Upset The
Rhythm presents…
SPRAY PAINT
THE REBEL
Tuesday
15 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/391975
SPRAY
PAINT are a no wave punk outfit from Austin, Texas made up of Chris
Stephenson (drums/vocals), Cory Plump (guitar/vocals) and George Dishner
(guitar/vocals). Spray Paint’s buzz-sawing guitars run headlong through
labyrinthine tunnels of reverb, chased down by some wildly brain-bashing drums.
All three members of Spray Paint sing too, helping create an uncontrollable
sense of fervour as they jostle for the words. They work up a tone of paranoia
amid the jagged rhythms, locking into a motoric groove that’s impossible to
escape from, offset with stormy blasts of distortion. Since forming in 2012,
Spray Paint have released six LPs and 7”s through SS-Records, Goner, Upset The
Rhythm and Monofonus Press. They’ve wasted no time with hitting the road
either, touring the US many times, with their friends Protomartyr and The
Rebel.
THE
REBEL is prolific London outsider Ben Wallers; a charismatic lone wolf in
a cowboy hat or trilby and a tie whose electrified howls are too idiosyncratic
to be broken down into market-oriented terms. It is difficult to sketch a
thumbnail summary of a musician who has amassed a vast and unwieldy discography
under a variety of names and genres: the most widely acclaimed is probably the
Country Teasers, but he also moonlights as, or in, the Rebel, the Company, the
Male Nurse, the Beale, the Stallion, the Black Poodle and Skills on Ampex,
across folk, country, garage, post-punk, no wave and electronic pop. In the
main part The Rebel is centred around twisted Casio drones, clanging guitar and
some defiantly deadpan vocals, all thrown in the pan and pressure-cooked in
Wallers' mind. Wallers has amassed a near-unquantifiable discography over the
past 20 years, from scores of more or less “official” LPs, EPs and 7”s to
seemingly endless self-released cassettes.
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