We've never been able to quite pin down exactly what it is that The Hunter Gracchus do, which is a wonderful thing. A shifting unit with Syed Kamran Ali, Fiona Marshall and Jon Marshall at the core, they have recently settled into a fairly stable unit of six, but it's hard to know how long that'll last. Still, while it does, it's producing all manner of magical and highly unexpected performances. The one captured here was recorded at the band's practice room cum gig space, Fagin's Hideout/The Furniture Makers and is a less blistering freakout than some of their recent output, preferring to quietly explore every nook of tonal space. It simmers rather than erupts and, the longer you become immersed in it, the less aware you become of the passage of time. It's a recording that feels like it should go on forever and, when it does come to a close, the silence is shocking. In a time when it's all too easy for a group of improvisers to just go full-tilt in some euphoric pursuit, the Hunter Gracchus provides us with a glowing alternative that draws us slowly in and drowns our senses. This is truly awesome.
Peeesseye I Woke Up and Drank a Bottle of Cheap Kojak CDR
Peeesseye made the scene at Dylan Nyoukis's Colour Out of Space festival last summer and hopped over to Manchester to play a show at the Town Hall Tavern, the recording of which forms the content of this incredible slab of dense droning harmonium, scraping, buzzing, subtly soloing guitar and pulse-free, scatter-drumming. We can't recommend this enough. Ltd to 80 copies
Its the Bank Holiday weekend, unlike many a normal sucky sunday.
Atomic Garden (from Clemand Ferrand en la France) are wicked and they're on tour promoting their album 'Little Stories About Potential Events'. Its produced by Chris Sheldon and Alan Douches (who've done Alkaline Trio, Therapy, Converge, Biffy Clyro and Foo Fighters among others...) and they're certainly worthy of seeing in a nice little place in Sheffield. They have a *shudders* myspace (imagine that...)
Kimmy Yeah play again (75% of actionier playing 0% of actionier songs - all new weird stuff). Songs by em at:
A Bear are a marvellous p-h/c band from Manchester. They're just releasing an EP called 'Some Of Our Friends are Animals'. Their jib is pleasingly cutting, and you can read stuff by em from their brilliantly non-myspace page at:
The 1st birthday party was a blast, thanks Mike. Glad to hear your proceeding apace with some new tunes, let me know when you're planning to unveil them in a live setting and I'll be there like a shot. Come down to this if you can, Bilge Pump are amazing. X Paul
Hey guys! So nice to hear from you. It's going well, thanks. Enjoying the holidays! And yourselves? Is all well in Sheffield? Do you guys know Uneven Blonde promotions from Sheffield? They want to put us on in 2009, and it would be lovely to have you guys with us! We listen to your stuff a lot when we sit in a room together and want to listen to good music!
Hey guys! Friday's gonna be a deadish night at the Red House. So we decided to do a open jam improv kinda bash. Hopefully enough of you can make it for a interesting night. So tell anybody you know. Live music can end at one in the morning...
hi corleone, how are you ? i'll be in wales at the beginning of august, around swansea, if one of you is going is going through, keep in touch ! i'll send you the 30€ from the cds (how many pints in 30€ ?!). hope to see you again chantal
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