Duncan Fleming : Songwriter / Singer / Various Instruments
Plus at various times in various places:
Guy Bartell (aka Max Webertron / Bronnt Industries Kapital)
Electrical Guitar / Various Instruments
'Invitation To The Feast' & Live
Guy Fowler
Electrical and Double Bass
'Invitation To The Feast' & Live
Tom Bugs (aka Knowledge of Bugs)
Drumming / Various Instruments
'Invitation To The Feast' & Live
Patrick Duff (ex Stranglelove)
Co-Writer / Acoustic Guitar / Vocals
'Messages'
Nick Talbot (Gravenhurst)
Acoustic Guitar / Drumming
'Invitation To The Feast'
Stu Barker
Trombone
'Invitation To The Feast'
Roisin Murphy (ex Moloko)
Vocals
'Invitation To The Feast'
Lucy Bailey
Artwork / Recorder / Vocals
'Invitation To The Feast' & Live
Jesse Morningstar
Electrical Guitar / Drumming
'Messages'
Tom Stubbs
Mandolin
'Invitation To The Feast'
Rasha Shaheen
Bass Guitar / Vocals
'Messages'
Joff Winterhart
Drumming / Dolphin Noises
'Invitation To The Feast'
Andréa Hernandez
Vocals
'Messages', 'Invitation To The Feast' & Live
Sam Hurt
Acoustic Guitar
'Invitation To The Feast'
Fiona Barrow
Violin
'Invitation To The Feast'
Keir Fleming (aka DJ Furio)
Turntables
'Messages'
Anton Maiof (Geisha)
Electric Guitar
'Pleasure Complex'
Steve Mantis (Geisha)
B. Vocals
'Pleasure Complex'
Sean Talbot (Geisha)
Drums
'Pleasure Complex'
Influences
Pythagoras
Sounds Like
"War Against Sleep are the audio version of the programmes that used to scare me witless as a child" Rough Trade
"What is the War Against Sleep?"The Casio-psychosis of a moral dyslexic squeezing out songs like glue to hold himself together. The act of picking cigarette ends off the floor because you like the taste of cheap lipstick. Love crafted from a night in with Teletext and Benylin. A suit, stained with the amphetamine sweat-beads of your worst porno nightmare. A stolen suit, a borrowed suit, a dead man's suit, a dead-skin mask. Dance with me, you syphilitic tramp. I love you. A silk cravat, a painted rope. Hysterical, literate, blackened by the sun. Pop svengalis pissing blood into bronze buckets. The very idea of a Masterpiece. Ancient orders, first religions, Old Gods. Tascam Porta-7. Sex for small change. Thrillingly lo-fi, absurdly ambitious. Man as blind abacus. Man as performer; touched by the hand of Thoth. Man versus the world; woman as insect. An enormous insect that you want to be eaten by. Eat me: keep me warm. Keep dancing. Did I tell you to stop dancing? Locked in the cellar: We have always been here. Bontempi nights: the moon is in control. Pulling to the sea pulling violently like a green disease from within ever-living divine but violated, blind more to come tonight. In the War Against Sleep winning is not even the issue. It's the cheating that counts. Now dance, damn you. Dance until you are on fire" Derek Headvoices
FRI 26TH SEPTEMBER - WAR AGAINST SLEEP & ANNETTE BERLIN
WAR AGAINST SLEEP - Welcome returnees to Gimme Shelter! and MAGNIFICENT purveyors of the other ’Bristol Sound’
"War Against Sleep are the audio version of the programmes that used to scare me witless as a child" Rough Trade www.myspace.com/waragainstsleepband
ANNETTE BERLIN - Expect Guitar, BEATS and vocal PANACHE from the Big Joan vocalist, plus guests.
www.myspace.com/annetteberlin
With the Gimme Shelter! club night , John The Mod and guests spinning 60’s Garage & Psych, Northern Soul, Freakbeat, Punk, Rock & Roll and Go Go! against a backdrop of vintage lights, films and projections.
www.myspace.com/gimmeshelterclubbristol
Takes place Upstairs@ The Hatchet, Frogmore St, Bristol 9.30pm-2.00am, Entry £3/£4(last entry 1.00am)
How is it going? I just wanted to let you know that my new album finally made it to iTunes. Check out the link at my profile if you dare…
And…
To celebrate the iTunes-Release, you can download a FREE-MP3 of the song “walk for change” at my profile page. Copy it, burn it, give it to your friends, and…if you need a higher quality file, send my a mail and you’ll another in HQ for free ;O)
Hope everything goes well for you… Best wishes from Berlin
Thought we’d let you know that we played your track "Fall Of The Empire" & plugged your upcoming Croft gig on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Saturday morning just gone. You can still hear it anytime this week using the on line "Listen Again" feature on the BBC i-Player, there’s a link to it from our profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith BBC Radio Bristol Introducing
we're on first so come early. we're gonna try something a little different than our last couple shows. the spectre folk are from brooklyn and are all spooky goodness. here is what boomkat say - yeah!
Spectre Folk is the solo moniker of Magik Markers' Pete Nolan, and in a form true to the scene this latest album is a hand made cdr, and guess what - it's super limited! Coming in a thin black plastic cd case (something akin to the cases you get DS games in, but thinner) this is a psychologically intense trip from the very beginning as delicately strummed guitars are led into a darkened wood and abandoned to allow the noise to abuse them rampantly. The second piece takes things down a notch with a fourteen minute jam that reminds me more of outsider rock from the 60s and 70s than anything else, but it's the other three tracks that really nail it for me with bubbling analogue synthesizer joining the guitar to create quite moving soundscapes. Awesome.
so yeah it's a monday night. we appreciate that you may be fragile after either being at green man or because you wrecked all weekend in brist-arrr. still would love it if you can make it. xoxo a
Tuesday July 22nd The Junction, Bristol, BS13QP 4 quid, 8pm
LL = raging hardcore punk from the sunshine state in a born against / husker du style! TSL = 60's garage, 70's punk, 80's hardcore - to the max! FV = awesome heartfelt rites of spring-esque hardcore from south wales! WP = local crust stalwarts, ex-gurkha / ripcord / cruelty / dumbstruck and so on and so on...
Us again, this week we'll play "Fall Of The Empire" and plug the unplugged gig at the Folk House on Bristol Uncovered this Sunday morning on BBC Radio Bristol between 1-3am. Hear it live or anytime in the 7 days after broadcast using the on line "Listen Live/Again" feature on the BBC i-Player, there's a link to it from our profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith Bristol Uncovered on BBC Radio Bristol
Hear "Shamelady" by War Against Sleep from the new album "Pleasure Complex" on the Saturday edition of Bristol Uncovered on BBC Radio Bristol via the on line "Listen Again" feature on the BBC i-Player now, there’s a link to it from our profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith Bristol Uncovered on BBC Radio Bristol
Hear "Now And Then" by War Against Sleep on Bristol Uncovered. We played it on our Saturday morning show last weekend on BBC Radio Bristol. You can still hear it anytime this week using the on line "Listen Again" feature on the BBC i-Player, there’s a link to it from our profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith Bristol Uncovered on BBC Radio Bristol
We're looking for an enthusiastic Young Musician or Project Manager to celebrate Bristol music. This is a rare opportunity for you to create and distribute a CD of Bristol's talent, including your own, then hold an album lauch for everyone to perform. For more info. Check us out!
Download last year's "Pollination: Homegrown" featuring Jagos, Guido, Shadz, JB Love, Middleman, Nicole Jackson, Pike, Aarya and Dinnall to name a few, by clicking the album cover
