colon cancer, cigarette breaks, jizznouts, attention deficit disorder, free basing wasps, Giovani's traveling circus, The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (4th edition), telephone masts, lucid dreams, prostetic masks, cars speeding by with stereos blasting, solar flares, gumbo, numerology, penspinning videos on YouTube, mechanical elfs, sub-human social skills, Aztec mythology and all the bands we rip off.
Sounds Like
Five pairs of eyes adjusting to multicoloured fractals of light in a dimly lit room. Circus punk, Plato doom, and Ketamine lounge. Eurovision song contest hopefuls.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. - Theodore W Adorno
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery. - Karlheinz Stockhausen
We’re going through changes- Kelly Osbourne
We’re Go Lebanon, a collective music blender from Manchester. We’ve been at it for a while, playing the various saloons and whorehouses that will still have us- dodging bottles and insults between songs and throwing chairs when needed. It’s been a wild ride, but that’s just how we like it. Sometimes. Recent line-up changes have seen our brother Charlie Garson leave for pastures new, after playing with us for three crazy years. His drumming (and much more) can be heard on all of the above tracks and we’re going to miss him.
Into the void.
Evolve. Our new roster has meant a lot more instrument swapping and has taken us in some surprising new directions. Vector Geometry. The Mathematics of Sideways. After an action packed month of touring the city (playing with Jackie-O Motherfucker, Valet, Lite, 54-71 and Trojan Horse!), clearing bars in Preston and being shut down by the police in Upperspace- we’re going to lock ourselves up in the studio for a while, attempting to harness our demons and conjure new ones. I think it’s safe to say we’re all rather excited by this prospect, and can’t wait to get back on the tightrope with a new set of songs.
[NB: Go Lebanon are notoriously erratic and untrustworthy individuals. It would therefore be wise to ignore the above oath of temporary chastity. If you want them to play in your city just ask.]
Le rêve humide de Couverture électrique (ordre d'imagination) Live at Tiger Lounge Manchester, June 2006
Come join us for our album launch - kicks off at 7pm, will go on till very late, will be very exciting, will be very messy etc etc etc. And not only that, it’s free entry. Recession-busting rock and roll, oh yeah…
xNoBBQx Skewer 10" LP (Ltd to 300 copies) - Out May 12th
We first came across xNoBBQx (just call them No Barbeque, I guess) in Piccadilly Records last year when the Siltbreeze vinyl reissue of their first CD-r appeared on its shelves. The Siltbreeze label being a bastion of all that is great in terms of dirgy, lo-fi, transcendental unmusicality, we were thus intrigued to hear this slab. And, we have to say, it was one of the greatest shop-listening experiences of all time. Here was a duo, probably of fully grown men, bashing away at their instruments in a manner that suggested they had never really learned any 'proper' technique. We later read a review, in fact, that put it thus:
"So what exactly is the difference between an xNoBBQx recording and a couple of 14 year olds bashing instruments in the garage with record pressed down on one of their mum’s old tape recorders? Probably not a whole lot, actually, but I get the feeling that’s precisely the point. " (Cyclic Defrost)
Well, yes, that does largely seem to be the point. But it's a helluva point. The Australian duo, in spite of their unabashed simplicity, manage to create sounds that are warm as an old-fashioned blanket, each piece having the ability to induce a state of complete, dribbling mental stasis. It's disjointed, scratchy and 'difficult', yes. But it also manages to be completely absorbing. If you like your rock deconstructed to the nth degree, we highly recommend you dig this.
xNoBBQx will be touring the UK from 10th May 2009. We'll be putting them on in Manchester on 12th May (venue TBC), so keep yr eyes on this page.
~~ Saturday 4th April ~~ ~~ Mello Mello ~~ ~~ Slater St, Liverpool ~~ ~~Music from 8pm Tax -£6 ~~ BOB LOG III - A return visit from our fave space helmet wearing hoedown drum n slide Texan ! ! ! his shit is perfect.
VIALKA - French traveling Turbo Folk Micro-Orchestra. c'est wonderful! ! !
BLUE DEMON - Psychobilly Rag-Time, Angry Dancing Skiffle from Toxteth
MECHAGODZILLA - The No:1 Narcosis / Tom Waits tribute act on Wigan Pier.
Dj's Playing Glorious musics from 8pm til late late late... could be a squeezy squeezy so come down early early early. ! ! !
Vampire Blues is the duo of guitar player Jon Collin (Serfs, The Whole Voyald) and harmonium player Jon Marshall (The Hunter Gracchus, Peril Hill). They have a pretty special tape out on Blackest Rainbow. We can't recommend them highly enough.
The Fifth Band is the gobsmacking trio of Stephen Lawrie (The Telescopes), Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra) and Chris Hladowski (The Family Elan). Oof.
A Wake is the duo of Nick Mitchell and Fliss Horrocks who also play in Beach Fuzz. This will actually probably end-up being a Beach Fuzz performance - this incarnation's first inside the UK.
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SUPPORT COMES FROM - ..
GNOD
THE CHRISTOPHERS
PAUL GREEN
SUPPORT FROM
Grand Canyon