dancing, prancing, drinking, winking, grazing, lazing, yoghurts, sausages, lawnmowers, crayons, corn pads and ducks mainly, but not too fussed. ..
Music
some wonky favourites include:
interpol, bonde do role, yo majesty, dragonette, pony up, felix da housecat, death from above 1979, le tigre, uffie, gravy train!!!!, holy fuck, ladytron, the gossip, hadouken! new young pony club, cold war kids, jamie t, the horrors, crystal castles, bikini kill, fischerspooner, david bowie, help she cant swim, the organ, hot chip, metric, yeah yeah yeahs, NIN, sugababes, girls aloud, go! team, be your own pet, we are scientists, klaxons, prince, whitey, radiohead, daft punk, george michael, cut copy, scissor sisters, blur, the smiths, the cure, erasure, new order, joy division, the pixies, stellastarr*, clor, the rakes, lcd soundsystem, sleater kinney, peaches, vitalic, the presets, miss kittin, css, duke spirit, bloc party, long blondes, test icicles, supersystem, white stripes, editors, the chalets, m.i.a, lady sov, !!!, chicks on speed, annie, modest mouse, tom vek, duchess says....
Movies
wizard of oz
Television
nighty night spaced french and saunders ..
Books
graffik magazine (yum) ..
Heroes
jill tyrrell linder
ms j saunders jessica stevenson
SATURDAY 21st MARCH CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
Brand new club night - more info here £4 before 12, £5 after The Lanes, Nelson St, Bristol
SATURDAY 28th MARCH WONKY MARCH!
MAIN ROOM - dancefloor indie / electro / 80s / genius pop! UPSTAIRS - INDIE INDIE INDIE! £5 before 11, £6 after The Warehouse, Bristol
WHAT IS WONKY ANYWAY?
Wonky is an alternative club night for gay people. Infact its for gay people, bi people, straight people and every other sort there is really. Well except homophobes. You types can just cock off, Wonky is no place for nastiness. Just love and booze and dancing and unpretentious fun! We play indie electro pop 80s. You may hear interpol next to erasure next to joy division next to blur next to peaches. Its all good fun.
WEBSITE: www.clubwonky.com { photos - tunes - info } FACEBOOK GROUP: Wonky ROCKS! { created by a lovely fan! updates and stuff }
MAILING LIST: email me at bernie@clubwonky.com and i'll add you or add your name on the Wonky website.
Uncle Sam invites you aboard the good ship Thekla on
Saturday 4th July for a very special American edition of "I Love Radio
2".
We'll be playing American-themed songs such as 'Born In The
USA', 'Surfin' USA', 'American Pie', 'Living In America', 'Kids In
America', 'Hotel California', 'New York New York', 'Sweet Home Alabama'
and more. Plus of course tracks by Boston and Chicago!
Saturday 4th July
Thekla (Top Deck) Bristol
11pm-3am
$6 (well £6 actually) / $5 (sorry, £5) before midnight / Free before 10pm
Avec Jean Giraud aka Moebius, Unit Moebius, R-Zac, The Micronauts, Vincent Malville, Computer Truck, Gael Horellou, Fluid, Chocomix, Wapi, Subversive Boy, Xerak, The Machinist, etc...
hey y'all come and check these guys out from baltimore. way to get loose on a friday night! + i play alone but still bring the dirt pop glistening with noise sprinkles x A
Fresh from their show at Barcelona's Primavera festival, Teeth Mountain will be unleash their heavy concoction of new-wave tribal psychedelic sounds on Cube, using driving percussion like other bands use guitars.
Deep, thick layers of rhythms and overlays of ambiance, from the gritty to the sublime, this eight-piece outfit create a controlled mayhem of weighty neo-tribal trance music, part Indian, part African, part Balkan, and part Baltimore, that transforms consciousness and carries the group and their listeners to higher states.
The Wire magazine recently praised their 'refusal to acknowledge any kind of destination point for their jamming, achieving a convincing state of suspension throughout, helped by some engagingly forceful drumming.'
Teeth Mountain pummel with noise and drums but are always inviting and joyous, a new wave of tribal sounds in underground music. Be prepared to witness a heady, peyote-voodoo brew, getting you out of your seats and on your feet. Teeth Mountain will enthrall you in a rhythmic, musical spell.
"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department
My new art book is on sale now. It's only £22.95 plus shipping and is a gorgeous 8 x 10 inch hard back with premium quality paper that has a silk finish. Please click on the link below to be taken to the store where you can browse through the first 15 pages and purchase through a secure online server.
MONDAY 18TH OF MAY (POST ATP WEEKEND REJUVENATION EXPERIENCE)
Icy Demons is an experimental music project started by Bablicon's Griffin Rodriguez (credited as Blue Hawaii) and Man Man / Need New Body's Christopher Powell (Pow Pow). A project of various Chicago musicians, they have released three albums, Fight Back! on the Elephant 6-associated label Cloud Recordings. Tears of a Clone on the Eastern Developments Music, and in 2007 Miami Ice on Easel (Japan release only).
Happy birthday to us! Lipstick On Your Collar celebrate their 3rd birthday upstairs @WONKY at the Warehouse on Saturday 25th April MAIN ROOM: WONKY DJs UPSTAIRS: LOYC DJs plus Panthergirls dance troupe & optional fancy dress - dress up as a female singer!
RNDM SLKTR RITES OF SPRING ALL DAY-R SATURDAY 21st of March / The Croft £5
the bands DETHSCALATOR GUM TAKES TOOTH THE COLOR OF THE SUN COWMAN
the DJs Antoni Maiovvi (Seed Records) - Italo Disco Future Space Love Party Machine Christopher - Flooded Treehouse Morpho - hard psych, kraut G - Russian Records Reliant - left electroniks, dark swing
Hello sailor! Please join us once again this Saturday nite, 7th March, upstairs aboard the good ship Thekla for another swingin' groovy evening of the club night that everyone's calling "I Love Radio 2", because that's its name!
4 hours of classic rock, pop, 60s-80s, easy & a wee bit cheesy from 11pm-3am. £6 / £5 before midnight / Free before 10pm
the mothers ruin podcast episode 3 - ‘i have a real problem with george lamb’
Its that time again, our monthly podcast (sort of) with all the bands coming to or played at the ruin and my rambling ranting self trying to hold it all together.
"I have a real problem with him, he is not even funny, and he know f-all about music. ‘Put him on to it’ I want to put him onto a stake!! I am sorry if you like him but I don’t, he reminds me of Noel Edmonds, I bet he likes all the stuff the NME goes on about and thinks Oasis are cutting edge. Tosser. "
If Wonky is full up then maybe try us? We're back this Saturday 28th February 4 hours of great girl records, from Le Tigre to Long Blondes, Robyn to the Ronettes, Tiffany to the Ting Tings.
10pm-2am upstairs @Hatchet, Frogmore Street, Bristol. £4 / £3 NUS or before 11pm
this is where you should be on SATURDAY! MOTHER'S RUIN
Rampant Rabbit.
Continuing Leeds' strong tradition of exciting DIY noise rock, Rampant Rabbit are a rare and strange blend brewed in 2007. Musically, the dual bass trio deftly manoeuvre between complex math funk out riffs not dissimilar to Faraquet or Oxes and sludge-laden doom drones for fans of Boris or Melvins. Also they have fit young faces and lots of shouting.
Numbering just 8 strings between them members Henry Myers (Hank Haint, Zoob Toob) Luke James Webb (Dawn Chorus) & Adam Nodwell (Signuls, Massive Heron) have grown a maze of entangling rhythms on a solid foundation of mega-loud rock that celebrates influences including Fugazi, Shellac & Zu. Rampant Rabbit have already stunned crowds supporting the likes of I'm Being Good, Action Beat, Bilge Pump, That Fucking Tank, Take a Worm for a Walk Week, Lords, Nisennenmondai, Cleckhuddersfax & Oxes.
Rampant Rabbit will have a stricly limited edition EP 'Power Trio 2007 - 2009' on tour with them available only at the gigs!
ahh valentines day, how nice. here's a decent idea after dinner. come down to bristol county sports club and experience
dethscalator http://www. myspace. com/dethscalator ++plan b review++ "Despite being fronted by Hokaben's chief organisational driving force, the presence of stoned-squall rockers Dethscalator here is entirely justified on their own merits. With riffs the size of London itself, their only two self-confessed influences - Black Sabbath and Scatch Acid - are undeniable. Considering any band that claims zero musical hat tips are ordinarily balls-out liars, though, you may as well choose the best. Hollering singer Dan Chandler paces on a trajectory only he can visualise, a bear with a shaven, sore head. And in 'Bradford Cockfight' they wield a memorable mid-Atlantic scrap played out halfway between Birmingham and Texas." - Adam Anonymous, Plan B, Issue 40/Dec 2008
Nøught are an instrumental three-piece who eschew the traditional confines of guitar-based rock & roll, choosing instead to fuse improvisational noise experimentation onto a clinical endo-skeleton and coating it all in an unholy racket. Ace.
If you've got any energy left then why not celebrate the start of 2009 again this Saturday night, 3rd January, with "I Love Radio 2" upstairs on the Thekla in Bristol.
With 4 hours of classic rock and pop tunes, we'll be offering you more records than you'd find in a Woolworths closing down sale.
It's another great pick 'n' mix of tunes, so hurry down to our January spectacular this Saturday night from 11pm. You'll be 70% off your head if you miss it!
THE JELAS Straight outta Yate & Chipping Sodbury, The Jelas play experimental pop songs at breakneck speed for people with short attention spans. A strange and wonderful band.
IRON CREASE Debut show! Dr. Robbie Cooper of Geisha and Mr. Stevie Windows ex of Safetyword employ the ancient art of taking drum beats and adding guitar riffs to create ROCK MUSIC.
THE COLOR OF THE SUN Sample heavy guitar pop from this Bristol via California duo. More effects boxes than you can shake a stick at, and some damn good tunes to boot.
FREEZE PUPPY (acoustic performance) A rare chance to see this incredible songwriter and performer present his songs in an acoustic setting. Absolutely unmissable.
+OLO Radio DJ's & [aZa] RUMBOT on the decks.
FRIDAY 19TH DECEMBER, 8PM TILL LATE MOTHER'S RUIN ALL FOR A CREDIT CRUNCH BUSTING £2 ON THE DOOR.
