upcoming lovely times dates, all at the subculture, leeds. come along and say hello, get invited, spread the word, help all these bands out :-) please look at the website for up to date info, flyers, links to all the bands, and more dates in the future right through to november, some crackers of all styles from acoustic, indie, electro, metal and related heaviness too.
9th - 7.30pm-10.30pm £3 - Acoustic Jiggery Folkery Pt. 2 John Yates Eats His Own Head, Michael Caley, Liz Reynolds, Matthew Childs
16th - 7.30pm-10. 30pm £4 - Electro / Indie night w/ free entry into Gigantic until 3am I Call Shotgun, Castrovalva, Japanese Fighting Fish, The Spires
23rd - 7.30pm-10. 30pm £5 - Moshcore Battering! Ignominious Incarceration, When All Else Fails, Sequence of Malice, Propermassivecyclops
29th - 7. 30pm-2am £4 - Heavy Metal Party Riot! Hospital Of Death, Dreamcatcher, Hamerex +1 + Club afterwards
30th - 7.30pm-10.30pm £3 - Quality riffage and fastness abound.
The Afternoon Gentlemen, Black Fang (ex-SMP, D-Rail, Wx3), Manuscripts, More Than A Joke
GREAT ESKIMO HOAX Somewhere between the spasmodic mathpop of Youthmovies & the synth-drenched quirkiness of Cats in Paris lie West Midlands trio Great Eskimo Hoax, with vocals at once melodic & shouty cutting through carefully textured guitars, keys and insistent drum pulses.
MINNAARS Intense, danceable, epic: that Forward Russia's Tom Woodhead has been working as their producer gives an idea as to where they're coming from, but Minnaars add to that sound an incredible variety through the use of loops, unpredictable structures & duelling synth & guitar.
THE BLACKBIRD APPEAL Whispered vocals & thick, fuzzy guitars at the front; along with drums cranking the tempo up at the back, eking slices of pop out of a shoegazey-haze.
Hauschka Having studied classical piano for ten years, Dusseldorf-based pianist/composer Volker Bertelmann's work as Hauschka is based upon a playful exploration of the possibilities of the 'prepared' piano. His resulting tracks are vivid, unconventional pieces made in a spirit of playful research-enthusiasm, which he's taken around the world - in the USA with Múm, in Japan with Colleen, and a debut, sold-out London show with Max Richter. Hauschka's music is a thing of beauty - intertwined melodies and rythyms that flit between gorgeously lush and complex and stunning minimalism.
Gareth S. Brown With influences as diverse as Eastern European folk music, funeral marches and jewellery boxes, Gareth creates gorgeous work of layered beauty with nods towards Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Michael Nyman as well as latter day travellers such as Max Richter, Yann Tiersen and Aphex Twin.
Saturday: 8/11/2008 @ The Holy Trinity Church, Leeds. Doors 8.30pm.
The idea is simple: eight bands play across two stages in the same venue - four chosen by renowned local DIY promoters Forest of Sound, four chosen by fantastic local independent label Gizeh Records. All bands play consecutively so the audience gets to see everything.
Hey Mark! Good to speak to you last night beside that beautiful sink of vomit. I checked out volcano. Not really that into them, though their video cracked me up. Really liking your tracks, good band name too. Be good to see you play sometime.
Koen Holtkamp is no stranger to producing beautiful music. Expect layers of warm organic noise and found sound combine to make pieces that are both gorgeously minimalistic and endlessly deep. He's making the trip over from New York to celebrate the launch of his new album on Type records, and you'd be a fool to miss him!
Gorgeously organic music that washes over you and through you - the best of all ambient music understands the importance of holding back, of understatement, of beauty - Pausal achieve this, and more. Stunning stuff for a night of pure sonic bliss.
Forest of Sound's favourite one man laptop genius, randomNumber, comes back to regale us with his excellent and deeply inventive brand of electronica. There's a reason that he's so energetic in his performance - his music is brilliant. Simple. As.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’ll be £5 on the door, and doors are at 8pm.
Easily one of the most important bands of our times (and we don't say that lightly), Stars of the Lid are the highpoint of the ambient genre. Their influence on the music that really matters over the last decade has been huge, and we're incredibly honoured to be hosting them again in Leeds. This gig will be very very different, and very very special. Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they're being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument. A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals. "
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
do you think Woodies would be the perfect venue for me to showcase my abstract/experimental, pagan, conceptual, OHP projection-show, reiki accompaniment?
Golden Diskó Ship combines a mass of instruments and found objects (guitars, viola, glockenspiel, sticky tape, compact disc cases, toys…) together with perfectly crafted laptop electronica to form a world of beautiful, original and individual music - “…dreamy, experimental folk electronica that sounds like walking on the beach with the sun in your eyes."
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Hands and Fingers makes minimally gorgeous cerebral music. He mixes samples, acoustic guitars, glockenspiel and ambient atmospheres with drum breaks that have been described as "Tortoise having a fight with Four Tet in the dark, with John Bonham trying to split them up". It's ace. Very ace.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’s £4 on the door, doors are 8pm.
It is strange, innit? There seems to be loads of shoegaze (nu-gaze?) bands around Notts, Brum, Cov and all that. Theres this lot in Coventry called Morning Becomes Electra who are ace. Oo, and Exit Calm! Check them out!
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