Support slots so far inc: The Warlocks, Crystal Antlers, Pontiak and Earthless, I LIKE TRAINS, Darker My Love, LadyHawk, A Place to bury Strangers...
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REVIEWS - MANCHESTERMUSIC.CO.UK
"SYCAMORE may just be trio, but don’t let this lull you into any sort of false sense of sonic security. Boom!. There’s just one guitar, but it’s whipped into the loudest, sweetest sounding scuzz of wah and scorched tube driven noise, maybe ever. At least here in the Roadhouse. Sycamore are a very heavy, quite dark rock band and there’s also a bluesy, broken down rock and roll complexion to their moderately paced, suicide-romantic, explosions of sound. In contrast to the act before, their songs are long and despite the mesmerising waves of constant bass and guitar movements, each outing never outstays its welcome. This in many ways is down to the way the drums spill out their rhythms over the toms, as the tumbling tempo seems to verge on the freestyle at times. The guitar and bass lock into a series of solid, almost classic heavy rock movements, the wah singing out whilst on wild excursions of furious strumming and expressive single note screeches - there's also the odd delicious suggestion of some feedback. There are plenty of things you could attempt to compare Sycamore too, but in all honesty they don’t really sound much like anyone else. Amongst all of this rich, dense, considered stuff, there are some superb vocals and melodies too. This growling, thick mix and tuneful topping, reminds me of the style of Grant Lee Buffalo but on a setting of 11, as well as the angst and electrifying fission of Neil Young at his distorted, over amplified best. There aren’t many bands who can actually come up with an original sound they truly want, but Sycamore have accomplished this, creating some fantastic stuff along the way. Unmissable."
"but the real reason I'm here is to hear the burgeoning sound of the ever rising SYCAMORE, who are opening the show tonight. Rewind with me then to the three piece’s early doors set. It’s another pleasantly crushing blow and precisely fine uppercut to the cochlear. This trio have to be one of my favourite bands in Manchester right now, but tonight they sound even darker and more brooding than ever. “Coma” compresses its chords into a black hole, splicing them with interspersed guitar breaks. The bass and drums are impeccable. The percussion clangs and crashes in the background – it’s an instrument as opposed to a time keeping implement – the bass though is just sublime, it’s silky but booming expansiveness just adding all that is needed to those organic and spontaneous guitar pyrotechnics. Sycamore have more anthemic and catchy numbers than those they’ve chosen to showcase tonight (some of which are brand new), but this is a fantastic antidote to their own typecasting so far. Tonight has been about wigging out and bleak widescreen, retro post-rock, ground out in musical furrows. I hope this band end as gargantuan as their sound. "
"Rising local stars SYCAMORE - their early slot due to the fact that they're DJing elsewhere later - are on fire tonight, make no mistake. The sheer power of this trio is even more apparent in this rather in-your-face little space (there isn't really a stage as such, more an extended bay window) than in the likes of the Roadhouse or Ruby Lounge. It comes in the form of faintly apocalyptic darkly psychedelic post-grunge with visceral vocals, and could strip wallpaper, but as such is also surprisingly tuneful. Some moments where Paul and Ian Hodson, on bass and guitar, are playing borderline traditional Led Zep rock or even distorted to fuck Black Sabbath riffing, but drummer Luke Chase is just doing all this amazing split beat post-everything til you're trying to work out if he's got a third hand somewhere. And they know the value of always leaving people wanting more, not less. They're apparently picking up some label interest too, deservedly so."
"Hats off to Dead Meadow for inspiring this trio to write a set of psychedelic gems. In amogst the leaves with Sycamore you find yourself surrounded by people who love the atmosphere their music creates, like apes worshiping monoliths, the temptation to move with the music cannot be avoided. Green"
Revue 16th Feb 2009
just chillin in my living room listening to your tunes and thinking how good it will be when you get back on track. Keep it coming! Would have been good if you could have played our party this year - next one! Your coming to the party though? Flyer below.
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THE PLAYGROUND presents Filthy Electro Trash on Saturday 14th Novmber. Come along and celebrate with:
Punks Jump Up (KITSUNE)// Punx Soundcheck (KITSUNE)// Steed Lord// Gobsausage// Glass Diamond// TOY TOY// The Education// Mr. Beasley// Ben Osborne// DJ Darkorse// Burlesque and Straightola (VJ Set)
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
Hey there Get up close and personal with Franz Ferdinand at their official Brixton UK Tour after party. Expect FRANZ FERDINAND drummer Paul Thomson spinning indie-punk mayhem on the decks along with Sleazy-electro in room 2 from AfroPunk DJ’s and a live set from DELOOZE until 4AM. Advance tickets from www.ticketground.co.uk
CLUES (ex ARCADE FIRE & ex UNICORNS) / MUNCH MUNCH / WARREN MYLES / MIRACLE & THE SOUL INTERPRETER
THE HARLEY / TUESDAY OCTOBER 20TH / £5 / 7.30PM
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Hi! It's nearly my 1st Birthday so please come and celebrate with me and see my brand new designs at this Halloween inspired Freak Fashion Show! It's FREE!!
October 30th 6pm till Late. Shock and Soul, Merchant's Hall, 46 Essex Road, Islington N1 8LN.
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
Its been selling faster than we expected, and we currently only have around a quarter of our stock left - so we thought we'd better you all know that if you want a copy then now would be a good time to pick one up! If you buy it from the link above then you're buying it direct from us, the label aren't taking a cut - so its a bit like Fair Trade for struggling musicians.
International mail-order is available, just follow the instructions.
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THE VIOLET MAY @ Night & Day - Sheffields most talked about band at the mo - you may recognise fronman Chris McClure as the face of The Arctic Monkeys and Toddla T's debut
Support from The Causeway The Ambush The Minx No Flash
After our hugely successful launch with the BRUTE CHORUS and CIRCA BURLESQUE trapeze artists, stilts, performance artists and burlesque dancers we have the next instalment coming up on Saturday the 26th September featuring KAPUTT, ROMANCE, SPEAK AND THE SPELLS and a whole lot more. Looking forward to seeing you there.
A mini Sheffield festival 4th-6th September. Spread across two great venues; The Harley and The Wick at Both Ends. Click the poster for full line-ups.
Headliners include: The Crookes, Max Tundra, Paul White, JFB, Dark Sparks, Shmoo, Findo Gask, Ed Maker (Reverend & The Makers), Party Horse (Ex Tiny Dancers), Hallo...I Love You (Ex Elle S'Appelle), Squire Of Gothos, Pygmy Globetrotters & many many more..
SLAVETOSOUND is giving away 2 tickets to see the awesome ELBOW in Manchester next month. to be in with a chance of winning all you have to do register on the website! all details at www.slavetosound.com
