BBC 1 = synthesizers/vocals
BBC 2 = synthesizers/vocals
ITV = drums/vocals
CHANNEL 4 = bass/bass/bass
CHANNEL 5 = guitar/embryonic melodica
Influences
binary code. and hex. the nuclear family. bleak sci-fi literature. heat magazine. thinking about it, then deciding 'no'. post-it notes with phone numbers but no names. believing it because your dad does. cecilia sarkozy. non-precious metals. anton chekhov. kurt vonnegut. Vernon Kaye. calendars featuring a thought for the day. aphex twin. the smell of each other. old nuclear test sites. albinos. technical manuals for technical devices. alpha and theta waves only. the van allen belt. Starfish Prime.
Sounds Like
THIS;
!LiveRpool MUSIC WEEK 7/11/09! Thanks Ellis
POST MUSIC AT THE KAZIMIER, 14/5/09
'Lazy comparisons. Shit, aren’t they? And Balloons had best get used to them, because frontman Tom’s tremulous yelp means that they’re going to become quite familiar with superficial Sparks references. Look a little closer, however, and there’s much more to be heard in their perkily peculiar pop: the synthetic funk of prime Devo, the devil-may-care weirdness of the Swell Maps… even the grandly surreal lurchings of proto-Blur oddballs Seymour. The pulsing energy of their tremendous set coalesces into post-punk jerks and highly danceable quirks, and the stupid grins plastered onto the faces of all present prove that Balloons put on a darn good show. It’s gonna be so fucking exciting to see what their potential could develop into.'
"There are five of them and they call themselves Balloons, beyond that we know nothing except that on the evidence of these showcased cuts they sound like they’ve been overly tucking in to the kaleidoscopic sherbet over the festive season concocting and cobbling deliriously skewed sounds that sound for all the world like wired road kill resulting from a head on collision between early career Sparks, Cardiacs, Devo and ‘SF Sorrow’ era Pretty Things, totally mental on the edge of a breakdown schizoid electronics, caterwauling cabaret-esque vocals and wickedly wonky erratic time signatures all coalesce to make this something of a highly infectious spectacle offering the kind of turntable trouncing rarely heard here since that rather spiffing full length from Silvery last summer. Anyhow its all very acutely deranged, hysterical or should that be hysteria laced panic stricken pop of which your first port of call should be the totally wired ’Rabbit Yawn’ though those of you preferring flashbacks of pure un-distilled English psychedelic prog pop should be minded to size up the momentous ‘CTK 120’ which at times had us here recalling some strangely warped fusion between B-Movie and Modern Eon. Ones to watch we are suspecting."
Chinchilla and Room237 are rather happy to present...
LIGHTNING BOLT
a.P.A.T.t.
ACTION BEAT
CHOPS
Thursday 3rd December @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 8pm doors, first band 8:15 prompt
Tickets £7 (plus booking fee) Available from 2nd November from: behind the bar at the Brudenell (50p booking fee fund-raiser for cops&robbers) Jumbo Records & Crash Records in Leeds wegottickets.com
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