It's a one-man band barnstorming hootenanny. Applicants are always welcome.
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Stanley Baxter, Swans, This Heat, Steve Reich, The Raincoats, Oren Ambarchi, Michael and Roberta Findlay, John Waters, Derek Jarman, Tod Dockstader, The Mothers Of Invention, The Pop Group, Sebadoh, Whitehouse
Magic Ghost started in 2006 way out in shitty Ipswich. It's me and no-one else. I released a split CD-EP then pissed off to Bristol.
With the release of Unofficial Debut Album in May 2008, the band became a six-piece live get up. After a few gigs and a few nice write-ups, three members were fired for being useless, unreliable and deaf. The remaining members went onto play bass for Vena Cava and drum for Radiant Sounds Of Dust.
Since then, the one true member has fended off stalkers, laughed like a fackin' drain with other Bristol music mothers, and is almost done recording a second full-length effort, and is planning some solo shows in the future.
If you wanna join me for the odd bit of recording, live audience participation and feel like you wanna bang your head against the noise rock, feel free to contact me.
23rd November @ 13th Note, Glasgow with D Abraham Turner 24th November @ Kraak Gallery, Manchester with A Middle Sex - £4 26th November @ Tap, The Water Works, Southend with Lost Harbours - FREE 27th November @ Cafe Oto, London with Chora - £5
FRAG003 ROVAR17 experimental artist from budapest, 57 minutes of cinematographic noise, the perfect soundtrack for your life. OUT NOW! 8 france / 9 europe / 10 world postpaid order via www. fragments. tk infos at fragmentslabel. blogspot. com
Mob Ruleshear here. - These four vile men are unrivalled in the UK right now for their intensity, speed, hatred, aggression, weirdness, la la la. A genuine spectacle guaranteed to bring a sweet release from your inner conflicts and struggles. New 7" out now on SuperFi records. Think MITB, No Comment etc.
Caricatures - Sheer doom overload. New Bristol band featuring ex Mea Culpa.
Team Brick - Local treasure. Always a treat. Witness a man banish his innermost demons for real.
Though Neptune have put out a lot of material over 12 years, the release of Gong Lake on experimental artists' haven Table of the Elements may net the band their widest exposure yet. Describing their records without mentioning the methods behind them, and the ensuing live spectacle, is hard to resist: On stage, they man heavy, foreboding instruments self-made from antiquated machines and scrap metal, forged at extreme angles like props from a German expressionist film. The band could never be reduced to simply performance art, though, and Gong Lake is just as rich in rhythm and atmosphere as any of their previous albums. Still, they remain primarily a live beast. Their sound is literally industrial, and it's way more fun to watch a factory bang shit out than just to hear it. Neptune still struggle with that, and even at their most song-oriented and cohesive, a Neptune record may always be an advertisement for their dramatic, otherworldly live shows....
....From the vocals that crib from the Vincent Price playbook to the creepy-crawly vibe of instrumentals like "Red Sea" and "Purple Sleep", these songs can be campy and fun just as often as they are oppressive, and can easily be both; there's just as much of the impish sound manipulation of pioneers like Raymond Scott as there is Einstürzende Neubauten. Either way, Neptune are formidable architects of sound, regardless of what they had to build to get there. While Gong Lake is more a refinement than a breakthrough, the record doesn't suggest stasis; rather, you wonder how what could have been a performance-art gimmick has sustained itself for 12 years without running out of inspiration or steam, and Gong Lake is a fine argument for them sticking around.
