Two mates got together to put on bands they think are ace. Hardly rocket science.
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You can check out the photos Paul has taken of (nearly) all of the previous Forest of Sounds here. The quality varies wildly, but hey. That's what you get for taking photos whilst drunk.
The next one...
Friday July 24th @ The Royal Park Cellars, 39 Queens Road, Leeds, LS6 1NY.
Doors 8.00pm, price £4 advance / £5 on the door.
Join the last.fm fun here and the facebook fun here.
Matthew Collings
Icelandic based musician Matthew Collings has been described as 'if Kevin Shields was a one-man band playing Steve Reich'. Ranging from tiny delicate moments of intimacy to all consuming noise, resembling Tim Hecker or fellow collaborator Ben Frost. His music is textural, melodic and often sonically overwhelming.
He may be known to Forest of Sound regulars as Sketches for Albinos, under which name he has played sporadic gigs in the UK over recent years, accompanied by groups of guitarists, sometimes numbering up to seven at a time (including members of The Declining Winter, worriedaboutsatan, Glissando, Laymar, Solus Locus, and I Concur). As Albinos, he has already produced two albums of lo-fi lusciousness, for Imoto (UK) and Ropeadope records (USA) respectively.
For his latest projects, under his own name, he is now associated with respected Icelandic label Bedroom Community (of Valgeir Sigurdsson, Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon and Ben Frost fame).
"Surrounding him in an arc which extends around the back of the tiny stage and off both sides stand the seven guitarists he's acquired for the evening. Seven leads feed into his nerve centre, and as seven hands pick out one drawn-out chord he works his magic; tuning and manipulating the sound and folding it back on itself across a background of quietly ticking electronica to fill the air around him with glacially mangificent sonic sculpture. There are two or three such pieces in his set; each building like some submerged orchestra. Ambient but definitely not background, when he draws it to a close it's like being snapped out of hypnosis. Amazing stuff." - Manchester Music
The Window Right
Utterly gorgeous cerebral instrumental music as endorsed by Four Tet and Damo Suzuki. Other people buy up effects pedals and techno wizadry to conceal the fact that their music is badly lacking… but not The Window Right. This is the music of three overly talented chaps hand crafting amazing music from the very best ingredients.
”What makes The Window Right special is the sense of modesty about their music. It’s experimental, and it’s a style of their own, but it never sounds fussy, forced or arrogant.” - www.leedsmusicscene.net
Plus VERY special secret guests...
The one after that...
Saturday September 26th @ The Royal Park Cellars, 39 Queens Road, Leeds, LS6 1NY.
Epic45
Epic45 are one of those very special bands - their music manages to capture the sounds that have been in your head for years, but you've never actually heard. Inspired by their surroundings, blissful childhood summers and mysterious/inspiring walks the duo has been making music for more than a decade, and are rightly held in high regard for fusing elements of electronica, alt. indie, post rock and ambience in a very individual way.
It comes as no surprise to find that Epic45 grew up - and still reside - in a small rural village in the heartland of the English Midlands. Based around the nucleus of 27 year old school friends Ben Holton and Rob Glover, Epic45 have had a varied and fluid line-up since their debut in 1999, releasing a series of highly acclaimed EPs and albums for labels such as Bearos, Awkward Silence and Where Are My Records. The band has also received radio airplay from the late John Peel, Steve Lamacq and Verity Sharp over the past few years.
"The best English Summer record ever." - WORD Magazine
"One of the most gorgeous albums you’ll hear in a long time." - Drowned in Sound
Yellow6
A long running member of the fantastic Make Mine Music label (think Library Tapes, Epic45, July Skies, Piano Magic, and Portal), Yellow6 makes ever shifting, beautifully hypnotic solo guitar pieces that evoke huge cinematic widescreen landscapes. This is a rare appearance of a UK legend in Leeds in -don't miss!
”Shimmering, gliding, graceful and elegant.” - Leonard's Lair
Plus one more act TBC.
The one after that...
Monday October 5th @ The Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queens Road, Leeds, LS6 1NY.
Join the last.fm fun here and the facebook fun here.
Trespassers William
New to the Leeds based Gizeh Records family, after previous releases on Bella Union and Nettwerk, Trespassers William return with a new EP full of their usual chilling warmth. A sensory overload of broken, distorted soundscapes, all the while pinned back by Anna-Lynne's unmistakably haunting vocals and words.
Trespassers spent two years touring with the likes of Damien Rice, Stereolab, Explosions in the Sky and Broken Social Scene before recording their second album with Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips/Mercury Rev/Low/MGMT etc). Anna-Lynne has also recorded guest vocals on The Chemical Brothers 'Push the Button' record.
"Singer Anna-Lynne Williams has one of those crystal-clear voices made up of shyness, loneliness and quiet despair, while her band dream up the kind of space country that might have sound tracked 'Twin Peaks: The Comedown Years" - NME
Glissando
Glissando is a duo from Leeds, UK playing ambient, slowcore, classical based music. Their debut album 'With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea' was released to high critical acclaim on Gizeh in June 2008. A heavy touring schedule in 2008, including shows with Stars of the Lid, and now into 2009 is taking this beautiful band to fresh audiences and complete with added members Glissando is now a breathtaking live experience.
"Low meets Mogwai, only with fragments of Regina Spektor at her most restrained. Exceptional." - Rockfood (5/5)
Konntinent
Konntinent is the work of London’s Antony J Harrison. As well as co-curating Phantom Channel (an esteemed Net/CD-R Label) including its special Events wing, Harrison’s recorded output can be found on revered labels including Symbolic Interaction, Dynamophone, Serein and Sonic Pieces.
His music is unique, utilising an arsenal of broken electronics, silky organic instrumentation, found sounds and drone-based soundscapes, Konntinent ensures he avoids well-trodden paths to establish the fact that his compositions are very much his own.
”As illuminative as anything Labradford has laid their hand to, floating past gently in a cloud of ambient distortion.” - Boring Machine Disturbs Sleep
(By the way - the sublime illustrative genius that aesthetically signifies our events [the bloke who does our poster designs] can be found here.)
Hey guys! We are launching a new service today based mainly on facebook. It
is called Nationwide Gigs and here's how it works. You message us with
details of all your upcoming gigs, and we post event invites. You will
also be helping other bands as you will need to in return encourage
fans to "become a fan" of this page. So, not only will your fans be
invited to these gigs, fans of other bands will be invited to. Since
this is a new launch, please encourage as many fans as possible to
"become a fan". The URL is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nationwide-Gigs/99666359778?created#/pages/London-United-Kingdom/Nationwide-Gigs/99666359778
The details you need to send are:
Who is running the gig? - Promoter/venue/yourselves etc.
When is the gig?
Where is the gig?
What is the full line-up?
What is the genre/type of music?
Venue phone number
Where are tickets available from?
How much are tickets?
Any other info?
You can either send all of this info via MySpace, facebook (facebook.com/julesnem) or email: mail@noiseelement.com If all of this information is on a flyer, this will be acceptable. If you have a flyer, we will also use this.
All of the information will also go out on the weekly mailing list, so encourage fans to sign up to that too @ www.noiseelement.com
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
SEVEN has some pretty good stuff coming up over the next couple of weeks with the best of up-and-coming talent both locally and nationally. Take a gander below- something might just take your fancy...
Feel free to drop us a comment or a message... it's what we live for, innit.
Hiya We’ve been working on some new songs and are in pre-production for the recording of our first commercial CD release which will be recorded over the summer, with a hopeful release October time,
Our last live performance before our summer holiday will be at the Selby outdoor festival at the James Street 'bowling green' in Selby on the 21st June, the event starts at 1pm and we’ll be on stage at 5pm others on the bill are Dirty Secrets, Chantel McGregor, The Beautiful Sound, Last Gang and headlining is the Bryan Adams Experience, we hope you can be there.
And if that's not your cup of tea, how about a UK exclusive show with Tyla and The Dogs D'amour on Saturday 6th June, as part of the UKs' premier sleaze & glam clubnight Wildside's 6th birthday celebrations!
Please note, this is NOT a solo or acoustic show, but a full electric set featuring all their classic songs!
Support from Silverjet, Union X & Dead Sensation!
Then not only one, but two clubnights until the early hours- Wildside and Maximum Overdrive!
"the Brownies could be Xerox Girls' attitudinal, imperiously cool nieces and nephews. Brilliantly out of step with current modish indie trends, full of heart-in-mouth moments and a hatred so finely tuned it's almost sexy, Means To An End is a handstand, a cartwheel and a kick in the nuts and it demands your immediate surrender." - THE GUARDIAN SINGLE OF THE WEEK
This is a huge scoop for us and definitely a gig not to be missed!!
Support for the evening comes from Anola Gray and I Saved Latin. Two of the areas finest up and coming bands.
New Slowdive Blog Spot interview:_ I recently met online a very nice guy who goes by the name of Ramon Torres who as ked me five questions for his blog:
**look out for track I recently finished with Machinefabriek and Gareth Davis called "Soundlines" which will see a lovely 3 inch cd release on the spendid machinefabriek label very soon:
***If you are going to Sonar in Barcalona on 18th June come and see The Sight Below who I am playing guitar with!
¬¬¬"Navigare" out August 09 on Miasmah Recordings *****
hello! 3 new songs recorded in studio on our page : "Aquarelle de cendre", "Icebergs" and "Namaskard"(new version). if you want to come, listen, you're welcome. see you soon; sjàumst seinna.
salut! 3 nouvelles chansons eregistrées en studio sur notre page : "Aquarelle de cendre", "Icebergs" et "Namaskard"(nouvelle version). si vous voulez venir, vous etes les bienvenus. à bientot; sjàumst seinna.
