8th November - London - The Good Anna Trio at Spatchcock - Rocketnumbernine and Sixtoes will also play.
This is a little clip of us playing in Columbus Ohio at Ben Bennets house. It was in the middle of our funny American tour in July 2006. Some of this is terrible, some of it's ok, we have matching t shirts on, i think there was a reason....
......Graham looking Lovely in Washington D.C....
And any other muffins with what we wants to be played on with. In the past we have performed in groups with Chris Summerlin, Serfs, Johnny Scarr and Koyanagi Junji, give us a shout if you want to dangle with us onstage or up the recording tin.
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xNoBBQx Skewer 10" LP (Ltd to 300 copies) - Out May 12th
We first came across xNoBBQx (just call them No Barbeque, I guess) in Piccadilly Records last year when the Siltbreeze vinyl reissue of their first CD-r appeared on its shelves. The Siltbreeze label being a bastion of all that is great in terms of dirgy, lo-fi, transcendental unmusicality, we were thus intrigued to hear this slab. And, we have to say, it was one of the greatest shop-listening experiences of all time. Here was a duo, probably of fully grown men, bashing away at their instruments in a manner that suggested they had never really learned any 'proper' technique. We later read a review, in fact, that put it thus:
"So what exactly is the difference between an xNoBBQx recording and a couple of 14 year olds bashing instruments in the garage with record pressed down on one of their mum’s old tape recorders? Probably not a whole lot, actually, but I get the feeling that’s precisely the point. " (Cyclic Defrost)
Well, yes, that does largely seem to be the point. But it's a helluva point. The Australian duo, in spite of their unabashed simplicity, manage to create sounds that are warm as an old-fashioned blanket, each piece having the ability to induce a state of complete, dribbling mental stasis. It's disjointed, scratchy and 'difficult', yes. But it also manages to be completely absorbing. If you like your rock deconstructed to the nth degree, we highly recommend you dig this.
xNoBBQx will be touring the UK from 10th May 2009. We'll be putting them on in Manchester on 12th May (venue TBC), so keep yr eyes on this page.
Hope you can make this!
Fighting Cancer (II) @ The Northern Monkey
This is an all day charity event to raise much needed funds for the Everyman charity
Everyman was launched to do 2 things:
To break the taboos surrounding prostate and testicular cancer and raise awareness of them amongst men and women.
To raise funds so that scientists could carry out research vital to improving the outlook for every man - and so cross out male cancer.
Doors open at 2pm
First act on at 3pm
£3 entry on the day
INTERNATIONAL TRUST
Hoover Dams
Torrents
South View Juniors
Hayley Gaftarnick
Christopher Stocks (solo acoustic)
Liam O' Donnell (acoustic set)
Rob Galloway (acoustic set)
Radial Pulse (acoustic set)