A. SMITHERS (BEAR, 2string bass, 666vokill666's, Pabst Blue Ribbon)
J. MILLER (FOX, 0string drums, 666Old Spice Body Wash666)
D. B. HARPER (PANDA, 5string guitarmageddon via twice-fucked Tele single-coils, arresting stares of pure hatred and/or lingering dissatisfaction)
LINCOLN SWARD (PLATYPUS, 4string bass, 4x15"s, master of the brown sound)
MSSRS. DAVID CANTWELL (life)
Influences
the inspiration that comes from the incredible diversity, talent, and support of our local music community...
also...
ZZ Top, Motorhead, Lightning Bolt, Harvey Milk, Wire, Willie Nelson, Khanate, Can, Unicorn Magic, Minutemen, Earth, Melvins, Dave Cantwell, Jesus Lizard, Shellac, Stars of the Lid, Iggy and the Stooges, ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Karp, Thrones, Karp, Richard Youngs, Karp, Louvin Brothers, Karp, Darkthrone (and all black metal of the talentless variety), Karp, Cherubs, My Bloody Valentine, Tony Conrad, Swans, 36 Invisibles, SUNNO))), Neu!, Stereolab, Faust, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Waylon Jennings, Thrones, CRUST, Big Boys, Big Business, Milton Brown, Karp, John Coltrane, Merzbow, Fleetwood Mac, Sleep, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Asva, Karp, The Birthday Party, Gus Cannon and Cannon's Jug Stompers, Growing, Peter Brotzmann, Karp, Crown Roast, Karp, James P. Johnson and Earl "Fatha" Hines
***please use EMAIL. We don't communicate very well through MySpace***
intheyearofthepig AT the gmail.com
thanks, we would like to hear from you sometime.
BANDS WE HAVE BEEN VERY LUCKY TO PLAY WITH:
Calabi Yau, Cantwell Gomez and Jordan, Caltrop, The Curtains of Night, Monsonia, Bastard Sword, Black Taj, Hazerai, Parts and Labor, Sunburned Hand of the Man, theUSAisamonster, Sightings, Pearls and Brass, Haunted House, John Wilkes Booze, The Psychic Paramount, No Doctors, Man Man, White Mice, des_ark, The Whole World Laughing, Crowmeat Bob, Inspector 22 and the Bramble Ramblers, Summer Sorcerer, Tiger Bear Wolf, Totimoshi, Some Girls, It's Reigning Men, Rockets and Mortar, BabaYaga, Boyzone, Chest Pains, facedowninshit, Ampere, daitro, Attrition Control, Hit By A Car, halo rings her head, The Creeping Nobodies, Black Skies, Hide and Seek, Gay Beast, So I Had to Shoot Him, Gown, Pegasus, Brass Castle, UpSideDownStars, The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, Worn In Red, Red Collar, Relay for Death, The Grey Daturas, Carol Bui, Midnite Snake, Night Wounds, and more that we are too foolish to remember.
Thanks to you all. We like you and think you are very special.
SOME BANDS WE PLAY/PLAYED IN:
The Hem of His Garment, Mount Moriah, Horseback, Horake!, Jolly John and the Jelly Makers, Un Deux Trois, Sorry Kevin, Armed To The Teeth, Rockets and Mortar, Frog Against Toad, Gamelan Nyai Saraswati, Coastguard, Cantwell Gomez & Jordan, The Whole World Laughing, Jazz Brunch, ColdSides, Analogue, and some more I can't remember.
STUFF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN NICE ENOUGH TO WRITE OR SAY ABOUT US:
-- Beneath the neon-green glow of two bright stageside beer signs, Chapel Hill five-piece In the Year of the Pig sounded like our incredible hulks, just faster and brighter and less vulnerable. The band's metallic Motorik menace slapped the room in the ears, like spiky exclamation points stabbing the gaps open for Earth, now a torpid, monolithic, blues-based, heavy-bottomed band with a focus and mettle as elegant as it is arid. -- Grayson Currin, The Independent
-- As a trio, Chapel Hill's In the Year of the Pig was a pocket of energy rattling loose onstage in unexpected vectors. Mic stands collapsed. Pedals slid. Sweat poured. It was heavy to a point, but mostly it was loud, sharp and entertaining. Sometime in 2007, the Pigs grew to five, doubling the drums with longtime Chapel Hill musician Dave Cantwell and the bass with Lincoln Sward. Now, they make Motorik rhythms for an anti-military-industrial complex, bludgeoning, aggressive and unstoppable. One of the most damaging bands at work. -- Grayson Currin, Shuffle Magazine, April 2008
-- Mimetic maybe of the sound of your brain sucked from the cranium with a big bendy straw, In the Year of the Pig are a skull-trephining mindfuck of the first degree, fueled by acid-wash freakouts and buzzing, distorted tsunamis designed to level your consciousness. Songs such as "I Dreamt I Didn't Hate You But Then I Woke Up" lope like the Melvins on Quaaludes, interspersed with moments of lucid hardcore. Other songs are similar (read: noisy) yet completely different (read: there are a lot of ways to skin a god damned cat).--Chris Parker, The Independent Weekly, June 27, 2007
-- In The Year of The Pig make fuzzwashed gtr-bass-drums freakout
wall-of-everything music, with little animal hats...--Ross Grady, TriangleRock.com
-- Apparently if you take a random survey of 4 different music lovers whose authority you trust, they'll light up in the face, their posture will improve & they'll get real bouncy & breathy as they tumble into an unexpected and bizarrely passionate detailing of their complex but unquestionable love for this band. it usually goes a little something like this: "...you think it's gonna be a total trainwreck...cute animal hats...insane...totally fucking brilliant!!!" it's hard to suppress intrigue when you've got that type of across-the-board enthusiasm for a group of people who seem convinced they're forest animals.--Aimee Argote, des_ark
-- You guys are the worst pieces of shit I've ever seen.--Our numero 1 fan from a show at Reservoir in Chapel Hill, to an amused audience via Bear's microphone.
-- The Sunburned Hand with the horse head says, "Thanks to [In the] Year of the Pig. That shit was fucked up."
It's always about the falling apart!--Bear, to Fox and Panda before practice, noting the commonality in most listeners' reactions to the chaotic (read as "intense" or "sloppy" depending on your personal aesthetic) nature of ITYOTP's live performance.
Above video is from a May 14, 2008 show at the Nightlight with Caltrop and Thrones. Very nice of Karen Mann to come and take video.
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Dylan Gilbert with Inspector 22 Bow Hunter and Ant Disaster Saturday November 29th 2008 @ The Nightlight 405 1/2 West Rosemary St.Chapel Hill, NC 10pm ------------------ Click to Buy Dylan Gilbert's new album "The Quiet Life" on CDBABY. COM.... .... or
dudeman... jenks asked me to do a poster for that show too actually. had i known it was a complete postermaker love-in, i'd have said yes for sure. hope the show went well!
Dylan Gilbert
Live @ Mansion 462
(462 W. Franklin St. Chapel Hill NC)
with Good Vs. Elvis
THURSDAY MAY 21ST
Doors at 8pm
