The Thermals w/ LoneLady, Warm Widow, Sir Yes Yes Sir 8/6/07 at Islington Mill Boris w/ Day For Airstrikes 26/6/07 at Sacred Trinity Church Marnie Stern w/ Kong, Hot Bone 18/7/07 at Star and Garter Dan Deacon Barge Party Manchester/Salford 10/8/07 YACHT w/ Cowtown 9/11/07 at Charlies Stars of the Lid w/ Type Records, Brittle Stars 25/11/07 Dan Deacon w/ Montag, Cats in Paris 5/12/07 at Ruby Lounge Gowns w/ Burnst, The Search Map 10/12/07 at Saki Bar Earth and Sir Richard Bishop 7/2/08 at Zion Arts Centre Polysics w/ Cutting Pink With Knives, Cowtown 12/2/07 at Star and Garter Enablers w/ Bilge Pump, Gnod 16/3/08 at Star and Garter Boris and Growing 21/4/08 at Ruby Lounge Magik Markers w/ Beach Fuzz, Breaking Colts 28/4/08 at Satans Hollow Howlin Rain w/ Cats in Paris, Gentle Friendly, Hot Bone, Gnod 4/5/08 as part of Sounds From the Other City Lichens w/ Marvin, The International, Arficeden 21/5/06 at Tiger Lounge(co-promotion with BAD UNCLE) Videohippos w/ Sir Yes Sir, Serpentine Pad 25/6/08 at Tiger Lounge Oxbow & Harvey Milk w/ Manatees 14/7/08 at Ruby Lounge Acid Mothers Temple w/ Gentle Friendly, Chops, Primordial Undermind, Thoughtforms, Pausal, Gnod & A Middle Sex 10/8/08 at Islington Mill
Ponytail w/ Gentle Friendly, Cats in Paris, House of John Player 6/9/08 at Satans Hollow Approximately Infinite Universe tour 25/9/08 at Contact Theatre These Are Powers w/ Hot Bone, Breaking Colts 18/11 at Black Lion These Arms Are Snakes & Russian Circles w/ Tropics 20/11 at Star and Garter Zach Hill w/ Hot Bone, Wulf Wulf 4/12 at Sacred Trinity Church Future Islands 7/2/09 at Islington Mill Young Widows w/ The Freezing Fog, Hammers 19/2/09 at Tiger Lounge Earth w/ Stebmo, Gnod, Brittle Stars, 18/4/09 at Islington Mill Eugene Robinson Spoken word gig, 28/4/09 at Briton's Protection TODD w/ Sleeping States, Banjo or Freakout, Chops, Wu lf Wu lf, Mazes 3/5/09 as part of Sounds From the Other City Marnie Stern & Nisennenmondai w/ Tartufi, Wulf Wulf, Veronica Falls 24/7/09 at Islington Mill, co-promotion with Comfortable On a Tightrope Part Chimp w/ Hey Colossus, Dethscalator, Apes Fight Back 20/09/09 at Islington Mill
Magik Markers w/ A Wake and Infinite Light 25/10/09 at Islington Mill ISIS w/ Mothlite 27/10/09 at Club Academy THANK YOU w/ FTSE100 and Hyacinth Girl 3/11/09 at Tiger Lounge OXBOW w/ Manatees and Ox Scapula 10/11/09 at Star and Garter
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About me: Lamb & Wolf are 2 Manchester based promoters. We like to make noise, listen to noise and bring our favourite noise to Manchester.
If you would like to play at one of our shows then please feel free to get in touch and we will do our best to get back to you.
TICKETS FOR ALL SHOWS ARE AVAILABLE FROM WWW.WEGOTTICKETS.COM AND THEN ALSO TICKETLINE & PICCADILLY RECORDS FOR BIGGER GIGS, MANCHESTER
SUNNO))) with BJ Nilsen - Islington Mill - 8.12.09
BARONESS plus support - Islington Mill - 20.01.10
SUNN O)))and BJ Nilsen - Tues 8.12.09 - Islington Mill - £15
Sunn O))) make a long awaited return to Manchester in support of the crticially acclaimed album MONOLITHS AND DIMENSIONS. The Monoliths and Dimensions live shows have been described as some of their most impressive yet by those who've seen it:
"SUNN O))) was created in 1998 by Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson. Their collaboration and direction continues to exist through expanded constellations and various forms with maximum loyalty to the power of electric amplified sound. SUNN O))) produce explorations in drone, psychedelic and experimental minimalism/maximalism as well as fusions with such underground metal cultures as Black, Death and Doom Metal - the former defined by its encompassing guitar sounds, uniquely musical stylings and dark, dramatic and contemplative content, Life & death defined by excessive adhesion to the heaviest guitar sounds possible, and the latter often characterized by low and slowly played tones and meditative conceptual and ceremonial content.
SUNN O)))'s emphasis on collaborative practice sees them working with an array of artists from different traditions, performing with experimental composers and sound artists, as well as musicians deeply rooted in underground music, sound and art cultures.
Awesome venue for an awesome live show featuring the biggest PA we've ever had to bring in anywhere ever.
In support is the superb BJ NILSEN.
BJ NILSEN is a sound and recording artist, has since 1990 been putting out work in various constellations.
Primarily focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and
space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated. He has worked for documentary film, television and sound engineer.
His latest album THE SHORT NIGHT was described by Boomkat as an essential purchase:
"Nilsen blends environmental sounds collected in Sweden, Iceland and England and layers them above and beneath some breathtaking electronic parts. Taking vintage equipment (Sequential Circuits Pro-One, old Scandinavian generators, Korg MS20 etc) and recording and mixing using modern computer technology, he creates a sound that owes as much to early innovators Popol Vuh and Delia Derbyshire as it does more recent ambient-darlings Biosphere and Deathprod. The mood is one of grim, crust-laden darkness, something akin to being trapped in an abandoned building as an orchestra plays mercilessly in a sewer below - but while the mood is shadowy the sounds never becomes oppressive. Maybe it's due to the hypnotic nature of the compositions, or maybe it's the actual character of the vintage generators used, but the sounds float in and out of your consciousness with a wool-lined ease. Even as the album draws to a tremulous close with the incredible organ-drenched 'Viking North', the sound is still somehow washed with a veneer of melancholy and a palatable sheen that takes it above and beyond so many albums lumped into the same category. It's just so nice to have this amazing record finally available on vinyl."
Tickets are £15 and will be onsale from Friday 18th Sept.
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW WHERE ISLINGTON MILL IS: a map is here at www.islingtonmill.com despite it's Salford address, Islington Mill is a short walk from Manchester City centre and we aim to get the show finished at a reasonable enough time for anyone coming from outside Manchester to get home ok.
BARONESS plus support - Weds 20.01.10 - Islington Mill - £9
Following on from the release of their awesome new album "Blue", Baroness are heading over our way in January to play a handful of UK dates. We reckon the best way to celebrate this fact is get messy down at Islington Mill. Supports will be announced soon.
The forceful BARONESS formed in the Summer 2003 in Savannah, GA with all members, past and present, hailing from Lexington, VA in the foothills of the mighty Blue Ridge Mountains . Maybe that’s where the band draws inspiration for their majestic music, or maybe their noble noise is inspired by their name, or maybe its just when these four band-mates come together the end result is always bold and impressive.
With a sound built upon a resolute sense of purpose and shaped by hundreds of explosive live shows, BARONESS position themselves at the forefront of heavy music; colossal riffs and haunting vocals roll like thunder across epic songs spanning both the intense and the sublime.
BARONESS has forged forward with heavy independent touring -almost 250 shows a year - since the band’s inception. They've criss-crossed the U.S. three times, Europe, and the UK twice, and have performed at international music festivals such as SXSW, MacRock, ZXZW in The Netherlands, and more. BARONESS has toured with many friends and peers, including MUNICIPAL WASTE, TORCHE, KYLESA, ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY, CURSED, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, and many more.
tickets for shows through ticketline.co.uk and wegottickets.co.uk
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
Here is the information regarding the last few CHOPS gigs of the year 2009! Some sweet treats! See you shaking it up at the front!
We're also thinking hard about recording again, as well as concocting a new video excursion with our buddy David Lynch to follow up to our sunrise performance live on the now demolished Leeds International Swimming Pool.
Peace and love! x x x
Saturday 14 November @ Rock and Roll Circus, Leeds - Cops and Robbers benefit party! BILGE PUMP CHOPS CLUB
Saturday 28 November @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, £6 - Brew Records Present DJ SCOTCH EGG CHOPS NOPE Poster by Pete Murgatroyd
Thursday 3rd December Chinchilla and Room237 are rather happy to present... Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 8pm doors, first band 8:15 prompt LIGHTNING BOLT a.P.A.T.t. ACTION BEAT CHOPS Tickets £7 (plus booking fee) Available from 2nd November from behind the bar at the Brudenell (50p booking fee fund-raiser for cops and robbers), Jumbo and Crash Records in Leeds, and wegottickets.com Poster by Jon Nash
Thursday 10th December - Upset The Rhythm @ The Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ - £9 LIGHTNING BOLT DRUM EYES CHOPS
This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar alongside Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.
Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk
Recorded at The Bowling Green pub in Manchester on 17th November 2008, when Bridget was on tour with Marcia Bassett, this is a maximal 25-minute set of epic guitar brutalising and deep, moaned vocal incantations. Employing a bow and 'metal' effects pedals, the resulting cacophony is orchestral in scope, rendering almost unreliable the memory of one woman and her instrument. Somewhat akin to Bassett's duo with Matthew Bower, Hototogisu, the deeply layered tones created by Hayden offer, upon first exposure, a somewhat icy auditory experience, but as the recording settles in, the richness and sheer breadth of sound wraps around you like a feather quilt and shifts your perception almost 180 degrees. A truly magnificent set from this former Vibracathedral Orchestra member.
Limited to 80 copies with sleeves printed on recycled paper using soya based ink
Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk
A twelve track, 22 minute sound art project, that is quite a departure from usual Operations material, dipping into the realms of glitch and noise using broken keyboards, effects boxes and oscillators and digital editing.
Self-released and strictly limited to 30 copies for the whole world. Once it's sold out it sold out for good.
Can be purchased using the PayPal Buy Now button on my blog. Samples can heard on my MySpace page.
Future releases: You & Atomic Warfare (Dead Pilot Records) - 05/10/09 .1.2 - 02/11/09
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