NLF3's music has been described as "a kitsch This Heat" by The Wire, and compared for its rhythms to a 2009 version of the Ege Bamayasi-era of Can. The Guardian even spoke of them as "a Radiohead seduced by the idea of live improvisation". The members of NLF3 - F.lor, Mitch and Don Nino - name influences as varied as Pierre Henry, Fela Kuti, Steve Reich, Ennio Moricone, as well as Syd Barrett, Zappa, Fantomas, Aphex Twin, and Sonic Youth. Strange gurus indeed, for a music that, after all these comparisons, still sounds unique. NLF3 is the story of three music lovers – two brothers in blood and a third in spirit – united by the same passion: to make music, record it and take it all around the world. In that regard, their kinship with Battles and Animal Collective, with whom they have toured, seems perfectly natural - they all belong to the same generation of musicians and have the same desire to discover new territory, to explore new possibilities and to bring together past and future. It comes as no surprise either that the brothers F.lor and Don have lived in Germany as well as the US, and have spent some time in Nigeria where their father introduced them to the great Fela Kuti and others like the sculptor Twin Seven Seven. www.myspace.com/nlf3
FictionNonFiction at Tiger Lounge - 10th May 2009 - A Sunday Service
featuring . . .
The Graveyard Johnnys
plus
The Vipers / El Toro
with a special seventh day sound system from . . .
Are Friends Eclectic DJs
7pm til Late - FNF Members Free Entry / £5
Hold on to your meat racks pop socks its a beat boogie noise racket! Fire up the petrol membranes for a holy fireball and step up the booze grade moves yes/no/go cat. A singular sabbath to be spent. Woof woof says the Admiral and you cant argue with that not since Dylan went metric. 'Testify' sinister billboards lament but there's no room for Judge Moody here. Rip out the spar spangled shower guts and go native animal yes yes!
They say . . .
'From the deepest, darkest depths of South Wales, The Graveyard Johnnys have devised a recipe that somehow transforms something stale into something fresh.
Bored to death by bands sounding and looking like something from 50 years ago, The Johnnys are digging up that rotten old corpse, slappin it around a bit and injecting it with some life so it can survive in the 21st century
In this band there is absolutely no bullshit, just straight up, balls out, good time rock and fucking roll.
'I'm doing the ITC dash for what feels like the 37th time this weekend (I've got my Northern Quarter to Peter Street time down to under ten minutes), heading up to Chicago Rocks when I can't help but notice a great big filthy racket blasting out of Bedlam. It comes cou
Bring On The Dancing Horses Presents... Friday 1st May RITON (DJ SET) MEN (live) Human Man (Contort Yourself - Dj Set) Team Yeah! (Dj Set) The Deaf Institute Doors 8pm £6 Adv
RITON Having remixed the likes of HOLY FUCK, HERCULES AND THE LOVE AFFAIR and MYSTERY JETS and released his own Krautrock inspired EINE KLEINE NACHT MUSIK album, RITON has to be one of our favourite dj's. Usually being found playing to thousands at the Warehouse project or Fabric, London, this is going to be an awesome opportunity to see the man himself close up.
MEN (Kitsune / Ex Le-Tigre) MEN began in 2007 as the DJ team of JD Samson and Johanna Fateman of the band Le Tigre. Now Comprising of JD Samson, Michael O'Neill and Ginger Brooks Takahashiwith contributions from Johanna Fateman and Emily Roysdon. The music is like smashing Gang of Four into the Talking Heads a la 2009. MEN seeks to develop a live stage show that transcends traditional boundaries of performance art, live music and visualart.
Team Yeah! Stepping out of the basement and on to the main stage, these boys will kill it.
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