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Edinburgh., Scotland
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Member Since1/5/2006
Band Websitewww.gianttank.com
Band MembersAli Robertson & Malcy Duff.
Influencessmoke, drink, room temperature, slapstick.
Sounds Likequit jabbering and listen.
Record LabelGiant Tank.
Type of LabelIndie


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Oct 24 2009 7:30P
A Secret Place In The Old Town (e-mail for address!) with Eli Keszler/ Retail Unit/ Scrim. Edinburgh, Scotland
Oct 25 2009 7:00P
tbc (with Eli Keszler). Glasgow, Scotland
Oct 26 2009 7:00P
tbc (with Eli Keszler/ Spoils & Relics). Leeds
Oct 27 2009 7:00P
Islington Mill (with Eli Keszler/ A Wake). Salford
Oct 28 2009 7:00P
tbc (with Eli Keszler/ Sister Iodine). Nottingham
Oct 29 2009 7:00P
a house show in Dalston (get in touch for the address!!) with Eli Keszlr & Gummy Stumps. London, London and South East

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   About Usurper
(mostly) miniscule free-noise tantrums wi busted instruments from the mongs what brought youse Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the following audio-jobbies have hit the pan: "First Effort" (No Label cdr.), "Go For It" (Giant Tank cdr.), "Quit While You're Ahead" (Kovorox Sound cdr.), "War In Miniature (edit.)" featuring CK Dexter Haven (Lapsed Electronics 3" cdr.). "Get It Out" split wi Birds Of Delay (Giant Tank cdr.), "Shingles" track on "Pjorn: Doing The Right Thing.." comp (Pjorn 72 cdr.), "You Can Do It!" (Giant Tank cdr.), "Spoken In Lazy Tongue"/ "Water Hammer" split wi KMVSNI (Giant Tank cdr.), Green Mist/ Usurper split (Sick Head cassette), "Don't Even Fucken Bother" (Rampart cassette), "You're A Winner!" (Giant Tank cdr.), "Bladder Of Bayonets" track on "15 Slabs.." comp (Beefy Marauder cdr.), "Booby Prize" AKA "Booby Price" (Zeikzak cdr.), "10 V. Battery" track on "8" comp (Harbinger Sound cassette box-set.), "Live" colab album wi Dylan Nyoukis & Dora Doll (Unverified cdr.), "A Poke In The Eye With A Shitey Stick" track on "Rippers & Creepers" comp (Pendu Sound cassette.), "Party Tapes" colab album wi Grant Muscletusk (Total Vermin cassette), "Oasis Lighter" track on Psykick Dancehall comp (Psykick Dancehall cdr set.). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- imminent stools: "Burners" (Pacific City cassette.), "tbc" colab album wi Windsor Damon Beast (Know Your Enemy cdr.), and some other fumbles 'n' grunts on forthcoming 777 Was 666, Unverified, Mantile and Chocolate Monk comps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ali attempts to regularly release other spaz sounds (such as: Muscletusk and Hockyfrilla.) and comic books (by Malcy Duff and Active Cell) on his Giant Tank label, but shite stuff like full-time employment keeps on getting in the way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malcy, on the other hand, is a hard-grafting cartoonist who has had his scribbles published by all kinds o' folks. Google his name: he gets his trumpet blown all over the fucken place. also have a neb at www.bugpowder.com and his own dedicated site: www.missingtwin.net if ye dinnae believe us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ also: www.gianttank.com is currently on the fritz, but we'll endeavour to get our shit together real soon. in the meantime: please e-mail us directly for full list of available goodness and prices.

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Nov 7 2009 11:03 PM

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THE HOT CLUB

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Oct 24 2009 1:40 AM

2's UP, it's ma fuckin birthday...
Free Limited Edition Print (1/50) and an 80min mix cd (1/150) to the earliest arrivals...

NOTE THAT WE ARE STARTING AT 9 THIS MONTH, TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE TREMOLO BEER GUT (all the way from Denmark) AND BIG NED (all the way from the black lodge).



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FRIZZ RECORDS

FRIZZ RECORDS



Oct 21 2009 7:08 PM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our third LP release...

"Anutha Kinda Brotha" is the debut LP from underground legend ART TERRY. Since moving to the UK from his native Los Angeles in the early 90s, Mr Terry has established himself as one of London's characters. Describing Art's sound to the uninitiated usually involves debunking some of the stereotypes of what the 'typical' black Californian might play. Despite his jazz training, and coming of age to the sounds of classic soul and funk, these styles are only a part of his musical vision. His fascination with folk styles, classical music, punk rock, pure pop, easy listening, musical theatre and the European avant garde have taken him on different paths from most...

The result is an orchestral pop record full of sonic inventiveness, whether it's the blend of Shuggie Otis's 60s California and Sun Ra's ancient Egypt on 'Bible', Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons leading a mariachi band on 'Escort', or the Walt Disney music box orchestra of 'Miss Dominatrix', but whilst this is very much a sonic feast, we shouldn't overlook Art's extraordinary lyrical adeptness, and the distinctive character this brings to the proceedings, with a knack for unique and colourful imagery, and how like a great short story writer he is able to paint an engaging picture whilst keeping back from casting judgement on his characters, always leaving open ends for the listener to tie; giving us the feeling that however far astray someone might have gone, there is always sympathy and human feeling for them in Art's mind...

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Oct 21 2009 2:12 AM

OUT NOW!
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Golden Lab Records

Nick Mitchell



Oct 20 2009 2:28 PM

Beach Fuzz - untitled c54 tape (ROWF 17)

Ltd to 70 copies

Out now

This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar alongside Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.

Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk

£4 (UK)

£5 (Europe)

£6 (USA/Canada/R.o.W.)

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Oct 18 2009 2:35 PM

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Oct 14 2009 10:25 AM

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Oct 10 2009 7:33 PM

Thank You
14.11.2009
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First full and maybe only live action in UK!


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Plus support acts.
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Golden Lab Records

Nick Mitchell



Oct 8 2009 10:49 AM

Bridget Hayden CDR (ROWF16) out now

Recorded at The Bowling Green pub in Manchester on 17th November 2008, when Bridget was on tour with Marcia Bassett, this is a maximal 25-minute set of epic guitar brutalising and deep, moaned vocal incantations. Employing a bow and 'metal' effects pedals, the resulting cacophony is orchestral in scope, rendering almost unreliable the memory of one woman and her instrument. Somewhat akin to Bassett's duo with Matthew Bower, Hototogisu, the deeply layered tones created by Hayden offer, upon first exposure, a somewhat icy auditory experience, but as the recording settles in, the richness and sheer breadth of sound wraps around you like a feather quilt and shifts your perception almost 180 degrees. A truly magnificent set from this former Vibracathedral Orchestra member.

Limited to 80 copies with sleeves printed on recycled paper using soya based ink

Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk

£5.99 (UK)

£6.99 (Europe)

£7.99 (USA/Canada/R.o.W.)

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Oct 6 2009 3:21 PM

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FRIZZ RECORDS

FRIZZ RECORDS



Oct 1 2009 11:25 AM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our second official LP release...

"Modern Mediaeval" is the third LP from singer-songwriter DAVID GARSIDE, and the first to receive the full Frizz Records vinyl treatment. It’s also clearly the most fully-realised statement of his distinctive vision so far…

It’s an easy route to locate David in the tradition of his ‘classic’ influences (McCartney, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Love, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Dexy’s…), but there are few songwriters working today that have absorbed these influences so fully, and arrived at a mature style as David has…

This is ’singer-songwriter’ music in the sense that it’s focus is on song-craft and the unfolding of the lyrical vision of a single individual, but if so then it’s definitely at the sophisticated end of the scale (’progressive’ if that term isn’t too loaded…), filed alongside ‘Bryter Layter’, ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’, ‘Pretzel Logic’ or ‘Surf’s Up’...another FRIZZ RECORDS instant classic!

"Modern Mediaeval" can be downloaded from the iTunes Store

The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers

Nick

Nick Herd



Sep 27 2009 11:48 AM

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Old St. Paul's Church Hall, Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh. Across the road from the Market Street Exit of Waverley Station.

Doors are at 8.30pm, BYOB!

£7 / £6 in advance - email skidblue@gmail.com for cheaper entry
100 Philistine Foreskins

100 Philistine Foreskins



Sep 24 2009 5:20 PM

Well done folks - you did the right ting when you pressed 'accept' - we're proud of you
FRIZZ RECORDS

FRIZZ RECORDS



Sep 22 2009 12:14 AM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our first official LP release...

"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" is the debut release from AUGUST, the London based band centred around the songwriting partnership between vocalist VEDINA MOSE and multi-instrumentalist / producer RAPHAEL MANN (MR HUDSON / JOY JOSEPH / ART TERRY), with master drummer CLEAN CUT MARK and clarinetist / vocalist MAREE CHOIE completing the core line-up, and a supporting cast including ART TERRY (keyboards), SHOHEI KAWAMOTO (AKA Japanese producer Baraki, Bass clarinet, soprano sax and flute), and KAI HOFFMAN (French horn)

Always an act that juggled a diverse set of influences, the album has been compared to artists as diverse as KATE BUSH, PRINCE, DE LA SOUL, SLY STONE, MADLIB, SERGE GAINSBOURG and THE DELFONICS, for its concoction of wild experimentation and traditional song craft, organic production and futuristic electronic touches, funk bass & drums and jazz & orchestral references, infectious melodies and lyrical flights of fancy...with nods towards classic soul, JB funk, Studio One, 60s pop, psychedelia, left field hip hop, new wave, doo wop, tropicalia, high life, & avant garde jazz, without any song ever fitting squarely into any of those categories...new music, basically...and an instant classic!

"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store

The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers

DMAH (Techno-Shamans)

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Sep 20 2009 7:59 PM

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Sep 16 2009 3:01 PM

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Sep 10 2009 8:45 PM





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Sep 10 2009 2:36 PM

New Dog Lady tape available here


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Nick

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Sep 3 2009 2:31 PM

Braw Gigs presents

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"...most profoundly psychedelic mesmerism to come out of the scene to date." - The Wire





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Tuesday September 22nd,



Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh. Doors 7.30pm


Tax is £7 (£6 if you email your name to skidblue@gmail.com in advance)
Boom Edan

Boom Edan



Aug 28 2009 6:02 PM

THE HOT CLUB

THE HOT CLUB



Aug 17 2009 7:30 PM

Over from Pontevedra and live at this month's Hot Club...

INDOMITOS

come hot as ever

love, Hrafles & Nob xx

Lanterns

Lanterns



Aug 6 2009 10:32 PM


Dolphins in the Future (BE) - Sounds for seafaring dreamers
Motherfuckin (FR) - Psychedelic freaknoise primitivism
Floris van Hoof (BE) - Two tape players and a microphone
Pascal Nichols - Wild Horse drumming
Chora - Glorious clatter and resonating strings
Nackt Insecten - He travels the spaceways
Lanterns - Fuzzed up space float

Fri 21st of August at the 13th Note, Glasgow.
£5. Early 8PM doors, first band on shortly thereafter.

IAIN CAMPBELL

IAIN CAMPBELL



Aug 4 2009 8:56 PM

SAT 15th AUGUST - 10PM
USURPER & FRITZ WELCH
CR:ACC ENSEMBLE
PYRAMIDION
SCRIM
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FILMS BY JOHN MORAN & ELAINE KORDYS
St. Stephens, Edinburgh - BYOB - pay what you can

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Golden Lab Records

Nick Mitchell



Jul 26 2009 1:24 PM

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