New Glasgow band start a riot with their debut single, with live dates planned with aural ultraviolence.
Creating a new band these days is a very complex exercise, kinda like plaiting from sawdust. It’s an absolute vapour trail of personalities that you build from. Sometimes, genius is created in a flash; a group comes along and just plugs into the cultural zeitgeist, uniting their city and representing the whole syntax of today’s sub-cultural Britain.
But that’s enough about Snow Patrol, we’re here to talk about Ghostbitch.
Ghostbitch are a Glasgow based trio consisting of Neil on guitar and drinking, Kate on Drums and alcohol research, and Fingers on bass and keeper of the flame of classic noise-pop. This well-grounded bunch don’t intend to let fame and vanity go to their heads. (Glasgow just wouldnae allow it!) They are much more interested in blowing a few eardrums and misconceptions about the complacent and incestuous indie scene of the second city of the British Empire .
This rabble are mining a sonic seam that has been well grafted but is still fruitful. A wide range of influences reflects their good taste; imagine the assault of MBV at full- tilt, combined with the spite and attack of The Jesus & Mary Chain, and the innovation of Joe Meek (Not the homosexuality and Ouija Board led psychosis culminating in shooting yer landlady though!- at least not during the week) and the improvisational qualities of prime Krautrock. A Ghostbitch live show gives your head a good bubble-bath and washes the Technicolor mundane drabness of life away. Bleaching and then burning, imagine harsh bright white light, harsh bright white light.
But I am not gonnae piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining. Ghostbitch have to be seen and heard.
A single has been cut at Chime studios in Glasgow containing original material and a choice cover of the Lee Hazelwood penned sexual psychodrama Sand, to fill your senses with dirt and perfume, leather and lace, played with sincerity and reverence. And we all need a wee bit of Nancy & Lee even more so in these superannuated times.
Sin will always find you, so head towards the light of Ghostbitch dear brother and go to a heavenly hell of their creation.
Ghostbitch have suffered for their art, and now it’s your turn.
Brian McNeill
Ghost Bitch are proper snarly three piece noiseniks, hometown heroes in bland chart attack freakout fuzzorama. Somewhat of a dimension collision, late fifties surf growl collapsing into white light/white heat chair dragging across concrete, Can bass two-note propelled into early Chemikal underground wilfulness and catapulted forward, afterburner incinerating Snow Patrol's huskies with a needless yelp. Thank the lord. Great website too.
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Finally I've found a band that sounds like I feel. No small talk. The would-be sound to the gallows. Three bastards: misery, a heathen of the heavens, and a suicide survival kit. They loop discontent. They reek retribution. They should be proud.
ghost bitch are really getting under my skin lately too. Angry guitar strumming over some gentle bass and drums is what makes their tunes. No vocals, which seems odd, but only because every other band have a vocalist. They're doing something new...will it take off? I hope so.
"Ever watch a 60’s movie set in the future? The kind where the sets are stark white with oddly shaped chairs in bright colors that don’t look the least bit comfortable, where the cars fly but are roughly the size of pontoons, where people get their meals by speaking into little boxes and out pops a plate with a small, unnaturally colored cube on it? Yes, it all looks futuristic and ultra-modern but it still, without a doubt, is stamped with the impression of an era long past – and it’s still really cool.
BLÆRG’s latest release, a 3" CD by the name of “Auspices and Vagaries” is the perfect score to a meal of Soylent Orange or for a drink at the milk bar. It stirs together bits of futuristic rhythms, strains of jazzy flavor and a splash of retro flair into a wonderful little breakcore appetizer that leaves the palate whetted and the appetite craving more.
This 3" CD-R is hand printed and assembled, and comes with an “Auspices and Vagaries” vinyl sticker. This album is strictly limited to 50 copies. Album can also be downloaded for free in 128kbps MP3 format. This could be the last BLÆRG album for a long time. "
This is just to let anyone who wants to know, know that Weenliz are playing at Eclectiv in Pivo Pivo on tues 02/09. Starts at 8pm and is free entry, we are first on.
Thursday night is the last of a trilogy of gigs which are to be recorded and made available for free download. Dowload part 1
At the Ivy Bar (beside the Mitchell library at Charing Cross)
THU 7TH AUGUST 4 BANDS 4 POUNDS IN 8PM DOORS ---------------------- Y'all is Fantasy Island - Intelligent and dirty indie chaps launch ther new EP! - www.myspace.comyifimusic
Cry Parrot compilation 1. 14 tracks from some of Scotland's best unsigned/independent acts. Download it for FREEHEEEERRRRREEEE!!!!
Tracklisting:
1. Copy Haho - Shotting at the Sky 2. Eagleowl - This Is Not Your Lucky Day 3. Household - New document 4. Boyfriend/Girlfriend - The Greatest Highs 5. The Ex-Men - Suck Her 6. Grozny - Bernard of Beziers 7. Plastic Animals - The Kids 8. The Low Miffs - Cressida 9. Rollor - Vapour 10. Arca Felix - Modullu 11. Orphans - A Learned Orifice 12. Dirty Summer - Knees 13. Hyena - Holiday 14. Plaaydoh - Trampoline
Getting all Hot and Spookyful Under the glare of a full moonful... The Hot Club welcome BURNT ALTAR to join in the fun saturday 23rd February 11.30pm-3am Downstairs Nice'n Sleazy £3 on door (entry to The Hot Club and the bar upstairs)
Hosted by Rafla (Sleazys) and Nobodaddy (The Phantom Band)
Biometrics - Out Next Monday (Xmas Eve) Biometrics w/b Motion Sickness Out - Monday 24th Decmeber
Cant think of an xmas present for that mad uncle who only listens to Mogwai all day? or that grandma that worships Interpol like gods? well look no further than Death In Public's new single conveniently released on Xmas eve! pre order now.
In the bleak mid-winter...THE so cold we're HOT CLUB! Its a(nother) Christmas Dancing Party. Come Hot!
and watch out for the 'HOT BONE' knees ups - where Glasgow and Dundee's Hot Club is teaming up with those cheeky gingers from London's Bad to the Bone - Boxing Day at the City Function Suite in Dundee and the 29th Dec in Sleazys, Glasgow. Yow! Do the Catwalk baby, aint I'm a dog!
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