WEDNESDAY 22 JULY - ENGINE ROOM - BRIGHTON IRON LUNG (USA) -
raging 2-piece grinding hardcore POWERviolence monster w/ members of
Gehenna/Walls/Artimus Pyle/Pig Heart Transplant with releases on every
classic label to come out of the states in the past 20 years: PRANK,
SIX WEEKS, SLAP-A-HAM, 625 THRASHCORE and more.... - myspace.com/lifeironlungdeath
JOVIAN - rises
from the smouldering ashes of the late great End The Agony for their
1st ever gig to blow minds and ears in equal fucking measure....
TEIGNMOUTH ELECTRON - haunted noissse frights at electromagnetic levels rise up from the other side (via Poly Shang Kuan band...) - myspace.com/teignmouthelectron
1 MORE BAND TBC....!
WEDNESDAY 22 JULY - ENGINE ROOM - BRIGHTON IRON LUNG (USA) -
raging 2-piece grinding hardcore POWERviolence monster w/ members of
Gehenna/Walls/Artimus Pyle/Pig Heart Transplant with releases on every
classic label to come out of the states in the past 20 years: PRANK,
SIX WEEKS, SLAP-A-HAM, 625 THRASHCORE and more.... - myspace.com/lifeironlungdeath
JOVIAN - rises
from the smouldering ashes of the late great End The Agony for their
1st ever gig to blow minds and ears in equal fucking measure....
TEIGNMOUTH ELECTRON - haunted noissse frights at electromagnetic levels rise up from the other side (via Poly Shang Kuan band...) - myspace.com/teignmouthelectron
1 MORE BAND TBC....!
punks - here are some killer gigs that will probably sell out (quickly) - so mail me (r_vergeldt (a) hotmail .com) for tickets now!
30 May: GOVERNMENT WARNING (usa) + WASTED TIME (usa) + VIOLENT ARREST (ex-Ripcord/Heresy etc.!) + SHITTY LIMITS 16 June: LIMPWRIST (usa) + WHOLE IN THE HEAD + METHODIST CENTRE + SCEPTRES 26 June: LÄRM (nl) + SURRENDER (usa) + WAR ALL THE TIME + more
We've never been able to quite pin down exactly how the The Hunter Gracchus are going to play on any given occasion, which is a wonderful thing. A shifting unit with Syed Kamran Ali, Fiona Marshall and Jon Marshall at the core, they have recently settled into a fairly stable unit of six, but it's hard to know how long that'll last. Still, while it does, it's producing all manner of magical and highly unexpected performances. The one captured here was recorded at the band's practice room cum gig space, Fagin's Hideout/The Furniture Makers and is a less blistering freakout than some of their recent output, preferring to quietly explore every nook of tonal space. It simmers rather than erupts and, the longer you become immersed in it, the less aware you become of the passage of time. It's a recording that feels like it should go on forever and, when it does come to a close, the silence is shocking. In a time when it's all too easy for a group of improvisers to just go full-tilt in some euphoric pursuit, the Hunter Gracchus provides us with a glowing alternative that draws us slowly in and drowns our senses. This is truly awesome.
Ltd to 80 copies, sleeves printed on recycled card w/soya based ink, no less
The future of the indie music world post-Person Pitch/Merriweather Post Pavilion? We might just be seeing/hearing it in young (freshman at IU) Bloomington, Indiana-based Spirit Spine. (My Old Kentucky Blog)
Spirit Spine spreads his hands with a smile, and between them stretch neon coloured wills o’ the wisps which are arranged around your room most delicately to create a tunnel of halos which ends at a glimmering gate in your ceiling, if you slide inside this path and levitate past the gate you will find yourself standing not in the sad mess of your neighbours’ flat above, but on top of a warm mesa from which you can behold an orgy of orange and red as twin suns set over an alien landscape of ravishing beauty. This is the sound of Panda Bear if he was into Arthur C. Clarke instead of Walt Whitman. (20 Jazz Funk Greats)
Plan B Magazine Presents… An Evening Devoted To Stolen Recordings
My Sad Captains (Live)
My Sad Captains brand of slacker indie pop takes in Pavement’s sweeter moments and the country rock of Calexico and Lambchop, as shown on their debut album, due for release in May. In the past the band have played alongside the likes of Why?, Frightened Rabbit, The Wave Pictures and Women. www. myspace. com/mysadcaptains
Matthew Sawyer and the Ghosts (Live)
Plan B Next Wave 2008 star and former member of Dan Treacy’s Television Personalities, Matthew Sawyer, along with his Ghosts, play “Introspective, painfully aware music – saturated with desire, like literate rock band Subway Sect given a dose of the driven teen angst that fermented within the heart of The Shangri La’s” (Plan B #30) www. myspace. com/theghostsmyspace
This beautiful super-heavyweight LP, which comes packaged in a sweet full-colour sleeve reunites the UK's premier free drummer Alex Neilson, who's played, amongst others, with Motor Ghost, Directing Hand, Trembling Bells, Tight Meat Duo, Josephine Foster, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Jandek, MV&EE, Richard Youngs, Baby Dee and Alastair Galbraith, with Nmperign member Greg Kelley, whose reinvention of the trumpet is as crucial now as Anthony Braxton's reinvention of the sax was 30 years ago. A screeching, soaring, scattergun array of noises come maniacally out of Greg's horn, unlike anything we've ever heard and, with the addition of random stabs of electronics, he successfully straddles no wave, concrete and free jazz in a way that makes those genres seem like trite pigeonholes.
Buy your copy now from www. myspace. com/goldenlabrecords
Thursday 15th of January - Hobgoblin Pub - Brighton!
BRATPACK (NL) - WWW. MYSPACE. COM/BRATPACKONTHEATTACK absolutely blazing melodic hardcore/punk in the vein of ADOLESCENTS, RKL BAD BRAINS & early BAD RELIGION, with members of CITIZENS PATROL!
FASHION - WWW. MYSPACE. COM/fashionablestunners fucking blistering snotty hardcore punk from Australia via London! – in the vein of POISON IDEA, INFEST, BGK, THE FIX, DIE KREUZEN & SEX VID!
END THE AGONY - WWW. MYSPACE. COM/ENDTHEAGONY their first gig after getting back together! Crushing dirge punk power, sludge destruction, rage and utter desperation - NOOTHGRUSH, BLACK SABBATH, FLIPPER, RUDIMENTARY PENI and DYSTOPIA merge and become one.
starts: 8. 30, FREE entry (but donation for the touring/out of town bands would be appreciated!) - please tell your friends
MONDAY 27TH OCTOBER at the HOBGOBLIN (FREE GIG!) – 8pm
PROJECT HOPELESS (Sweden) - myspace. com/projecthopeless Super powerful, totally raging, political hardcore crust punk anger - with DISCO VOLANTE etc. members!!!
WARBOYS (leeds) - www. myspace. com/mrswarboys Blazing fast hardcore punk powerviolence thrash! In the vein of Infest, Spazz, Crossed Out and No Comment. All go, very little slow. Went down a storm last time they were down here, so don't miss it...
+ I am still trying to find another band to support…if this happens, there’ll be one more……so come early
