Stuckometer ( May 2005 - August 2007 ): General Info
Member Since
10/18/2005
Band Members
PHASE I: BD, AJ, PN, DB
2005 - 2006
PHASE II: BD, AJ, PN, KS
2007
And w/ Stuart Arnot / Smear Campaign, Gary Kelly / Bess Keloid, Daniel / Muscletusk
Influences
Leaning Jowler, Sculptress, Our Beautiful Ridiculous Plan, Barry And The Mountain Orchestra, Barry's Dead, Shire Racing, Cornish Tin Mines, Kalbakken, Target Shoppers, Stuckometer, sad fur coat(1 and 2), inca eyeball, sideboard radiator, OILTATTOO, el streetfound aerial, SLAGWERK, monica, hock, WAGSTAFF, coits, twilight club, anna planeta, a warm palindrome, FRONT DOOR ENEMY, five oclock blood shadow, a parade commemorating captain JS bennett's watery demise, the dANCIN' TESTTUBES, snake disko, TEA CULTURE, braincel, runover ostrich, oskrin S. cassot-bout, green monkey, thee nipponese roofing-felt poofters, JAUNDICE, saboteuse, PUFF, Magic Doom, Blue Doom, Fruit Saloon, Horsee, CooperJones, Dragons of Destiny, [Serious Harm], Magic Science Experiment Museum, Ekka, Gingerbread Fridgemagnets,___________________________________________________________________Sad Fur Coat 3 (finally), Sharon, Ball of Veins, MICROSOFT, Smear Campaign, NOMADIC TRIBES OF NORTH AFRICA, Kraken, MILK TEETH, levenshulme bicycle orchestra
Sounds Like
hardened artillery inside your arteries. physically demeaning, demanding and demonising, a dislocation and relocation of the patella, kicking your jerkin off. decreasingly controllable, increasingly collapsable free-rock [gtr gtr bass drummer] abnormality. a door falling off its hinges and into your useless synapse - AND BACK AGAIN. muscular popping. flexible steel eyelash whipping the saddle off a pitiable workhorse [donkey]. sober, considered, spontaneous volcanic tissue dispersal. all over too soon. not exactly tuneful. contact mic/cymbal/tape measure/fretless/shrieking. artless gazing / exactitude. a needle whizzing at 999 rpm. your sand-filled veins throttling you before the kettle boils [your finger + toenail missiles off].
"A split between this two cricked and obtuse noise bands. In one hand AU from the spanish city of Madrid, a band that forces their aggression thru drum-machine programming, and blending analog modified electronic with smart sick rock guitar riffs. STUCKOMETER grew ip in the city of Manchester in the U.K. and comes up to be this insanely ill improv music that moves from the minimalistic tune-up kind of click, click silence to this falling down the hill-hit by a car LOUD, mindblowing noise jams. Banging art by Pascal Nichols, two ink, silk-screened with different colour inks on different colour paper. Deluxe shit."
STUCKOMETER / MUSCLETUSK split c20 on Total Vermin
"LP006 - 21 minute, live recording spazz out by Manchesters premier improv quartet. 3" cdr packaged in a clear half-size dvd case with reversible colour inlay. Ltd edition of 50 copies."
"STUCKOMETER's free improv no wave guitar, bass, drum clang w/ MILK TEETH's trash noise garage drums basement blat, edition of 100 in blue denim/orange curtain cloth case "
blastitude.com review "First up on side A of Hearing Aid 01 is Stuckometer, an under-the-radar quartet mining the vintage 1993 Harry Pussy sound as directly as anyone else these days. Here they play a splattering-shrapnel salvo that spreads out for 10-15 minutes. Drumkit and guitars play with plenty of spirit and throw dirt everywhere, but it’s the bass, with a busy quasi-swinging 1960s free jazz style, that actually breaks and rakes the most ground. Side two belongs to the Milk Teeth duo, one member of Stuckometer and someone else, here playing no-wave caveman drums along with a crude no-input-style amp-hum that ‘blossoms’ into power electronics. Pretty ripping, but also had me checking my watch a couple times before the 15-odd-minute running time was up. These two sides seem more like strong place-holders..."
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
Evan Parker - saxophones Stephen Grew - piano Phillip Marks - percussion
An all too rare appearance in Manchester by one of the great masters of the saxophone... Evan Parker has been at the forefront of improvised and experimental music for over forty years, with a unique and innovative approach to his instrument that has been hugely influential. A master of extended techniques like circular breathing and multiphonics, he's made over 200 albums with artists like Derek Bailey, Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt, Spring Heel Jack, Michael Nyman, Spiritualized, Cecil Taylor, John Stevens, Gavin Bryars, Brotherhood of Breath, Basil Kirchin, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink, Tony Oxley, Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Globe Unity Orchestra, Stan Tracey, Chris Corsano, Jah Wobble, Sainkho Namtchylak, Vic Reeves, Thurston Moore etc etc.....
He is joined by Stephen Grew on piano and Phillip Marks on percussion who have been making their own contributions to the world of adventurous improvisation for over 20 years. Those of you who saw them at last years Manchester Jazz Festival will know just how good they are...
i like how the hearing aid 01 song sounds. when are me and pascal playing together. i'd like to do that sometime. i'm meant to be coming to the sheffield show on thursday but i'm ill in bed in nottingham. i have run out of clean pants as well. if i feel better i will come. coughs were great at the weekend. when are you playing nottingham, i'm going to have a look now. who did the cover for that low point release. its nice.
