The last week or so has been absolutely sensational for gigs in Glasgow. Some i did make, some i didn't make and one got cancelled altogether. Over the course of 6 days from the Tuesday (14th December) to Sunday (the 19th) there were some pretty amazing shows performed and played throughout Glasgow and it's various musical locations. Below i've compiled a list of the best gigs and included MP32s (where available), videos and links. The week should have began with Civil Civic but they sadly had to cancel their gig at The 13th Note last Monday. But since [...]
We used a spreadsheet this year. Yes, a bloody spreadsheet. It's still not a perfect representation of what was an excellent year for music or, in fact, what we individually valued, but it will have to do. And at least we arrived at a top ten rather than the fudge of a top four we presented to you, adoring reader(s), this time last year. Residing in the bubbling under category for 2010 were cracking albums by: The Hold Steady, Titus Andronicus, Holy Fuck, Wavves, Silver Mt Zion, The Divine Comedy, To Rococo Rot, Gold [...]
So I've only gone and produced another podcast, this time using my creative zen mic, as it seemed somehow better than my desktop microphone. It's still not perfect, full of crackles and my my aim is to get a good microphone whithin time for the next podcast. Anyhows God Is In The Pod 3, is my attempt to reflect some of the acts that have graced our pages or will be featured on our pages over the last three months, I hope you enjoy the music. I intentionally picked mostly up and coming and emerging acts in order to give [...]
If you like it noisy then you could do a lot worse than heading over to Corsica Studios (recently named named best small club in the country by IDJ Mag) on the 20th of October for a full on sonic assault by Drum Eyes, Nedry, Rocketnumber9 and a brain-melting selection of others acts and DJ’s. Tickets are available here and the facebook event is here (so you can let all your friends know that you'll be unable to hear them on October the 21st). Related posts [...]
"Something in my throat made my next words shake, And something in the wires made the lightbulbs break..." Sunday morning brings yet more hangovers but we’re all buzzing as we know we will we seeing the mighty Wilco tonight. But before Jeff Tweedy and co. give what we hope will be the defining performance of the festival there is a final day of cracking music before us… Dylan LeBlanc tells the crowd that he will be our Sunday lunchtime hangover music and this turns [...]
Drum Eyes are a collective of kraut-psyche-noise-vendors including the ex-drummer of The Boredoms and the wonderfully named DJ Scotch Egg (Shigeru Ishihara). They’ve been on the same bill as Teeth of the Sea, Ishihara has shared a record label (Load Records) with Lightning Bolt and Gira Gira (their first album) is out on Upset the Rhythm’s label who, by the accounts of me colleague, put on some bloody good nights in that there London. Hopefully this description functions to locate them and hints at a quality product – which it very much is. Opener [...]
The music of Drum Eyes is mad. Not in an ostentatious, or a frivolous, unsettling way; it just seems to be the product of a group with plenty of talent who have realised that a lot of modern music bores them. This particular collective is loosely centred on Shigeru Ishihara (better known to some as DJ Scotch Egg) and E-Da (the Ex-Boredoms drummer) and it’s quite something, if you’re prepared for it. It’s cosmic. It has loads of odd beeps, synth swirls and a whole load of flange. It’s bombastic [...]
If you value your ears as much as most of us should yet inevitably don't, Gira Gira is probably a record to veer as well away from as Sonisphere. If on the other hand you enjoy having your inner ear tubes and shoots battered about like a gleaming Wimbledon tennis ball, Drum Eyes , featuring DJ Scotch Egg, a couple of drum kits (two eyes, two sets of drums, duh) and enough Japan-via-Brighton noisecore to make Rolo Tomassi quake are almost worth prepping the hearing aids for. Whilst Gira Gira signifies 'bling bling' in the quartet's mother tongue, there's [...]
The wonderous fifth episode of Fifteen Minutes of Fame brings you Drum Eyes, Redtrack, The Rest and Cold Seeds. Played every day for a week www.Recharged Radio.com. Ace or what. Tracks and bands and deets: The Rest - Apples & Allergies More Redtrack - Perfectly Fine Intellectual Read more..
Brittiska sextetten DRUM EYES släpper i juli nya albumet Gira Gira på Upset the Rhythm , och NMB har fattat tycke för deras mäktiga och snudd på ogreppbara glam-psykadeliska punk-oväsen. Som smakprov har ni här 50-50 , ett epos till låt som nog cirka hälften av er gillar, passande nog? DRUM EYES - 50-50
The sonic adventurousness of the patriarchs of the German progressive enlightenment did as you well know inform the subsequent outbursts of bile and clockwork percussiveness of the British post punk commune revolting against the advent of the Lady of Darkness, may our new leaders be as evil so that we can reap the rewards of [...]
Doubtless if you're donning knee pads and crawling over Camden's stickiest floors and filthiest toilets, you'll be aware of essential shows from Dots & Dashes faves Crystal Fighters , Best Coast , Gold Panda and Surfer Blood . Yet with an at times overbearing line up that seems to erupt from the NME ad pages, flicking bewilderment into your eyes like Eyjafjallajokull, Dots & Dashes is here to help digest the lesser-known chunks of this year's Camden Crawl run-down, taking in rampant Japanese glitch-disco, feminine Mancunian post-punk and Seasick [...]
bass bombs from scotch egg some mournful reeds in background two drummers hit shit guitar freaking dude shivers with six string stramash nice lady(?) makes noise if i was the type of fella who might host a dinner party (and i’m not, i hate people, ‘specially round my gaff, i can’t cook and nobody wants to listen to khanate whilst tucking [...]
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