Hello again!
Not one, not two but three shows for you next week, here's a quick heads up! On Wednesday we're at Cafe Oto for JESSICA BAILIFF's debut UK show, well worth the wait I'm sure and backed by an eerie incarnation of BODUF SONGS and MATAWAN too. Then on Thursday we're at Corsica Studios for a night of heavy hypnotics courtesy of SUN ARAW, DEEP MAGIC, VISION FORTUNE and BASS CLEF (DJ Set), nothing short of sublime. Then Sunday brings the week to a close in duly chaotic style with an epic party with NOBUNNY at the Brixton Windmill. It's gonna be great, here's all the detail…
\\\\\\ WEDNESDAY /////
JESSICA BAILIFF
BODUF SONGS
MATAWAN
Wednesday 17 April
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/197657
JESSICA BAILIFF is a singer-songwriter from Toledo, Ohio. From her first records in the last gasp of the 1990s, Bailiff has carved out her own spectral path. She's collaborated with Dave Pearce of Flying Saucer Attack, Odd Nosdam, Casino Versus Japan and Rivulets among many, giving you some idea to expect the unexpected as her music ranges from short piano pieces to slowly ascending 20-minute feedback driven monsters. Brand new album, 'At The Down-Turned Jagged Rim Of The Sky' released by long-term label Kranky, is her first since 2006, suffused with her cool, half-chanted singing, plenty of sonic murk and a clear focus on arrangement and precision. Opener, 'Your Ghost Is Not Enough' is a strong meditation on the tensions and feelings of long-distance relationships, and two songs later, 'Sanguine' revolves around an epic blush of organ, bass, and increasingly louder guitars. The latter brings to mind the Doors fronted by Trish Keenan at first, but it transforms into something that's all Bailiff by the end. And then 'If You Say It' takes it to a further level with what could be gentle flutes bubbling through the mix. Bringing scope and space to a more intimate level, the miniature epic 'This is Real' demonstrates the virtues of the slow build and Bailiff's careful placement: repeated keyboard parts are matched by guitars, then voices take the place of the guitars as new guitars are added into the background. It feels like sweeping exultance, a sigh, and the title's reach for something grounded. For this show, Jessica will be performing with a band, consisting of Mat Sweet of Boduf Songs on drums and Clive Henry on bass, this will be her first ever show in the UK, seriously exciting!
http://jessicabailiff.tumblr.com/
BODUF SONGS has evolved from Mat Sweet's minimalist acoustic approach, showcased so well on previous albums for the Kranky, to a more adventurous and experimental treatment of his songs. Dark psychedelics are crafted from a combination of raw electronics, manipulated samples and heavy guitar. Where once other instruments were rare interludes betwixt brooding vocals and carefully plucked guitar, now they have a much bigger part to play, shaping entire songs into an animated whole. New album, 'Burnt Up On Re-Entry', released on Southern Records, is very much another galaxy for Boduf Songs, allowing Sweet to explore new black holes and interstellar clouds, resulting in expanding sounds that interact powerfully with his finely honed songwriting, and presenting a new hypothesis of the universe.
http://www.bodufsongs.com/
MATAWAN focus heavily on textural relationships, seeking to portray an aural journey that often treads a fine line between brooding density and compelling melody. Specifically choosing to use electric guitars as their primary medium, the band's compositions vary organically with each performance, which helps to give Matawan their own sense of freedom.
https://soundcloud.com/matawanmusic
\\\\\\ THURSDAY /////
SUN ARAW
DEEP MAGIC
VISION FORTUNE
BASS CLEF (DJ set)
LONDONEARS DJs
Thursday 18 April
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/200244
SUN ARAW aka Cameron Stallones has over multiple cassette releases, three EPs, six albums and some arresting visual work, evolved as a singular purveyor of low-end psychedelia, melted afrobeat and warped dub. This month Stallones will bring his music to scorched and transcendental plains in the live setting. After the empire-like sonic scope of last year’s 'Ancient Romans' LP, 2012 saw Sun Araw ascend yet further with the release of 'ICON GIVE THANK', an incredible collaborative album between Cameron, long term collaborator M. Geddes Gengras and roots reggae vocal legends The Congos via the RVNG label as part of their FRKWYS series. This Summer will see the release of a brand new Sun Araw album, 'The Inner Treaty', so expect plenty of new songs from that on this April tour as Cameron continues his prolific and idiosyncratic artistic ventures: producing visually arresting videos for some of his totemic tracks, producing and DJing killer outsider dub/dancehall as Duppy Gun Soundsystem (also with M.Geddes Gengras) and emitting countless DJ mixes, rerubs, unofficial edits and spontaneous jams. It's going to get hazy that's for sure!
http://www.sunaraw.com/
DEEP MAGIC is the solo project of LA's Alex Gray. Utilizing found sound, minimal but twitchy rhythms and a whole mixed bag of production tricks, DEEP MAGIC speeds things up a bit and throws some light industrial and house curveballs to make for a bizarre and rewarding listen. Deep Magic is an ascent of vibrating dreams, a reverence for the past and narrative bliss. Deep Magic is archaic spirit hymns, total, healing music.
http://deeptapes.com/
VISION FORTUNE are brothers Alexander and Austin Peru who first met Andres Cuatroquesos in a small boys boarding school in Menen, Belgium. They rekindled their friendship in London seven years ago, and proceeded to meet up every week at an after-college music club perfecting a rhythmic tension and phasing repetition between guitars and drums that's plunges their epic, mesmeric songs into transcendental territories. Their debut LP, 'Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune', is out 13 May 2013 and is a split release between Faux Discx and Gringo Records, a duo of labels that has been behind previous releases from like-minded artists such as Cold Pumas, Sauna Youth and Hookworms.
https://soundcloud.com/visionfortune
BASS CLEF is rooted in London and has a very distinct but ever-morphing sound of deep modular zonage, delving into the deliriously trippy yet also moving onwards and rave-wards. For this show Ralph Cumbers will be working on a special DJ set of dubbed-out mixes, flying the afro-disco flag via the world of deliciously un-smooth groove.
http://www.myspace.com/bassclefbass
\\\\\\ SUNDAY /////
NOBUNNY
BAD SPORTS
ATOMIC SUPLEX
WAKE UP DEAD
MEAN BIKINI
CANDY HIGHWAY
Sunday 21st April
Brixton Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton, SW2 5BZ
5pm | £9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/210794
NOBUNNY (one word, all caps) has been captivating audiences of dedicated fans and new believers since Easter 2001 (the day Joey Ramone died). Born in the desert outside of Tucson AZ, NOBUNNY started as an animal Elvis impersonator before deciding to try out his hand at songwriting. The raucous rabbit's music is a intoxicating concoction of all the rights and wrongs that make up the heart and the soul of real rock n roll. Songs that sound as though they were written at the Brill building by a punk rock mutant back from the future. Some batshit brilliant bullshit. NOBUNNY stayed deep underground for his first 6 years doing DIY solo tours, burning limited CDRs, and building a dedicated group of fans across the USA. NOBUNNY shows were purported to include a dizzying act that often featured nudity, dancing, chaos, and costumes (most notably NOBUNNY's filthy rabbit mask). 2008, saw his first LP titled "Love Visions" released on 1234GO! Records. The album was a hit among critics, punks, and nerds alike. A modern RNR classic filled with inept production, and songs as catchy as catchy. In 2009 Burger Records released the Mixtape/LP "Raw Romance". An acoustical confessional brainstorm exploration of cassette goodness . In 2010 the rascally rabbit released a "warts n all" Live Album on Jack White's Third Man Records. The year ended with Nobunny's 2nd proper LP, "FIRST BLOOD". Released on the Memphis' Goner Records, the album is NOBUNNY's off the deep end, poptastic, psych-o masterstroke. NOBUNNY loves you, and has made it damn near impossible not to love him back. Follow the white rabbit!
http://www.facebook.com/THENOBUNNY
BAD SPORTS are Orville Neeley, Greg Rutherford and TV Daniel Fried from Dallas, Texas. Having done stints in Texas bands including the Mind Spiders, the Wax Museums, the High Tension Wires and OBN III, Bad Sports have focussed things into fuzzy, frictive, raging with high spirits, balancing Who-like power chords with Ramones-y blistered pop. Check out their records on Total BS, Nashville's Dead and Burger and recent album 'Kings Of The Weekend' on Dirtnap.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bad-Sports/117644598247026
ATOMIC SUPLEX are a London four piece of helmet-toting garage rockers with an album 'Bathroom Party' out now on the legendary Crypt label. This is probably what Bill Haley sounds like if you have the worst tinnitus in the world. Not so much a sonic cathedral as a sonic corrugated iron shed.
http://www.atomicsuplex.co.uk/
WAKE UP DEAD are a punk band from London (ex/present/ephemeral members of Black Time, Black Mamba Beat, The Jazz June, Atari, Work That Skirt, Live Fast Die, Crawling Age, Thee Exciters, etc...), in short amazing!
http://wakeupdead.bandcamp.com/
MEAN BIKINI are a garage/new wave quartet also from the Capital. Both the energy and attitude of their songs are dipped in total punk gloop. This band of young women sound like a Japanese power-pop group like Thee 50s High Teens, only raked through the hiss, making for some raw demos, leading us onwards.
http://meanbikini.bandcamp.com/
CANDY HIGHWAY are purveyors of only the finest anti-post postmodern punk!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Candy-Highway/447406985309890
Thanks for reading and for coming to so many of our shows recently!
Have the best weekend and we'll see you next week!
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WOLF EYES
LIBEREZ
OCCULT HAND
Tuesday 23 April
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208130
BARN OWL
KOEN HOLTKAMP
A-SUN AMISSA
Wednesday 1 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/202474
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
ERGO PHIZMIZ
VOLUNTEERS PARK
Monday 6 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/212951
SUPREME DICKS
PLATINUM VISION
CHALAQUE
Thursday 9 May
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/205122
SPECIAL GUESTS
FEMMINIELLI
PLANTAGENET 3
Monday 13 May
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211298
Upset The Rhythm & Le Guess Who? present FUZZBOX
Featuring…
WHITE FENCE
MIKAL CRONIN
PURLING HISS
JACCO GARDNER
THE PHEROMOANS
Thursday 16 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208879
DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764
"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"
BLEACHED
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360
MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
WAY THROUGH
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364
CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093
MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291
SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195
SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364
MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293
WARM SODA
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927
PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791
THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365
