Glasgow’s MY LATEST NOVEL play a live set that brilliantly merge soaring violins with breezy folk melodies and post-rock sea shanties with a remarkable inventiveness and artistry. The band’s stunning debut album “Wolves” is released on 13th March.
Presented in association with Little Big.
Brooklyn?s BLACK DICE make
a rare visit to the UK to play a London show in support of their album
‘Broken Ear Record’ released in September 2005. Their live set sees
them deliver a chaotic celebration of avant noises, kraut-psychedelic
rhythms and in-yer-face attitude that will confuse and astound in equal
measures, think punctured ear drums and the destabilized loss of
balance that follows it; think sensory failure, shattering, and a new
openness emergent from the shrapnel…
Their sound shares
affinities with Syd Barrett’s Interstellar Floyd jams or the hypnotic
repetition of artists like Can as well as displaying dub, industrial
and tropical influences…
Black Dice, living up to their
track record of ever-diligent experimentation and the embrace of
change, as well as a vibrant backdrop of New York pandemonium, have
delivered one of 2005’s most interesting records and proved that you
don’t have to be noisy to make beautiful noise. Pitch Fork
METRONOMY promote
their debut album Pip Paine (Pay The ?5000 You Owe) out on Holiphonic
on February 20th with a distinctive live set that samples and layers
melodica, accordion, guitar and found sounds that stir up krautrock,
dancehall, polka, pop and folk music. He sights influences asDavid Bowie, Devo, Frank Zappa, Pavement, Kraftwerk, New Order, N.E.R.D, Solex to The Ramones.
?If there?s one record you buy in 2006, make it Metronomy, my number one top tip for 2006? Rob Da Bank Radio 1
“This chap?s really on the way up now!” Steve Lamacq?s Single of the Week BBC 6Music
This show is open to ages 14+
The New York trio LIARS make
a return visit to London after their sold out Luminaire show to promote
their eagerly awaited new album ‘Drum’s Not Dead’ with a live set that
takes in post-punk, avant noise and bizarre pop sensibilities; a
cocktail of menace and artful brilliant chaos often compared to the
likes of Sonic Youth. Their sound is immense, sometimes frightening;
far chillier than fellow New Yorkers The Rapture and infinitely
spookier than ARE Weapons with its gut-churning bass riffs, raw
powerful drums and vocals that are sometimes screamed but also have the
edge of Tom Waits…
“Like the Rollins Band if Henry had
been bought up by Vegan computer programmers or The Strokes after about
fifteen kilos of Mescaline this is intense, claustrophobic and half-built by robots”. XFM
KAITO a two girl / two boy timebomb from norwich
play their jittery, edgy and distorted punk-funk packed with searing
guitars and scratchy, chaotic rhythms with singer Niki Colt strutting
and stuttering her way through the glorious chaos, its like Justine
from Elastica fronting an early line up of The Fall…
“Any band that can harness pop delights of the whole Top 40, ravage it
with the discord of a dozen Fall albums and still come out on top is
one to cherish.” NME
MARTINI HENRY RIFLES play an adrenaline fuelled set of blazing guitars, rocking drums and dirty riffs.
THE SHORTWAVE SET play a glorious live set cherry picking old half-remembered psychedelic samples, cut up beats and soulful vocals that alternates between the playful and pleading… Its a bit like The Avalanches taking a nap under a tree made entirely of St. Etienne records!!
EUROS CHILDS frontman of much-loved Welsh psych-folk pop quartet, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci plays a headline show
Saturday March 11th at Bush Hall to air his long-awaited first solo album ‘Chops’ which is coming out this February on Wichita.
After two sold out Fence Collective shows in early November, KING CREOSOTE returns to London to play a headline show at the Scala in support of his brilliant and critically acclaimed album “KC Rules OK”. KING CREOSOTE’s live show sees him bring together a live band as he plays a set of extraordinarily touching, funny, sad, poignant, heartbreaking and downright beautiful songs.
Brooklyn’s TV on the Radio play a live set of new material from their forthcoming 4AD album that sees them deliver an
addictive and unique blend of new york noise, amped-up electronica, twitchy, danceable beats, gospel-esq vocals and swathes of treated guitar into rich and endlessly surprising folds of sound.
HOWLING BELLS promote their new single ‘Wishing Stone’ on Bella Union with a live show on Monday February 27th at The Luminaire, Kilburn.
BATTLES features an almost too-good-to-be-true lineup of avant-experimentalists and math rock musicians- including John
Stanier, drummer, was the drummer from HELMET and currently plays drums in Tomahawk. Ian Williams, guitarist/keyboardist, played guitar in Don Caballero and Storm and Stress. David Konopka, guitarist of art algebra rock band Lynx and Tyondai Braxton, keyboard player, beat boxer, avant garde solo musician.
YOUNG PEOPLE play a fascinating mix of rock, country,
and avant-garde, the trio known as Young People formed in early 2001,
when vocalist Katie Eastburn, guitarist Jeff Rosenburg, and drummer
Jarrett Silberman began playing together in hopes of forming a country
band and ended up forging together traditional American music with the
freeform sensibilities of underground rock. Releasing acclaimed albums
for both the Kill Rock Stars imprint 5RC and Dim Mak, founding members
Katie and Jarrett signed to too pure in 2005, shortly thereafter
completing work on their soon to be released third album ‘All At Once’
(Jeff having left the band after completing the ‘Five Sunsets In Four
Days’ EP).
‘Young People’s contagious slow-core vibrancy and unwillingness to
settle for an obvious post-punk narrative explodes their humble DIY
into a wonderfully zealous act.’ Pitchfork
PLUS GUESTS
PART of FOLK BRITANNIA produced by the Barbican in association with Eat Your Own Ears and BBC Four
A resurgence of interest in the psychedelic, mystical, neo-folk of the late 60s and early 70s, pioneered by artists such as Pentangle, Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan, has influenced a whole new generation of artists today.
This concert explores those links featuring several seminal artists, including a very rare appearance from mythical singer Vashti Bunyan who has recently released her second album Lookaftering a mere 36 years after her cult lost classic Diamond Days.
Cult American bands THE BOOKS and CLOGS play a special London show featuring seperate sets from both bands plus new material developed together while on tour.
TEST ICICLES play a 14+ show on Thursday February 2nd at ULU, Manning Hall, Malet Street, London with a live set of heart attack metal riffs, thrashing pedal-to-the-metal hardcore pop, demented disco-electro, hip hop and shouted vocals…