Wednesday, 16 August 2017

Wolf Eyes solo sets in London tomorrow, Warm Digits next week!


Hey everyone!

Huge thanks to all of you for coming out this last week to see Pikacyu-Makoto and Spray Paint & The Rebel. We’re not through with you yet though, tomorrow (yes, Thursday night) we’ll be pitching up at The Islington in Angel for an evening of Psycho-Jazz excess from Wolf Eyes in their solo guises. We’ll have John R. Olson, Regression and Crazy Jim all performing in the name of weird yet powerful times. Tickets cost £10 and will be available on the door from 7.30pm, imagine sonic eruptions commencing 8.30pm. Read on for all the specifics.

Also, whilst we have your attention, please find below the full scoop on our upcoming Warm Digits and Comfort concert next week on Friday 25th August. If you’re into "machine funk kraut-a-delia" (and who isn’t?) this show is about to take the roof off. Really excited to have Glasgow’s Comfort joining the lineup for this one too, along with our excellent Upset The Rhythm DJs. Enjoy…


\ \ \ \ \     TOMORROW     / / / / /


Wolf Eyes in solo mode featuring sets from…

JOHN R. OLSON
NATE YOUNG’S REGRESSION
CRAZY JIM

Thursday 17 August
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £10.00 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/409977

JOHN R. OLSON aka Inzane Johnny of Wolf Eyes and American Tapes will be treating us to a solo slice from his mind platter, featuring reeds and modulations galore. As a part of Wolf Eyes, Olson is responsible for augmenting the USA's longest-running homemade, primitive, electronic, poetry & radical vibes trio. They don't just release albums they launch scotched, taped nuclear audio fronts on humanity. Earlier this year saw them release their new album ‘Undertow’ packed full of what Olson does best; unnerving dread meets genuine freedom vibes that shiver their way through the dark ambience of it all.
http://www.wolfeyes.net/main.html

REGRESSION is the solo project of Nate Young, a founding member of seminal Detroit noise band Wolf Eyes. More recently he's been honing an equally distinctive solo sound that blends myriad sources from musique concrète, vintage film atmospherics, layered synths and archive library recordings into something thrillingly intense. Summoning up crushingly ominous crepuscular soundscapes and synth-washed phantasmagoria, Young undercuts the brutalism of Wolf Eyes with the kind of ambient dread that conjures images of lost horror soundtracks from the 70's. Minimal analogue synth violence is punctuated by thunder cracks of metal percussion ala the early Akita/Null Merzbow duets, massively doomy beat hypnotics and an atmosphere that's somewhere between the most apocalyptic Throbbing Gristle recordings, Coil's Musick To Play In The Dark, The Conet Project and your favourite Kraut kosmonaut. Young's most recent album 'Blinding Confusion' (out on NNA Tapes) has the feel of a kind of post-synth electro-acoustic ritual, albeit tied-in with a visionary compositional aesthetic that is a couple of miles beyond your average weird-beard in a basement non-vibe.
   


CRAZY JIM aka James ‘Crazy Jim’ Baljo, is proof that not every side-project of Wolf Eyes results in noise. Veering towards the sweet and ambient, Crazy Jim uses only guitars to build huge waves of tonic abstraction. Nate Young credits Crazy Jim as "the first person to coin the term INZANE and plays and lives accordingly", look out for some sweet folk-tuned bliss and tape delay guitar gloop.




\ \ \ \ \     FRIDAY 25 AUGUST     / / / / /

WARM DIGITS
COMFORT
UTR DJs
Friday 25 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB

WARM DIGITS are Steve Jefferis and Andrew Hodson; a trans-pennine, krautophonic blizzard-wave duo that emerged from Newcastle upon Tyne's underground scene with a sound like Neu and Cluster forming a supergroup with Giorgio Moroder, Kevin Shields, Eno and Keith Levene. Their first album, 'Keep Warm... with the Warm Digits', came out in 2011 on Newcastle's Distraction Records; Andrew Weatherall described them as producing some fine "machine funk kraut-a-delia" and the duo were soon went on to headline one of his Live From Outer Space events. Live, Warm Digits are a motoric epiphany of drums, guitar and pulsing hardware, complete with mesmeric kosmische visuals; all that on-stage multi-tasking making their live sets a dynamic kraut-disco experience. The last few years have seen Warm Digits release a second album entitled 'Interchange', tour with British Sea Power and support the legendary Goblin, St Etienne, Future Islands and ESG. Warm Digits now have a new album out now on Memphis Industries, featuring vocal contributions from Field Music, Sarah Cracknell (of Saint Etienne), Devon Sproule and Mia La Metta (of Beards). Look out for some special vocal guests on the night of the show too!

COMFORT are a queer punk two piece from Glasgow that make music that trades out guitar and bass for a more electronic/sample based approach. Pulsating bass, glitchy synths, crushed drums and vocal rhetoric all feature in their contagiously brilliant dialogue. Check out their first collection of songs titled ‘Built to Waste’ on their bandcamp now.


Thanks for spending your time with us, see you tomorrow!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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JOHN R. OLSON
NATE YOUNG’S REGRESSION
CRAZY JIM
Thursday 17 August
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/409977

WARM DIGITS
COMFORT
UTR DJs
Friday 25 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB

NAP EYES
H. GRIMACE
GARDEN CENTRE
Thursday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

LARAAJI
(Performing two sets with an interval)
Saturday 2 September
The Tin Tabernacle
12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA UK | Map

DEERHOOF
LE TON MITÉ
ROBERT SOTELO
Monday 4 September
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ
NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.

LOWTIDE
ICE BATHS
Tuesday 5 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

ROBERT SOTELO - ‘Cusp’ album launch!
CLEMENTINE MARCH
POZI
Friday 8 September
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/410124

AMOR
BAMBOO
MIDDEX
UPSET THE RHYTHM DJs
Sunday 17 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
TV CRIME
Monday 9 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ

PRIESTS
DOWNTOWN BOYS
BIG JOANIE
Wednesday 18 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/405435

SHOPPING
GAUCHE
THE WORLD
Friday 10 November
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm - 2am | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/411836

MOUNT EERIE
Monday 13 November
Tuesday 14 November
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £15 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/upset-the-rhythm-presents-mount-eerie

PROTOMARTYR
SAUNA YOUTH
BOMBER JACKETS
Tuesday 14 November
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/410129

FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 20 November – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 21 November – SOLD OUT
Wednesday 22 November
In collaboration with Parallel Lines
O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL
7pm I Tickets: http://future-islands.com/?cs- event=74572#shows

RICHARD DAWSON
(Live band show)
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £15 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/412137 

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