Weenliz
Experimental / Post punk / Live Electronics
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Glasgow, Scotland
United Kingdom
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| Member Since | 1/30/2008 | | Band Members | Ian - Distorted Bass, Circuit Bent Italian Toy Sax
Kenneth - Metal Bed Leg, Screwdrivers, Drill, Knife, Detuned Guitar Loops
Laurie-Bangs
Sandra-Screams, Glamour
William - Sampler, Loops, Microphone, Theremin | | Influences | Aids Wolf
Sonic Youth
Bad Brains
Dead Kennedys
Minor Threat
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Arab on Radar
Lightning Bolt
The Blood Brothers
Les Savy Fav
Braniac
Kraftwerk
Add N to (X)
Cornelius
Dan Deacon
The Knife
Low
Scott Walker
Sparks
Tortoise | | Sounds Like | We went to see Weeliz play in the Halt Bar on Friday night for free and I think they might have topped gay vs you in the live show league. I don't really want to try describe their sound, you should just click the weenliz link above to hear them. For starters their drummer was wearing a black mask that he couldn't see out of and sparkly sequin dress. I think he was also chained up. The bassist was wearing a dress and was pounding some toy drill sort of thing when he wasn't playing his guitar. Kenny the guitarist was thrashing at his guitar strings with a butchers knife and drilling holes in it. He even let people in the crowd have a shot of the drill. The girl in the band was wearing a lovely dress and screaming down the microphone like I've never heard before. William, played about with a sampler and rolled about the groud chanting and knocking over pints. Every one in the crowd piled on top of him a number of times. I got covered in beer and kicked in the face. He was flying all over the place literally. At one point I seen him in the corner of my eye fly by me and nearly knock over a table full of drinks. All through the show there was a strobe light flashing like mad that could easily have given someone a fit. At the end of the show someone thought they were Kurt Covain and smashed Kennys guitar into pieces.
I came out just thinking wow that was amazing and I didn't even have to spend any money. I can't even find any videos of them anywhere on the net.http://faceshredder.blogspot.com/
Noise can be really annoying. It’s not the volume, or the battered-ear intensity that I object to, but the fact that some practitioners seem to have no other ideas other than to be extremely loud. To the point of utter tedium. Without some kind of structure, even the most extreme white-out cacophany becomes bland. Done well, though, it can be a gleefully cathartic experience.
Weenliz are a trio whose instrumentation screeches damage. Distorted Bass, Toy Sax, Metal Bed Leg, Screwdrivers, Drill, Knife, Detuned Guitar Loops, Sampler, Microphone and Theremin are all used on their first EP. And it’s a right old racket. There are four ‘proper’ tracks interspersed with four 50 second slabs of manic white noise. “Forget Me Knottz” has a ludicrous jackhammer beat pounding beneath sheets of screech. “The Big Bouncy Bear Back Bacon Bee Bop” (what?) introduces Simon Bates’ “Our Tune” theme (remember that?) played on tinny organ, while all manner of hell breaks loose. It gradually settles down into a repeated grumbling riff.
“Fur/Bramble” is the one. The dirtiest, most distorted bass you’re likely to hear grinds out a riff underneath a wailing siren and scummy feedback. It’s punk as fuck. “Chinese Barbie” is relatively restrained, with a slow, three-note bass rhythm and a two chord guitar break rumbling along like Link Wray on ketamine, before everything disintegrates into a mess of static, short-circuits and feedback.
Bet they’re an absolute hoot live. The Weenliz EP is available as a free download for now, and will be given a physical release later in the year.
"To be honest I was expecting boring meaningless EQ sweeping noise. Actually these guys were bloody entertaining. They had two guys beating shit out of their guitars with drills and I think a knife (?). I wish I remembered more. What made it for me though was the big baby man rolling around on the floor screaming in to the microphone. I’m not sure if it’s fair to call it screaming. It sounded like one of those party whistles with the rolling paper bit taken off it. Sounded awesome anyway. Everyone seemed to be totally in to it; nodding heads and bouncing knees all around me. Expect a free download release from Weenliz real real soon!"
-Winningspermparty.com
Glasgow scuzz-troubadours Weenliz’ music has been described as “glitched up super fuzzy plinky plonks… as if rapeman had gone out and bought some stuff from maplins.” After checking their self-titled debut EP on independent blog/label Winning Sperm Party, I have to completely concur. Weenliz is eight tracks of sheer meat– a sporadic pile-up of raw distortion– composed with little-or-no attention to such musical conforms as structure, melody, harmony or rhythm. Rather it is the stuff of circuit-bending noiseniks and anarcho-geeks having a mindfuck with their “instruments”, which reputedly includes hammering guitars with drills and knives. Perhaps this release was the ensuing electric shock that killed the entire band, captured unintentionally as the studio-tape went on running? Standout track titles include Fur/Bramble and Chinese Barbie. | | Record Label | Pump | | Type of Label | Indie |
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