"...encrusted with the dirt of ages, a filthy fur coat adorned with heraldic raiment; a jewel-encrusted hand that nevertheless displays chapped and burnt fingernails…
A sense of ebullient enjoyment emanantes forth. It’s almost cruel. One imagines Peter the Great presiding over a particularly sadistic banquet; Boyars out on the razz, running amok, pissing in primitive hearing aids and tearing up copies of Stukeley’s Itinerum Curiosum, that sort of thing" Incendiary Magazine (www.inmusic.nl)
The latest Politburo release is the bollocks. It’s heavy, and I shouldn’t like it, but it’s catchy and hasn’t been off the TFH stereo. Opener ‘The Oldest Empire’ is a weird little fella" Time For Heroes Magazine (www.myspace.com/timeforheroesmagazine)
Press:
"Finally, POLITBURO have their own party going on in the basement. After hosting an almost legendary all night ‘secret gig’ on Saturday that saw the doors jammed up at 2.00am, Police chases down the street and a throat shredding private performance, I didn’t think they’d pull this off. But it’s the tightest,most cohesive set I’ve seem them play. Nick Kenyon keeps his vocal to a low level growl and suddenly the songs are more menacing and also more melodic. The guitar, bass and drums are all locked in like Top Gun wingmen and the whole brutal assault unfolds. It seems only fitting that the clock is just striking midnight on a Sunday."
MANCHESTERMUSIC.CO.UK at The Dry Bar, Manchester
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"Politburo have (always) been great …playing the dark heart of rock & roll with deft and edgy skill. They manage to meld the Mancunian black heart expressway of Joy Division with the twisted molten punk of the Dead Kennedys - and that's a pretty damn brilliant combination"
John Robb - Playlouder.com
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"Yeeearse! Manchester's Politburo are A Band, one that offers fresh new hope of something great rising again from the bland canal-side redevelopment that the North's industrial heartland risks becoming if it doesn't watch itself. 'Line of Wealth' throws a mancunian gauntlet down for the rest of the western world to pick up. Dare you challenge the British inheritors of Interpol's slightly subversive but nonetheless beautiful throne? Not unless you're well fucking hard"
Gigwise
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"Life is as simple or as complicated as you care to arrange it. The simple view has these three tunes as three driving and driven tracks that say everything that Miss Black America try to, only with a humour and human touch that makes Politburo vastly more appealing than their daft name and the (soviet) affectations that go with it. The facts are more than enough today. "Line Of Wealth" batters, drives and swaggers a message for those who are listening, those who ain't can dance, meanwhile... "Labour Day" steals Dawn Of The Replicants best jacket and goes for a swank n wank around a burning guitar core and sleazed vox, neat, neat, neat, but "Velocity" is an altogether messier n more organic throat-ripped riff-o-rama and we've got it on LOUD and we've got it on NOW. Oh, hullo officer..."
Unpeeled
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"Jagged locked-on staccato space rock nu-wave forward movement. They're from Manchester and you can taste the surging Joy Division freshness... bruising...seething...beautiful...this is so so bleak and good and in need of no more words - just go get it, it's the drug you'll need to help you sleep or see the TV or something like that, whatever the eye sees the hand must take for this is the day.... Three very very fine tracks, three important tracks."
Organ Magazine
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Bonjour Thanks for the friendly add and comment I really appreciate your good sound and the good energy in your music Best wishes from France (Follow me on twitter.com/pascal95 ) Pascal
Politburo we started posting more "Evro Music" videos on YouTube. A lot of new songs are up. We recorded them on a cell phone, so the audio isn’t great. Here's the link, http://www.youtube.com/user/EvroMusic1 tell us what you think and leave us a comment on MySpace or YouTube. Peace out and have a good day! - EVRO
* NEW EP READY TO GO NEXT MONTH * 1ST GIG SINCE SUPPORTING LEGENDARY NEW YORK BAND - BEAR HANDS - THIS SUMMER * FRESHERS WEEK GIG SO NEW FACES IN NEW PLACES
Come hear the new songs if you havent been on myspace recently...
FUTURE EL POLICIA GIGS * 24th Sept @ Kro Bar (Friends Of Mine Gig - Kro Bar is opposite Manchester Academy) * 30th Sept @ Chicago Rock (Scruff Of The Neck Promotions) * 19th Oct @ Dry Bar (ITC Fringe Gig)
Hey Politburo thanks for being our friend, we hope you like our music. We
are currently writing new material which will be a bit different to
what we have up now, it is more in the direction we want to go. We will keep you updated with everything.
Politburo we were recently featured on the ABC network and we are trying to promote our first full length album self titled EVRO. Check out the video and leave a comment to tell us what you think. Just warning you that the sound on the video isn’t the greatest quality but you can listen to the same songs on our MySpace page. Tell others! Thank you and have a blessed day!
Janelle [vocals] Matt [guitar] Brian [bass] Chris [drums]
Free to download. Mike Duff’s poem KING OF THE SCUTTLERS. Music and arrangement by Steve Booth (guitar and vocals), Rob Barlow (double bass) and Mickey Lyons (banjo). Performed live at the Harpurhey neighbourhood project. Recorded and mixed by Adam Booth, go to www.myspace/stevewbooth.
