Ben McCabe plays drum kit, percussion, horn, sings in the background and does some MDing on the side. It all started when he went along to Off the Rails creative jazz orchestra in Morecambe to try and play drum kit and was then moulded, groomed and shoe-horned into various tight fitting musical garments. He currently works for the community music organization More Music in Morecambe where weeks are passed running streetbands, having face-offs with 8yr olds, hanging out with parents and toddlers, writing lists and bearing ill-judged grudges. Spreading his spread even further he never has the opportunity to get carried away on the drums with unashamed yet assuredly abashed folk-rockers The Pier Group. Also playing with Orchestre DC Dansette, Natural Causes, Slow Reader Group, Lawrence Woof Trio, Striding Edge, Little Hero (full band) and MDing Off the Rails all based in Northern England. All music on this page now the result of cordal whispers with Eddhu Nan.
Homemade Lemonade - Lancaster based purveyers of live electronically enhanced indie folk:
"Loops,
drones and spiralling riffs with mantra-like vocals characterise much
of their live set. Crashing waves of guitar under a chant of ‘I can
walk on water’ … give way to a bleak early-Factory Records sound
updated with electronic effects … reaching an impressive drawn out
climax in the explosive ‘Bliss, Ostensibly.’"(Lunecy Review, July 2009).
Pencil In - Preston-based alternative rock.
Pencil
In are a four piece alternative rock band hailing from the North West
of England. Coupling the incredible vocal clarity of Bill Orrick with
layered, effect soaked, post rock soundscapes and waves of raunchy
balls-out heaviness, theirs is a truly unique sound.
Satellites - 4-piece based in Lancaster Post-rock, ambient, progressive - "a double measure of post rock served with a generous helping of progressiveness."
Quisling
Meat - This is a mystery guest of sorts. He's been in Dry Green, the
Pier Group, the Thens, the Plastic Noons, and more. He's been away for
a while, but he's back in Lancaster. Don't miss this!
26th Sept - Uni of Cumbria, Lancaster
campus 27th Sept - Uni of Cumbria, Penrith campus 1st
Oct - The Dry Bar, Manchester 3rd Oct - Uni of Cumbria,
Ambleside campus 10th Oct - The Park Hotel,
Lancaster 24th Oct - Fuel, Manchester 30th Oct - The
Yorkshire House, Lancaster 21st Nov - Carpe Diem,
Leeds
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Electric Free Time Machine celebrate the launch of their debut album: ’mystery with hermit foil’ with a gig at the Yorkshire house in Lancaster.
ELECTRIC FREE TIME MACHINE - Lancaster
recent sound carriers for Damo Suzuki:From fast and bulbous blues stomps and vast experimental krautrock ambient strangeness, to abrasive shambolic metal, strange time shifts and delicate acoustic folk. www.myspace.com/eftm
albums at a special launch price of £4...so thats £5 for an amazing night of music and a brand spanking new bespoke embossed digipack album...have mercy