Karl D'Silva: alto saxophone, clarinet / Alastair Neilson: percussion / Laura Parsons: keyboard, voice, percussion / Ben Wetherill: voice, guitar, clarinet, keyboard
Influences
Noel Coward, Vladimir Nabokov, Billie Holiday, Lounge Lizards, Brian Eno, Sidney Bechet, The Soft Machine, King Crimson, Nirvana, David Lynch, Robert Wyatt, Michael Jackson, AL Lloyd, John Jacob Niles...
Sounds Like
""...like a nervous dandy being chased by a brass band" Timeout
"Benjamin Wetherill, playing with the Trumpets of Death, steps right out of the ordinary immediately, treading a fine line between madness and marvel. His tremoringly intense persona is drowned beneath drones, scattered rhythms and quite inhumane saxophone playing, and takes persistence to follow. Constantly sinister, crawling and depraved jazz harmony...Wetherill pummels his chromatic freak folk with real meaning, and baffling energy." The Skinny
A return to Sheffield?! Excellent news Ben. And The Grapes too (your spiritual home, where I first saw you supporting A Hawk and a Hacksaw, ooh, about 5 years ago!)Don't think you've been in town since last summer at the Shakespeare.
As an aside, I'm guessing the 12" version of "We Made Plans to Strangle Your Lover" is now never going to see the light of day? That is a real shame.
Solo alias of Melbourne based multi-instrumentalist Sam Jones, previously found playing with Flying Saucer Attack, Minotaur Shock, Crescent and Third Eye Foundation. A brilliant mix of electronic and acoustic textures, plaintive vocals and eccentric British humour, The Balky Mule has garnered comparisons to people like Hood, Pram, Syd Barrett and FatCat labelmates Songs of Green Pheasant.
MUSIC TRANSFER PROTOCOL est heureux de vous convier au festival
LES SONS DU NORD,
vendredi 8 et samedi 9 mai
au Centre Culturel Evasion de Noyelles Sous Lens.
Au programme, deux soirées de réjouissances sonores venues du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, du nord de l'Angleterre et de Belgique. La programmation 2009 est à découvrir sur www.myspace.com/musictransferprotocol
VENDREDI 8 MAI:
Dos de Mayo (Lille - France)
Mexican Kids at home (Sheffield, UK)
V.O (Bruxelles, Belgique)
Cheick de Stael (Lille, France)
SAMEDI 9 MAI:
Spasmodic Joy (Lille, France)
Standard Fare (Sheffield, UK)
Automatiq (entre Lille et Harnes, France)
Jack & the Beanstalks (Sheffield, UK)
Barbecue et mises en bouche sonores dès 19h!
Un stand associatif et musical sera également tenu toute le journée du 8 mai à l'occasion du marché aux puces de Noyelles Sous Lens (rue de Carvin, centre-ville).
WHITE premiere UK tour releasing new album produced by Blixa Bargeld(Einstürzende Neubauten). Cosmic industrial avant-garde music. Alex Chichile, New York based sound artist, use brain wave controlling modular synth, quatrophonic performance. Four Acts from Beijing, New York, Edinburgh, London Sandy Milroy 1/4 of the mighty tusk, effect pedals destruction. Eaten By Children Improvised electronics, amplified surfaces and Super-8 flicker films
29th April, Wednesday. The Bowery, Edinburgh, Door 7:30, Finish by 10:30. £6 / £5 Advanced List: Email your name to tickets@grindsightopeneye.co.uk for Advanced List.
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