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#268> JULY 31st '08 - new issue here every Thursday afternoon |
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what we need right now is the longest piece of... |
Up
becomes down, black become white, should it be red or black licorice and
what we need right now is the longest piece of bootlace ever and if a six
turned out to be nine and put all out of mind with gin and coffee and lewdness,
not like feet in green and pleasant times or Apollo’s golden shafts of
light tiger tiger burning bright and stars throwing down spears. Another
week and what with Elliott Carter’s birthday and The Beads and the power
of my bones and piercing ribs and eyes and do you remember when there were
no sounds at all? These are muddled times, the pond is all muddy and we
don’t know when the water will clear and lend me your face, lend me your
face, lend me your face....
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. |
THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
There's
really no need to shout again this week, the Proms are here, the sun is
out, so are the blackberries, kick off is drawing ever closer, there's
an eclipse, the licorice possibilities are endless. Just how good is Elliott
Carter, more of him next week, and the 5th’s two-hundredth birthday last
Monday....
SHEARWATER
have added another UK date to their European tour and will now also be
playing Oxford's Zodiac (or Academy, if that's how you roll) on 14th September.
So the tour now looks like this: 10 September - Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL),
12 September - La Maroquinerie, Paris (FR), 13 September - End Of The Road
Festival, Dorset (GB), 14 September - Zodiac, Oxford (GB), 15 September
- Captain’s Rest, Glasgow (GB), 16 September - The Roadhouse, Manchester
(GB), 17 September - Bush Hall, London (GB), 18 September - Rough Trade
East, London (GB) *Free in-store performance*, 19 September - Whelans,
Dublin (IE), 20 September - Speakeasy, Belfast (GB), 21 September - Roisin
Dubh, Galway (IE) - see, here amd download the beauty that is Shearwater
from - www.matadorrecords.com/shearwater.
John on the phone... |
ORGAN
ON YOUR RADIO - WEEKLY on SUNDAYS AT 9.00pm via RESONANCE 104.4FM
in London and worldwide via www.resonancefm.com
more
details here
KAYO
DOT have some UK and Irish dates is September, the dates are with PELICAN
and
the rather fine TORCHE and here they are now: 12th Brighton,
Engine Room, 13th Sheffield, Corporation, 14th Glasgow, Oran Mor,
15th Belfast, The Limelight, 16th Dublin, Whelans, 17th Birmingham, Medicine
Bar, 18th London, Underworld, 19th Bristol, Croft. The Kayo Dot album is
Organ album of the week this week, read the review here,
meanwhile here's where you find the Torche
Organ album of the week review from back in May, or go explore the obligatory
My Space pages here: www.myspace.com/torche
or www.myspace.com/kayodot
or www.myspace.com/pelican
VESSELS
have announced tour dates to promote the release of their debut album,
'White Fields And Open Devices', out on 18 Aug via Cuckundoo Records. Those
of you who have been paying close attention to things around here will
have heard tracks from the album on our radio show, they’ve done the business,
we all knew they would though, review here next week. Here are the dates:
3 Sep: London, Buffalo Bar, 6 Sep: Bestival, 13 Sep: Leeds, Brundenell
Social Club, 10 Oct: Cambridge, Portland Arms, 11 Oct: Chichester, The
Chichester Inn, 12 Oct: Reading, Oakford Social Club, 15 Oct: Newcastle,
The End, 16 Oct: Glasgow, The Captain's Rest, 19 Oct: Brainwash Festival,
23 Oct: Brighton, The Freebutt, 25 Oct: London, Brixton Windmill, 26 Oct:
Bristol, The Croft - www.myspace.com/vesselsband |
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FORUM - CONTACT AND SWITCH THE OTHER |
ORGAN
FORUM - we've gone back and
added an old school back to basics Organ forum this week for general Organ
talk, interaction and for you to post your news and generally get involved
and make of it what you will, we'll trial it and see and if it proves to
be a healthy forum then we'll expand it and see, we had enough of Social
network Face Space sites own by big corporations removing our words and
taking down our blogs and controlling what we say or what you say. A forum
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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
THE
LAZY DARLINGS – This is good, four easy tracks, four gentle easy glowing
simple tracks – and smiles and sunny delight and wholesomely good mellow
indie alt.pop delivered with depth, crafted warmth and just a hint of Wilco
style Americana. Four impressive intelligent sun-kissed songs, four slices
of life and standing in the rain and sometimes the simple things are best
and less is more. The Lazy Darlings are a collective of relaxed musicians
- some from other Leeds bands such as I Concur, The Lodger, The Broken
Record Players – a collective of musicians just kicking back and enjoying
making some very fine mellow refined uplifting breezy, like is easy, songs
that will make you smile – especially if you give them time and space to
unwind and reach you, might take a few plays before you realise just how
good the songs are, I seem to have been playing it on and off all day now...
www.myspace.com/lazydarlings
ALSO
CHECK OUT
THRACIA
– Rise Of The Discosapiens – Furiously energetic metal flavoured punky
screamo ball of relentless tunes and things. Fronted by a voice called
Gen, alternatively sweet and then throat-raw growling and snarling, she’s
clearly not to be messed with. Well recorded well delivered shouty nu-metal
flavoured punkish rock from Northampton, she once fronted Defenestration,
guess they’ve gone out the window now then, her new band aren’t a million
miles away from her old one – www.myspace.com/thraciatowers
Last
week's demo of the week - DEBUTANT
Previous
demo's of the week - ARCS OF RED / LE
GALAXIE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / BLACKLANDS
/ THE SANS PAREIL / THE
HUNGRY I / DEAD LEAF ECHO / I-DEF-I
/ DANGER INVITES RESCUE
/ A CUP OF TEA
/ NARRATION / HOT
DAMN / KOPEK
/ DIE DIE DENEUVE
/ BOMB FACTORY
/ KONTAKTE
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
DOSH – Wolves And Wishes
(Anticon) – Martin Dosh’s forth official album and a whole fresh can of
clean cut free flowing tunes, a refreshing wonderment of an album. “re-imagined
drums, Rhodes and everything but the kitchen sink”. Delicate tinkling glistening
constructions that glide and then skip and then float – sometimes tribal,
sometimes from the city, sometimes from some other semi-secret place of
solitude. Gentle glitch, golden post-rock and breezy sunny brightness,
crystal clear instrumental prettiness – no, it isn’t as simple as just
calling it post rock, or electonica or anything else that easy or obvious
– Wolves And Wishes just feels different. Apparently no drum machines anywhere
near the album, ‘real’ drums looped and “re-imagined” and all organically
electronic, Things that lean towards My Bloody Valentine, a far more delicately
considered 65Daysofstatic, bits of violin, pedal steel guitar, sparking
percussion, contributions from and collaborations fwith Bonnie Prince Billy,
Andrew Bird, Fog, Odd Nosdam, Bad Plus drummer David King - cathedral quiet
dust in watery sunlight, compact loops that jangle, anthemic arpeggios,
brushed beats, milk bottle clinks and all, for all Wolves And Wishes’ breadth,
one beautiful cohesive spiritual flowing rewarding beautiful tingling whole.
A rather special, rather different, very uplifting positive, rather beautiful
album. www.anticon.com, available
on the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk
ALSO
CHECK OUT
THE
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE – Just Like Kicking Jesus (12 Tonar/A Records)
– You know, I thought the last album - My Bloody Underground - was a load
of shelf indulgent evidence of Anton finally losing the plot completely.
There’s history here as some of you know, lot of bad blood and some of
you devoted disciples of the BJM responded with a bag load of vitriolic
pleasantries when you read that last review. We’ve always called
it as we see it around here though and as much as we have a rather fractured
love hate relationship with Mr Newcombe, we’ll call it good when we hear
it good – this one is good. Five track mini album that comes out on the
other side of that cloud we thought he was lost on last time. Far more
out there and I guess he/they went so far out they came back in again.
Twenty seven minutes recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland; opens with a classic/typical
lo-fi psychedelic BJM riff and a track called Amazing Electronic Talking
Cave that features the adorable lead vocals of Icelandic artist and film
maker Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (apparently this is the !”learn to speak
Icelandic you smug shit” version), that first version locks in perfectly
with the repeat performance that is the second track and second version
of Talking Cave – this time Anton’s English vocals and words in his head
and I don’t know, this time around his psychedelic paranoia and waves of
sweat noise works. And that is the unpredictable beauty of the BJM, you
just never quite know. This time things get genuinely experimental and
those are almost dance beats in there with the haunting acoustic drone
and the spoken word loop that’s probably subliminally telling me to shoot
someone or something. You know, I really didn’t think much of the last
album, this mini album grabbed me straight away. Damn, when this band get
it all lined up they can be impressively good! – www.brianjonestownmassacre.com,
available on the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk |
HEAVY
HEAVY LOW LOW – Turtle Nipple And The Toxic Shock (New Weathermen) - Bad
case of daydreams, I don’t mind, they’re not mine... heavy heavy low low,
nothing like the smell of toxic shock on a hot summer Monday morning over
on the edge of someone else’s space. Nothing natural here but I do understand
your logic. They call it “spazz core”, I don’t know, I find that both throwaway
and a little offensive and “wacky” bands are on the whole very punchable
and annoying. Thankfully Heavy Heavy Low Low’s “wackiness”, on the whole,
is lost in the storm of twitching jerking screaming metal intensity and
hey, this is rather good. Tales of on the road drunken chaos and pizza
and an intense all over the dial explosion of awkwardly good hardcore metal
splatter and punky Bungle tantrums from San Jose. www.myspace.com/heavyheavylowlow
SILVERY – Thunderer &
Excelsior (Blow Up) – Silvery are a whirl of bright fairground rides and
sparks flying and the devil in the detail and heroism in the orders (and
warships that are really diesel trains with faulty heating systems...).
Silvery are hobby horses and carousels and HG Wells and Penny Dreadful
tales and very very English pop and yes, stretched out over a whole length
of a debut album it may just seem like a never ending ride that you can’t
get off. It may feel like you’re on a thunderer of a brightly painted
Victorian carousel ride that’s never going to end - around and around and
around with that fairground organ, until you stumble, almost dizzy, on
to that ghostly sailing ship at the end. Silvery are time machines and
fairground rides and steam trains and halls of mirrors and roll up roll
up see the amazing strong man and his action force – and around and around
and around again New ways of stealing what’s already theirs and if
you want after those good days of Blur and Supergrass flavoured things
that fed off new wave Sparks (or XTC) in such a gloriously English way
back at the end of the last century then Silvery are very much a treat
waiting for you. Meltdowns at holiday camps, rides along parallel
lines getting there and la la la, la la, la...roll up roll up, the devil
really is in the detail of their energetic English theatrical music hall
pop rides (fast and slow – and maybe you won’t ever want to get off?).
A fine debut album from the London band, just as they promised it would
be - www.blowuprecords.com
or www.myspace.com/silverytheband
FANTASY BAR – Friday Afternoon
Car (Acuarela) – Four people who were once in “probably the best Spanish
independent band ever” – Migala were once part of the Sub Pop empire, now
they’ve evolved in to Fantasy Bar with Scottish bass player Kieran Stephen
handling the rather compassionately beautiful careworn vocal duties. Beautiful
slow-paced gentle reflective rock songs – harsh, tender, quiet, warm. The
band also feature Chris Bathgate, one time of Arab Strap, that will give
you more than an idea – reflective songs that allow you to feel, beautiful
quiet songs that have body and soul to them along with a rewarding amount
of musical and physical depth. Enchanting simple cleverly refined songs
for followers of American Music Club, Nick Drake, Arab Strap – www.acuareladiscos.com
SOUTH – You Are Here (Genepool)
– Forth album already, they’ve been around since 2001 and back then they
promised so so much more this rather polite well behaved coffee table album.
This is a pleasant album and it really isn’t until ninth track Lonely Highs
that a hint of something that excited so much back at the start breaks
through. You Are Here is like meeting an old mate you once got up to all
kinds of things with only to find he’s become very polite and old and cut
all his hair off and bought some sensible shoes and a mortgage and
he looks down his nose at you for still being what he was back them. There’s
some nice moments here – Every Light Has Blown is an anthemic torch for
something or other, gets almost Keanish... Ultimately You Are Here is an
album sitting outside an expensive London gastro pub, this is the polite
gentrification of South if that’s what you want. www.south.uk.net
ISOR – The Zebra Theory (Copro)
– What’s that then? All Zebras must look and sound the same? Do not stand
out from the herd for fear of being pointed at or something? Decent enough
modern sounding UK metalcore, doing it as well as anyone out there right
now – brutal muscle and angry bite, hints of colour and that’s the frustrating
thing with Isor; they clearly could do so much more if they didn’t just
want to conform and be zebras – they could be a polka dot zebra or a zebra
with tiger stripes... still, if you want some streaming brutal well
played violently-edged UK metalcore conformity then Isor are your band
and they do it very very well. Oh, just a little something we haven’t heard
already please, a little dinner with a vulture or something – damn fine
brutal metalcore like you’ve heard many times before, they’re very good
at it.... www.isor.net
BLACK FLAME – Imperium (Regain)
– in which the extreme black metal band from Italy growl and blast and
buster and puster through a relentless hell storm of good enough standard
issue extreme growing blistering boiling brutal metal – www.black-flame.net
or www.regainrecords.com
LATE OF THE PIER – Fantasy
Black Channel (Zarcorp) - They try to push so much of it down our throats,
and the gag reflex always kicks in, none of it ever really satisfies even
when you do try your very best to swallow - the reflex is almost there
before it gets anywhere near your lips now, let along your throat - No!
You know long before you’ve heard any of these best new essential must
see/hear/suck bands they try to force down your throats that you’re not
going to want to swallow. Didn’t like the taste last time or the time before
that, why even bother this time? Not even going to try sucking on it this
time! You tried to force Franz down our throats, Bloc Party, We Are Scientists,
that lot who were flavour of the year last year or the year before, the
ones who went to the cashmachine who’s name we can’t even remember now.
Futureheads didn’t ever impress, The Enemy turned out not to be the future
and all the others that you fanfare on your glossy front covers and tell
us will change our lives, they never ever do, gag reflex is kicking in
again long before the album hits the speakers.
Late Of The Pier then? They’re just another one that they’re trying to
force on us aren’t they? Another they tell us we need, pineapple pieces
in brine and none of these bands ever back any of it up do they? None of
them are going to touch you like Joy Division or The Smiths or Stone Roses
or any of those bands who really did deserve their front covers and all
their words and who you didn’t need to proclaim and force on us because
they really were that good and they were really life changing. Sure, the
Futureheads and the Bloc Parties all have their moments, throwaway indie
pop and straightened out angular new wave with a safety net. And if you
can get past that involuntary gag reflex with Late Of The Pier then they
have their good moments - a little more than just an echo in the crowd
if you know what I mean. So we sucked on the Fantasy Black Channel, and
you know what, some of it really isn’t that bad. Rather like some of it,
sure some of it really is annoyingly irritating, their little bits of scratchy
funk that can leave you with an itch you didn’t want and then there are
the bits that really hit the spot and you think, hang on, for once there
really is something here. Yes, some of it really is quite good, some of
it is almost great, some of it is oh so fine and I want to be a friend
and those crunchy synthy bites that almost trip themsleves up and just
when you’re thinking yes, they hit a cheesy bit again - or they attempt
a little more skinny English indie boy humour and where’s the fast forward
button? There’s a rather good instrumental called VW, Focker drives forward
and takes you with it easily, Space And The Woods satisfies for a bit until
you think why am I listening to this when I could be listening to Gary
Numan and chop it chop it all down so it fits on a download and soundbites
and they played this track at least seven times in the Barfly bar last
night and arrghhhh, why do they force it and spit it out, I don’t want
to swallow.
Late Of The Pier are not going to change lives, they are not essential,
they are not the new hope, this is not a “remarkable debut album” or “mind
blowing brilliance” and Late of The Pier are not “making most other British
bands seem like primitive drooling luddites by comparison”. Late Of The
Pier are not “setting a challenge for everyone else “, at best they’ve
made a half decent album that borrows bits from here and takes bits from
there and come up with something that now and again satisfies – that bit
sounds like Flock Of Seagulls, that bit a bit like.... oh you can’t
avoid them, you can suck it and see, had enough now.. www.lateofthepier.com
ALBUM
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
LIVE |
VILE
IMBECILES / QUEEN ADREENA – The Luminaire, Kilburn, London, June 2008 –
One of the better places in London to see a band, Kilburn is neither Hoxton
nor Camden, the Luminaire is a decent friendly venue with a good sound,
a half decent pint and an all round good attitude. The Luminaire is a pleasant
place to go enjoy seeing a band (and don’t you love the way bands on early
still catch the daylight through that dome). Vile Imbeciles are easing
us in to their new album with that jarring uneasy hardboiled way of theirs.
The person I’ve dragged along to night knows nothing about them, she turns
to me three songs in and declares she can’t decide if they’re dreadful
or wonderful, couple of songs later and she’s down the front with a big
approving smile of her face. You see, it isn’t that the Brighton band are
awkward or difficult, more that they’re just so damn different with their
unsettlingly good sound. They’ve somehow found a way of deconstructing
new wave indie rock and put all the pieces back together in a slightly
different way so that it sounds just a little foreign and a little awkwardly
different to our ears. All pointy shoes and jabbing riffs and jarring a
proper angular (no not angular like all those bands who heard a Wire album
once and though no one will notice if they borrow a riff). This is really
angular and pointy and some kind of jarring death-jazz new wave big hair
and point shoe goth goodness – lord of some new church or other. Volatile,
compelling and tonight sounding better than ever...
Queen Daisy and her Chainsaw gang are always off-hinge good, quite where
they’re going or where they’ve been or where they actually want to go is
of no concern, they are in their own here and now with Katie Jane Garside
in the saddle and Crispin is holding on to those reins while she tried
ot gallop. Old friends greeting each other and getting ready to dance and
jump and yelp and preen, the ritual of it all, a one off “secret” low-key
gig before mainland European dates or something like that. Queen Adreena
are thankfully never anywhere near being Katie-Jane and a backing band,
Crispin is there with that attitude and those sharp-edged low-slung punkish
riffs and there’s a mean rhythm section gluing those whisper-screams of
songs together now. Impressive drums anchoring things and Queen Adeena
may just be sounding better than ever. She’s doing that coo-ing thing again
as they lash out with that snarling garage punk of theirs, all those things
from under their floorboard world and pretty like the air and the faded
flowers and that relentless Pretty Like stomping chug and she’s almost
lost in a frenzied trance of hair and who is that drummer? That’s one hell
of a drummer! Queen Adreena’s here and now is sounding rather healthy in
that off-hinge here and now pretty like pretty beautifully unhealthy way
only a Queen Adreena visceral thrill could be...
www.myspace.com/vileimbeciles
www.queenadreena.net
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PURE
REASON REVOLUTION - Camden Barfly London, 30th July – A low key gig ahead
of the much anticipated new album and more European touring - and with
their fresh, soaring harmonies and layers of careful detail, you'd expect
Pure Reason Revolution to dissolve into noise when subjected to the Camden
Barfly's notorious sound. But they're not bad on the ears here at the back
of the packed, heaving, sold-out sweatbox - the acoustics usually do improve
when it's full in this venue, and those songs are beautifully crafted.
There's that crossover with dance and club remixing in there with the prog/psyche
outlook - and both the dance and the progressive elements could be from
the bright-eyed early days of each. Man Parrish meets Jefferson Airplane!
Who knows how that happens - they're young, they started out, in previous
bands as one of those Nirvana-generation indie things with a blank slate
of influences, and when they discovered those good things from years ago
I guess they skipped the watered down tenth iteration and went straight
back to the bubbling source. It took me a while to appreciate how
good PRR really were: they're simple and complex, making big tunes with
good bone structure. 'This is ...really easy to listen to!' someone
yells in their mate's ear, astonished. The audience is their weird
split personality demographic of neo-proggers and skinny indie kids, but
that's down to the bands they've been supporting: their followers could
come from anywhere. Those massively hypnotic songs build and sweep but
never get bogged down; pop with rich layers, and sneakily memorable riffs
all combine to hook you in. The band don't go in for a huge amount of between-song,
crowd working, but connect in a modest, friendly way, and do the rest with
the music. They have their animated projections again tonight, meshing
with the music (although Un Chien D'Andalou fills in for one of the numbers...
I suppose it might be new for some of the audience.. ) The
West Coast girl/boy harmonies cut right through the distortions of live
volume, Intention Craft winding up its euphoric tension to that big heavy
lift - the acceptable and rather likeable face of stadium rock. Jon
Courtney (singer/composer/producer) pulls off something unique and surprising
with Pure Reason Revolution - it's enormously accessible, but satisfies
on more levels, has its own depth. Nobody bats an eyelid when they move
towards their more oldschool hip hop/club side - its delivered with the
same optimism and energy and hint of otherness, its peppered with the same
pleasurable cleverness. It all lives in its own space, a much needed place
between the pop and avant garde, somewhere hopeful and spririted and outward-looking,
with a bright hard edge in its dream... and surprisingly, getting that
feel over in a skanky little venue. They could, of course,
make millions of people happy.
www.myspace.com/purereasonrevolution
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| Live
previously - HARVEY MILK / OXBOW
/ WE ARE SCIENTISTS / FIGHT
LIKE APES / THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
/ FIGHT LIKE APES / LE
GALAXIE / ZAG
AND THE COLOURED BEADS / WIZARDS OF TWIDDLY
/ VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
/ FOUNDINGS
/ UNCLE PEDRO / EPIDEME
/ THE ENABLERS / IMPERIAL
LEISURE / DAS
WANDERLUST / YOU SLUT! / TRUCKERS
OF HUSK / THE BOBBY McGEE’S
/ DR SLAGGLEBERRY
LIVE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
SINGLES |
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
MOGWAI – Batcave (Wall of
Sound) - Whooo, that is how to come back punching some good fuggin’ prog
shit! Glasgow quartet Mogwai have a new EP out in September called Batcave,
we’ve only got the lead track here (advance radio promo thing on account
of us being on your airwaves and they think we’re only interested in the
a-side you see). A great big meaty instrumental prog-out alive with attention
grabbing Hammond-esque bite and dirty filthy edgy riffs. Batcave is off
the forthcoming album The Hawk Is Howling, Mogwai are sounding meaty good!
www.mogwai.co.uk
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK 2
Zs – The Hard EP (Three
One G) - This is seriously hard-boiled, no-wave artrock jazz noise
and a fifteen minute one track single (or EP as they would have it) that
fall somewhere in to the cracks between, in the band’s own words, “DIY
punk and academic experimental music”. A raw monolitic musical polemic
and hard-boiled dare you to stick it out to the end discordant noise –
honking Flying Luttenbacher style honking-swan sax, random sounding constructed
controlled freeform avant piano and one whole holy cacophony of flowing
jarring instrumental noise – gloriously awkward! Love it! www.threeoneg.com |
ALSO
CHECK OUT
DDD
– EP (Hansard) - Prodding slabs of enigmatic melodic poppy industrial new
wave angular noise for those who like their Einstuerzende Neubauten to
come Sonic Youth shaped. Guitars and drum machines (and a trumpet) but
it really isn’t that easy and obvious to pin down down down down. Limited
to just 300 10” singles in hand silk screened hand numbered covers. Three
tracks, Drown is the relatively melodic one before Concentration gets all
stretched out and stressed and rushing around before we head down the downward
Spiral – www.myspace.com/hansardrecords
THE
VERVE - Love Is Noise (Parlophone) – The Verve are still making great records,
still putting in impressive live performances, this is another slice of
class, you don’t need us using up space telling you about it, we will anyway
though, we will, we will we will, just a little though... www.theverve.co.uk
Last
week's single of the week - ONE DAY AS A LION
Previously
- SON VER & ELEPHANT LEAF
/ FIGHT LIKE APES
/ THE BRUTE CHORUS / PORT
O’BRIEN / VESSELS
/
VILE IMBECILES
/ GIANT PAW / DARK
CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN / AIRBOURNE / THE
MASS / GRANTURA / BLACK
MOUNTAIN / CARIBOU / KILL
THE CAPTAINS
SINGLE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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'THIS
WEEK’S FREE DOWNLOAD... |
HERZOGA
are Talking to Satan, would you like them to do that in your house? Things
to say again? What to say? The Stoke on Trent outfit have a new track available
as a free download, the track is called Satanic Verses and it will have
adventures in your head. Herzoga at their most poppy and maybe at their
most accessible and easy yet. Following on from their split single with
To The Bones and their fully fledged Nice Car, their self proclaimed Wrong
Pop is sounding a little more refined this time. You can download it for
free via www.myspace.com/herzogaband
or you can e.mail them and bug them to send you a higher quality version.
HERZOGA are touring with
WHO OWNS DEATH TV, a new band put together by some Million Dead people
I do believe, double headline, I guess they sort out the running order
on the night or something like that. Tour starts on Wednesday 6th August
at the Retro Bar in Manchester, then 7th Little Civic, Wolverhampton, 8th
Wrong Pop @ The Glebe, Stoke On Trent, 13th Buffalo Cardiff, 14th Hector’s
House, Brighton, 15th Silver Rocket @ The Buffalo Bar, London, 16th The
Railway, Southend On Sea. – find out more via www.myspace.com/herzogaband
or indeed www.myspace.com/whoownsdeathtv
PREVIOUSLY
- THE MELVIS / SHEARWATER
/ THE REAL McKENZIES
/ VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
/ SIGOR ROS / VASECTOMY
EGGS NAILER / FAT WRECK,
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PREVIOUSLY
- DOOM / LIFE OF
AGONY / DEAD HEAD / DAVID
BOWIE / STUPIDS / AMEBIX
/ BLONDIE / THOR
/ STUMP / KOENJIHYAKKEI
/ SEBADOH / THE
FLYING LUTTENBACHERS / SUN EATS HOURS
/ LEGION OF PARASITES /
ALABAMA
3 / AHLEUCHATISTAS / WIZARDS
OF TWIDDLY / DEEP PURPLE / CANDLEMASS |
MEDIA, VIDEO, PRINT AND.... |
BOOK: THE STOOGES – A JOURNEY
THROUGH THE MICHIGAN UNDERWORLD (Brett Callwood/IMP Books) – Now a book
about the legends that make up The Stooges should be alive with tales of
this that and the other, Michigan must be alive with stories and... I mean
Michigan back then is ther stuff of legends, MC5 and the White Panthers
and Stooges following in with a whole different art-fuelled nihilistic
bent. I mean Iggy Pop, the Ashton Brothers, there must be so much here.
When Callwood casually mentions that by the time a young Stooges returned
to one local venue they were heavily in to using Heroin and then moves
on like he’s telling us nothing more than that they were now heavily in
to salt and vinegar crisps you want to scream out at him – why? How? Who?
What? Don’t leave it at one throwaway sentence, this is a vital...
Brett Callwood got a lot of praise for his recent MC5 book, I haven’t read
it. This at best is a workman like catalogue of who joined which band and
I don’t know, a book about a band like The Stooges should be alive, the
words should be jumping off the page, I shouldn’t be able to put it down.
I hate to say I got kind of bored. To Callwood’s credit he’s tried to put
a book together that’s about all the Stooges, Iggy has had more than enough
attention, the band themselves are still a little bit of a mystery, there
is some light cast here, nowhere near enough though – www.impbooks.co.uk
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PIE / SF ZINE FAIR
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THAN JAKE / THE WEDDING
PRESENT / PELICAN /
GIANT
PAW /
AURAL
INNOVATIONS / PARALLEL
WORLDS, PARALLEL LIVES TV documentary / NEVER
MIND THE SEX PISTOLS: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY – DVD / THE
ZINE DIRECTORY / BATH
BOMB / NEMESIS
TO GO #4 / DVD:
MIGHTY ROBOT: SLEEP WHEN YOU ARE DEAD |
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...And
Finally...- FIGHT LIKE APES - you thought we weren’t going to mention
them this week didn’t you! This week’s excuse to break out the silvery
glitter hotpants comes is the form of news of a cook off next Friday 8th
August between keyboard cart-wheeler Pockets and Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq
at The Summer Sundae Festival in Leicester! Fight Like Crepes will be broadcast
on the day on Steve's show from 4pm. The band will also record two tracks
at the festival for broadcast on a later show. Meanwhile the band have
some more dates next week as they carry on with the getting of grace -
catch them on the following days at the following places - 7th August -
Hoxton Bar & Kitchen (supporting Black Cherry), 8th August - Summer
Sundae Festival, Leicester – mainstage, 9th August - The Charlotte, Leicester
- Summer Sundae aftershow party – and you really should try and catch them,
they are rather special with their uniquely Dublin flavoured contradictions
that are so so many things. The essential thing is their songs, nothing
else would matter if they didn’t have such powerfully strong songs laced
with such strident personality. Fight Like Apes are as essential as goodness
me. Let me see; silver glitter hot pants, fish, chips and cans of pop,
low budget kung fu b-movies - www.mysapce.com/fightlikeapesmusic
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