss clouds and you’re
thinking yep, got this lot pinned – no, far more than just another regulation
stoner rock band here.... Massive sound that isn’t afraid to explore delicate
alternative corners – kind of like England’s Sea On Fire (or that band
Pipedream) or when they mellow out a little, the more creative moments
of Pearl Jam. Impressive album, impressive band... Recommended.
www.myspace.com/myunclethewolf
or www.cargorecords.co.uk
NEX – A Clockwork Heart
(Rising) – Ambitious melodic metal. Complex, solid, the English band certainly
are trying to push the envelope. Some of its dangerously in to those areas
of so called progressive technical metal that excite the kind of seriously
looking people who like bands such as Queensryche and Dragonforce, some
of it is melodic enough to sound a little like an English Styx, some of
it is rather impressive if you’re in the right state of (metal driven)
mind. Ambitious complex melodic technical metal and if that sounds like
your cup of tea then Nex have a rather original (and some might say impressive)
edge of their own. Go smell their poisoned flowers and let them take you
to the ball... www.myspace.com/nexmusic
NO USE FOR A NAME – Feel
Good Record Of The Year (Fat Wreck) – Does exactly what it says on the
tin, that slick/harmless uplifting feel good American radio friendly melodic
punk-pop thing (not sure where the punk element actually is these days
but hey...). Nice friendly pop hooks and complaining about something so
inoffensive and harmlessly pleasant at this would be like kicking a cute
little puppy dog – www.fatwreck.com
MAHJONGG – Kontpab (K Records)
– harmonic rhythms and other rock and a kind of Talking Head warning going
off in my head and the telephone keeps ringing is that my mother on the
phone? An eclectic sound, tribal rhythms, tribal polyrhythm and jittery
treble-happy bites on montage that flows in an awkwardly easy and very
fluid kind of way. There’s a lot of Talking Heads flavour here and maybe
a touch of Devo and are with in 1982? All kinds off minimal off-kilter
rhythms and sparse space and abstract pop, it really does sound like 1982.
– www.krecs.com available in the UK
via www.cargorecords.co.uk
SWORN AMONGST – And So It
Begins (Rising) – Self-assured power metal with a stomping thrash edge
from the young British band. They sound like they’ve been doing for ages,
sounds like the fourth album from some big name 90’s metal band rather
than a opening declaration in intent. Actually this is the band’s
second album and the follow up to last year’s self-produced/self released
Derision of Conformity. And so it really begins with some seriously bruising
metal for those who like their metal on the Pantera, Exodus, Testament
side of life... www.swornamongst.co.uk
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY – Infliketed
(Roadrunner) – The return of the re-united Cavalera brothers with some
snarling old school Slayer/Pantera style thrashing metalcore. No messing
metal that will keep all you Sepultura heads more than satisfied. Whatever
you want they’re against it, feel the agony and the ultraviolence etc etc...
www.cavaleraconspiracy.com
ALBUM
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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LIVE |
DAS
WANDERLUST, YOU SLUT!, TRUCKERS OF HUSK, THE BOBBY McGEE’S - The Social,
London – 10th March - This is a ridiculous, preposterous venue to try and
squeeze a bunch of bands into - can't help enjoying the results tonight
though. The Social is a great basement club close to Oxford Circus; I like
the atmosphere of the place, shame those chunky concrete tables by the
dance floor are such permanent fixtures. Five bands are shoehorned into
a tiny tiny space, partially surrounded by all their equipment, their drummers
periodically leaning forward to allow people to get past and go to the
toilet. The Bobby McGee’s are coming to the end of their set when I arrive;
a disparate bunch of eccentric souls, Scottish male voice (Jimmy), delicate/frantic
girl voice (Tallulah), they’re from Brighton, they have ukuleles and xylophones
and all kinds of things, they're purveyors of wonky, ascorbic anti-folk
cabaret, and irresistible. They're so odd that I wonder if I nodded off
and dreamt them. I make myself comfy for a while in the world's Laziest
Moshpit (one of the tables, situated where most gigs have the front of
stage and an audience space) and then come back from a trip to the bar
to find drums everywhere – really no room for an audience in here! Cardiff’s
Truckers Of Husk have commenced with the guitarist driving a double-percussion
meltdown, surrounded by appreciative audience. Ben (late of the frankly
wonderful avant rock outfit FTSE100) moves on to guitar, the band proper
being comprised of cello, bass, lead and a (superb) stand-in drummer (who
has had one rehearsal, not that you'd know). Their sound is graceful
and compelling, a softer, more pastoral take on Don Caballero: carefully
constructed contemplative repetition, lots of odd-time tweaks and twists,
loping rhythms. It's instrumental apart from the appearance of two mysterious
male singers, making a sung/chanted refrain over a haunting bassline. All
the rhythmic complexity - and there's a fair bit - comes subservient to
melody. Truckers Of Husk have some gorgeous tunes. It's heartfelt, warm,
English-sounding (ok, I know they're Welsh) instrumental rock, masquerading
as mere math rock when there's a sweet bubbling spring of emotion underneath.
Really don’t think any of their peers have such an innocent, wistful element
running through the music; would it hurt them if we were to drop hints
about them sounding a little like early Genesis here? Probably not, in
these confusingly prog-fashionable times. Anyway, all that matters,
when it comes to Truckers Of Husk, is that they have something... they
give something, risk a bit of themselves, something moving; a little bit
more than a time change, know what I mean?
Though You Slut!
don't go so deep, they're also a cut above the general slew of instrumental
avant-mathers. They're gleefully upfront about their complex dynamics,
cheerily heavy and righteously chunky. They like slabs of riffage and rocking-out,
they like laying them out in big contrasts and they really like playing
it. They're having fun, and don't mind bringing you along too.
A straight-up two-guitar, bass and drum outfit from the East Midlands of
England, four strapping young blokes with tons of energy, You Slut! have
a proper rock sound and a cracking, solid drummer, they pepper the whole
shebang with neat, deceptively subtle excursions. There's a sly wit too,
and a shocking lack of pretension. Mainly, though, they just rock.
Das Wanderlust top the night in a neat symmetrical way by being at least
as eccentric as the Bobby McGee's. Singer Laura is kind of unique,
and very likeable even when she does that screeching thing of hers, and
It's her birthday, too. They really are unique, they’re innocent
they’re imaginative, they’re wonderfully different in an edgy wrong pop
way and they’re the icing on the cake of a top evening with their need
to put the cat out and waking up to watch TV at three in the morning with
their lo-fi off-hinge new wave keyboards and songs that make it anything
but Wrong Pop. I wonder if the absent Huw Stephens (he of Radio One) -
who's night this night apparently is - got to hear anything as good in
SXSW tonight (or go to the Austin Texas orange shop to buy some bits and
bobs?). It really is all there right under your nose if you want to look...
www.myspace.com/thebobbymcgees
www.myspace.com/truckersofhusk
www.myspace.com/youslut1
www.myspace.com/daswanderlust
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previously - DR SLAGGLEBERRY
/ AIRBOURNE / SPIT
LIKE THIS / MOUSE
/ GRANTURA /
TO
THE BONES /DäLEK / DESTRUCTO
STORMBOTS / GUAPO
/ MOLLOY / CREEDLE
LIVE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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SINGLES |
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time...
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
MAPS
/ M83 – To The Sky/We Own The Sky (Sonic Cathedral) – Now this is something
special, two bands re-mixing each other’s tracks and a split single on
the excellent Sonic Cathedral label. What a little piece of musical treasure.
Two beautiful tracks, and it really is difficult not to use terms like
sky-touching and indeed talk of majestic glowing cathedrals or the sound
of shafts of gloriously dusty sunlight through stained glass windows so
no apologies for doing just that. Two bands and two tracks that compliment
each other perfectly. Two excellent remixes and no, we haven’t been here
before. Sing it all to the sky with all the mournful melancholia of this
Maps remix – this really is all you could possibly want. And the glowing
electrogaze of M83 is just so right, a fragile Pet Shop Boys for Spiritualized
disciples – the whole thing is just so perfect and so right. www.soniccathedral.co.uk
ALSO
CHECK OUT
BATDAN
– Maths & Chemistry (Splinkle) – Now that is an apt label, Batdan do
indeed splinkle. No real idea who he/she/they are, from Leeds I do believe.
A debut five track EP and some sparse and rather impressive, dark-edged
splinkling glitchy instrumental electronica. Rewardingly sinister, rhythmically
obtuse, sounds like a dark smoldering John Carpenter movie. I guess he’s
a he called Dan? This is good, lot of people playing around with glitch
and keyboards and drum ‘n bass and a lot of it really isn’t that good –
this is, this splinkles - www.myspace.com/iambatdan
/ www.splinklerecords.com
KILL
HANNAH – Lips Like Morphine (Roadrunner) – That slightly glammy slightly
gothy super-slick love metal pop thing that HIM do so well, looks like
the Chicago band are well on their way to world domination - www.myspace.com/killhannah
INDIGO
MOSS – Start Over Again (Butterfly) – Breezy sunny country-good Americana
from the open fields and barns of London town. Female voiced goodness and
folky picking and light-on-those-feet fiddles and just right - www.myspace.com/indigomoss
CHEAP
ANTIQUES – Mystery Is History - A whole bag of telescopes and cameras,
truth and magic tricks from the North East of England. All kinds of wizards
of twiddliness and strange coloured beads and saxophones and brushed rhythms.
Two girls, two boys, strange Englishness and voices to entice you in to
their mysteriously exotic tent and gongs and a slight 1920’s feel. One
of them is called Scott Walker – that kind of fits! All with a spoon full
of sugar and a who done it mystery. Comes with a make your own CD cover
with all sorts of magpie enticing bits of silver foil and maybe just a
hint of Zutons and oh look go find out – www.myspace.com/cheapantiques
MY
FEDERATION – Don’t Want To Die (Eye Industry) – Neat little harmonised
analogue squelcher of a stompy pop song, infectious alt.pop that should
be on daytime radio playlists. Pulsating indie pop that falls (for want
of a lazy reference point) somewhere between Supergrass and those Super
Furry Animals – www.myfederation.co.uk
Last
week's single of the week - CATNAP
Previously
- WHAT WOULD JESUS DRIVE? / FRIGHTENED
RABBIT / CAVALERA CONSPIRACY / SILVERY
/ PICTURES / STE
McCABE / THE DEATH SET / KUNK
/ DR SLAGGLEBERRY / HERZOGA
/ THE DROPKICK MURPHYS
SINGLE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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| 'RE-ISSUE/best
of OF THE WEEK |
| WIZARDS
OF TWIDDLY are back in action and they’ve just made two of their albums
available as download releases (actually they’ve probably made their classic
90’s albums available as well). You can catch a rare London date alongside
those other love-by-lots/unknown to most underground heroes of the last
century Zag And The Coloured Beads at the Bull & Gate on May 10th where
they’ll no doubt regale you with tales of tuna fish and sardines on toast
and all they wanted was a wreck somewhere.
The
two downloadable albums, both we assume still available in physical form
seeing as they released both in the last couple of years on their own Fractured
For Pleasure label, are Live At The Zanzibar - a live album recorded at
two of their re-union show on home ground in Liverpool in 2004/06 and The
Upendium Volume Three – a collection or rarities, demos and unreleased
versions of old favourites.
Wizards
of Twiddly were (and indeed are seeing as they appear to be back in some
kind of full working/playing live order now) a band who got a lot of coverage
(and space on Organ bills) around these parts in the 90’s – that period
of English musical history when strange quirkiness was not the acceptable
norm it is today. Eccentrically English, some might say dangerously
wacky and a little bit twee, others might say laced with devious humour
and thrilling progressive jazz/art rock otherness. A band in the grand
tradition of Gong or Super Furry Animals or Zappa or Sleepy People or The
Blockheads. They were/are regular collaborators with Kevin Ayres, they’re
armed with songs of cardboard banjos and falling of bikes and large geographical
features...
And
unlike back in those 90’s when the evil people at selective blinker-bound
places like the NME held all the media power and the only place you could
ever find out about bands like Wizards Of Twiddly (or Zag And The Coloured
Beads) was via word of mouth and handmade fanzines like Organ or Freakbeat
or Facelift or Earzone, all you need to do now is hit the links and hear
instantly for yourself. The live album is just that, live and unmessed
with, excellent introduction, actually both the albums are excellent. Heavily
flavoured in all things Canterbury Scene, Wizards of Twiddly are ultimately
plain different – go explore for yourself over at www.myspace.com/wizardsoftwiddly
– you don’t need our words, you just need us pointing the way, there they
are over there... go find out.
PREVIOUSLY
- DEEP PURPLE / CANDLEMASS
/ MORVISCOUS / CURRENT
93 / TYPE O NEGATIVE / N.W.A
/ STRIBORG / THE
WEIRDOS / THE MOB / ARSONISTS
GET ALL THE GIRLS / THE VERVE / KHAYA
/ GREASY TRUCKERS PARTY |
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MEDIA, VIDEO, PRINT AND.... |
 LESS
THAN JAKE – Loser, Kings and Things We Don’t Understand / Pezcore / Goodbye
Blue And White (Cooking Vinyl) – The Less The Jake back catalogue is being
re-issued by their new label Cooking Vinyl ahead of new material. These
are the first three re-issues, each album comes in new artwork/packaging
and with an additional DVD - the new studio album will be out this Summer.
Not sure about this garish new artwork, I rather liked the old stuff –
especially the old Blue And White cover and their tribute to their long
serving tour van. You have to like Less Than Jake though, classic no messing
good time cut-to-the-chase proper get in the van and go do it punk attitude,
raw American ska-pop energy. They’ve been at it sixteen years now, seems
like only yesterday their demo tapes were landing here – you always knew
they were going to be a band who’d stick to their guns, the real integrity
laced full on passionate punk rock deal. The DVD that comes with each album
is packed with pretty basic live D.I.Y bootleg style footage, some really
good documentation of early days, festival circle pits, Twisted Sister
covers (and was that A Styx song being sung in the tour van?). Yep. you
have to have respect for Less Than Jake, their sound maybe a little one
dimensional at times and you have to be a pretty dedicated fan to want
to sit through hours of bootleg video footage (and yeah, we’ve been spoilt
by Imperial Leisure bootleg videos which really do make bands like Less
Than Jake seem a little flat) – if you’re a fan this bootleg lo-fi footage
is great – awful album artwork, great DVDs, great documents and a great
way to re-issue their material - www.cookingvinyl.com
THE
WEDDING PRESENT – DVD: An Evening With... (Secret) Now as much as
I really like Gedge and co., the idea of a Wedding Present DVD really didn’t
fill me with unbridled excitement. Sure they’re up there with the Fall
and The Smiths in terms of English 80’s indie greatness. Songs, structure,
Northern life, who really wants to sit and watch a straight forward Wedding
Present live DVD though? Listen to them while you’re getting on with life,
really not the most exciting band to watch are they? Not going to be that
much pyro or circle pit action – actually this is very watchable, just
the four of them on a basic stage, three normal looking blokes and a girl
in short black dress playing some classic songs and looking and sounding
like it really does matter to them. Recorded in London at the Shepherds
Bush Empire (easily the best of London’s larger venues), this is a well
shot, well edited, no messing (I detest too much fancy editing and show
slickness from people who think we’re more interesting in their film cutting
skills that watching the actual band). A rather decent record of what looks
to have been a more than decent gig. Good set list, good everything. And
as with all live music DVDs, this is something for the already committed
fan only, all you fans need to know is yes, the quality is good and yes
it is worth your money... The DVD is released on April 14th. Get
all your latest Wedding Present info from www.scopitones.co.uk
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