NEW SINGLE 'Feel like crying b/w Eyes so blue'-OUT NOW!
7" single available in all good record shops now and from www.bronzerat.co.uk and digital download from itunes
DEBUT SINGLE-STILL AVAILABLE
'Don't pay no mind b/w Building a wall around my heart'
Released through Velo Recordings
7" single available from rough trade, pure groove, piccadilly records (manchester) in shops and mail order from their websites and on digital download from itunes
CONGREGATION ARE
Haillng from the New Cross bedsit scene looking like a couple of gangsters from the depression era, Congregation have lately been injecting the Blues and R&B genre with a heavy dose of class and soul.
Benjamin Prosser (Slide Guitar, Bass drum) and Victoria Yeulet (vocals, leg bells) play the kind of raw, slinky and seductive blues that have the power to restore one's faith in the genre. I know because they did it for me.
On record and on stage Prosser is a dark presence, wavering in the background, playing slide riffs and thumping a bass drum with his foot. Victoria wails away with a voice that never fails to chill. This is a voice that manages to conjure up all of her fallen sisters in arms back from the dead (or used record bins), yet it's still very much her own. The overall effect of these two's music is moving in a way that is both remorseful and joyful at the same time. They are so deep that it would hurt if you could stop smiling at the beauty of it all.
English White Boy R&B has a lot to answer for and these two are going a long way to re-dressing the issue. My new favorite band.
The BellRays headline a night of maximum rock'n'soul on Thursday next
week at The Borderline with Los Chicos and King Salami & The
Cumberland 3 playing live and Corn Rocket Club DJs on the wheels of
steel.
Click on flyer for tickets.....
Other forthcoming NTSOBC action:
July
Thrs 9 BellRays + Los Chicos + King Salami & The Cumberland 3 @ Borderline, London, W1
Thrs 16 Micheal Sheehy & The Hired Mourners + Gemma Ray @ The Lexington, London, N1
Thrs 23 O’Death @ The 100 Club, London, W1
September
Friday 11 T-Model Ford @ The Luminaire, London, NW6
Saturday 12 T-Model Ford @ The Luminaire, London, NW6
Tues 15 Bob Log III @ The Luminaire, Kilburn, London, NW6
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THE BACK TO WAX REVUE Tom Rodwell, Madame Pamita, the Borough Cat VS the Vulcan Cylinder Record Co.
*** Wed May 20 - The George Tavern, 373 Commercial Road, Stepney, London E1 0LA - 8pm £6 / £4 concessions *** Sun May 24 - The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR 7.30pm £10 door / £8 adv from www.wegottickets.co.uk
Weep not for the CD! Presenting the Back to Wax Revue, live onstage primitivist soundclash featuring genuine wax cylinder recording sessions. Witness performers battle with the original medium of recorded sound, Edison's wax cylinder, state of the art circa 1877. Ponder how recording mediums affect music; what changes in in the midst of form and content?
FEAT: Tom Rodwell (NZ) - gospel-blues primitivist Madame Pamita (LA) w/ K. Boogie - the world's foremost euphonious prognosticatrix Borough Cat (London) - London's doe-eyed dude of dolorum VS The Vulcan Cylinder Record Co. of Sheffield, UK - one of only two studios in the world with the capacity to acoustically record cylinders in the Edison fashion, Vulcan is also the world's only cylinder pressing plant and label.
22/03/09 Bristol, with Vase and the Madrigals 10/04/09 Norwich, with Internet forever 13/04/09 Edinburgh, with Withered Hand 17/04/09 London, with the light sleepers and the Madrigals 25/04/09 Madrid for Abril No tan Cruel festival
sat 14 feb : 6pm-11pm : HUSBANDS WINSTON ECHO VILE VILE CREATURES COREY ORBISON JELAS JAM ON BREAD CHAPS live at : THE JUNCTION : 51 stokes croft, bristol BS1 3PQ
sun 15 feb : 4pm-10pm : DRUNK GRANNY HEADFALL THE MIDDLE ONES TCKI TKCY DRUMMERS MAT RIVIERE THE PHYSICISTS JAM ON BREAD ROSEANNE BARRR live at : SECRET WAREHOUSE SITUATION : see tickets for directions
handmade tickets are available now, only at here shop & gallery unfold the ticket to reveal all the band times and the secret location of the sunday show
tickets for saturday or sunday are £5 each, or get a weekend ticket for just £8
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