Firstly, here's three reasons ATP-run festivals are better than other festivals. 1. No more tents. Getting lashed and watching cool music is fun. Going back to a campsite after the bands have finished, probably in the dark and with the ground churned into five different kinds of crap by bad weather and foot traffic, and sleeping inside essentially an oversized Pac-a-Mac, probably with large rocks digging into your back, most likely surrounded by loud idiots, and running the risk of having your stuff stolen, or having someone even more wasted than you are piss on your [...]
Day two, and i'm here ridiculously early (well, by artist/writer/layabout standards - actually it's just after midday) for the weekend's other unmissable act besides Company Flow , that being Canadian heavy metal trio Godspeed You! Black Emperor . Wait - heavy metal trio? That's what the programme says, anyway. Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian power trio, often compared to fellow Canadians Rush . The band's musical style is hard rock and heavy metal although the band itself is reluctant to embrace this label. The band on... Read more..
Just as life itself would be substantially enhanced were we all living in an endless ATP, Sunday lunchtime too is irrevocably enriched by a Godspeed You! Black Emperor show, especially one that today crams a lifetime's worth of emotivity into just shy of two utterly exhausting hours. Just as your average grease-dosed chip shop fayre encompasses ruddy saveloys and indiscriminate gristle battered and bruised, GY!BE utilise every hallmark of the post-rock genre to its enervating, yet equally thrilling full, emotion-shocked potential as trumpets blare, grief-stricken strings ring out over a sense of growing panic, and dual bass guitars [...]
Have you ever heard jazz and thought, 'I would absolutely mosh to this'? I didn't think so, and until this morning, I hadn't either. That is when Acoustic Ladyland came into my life. Acoustic Ladyland is a self described punk-jazz band, not so much redefining the boundaries of genres as tearing them to shreds and then stomping all over them. Together with label mates Led Bib, brothers in arms Polar Bear, and the rest of an intriguing up and coming London jazz scene, Acoustic Ladyland is making people all over question why they even try to attach genres [...]
Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned - "Everything Is, Pt. III" . Messy. The kind of guy whose bracelets always break, whose watches slip off his wrist and shatter on the asphalt. Very good at climbing walls. Favourite movie is The Great Escape . One day he was buying milk and interrupted a robbery. He got beat up good, but saved the owner $400. He gets milk for free, now. He brags about this to his friends. "Not everyone gets free milk," he says. Sometimes he stops mid-way through: "Not everyone gets fr-" he says, reaching to catch his [...]
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Ove Kvavik Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned - "Everything Is, Pt. III" Messy. The kind of guy whose bracelets always break, whose watches slip off his wrist and shatter on the asphalt. Very good at climbing walls. Favourite movie is The Great Escape . One day he was buying milk and interrupted a robbery. He got beat up good, but saved the owner $400. He gets milk for free, now. He brags about this to his friends. "Not everyone gets free milk," he says. [...]
Deathray Trebuchay are a dynamic six-piece from East London who expertly fuse punk and death-jazz with Balkan brass to create something that's cathartic, high-octane, and hugely enjoyable. Their debut single "Number 6" , produced by Mercury nominated drummer Seb Rochford ( Polar Bear , Acoustic Ladyland ) is set for release 27th April, 2009 and having played a string of festival dates this summer including Glade, Latitude, Bestival and Secret Garden it now seems that Deathray Trebuchay are poised for something very special indeed. The band consists [...]
That's right folks! As i mentioned a couple of weeks back, funfunfun has now gone physical! You can download it for free by right-clicking and saving the picture above, then print it out and fold it in an special way to create your very own fff #1(check my myspace blog to do this). If you don't fancy doing that and you want me to do all the work, then leave a comment or email me, incuding your name and address and I'll send you a copy for FREE !!! Issue #1 features: - Blamma! Blamma! [...]
"Road Of Bones"/"Red Sky" If you like your music soft and pretty, please walk away. But if you can stomach the jazz tindged noir-metal of Acoustic Ladyland, please step forward and embrace the monster of an album that is Skinny Grin . Not unlike Norway's Shinning, Acoustic Ladyland creates the sort of frantic (mostly) instrumental music that defies categorization and adheres to no simple structures. "Road Of Bones" Plays out like Jekyll and Hyde. The [...]
way back in early december, i had the unmitigated pleasure of hanging out in those (frankly spooky) disused railway arches which run from Bermondsey Street to right under London Bridge Station. now with my reputation, you might find it hard to believe this was anything other than run of the mill ramping up to the weekend type vibe. but non monsieur, the other lady ms b was shooting a video for the new acoustic ladyland single, cuts and lies, which is the first track to be released from the critically lauded new album, skinny grin and features the [...]
What better way to start off the New Year than with a good solid blast of what is technically called skronk or skwee-bo. Mmm-mm, time for some abstract punky-jazz shit to blow that dust out of your ears! This sounds like a merry-go-round for psychotic e-numbered-up asbo's. Acoustic Ladyland - New Me This is off the last new album I got in 2006, Acoustic Ladyland's latest, Skinny Grin. Is it... click the link above to read more >>
Just when I thought I'd got all the essential albums of the year, and I could start spending my money on Christmas presents, another record hits me from leftfield. Well, not a whole record, but a band at least. It happened last Thursday I was listening to John Kennedy on Xfm talking to Pete Wareham from Acoustic Ladyland , and playing session tracks from the band . As well as sax-player Pete, Acoustic Ladyland also features Seb Rochford and Tom Herbert amongst its number - and these three also comprise acclaimed modern jazz outfit Polar Bear [...]
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