Cops And Robbers February 2005
Happy New Year
Here's February's listings - Apologies for the lack of January listings but what you gonna do?
Friday 4th February
Cardigan Arms,
£3.00
9.00p.m.
Our Beautiful Ridiculous Plan
The Northcross
McWatt
Our Beautiful Ridiculous Plan are a duo from Manchester, who travel between free improv and post-rock style grooves. Their line up is Olie on double bass and Dave on Guitar, which he uses with various delay type effects. I've not heard much like them before, although they sound at times reminiscent of Aerial M/Papa M, and sometimes they just sound crazy.
The Northcross tends to operate as a very loose collective based around Daniel Mills, the songwriter. Instrumentation varies, sometimes guitar, violin, double bass, etcetera. They've been described as "sparse melancholic arrangements hung around Danny Mills' (not the right back) yearning baritone voice" or a bit like Boxhead Ensemble, Nicos Marble Index Record, Silver Mount Zion etc..
McWatt are a flute, double bass and accordions duo from Leeds, who play floaty tranquil(ising) classicalish, folkishness.
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Friday 4th February
The Royal Park
Doors: 8pm, Price: £4
Panama promotions present:
The Scaramanga SixYamaguchi+ 1 more tba
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Friday4th February
Carpe Diem
Doors: 8pm, Free
Tasty Fanzine presents:
Galitza
Viva Stereo
MJ Hibbett & The Validators
Johnny Domino
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Friday 4th February
Maelstrom (the old post office, Hyde Park Corner)
An evening of short films by the Czech surrealist Jan SvankmajerEntry is by donation. 6pm onwards. Films showing:Dimensions Of Dialogue, The Flat, Virile Games, Down To The Cellar, The Last Trick, The Death Of Stalinism In Bohemia, Leonardo’s Diary, The Ossuary, Jabberwocky, Punch And Judy, J.S Bach Fantasy In G Minor.
There will also be dinner and a mass game of exquisite corpse.A free pamphlet will be available on the door including a timetable of events, Svankmajer’s essay: To Renounce The Leading Role, a biography, a filmography and suggested further reading.
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Saturday 5th February
Brudenell Social Club
Doors 2pm £5 all day
Tasty Fanzine presents...
65 Days Of Static + Dugong + Future Ex Wife + Eiger + ¡Forward Russia! +O Fracas + Falconetti + Pixel Pixel Pixel + That Fucking Tank
65 Days of Static 'Call this music what you will - a blend of (Aphe)X and (Mog)Y - as it's already
been said, here and in other likeminded websites and publications. Music like this doesn't need such pigeonholing; it just needs to be heard, and supported, and appreciated.' - Drowned in Sound www.65daysofstatic.com
Dugong'This is infectious, intelligent, tough music that thrills the hairs on your arms and tucks your granny up at night with a cup of something poisonous. This is innovative music with a sense of direction. It's modern sounding without being weird and it's expressive, not just expressing.' - Leeds Music Scene www.dugongonline.com
Future Ex Wife'...a band who have little respect for compromise or acceptance, welding huge John Bonham beats to a guitar sound thicker than treacle. Future Ex Wife is going to flatten you like a steamroller. better start running' - Kerrang! http://www.futureex-wife.com/
Eiger'...technicality, melody and occasional brutality - that says it all really. Pertinence, in the dictionary = "Having logical precise relevant to the matter at hand" and that kinda sums up these kids - wanting to do technical shit, but with a bit of metal and melody, and keeping it all,somehow, coherent.' - Reason To Believe Zine www.thankyouforcavingmyheadin.com
¡Forward Russia!'...!Forward, Russia! rip against each other; fractured and percussive guitar stabs are cradled by the most pounding rhythm section imaginable. It’s liquid dance in punk masquerade. The singer spazzes out relentlessly, hypnotically, voice never waning as he wails and hollers. A mega-quick banshee, a perfect front man.' - Drowned in Sound www.nyevskyprospect.com
O Fracas'...O Fracas are a strange, but captivating young band...agitated and complex...exciting...catchy weirdo pop-rock... It's not commercial, but intelligent, ambitious and deserves to carve a niche for itself.' - Whisperin' and Hollerin' www.ofracas.tk
Falconetti'...approved by Chuck D, large of drummer, epic of tune, samples from beyond, and flamenco (and jeans) of lady ethereality. What does any of this mean? Bloody great soundscapes, in all senses of the word.”' - Leeds Music Scene www.falconetti.co.uk
Pixel Pixel Pixel
www.armyofcats.com/pixelthreetimes
That Fucking Tank'...The approach to guitar is aggressive. You hear thumbed bass notes then ballsy open string riffs played with an infectious consistency, discordant bending, anvil muting, harmonics lazily pinging away. There are no flighty runs or scales here just forearm tiring post-rock chaos. Rhythmically there's interest too. They mix it up, alternatively drilling then stabbing at notes only to grind to ugly halt. The pair lock in together in a great 'loose but tight' fashion.
www.thatfuckingtank.tk
For more information see www.tastyfanzine.org.uk
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Saturday 5th February
The Fenton
Doors – 7.30 £4
Hungry Audio & Superior Pressings Present:
The Telescopes - Seminal ex-Creation artists grace Leeds with their sleepy intensity and new EP on Hungry Audio.
Sennen - Leading lights from the new breed of Shoegazing scenesters. Like the best bits of My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Slowdive rolled into one.
Sepiatone - like Stereolab having St. Etienne 'round for tea. Their next gig since last months support of The Exteriors and Cowtown. They've just released a new EP "Reasons for and Against"
The Sadtowns – Psychadeliasmiths
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Monday 7th February
Brudenell Social Club
8.00 £3
Blueprint and the Word the Cat Soundsystem present:
BARBARA ADLER - Member of the award winning Vancouver Poetry Slam Team, acclaimed oet Barbara Adler makes her Leeds debut at the Brudenell Social on at 8pm, featuring her band -C.R. Avery, Mark Berube, Brendan McLeod. Poetry and Music, featuring support from Leeds musicians and poets, Jen Way and the Word the Cat soundsystem. £3 on the door. The show will be preceded by a free writing workshop hosted by Blueprint creative collective from 6.30.For more info check www.wordthecat.com
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Friday 11th February
The Royal Park
Doors 8pm £3
Hortonparks.co.uk presents
Horton Parks: electro & acoustic lo-fi country blues. Check out Horton’s latest material as well the best from the current LP ‘Sleepers’ out on Squirrel records (http://www.squirrelrecords.co.uk/ ).
Hayley Avron: Gin soaked acoustic confessionals from the front woman from the ‘Tennessee Train Crash’
Jackson Palmer: Exciting new Alt-country 4-piece band
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Friday 11th February
The Fenton
The Badass Mothertrucker presents........."A night of riff appreciation"
Legion of Doom:Nottingham's premier instru-metal rockage by ex & current Isle Of Ewe / November Moment & more. Expect old school metal references a plenty...
Chickenhawk....:are fully tapped in the head. New Leeds 3 piece riff fest, with references to early Metallica / Melvins / Oxes / Buckethead and robots
Sons of Merrick:Head nodding, ass shaking, thunderous grooves ala Clutch, Down, Crowbar, Kyuss et al. From London Town
Trees :Bass and drums combo from ace Leeds based peeps. Think Karp meets 70's progmeisters, Yes. Oh and its Like A Kind of Matador / Monster Killed By Lazer folk as well.
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Friday February 11th
Bar Phono
10.00-02.00, £3
Hans & Jonny play a mixture of indie, punk, electro, electro-clash, new wave, synth and other randomness. kaito, moldy peaches, wire, the fall, pixies, omd, kraftwerk, le tigre,gravy train, the smiths, peaches, b&s, the rapture, radio 4, long blondes,the ramones, sonic youth, jonathan richman, gang of four, franz ferdinand,printed circuit...please email your requests in advance and we'll do ourbest to play them . everyone who's welcome email http://by21fd.bay21.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=a168d3f84ffb334e58eb000fe32d2af8&mailto=1&to=gojonnygogogogo@ntlworld.com&msg=MSG1107208307.22&start=7673860&len=3393&src=&type=x / www.gojonnygogogogo.co.uk
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Saturday February 12th
Fenton
8.00pm, £3.50
Obscene Baby Auction present:
Das Double Muslim Machine
Isambard Kingston Brunel
Cowtown
Eagle Eye
All the way from London UK, the idiot brother team Isambard Kingston Brunel come to hurt your head and tickle your fanciables in a Wolf Eyes/Black Dice mannerism.
Eagle Eye are a new Leeds group featuring current members of That Kill Eighty Six Fucking Tanks. Loud synths and rank guitars cover up lack of bass: think the Fall or Arab on Radar.
Cowtown feature Jon Nash of LS6-fame plus other recognisable faces playing surf-Deerhoof style.
Das Double Muslim Machine feature a Tiger and Humanfly doing pervo-Melvins/Load records style harshness. Look out for snapping Travis Beans! Get there early because the order is undecided yet.
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Saturday, 12th February
Otley Courthouse, Courthouse Street(behind Boroughgate)
7.30-11.00pm, £5
Otley Crue present
A Night in the Nick with
The Scaramanga Six
Stuffy/The Fuses
Endless Grey Windows
The Scaramanga Six: Feel the Wrath of the Morricone outfit!
Stuffy/The Fuses: Like a new wave Dave Clark Five - only heavier!
Endless Grey Windows: Local alternative rock-type action
Last bus to Leeds (via Headingley) 11.23, Bradford 11.32
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Sun 13 February
Brudenell Social Club
7.30pm£5 waged or £3 unwaged
www.qubik.com/termite/
The Termite Club Saint Valentine's Day Noise Massacre
The night before Valentine’s Day, the Termite Club offers the sonic equivalent of wilted flowers and rancid chocolates in the form of an evening of harsh racket and crazed antics. Amongst other things, this will feature warped noise, B-movie monster costumes, film loops and old junk from Fckn Bstrds (Holland); rude and spasmodic storms of cut-up sound from the modified electronic toys and gadgets of Andy Bolus of Evil Moisture (UK via France); “sharp and edgy electronic noise, fluctuating wildly between rhythmic distortion and piercing static, thunderous bass heavy waves and screaming bursts of blistering, shredded electronica” from o.m.s-n.m.a. (Holland); and gleefully unstructured and aggressive noise on electronics, radio and even a set of barber's clippers courtesy of Eaten by Children (London).
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Thursday 17th February
The Royal Park
£3.00
Petit Machin presents....
Saturday Looks Good To Me
Speedmarket Avenue
The Dragon Rapide tbc
Saturday Looks Good To Me (Polyvinyl Records): Good-looking Lo-Fi popsters from the city of Detroit, Michigan, with a sound somewhere between The Violent Femmes, Belle & Sebastian and The Shangri-Las, swept up by a single cheap microphone and mixed on a 4-track recorder. Totally ace.
Speedmarket Avenue: Organ-driven melodic pop from Sweden, with a sound that hints at The BMX Bandits, Phil Spector, The Pastels, The Hidden Cameras etc. Rough Trade describedtheir debut album as "a shining pop gem."
The Dragon Rapide (tbc): Instrumental songs with influences ranging from British indie, 60's jazz, and Chicago bands such as Euphone, Noyes and 5ivestyle. New record out in 2005 on Chinchillatone Records. Possibly with added Hammond-organ module or something similar.....
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Saturday 19th February
The Fenton
Doors 8pm Admission £5
tasty fanzine presents...
The Broken Family Band
Lionshare
Adam John Killip & The Tailors
David Thomas Broughton
The Broken Family Band: 'That the tumbleweed-strewn streets of Cambridge have thrown up a gem of the calibre of The Broken Family Band is a joyous surprise. They're four whiskey sodden, flannel-wearing, sensitive types who shit for breakfast the kind of ragged alt.country that makes the output of Will Oldham so invigorating.' NME
Lionshare: 'With all the stately dolorousness of early Leonard Cohen, they combineguitar, cello, and melancholy with strong, quiet hands. Its beautiful,mood-swung, post-psych folk'. The Wire
Adam John Killip & the Tailors'.....if Adam John Killip and his Rusty String Breakers are any sign,then good ol' tin shack rattlin', hoedown scarin' country-punk is aliveand well in the Leeds suburbs. Their '80% Proof' (Blind Bear) tells ofthe consequences of taking advantage of Leeds' many happy hours: "Twofor one is my only excuse / for drinking 80% proof". Let that be awarning kids.' Leeds Guide
David Thomas Broughton'layers of banshee-esque vocals, looped on a delay pedal, constantly adding and expanding. For a while he is hypnotic, and for a while his gentle lament makes every cigarette smell like incense.. ' Leeds Music Scene
www.tastyfanzine.org.uk
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Saturday 19th.February
It's at The Packhorse, it's £3 in and it starts at 8pm.
Oblong and Spaced Out presents:
D'Astro
The 7 Inches
Mz Sojourn
I guess everyone knows what these bands sound like (i.e. pretty damn good), so it should be an amazing night by all accounts. It's a fundraiser for the Disasters Emergency Committee, too, so it would be good to get loads of people down.
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Sunday 20th February
The Packhorse
8pm £3 entry.
Semisquared - glitzy electronica.
Miss Fuzzy Jones - dirty funk and soul from a curly girl.
Mz Sojourn - Makes your hair shiny and manageable.
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Tuesday 22nd February
Brudenell Social Club
7.30 £5
Kimya Dawson (ex Moldy Peaches)
+ Schwervon (a duo who "peruse the therapeutic properties of volume while digging deeper into NYC's battered post punk and early new wave music history")
www.kimyadawson.com
www.olivejuicemusic.com
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Tuesday 22nd Feburary
The Packhorse
8pm , £4
waterintobeer and 12-oh-5 fanzines present:
An evening of total punk rock destruction!
KAUNIIT POLIISIT (From Finland, their name translates into 'Beautiful Police' and they tour in an old police wagon. They play fast, 80's style Finnish punk rock similar to Kaaos and there are hints of Sex Pistols in there too).
KNOTAROT (From Austria, 2 piece folk punk with a synthesizer, like Active Minds)
BICKLES CAB (From Sheffield, Anarcho-punk rock)
BROKEN ACCESS (From Leeds, 3 man hardcore thrash brigade, fast!) + 1 more maybe TBC
Contact: waterintobeer@hotmail.com for more information
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Wednesday 23rd February
The Bassment, Merrion Centre
£6
Pollen present:
Plasticman (Rephlex Records) andPollen DJs:Semi-Squared, Dave Reckoning Pumkinagherkin
Plasticman you may have heard of from acclaimed "Grime" album on Rephlex last year.He plays what most people are calling grime or dub-step. Basically the bastard son of garage music. Dark sub bass lines and disjointed rhythms from the same school of thought as Dizzee Rascal and co. He's managed to avoid Leeds until now as have the majority of DJ's in this genre so it'll be completely different to anything you've heard in town in the past year.Supporting is Semi-Squared who'll be pumping out his usual crunchy electronica which will blow your innocent little minds. Also Dave Reckoning and Pumkinagherkin will hit the decks with their cutting edge sounds mixing allsorts of brand new everything and there'll be visuals from Pistol Pete and friends to feast your balls on.Oh and possibly some sweets.
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Thursday 24th February
Various Sources, at the Packhorse Pubfrom 8pm £3 entry
3 bands tbc.
various sources is a delectable monthly mish mash of local musical talent served with yummy flavoursome sauces to tickle your every taste.
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Friday 25th February
Bar Phono (Merrion Centre),
£3 (£2 with flyer)
Pussy Whipped - Punk-Rock-Random-Disco-Riot In 10-2 Cheap Drinks, Zine Distro And Fun! Requests To Letsgetwhipped@Hotmail.Com Bring Yr Own Records: we play stuff we can dance to like... Gravy Train!!!!, The Bags, Peaches, The Cramps, Detroit Cobras, Suburban Lawns, Erase Errata, Kaito, X Ray Spex, The Slits, X, Le Tigre, Tracy And The Plastics, Raincoats, Distillers, Gossip, The Casual Dots, The Third Sex, Deerhoof, Melt Banana, Les Georges Leningrad, The Soviettes, Esg, UXA, Sleater Kinney, Red Aunts, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Bantam... It Has A Beat So Move Yr Feet www.manifesta.co.uk
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Saturday 26th February
Freedom Sounds In Pub
Strawberry Fields, Woodhouse Lane.
8 till 12. No more than £1 entry (Probably considerably less than that).
Those great guys at Freedom Sounds In Pub bring you another night of interesting and enjoyable music from their recordings library. Expect the exceptional as regular DJ's The DJ Skeleton Unit (TM) AKA Daddy, DJ King Of Byblos (special guest star), Bunny Rabbit, DJ Chinchillapusher, MC Escher, DJ O'Rourke, Toast-Man Twat and The Man From Funkle rock the pots and pans, whistles and bells. Also, your chance to rub shoulders with Leeds nano-celebs and people who used to be and that band with wotsit from thingy. Throw in the attractively priced tipples (make 'drinky-drinky' motion with hand) and you've got yerselves a tip-top night out.
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Sunday 27th February
The Fenton
7.30pm doors £3 in, zine distro
Thee Merry Widows
The Priscillas
Mary Jane
Thee Merry Widows - all female psychobilly horror rock from San Francisco, singer Eva Von Slut's background in burlesque dancing and a love of horror and exploitation films, domination and all things dark. these girls don't give a damn about their reputation, they just wanna rock
The Priscillas - london based all female garage rock n rollers return to commans and conquer our hearts with their unique blend of sound ranging from the Shangri-La's, The Cramps and The Ramones, topped off with wigs, short skirts and a helluva attitude.
Mary Jane - amazing punk rock n roll from Huddersfield with a voice somewhere inbetween Brody and Cinder Block and enough tunes to keep your feet tapping till some time next week
www.merrywidowsmusic.com
www.thepriscillas.co.uk
www.mary-jane.biz
http://www.manifesta.co.uk/ for more info
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Monday 28th February
"Monitor tunes in at The Packhorse, with a night of artists' film, video and performanceand live acoustic music (details TBC). £2 quid in. 8pm start. www.monitorleeds.org"
Monitor is a Leeds based non-profit arts organisationwho offer a diverse approach in recognizing the fact that visual arts do not exist in isolation from the cultural activity of the city.
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Friday 4th March
The Fenton
£4, 8pm
Copsandrobbers present:
The Coachwhips
Brown Owl
Kill Yourself
Snowsuit*
The Coachwhips are an energetic San Franciscan trio who produce blasts of sharp, to the point , distorted garage noise. More Pussy Galore, Guitar Wolf or the Gories than The Hives, they claim they are deemed too ‘arty’ for the garage scene. Frontman John Dwyer is something of a legend; he was half of the frenzied rock duo Pink and Brown (Pink in fact), part of confrontational performance art leatherguy act Ziegenbock Kopf and is also in Revenge SF, to name a few. I hear that they are explosive live but how can “fuzzy 3-chord trash for its own sake” not be? www.narnackrecords.com/bands/coachwhips.asp
Kill Yourself keep getting better and better; Songs, performances, headgear, everything. They say they are “Constantly barraged by (deserved) Shellac comparisons but shifting to create horrific live experience racket in the vein of Dazzling Killmen or Melvins”. I agree.
Snowsuit* is Steve Touchton, from Oakland. A member of New Robot Theory, K.I.T. and XBXRX. His sound/approach is reminiscent of Atarti Teenage Riot and other digital hardcore acts as he shreds and splinters demented, blasting beats and blips whilst propagandising in simple, shouted vocals, unafraid of stepping out from behind the laptop.
Someone other than me will now describe Brown Owl; “Choppy funk-guitar and upsettingly well played and melodic bass get driven along by intenso-drumming that forms short, sometimes instrumental pop-ditties like The Sorts or Heroic Doses. Very much their own, rather amazing, band that get twice as good every time they play.” That’ll do.
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Tuesday 8th March
The Packhorse
£3 / £4 if you've got it to spare...
Viking Moses
David Thomas Broughton
Jana Hunter
Viking Moses
is Brendon Massei, tour junkie from Michigan. In mid
2004 he played in
a dank dark room in Leicester and managed to captivate
the audience with his
biographical, beautiful sad songs ... recently
featured on the superb
compilation 'Golden Apples of the Sun' - underground
folksy
stuff selected by Devendra Banheart. Previously toured
with the
likes of said DB, Cat Power,Calvin Johnson, Little
Wings, Mountain
Goats,Joanna Newsom, Scout Niblett, Will Oldham and
Songs Ohia, so you
know what to expect...
David Thomas Broughton
If you haven't had the pleasure already, you really
should. DTB plays
his own unique blend of off-kilter folk. Using looped
guitars and
vocals and with the addition of a drum machine, he
creates, as The
Guardian put it, 'layer upon layer of musical
quality'. The effect is
bold, beautiful and honest and to quote Leeds Music
Scene 'there really
are no comparisons'. No doubt he will be peddling his
debut release
The Complete Guide to Insufficiency' which I'm looking
forward to
hearing...
Jana Hunter
Jana Hunter sings in a whispered style of lo-fi
dreaminess. She is from Houston and she is amazing. At
a glance, few would expect such a powerful, and
confident voice from her. Brave enough to use
pre-recorded material, talented and charming enough to
make it work. Just her and her acoustic guitar,plus
her digital sampler.Also features on the afore
mentioned Devendra Banheart Comp, so expect a similar
kind of vibe....Haunting, devastating, and sometimes hilarious.
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Friday 11th March
The Packhorse
£4
AN ALBATROSS Kindly visiting from Philadelphia, where Will Smith was born and raised. Short attention span friendly no-wave noise hardcore horror with synth and skronk to boot, hot on the heels of split record with XBXRX and a Peel session.
VIALKA Transatlantic twosome performing drums bass and vocals, exciting nomadic jazz punk!!!
TIGERS! Well groomed hardcore noise fun with a notable lack of bodily attire.
COWTOWN Close knit booty shakers Devo Casio surf style-ee.
Here's February's listings - Apologies for the lack of January listings but what you gonna do?
Friday 4th February
Cardigan Arms,
£3.00
9.00p.m.
Our Beautiful Ridiculous Plan
The Northcross
McWatt
Our Beautiful Ridiculous Plan are a duo from Manchester, who travel between free improv and post-rock style grooves. Their line up is Olie on double bass and Dave on Guitar, which he uses with various delay type effects. I've not heard much like them before, although they sound at times reminiscent of Aerial M/Papa M, and sometimes they just sound crazy.
The Northcross tends to operate as a very loose collective based around Daniel Mills, the songwriter. Instrumentation varies, sometimes guitar, violin, double bass, etcetera. They've been described as "sparse melancholic arrangements hung around Danny Mills' (not the right back) yearning baritone voice" or a bit like Boxhead Ensemble, Nicos Marble Index Record, Silver Mount Zion etc..
McWatt are a flute, double bass and accordions duo from Leeds, who play floaty tranquil(ising) classicalish, folkishness.
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Friday 4th February
The Royal Park
Doors: 8pm, Price: £4
Panama promotions present:
The Scaramanga SixYamaguchi+ 1 more tba
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Friday4th February
Carpe Diem
Doors: 8pm, Free
Tasty Fanzine presents:
Galitza
Viva Stereo
MJ Hibbett & The Validators
Johnny Domino
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Friday 4th February
Maelstrom (the old post office, Hyde Park Corner)
An evening of short films by the Czech surrealist Jan SvankmajerEntry is by donation. 6pm onwards. Films showing:Dimensions Of Dialogue, The Flat, Virile Games, Down To The Cellar, The Last Trick, The Death Of Stalinism In Bohemia, Leonardo’s Diary, The Ossuary, Jabberwocky, Punch And Judy, J.S Bach Fantasy In G Minor.
There will also be dinner and a mass game of exquisite corpse.A free pamphlet will be available on the door including a timetable of events, Svankmajer’s essay: To Renounce The Leading Role, a biography, a filmography and suggested further reading.
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Saturday 5th February
Brudenell Social Club
Doors 2pm £5 all day
Tasty Fanzine presents...
65 Days Of Static + Dugong + Future Ex Wife + Eiger + ¡Forward Russia! +O Fracas + Falconetti + Pixel Pixel Pixel + That Fucking Tank
65 Days of Static 'Call this music what you will - a blend of (Aphe)X and (Mog)Y - as it's already
been said, here and in other likeminded websites and publications. Music like this doesn't need such pigeonholing; it just needs to be heard, and supported, and appreciated.' - Drowned in Sound www.65daysofstatic.com
Dugong'This is infectious, intelligent, tough music that thrills the hairs on your arms and tucks your granny up at night with a cup of something poisonous. This is innovative music with a sense of direction. It's modern sounding without being weird and it's expressive, not just expressing.' - Leeds Music Scene www.dugongonline.com
Future Ex Wife'...a band who have little respect for compromise or acceptance, welding huge John Bonham beats to a guitar sound thicker than treacle. Future Ex Wife is going to flatten you like a steamroller. better start running' - Kerrang! http://www.futureex-wife.com/
Eiger'...technicality, melody and occasional brutality - that says it all really. Pertinence, in the dictionary = "Having logical precise relevant to the matter at hand" and that kinda sums up these kids - wanting to do technical shit, but with a bit of metal and melody, and keeping it all,somehow, coherent.' - Reason To Believe Zine www.thankyouforcavingmyheadin.com
¡Forward Russia!'...!Forward, Russia! rip against each other; fractured and percussive guitar stabs are cradled by the most pounding rhythm section imaginable. It’s liquid dance in punk masquerade. The singer spazzes out relentlessly, hypnotically, voice never waning as he wails and hollers. A mega-quick banshee, a perfect front man.' - Drowned in Sound www.nyevskyprospect.com
O Fracas'...O Fracas are a strange, but captivating young band...agitated and complex...exciting...catchy weirdo pop-rock... It's not commercial, but intelligent, ambitious and deserves to carve a niche for itself.' - Whisperin' and Hollerin' www.ofracas.tk
Falconetti'...approved by Chuck D, large of drummer, epic of tune, samples from beyond, and flamenco (and jeans) of lady ethereality. What does any of this mean? Bloody great soundscapes, in all senses of the word.”' - Leeds Music Scene www.falconetti.co.uk
Pixel Pixel Pixel
www.armyofcats.com/pixelthreetimes
That Fucking Tank'...The approach to guitar is aggressive. You hear thumbed bass notes then ballsy open string riffs played with an infectious consistency, discordant bending, anvil muting, harmonics lazily pinging away. There are no flighty runs or scales here just forearm tiring post-rock chaos. Rhythmically there's interest too. They mix it up, alternatively drilling then stabbing at notes only to grind to ugly halt. The pair lock in together in a great 'loose but tight' fashion.
www.thatfuckingtank.tk
For more information see www.tastyfanzine.org.uk
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Saturday 5th February
The Fenton
Doors – 7.30 £4
Hungry Audio & Superior Pressings Present:
The Telescopes - Seminal ex-Creation artists grace Leeds with their sleepy intensity and new EP on Hungry Audio.
Sennen - Leading lights from the new breed of Shoegazing scenesters. Like the best bits of My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Slowdive rolled into one.
Sepiatone - like Stereolab having St. Etienne 'round for tea. Their next gig since last months support of The Exteriors and Cowtown. They've just released a new EP "Reasons for and Against"
The Sadtowns – Psychadeliasmiths
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Monday 7th February
Brudenell Social Club
8.00 £3
Blueprint and the Word the Cat Soundsystem present:
BARBARA ADLER - Member of the award winning Vancouver Poetry Slam Team, acclaimed oet Barbara Adler makes her Leeds debut at the Brudenell Social on at 8pm, featuring her band -C.R. Avery, Mark Berube, Brendan McLeod. Poetry and Music, featuring support from Leeds musicians and poets, Jen Way and the Word the Cat soundsystem. £3 on the door. The show will be preceded by a free writing workshop hosted by Blueprint creative collective from 6.30.For more info check www.wordthecat.com
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Friday 11th February
The Royal Park
Doors 8pm £3
Hortonparks.co.uk presents
Horton Parks: electro & acoustic lo-fi country blues. Check out Horton’s latest material as well the best from the current LP ‘Sleepers’ out on Squirrel records (http://www.squirrelrecords.co.uk/ ).
Hayley Avron: Gin soaked acoustic confessionals from the front woman from the ‘Tennessee Train Crash’
Jackson Palmer: Exciting new Alt-country 4-piece band
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Friday 11th February
The Fenton
The Badass Mothertrucker presents........."A night of riff appreciation"
Legion of Doom:Nottingham's premier instru-metal rockage by ex & current Isle Of Ewe / November Moment & more. Expect old school metal references a plenty...
Chickenhawk....:are fully tapped in the head. New Leeds 3 piece riff fest, with references to early Metallica / Melvins / Oxes / Buckethead and robots
Sons of Merrick:Head nodding, ass shaking, thunderous grooves ala Clutch, Down, Crowbar, Kyuss et al. From London Town
Trees :Bass and drums combo from ace Leeds based peeps. Think Karp meets 70's progmeisters, Yes. Oh and its Like A Kind of Matador / Monster Killed By Lazer folk as well.
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Friday February 11th
Bar Phono
10.00-02.00, £3
Hans & Jonny play a mixture of indie, punk, electro, electro-clash, new wave, synth and other randomness. kaito, moldy peaches, wire, the fall, pixies, omd, kraftwerk, le tigre,gravy train, the smiths, peaches, b&s, the rapture, radio 4, long blondes,the ramones, sonic youth, jonathan richman, gang of four, franz ferdinand,printed circuit...please email your requests in advance and we'll do ourbest to play them . everyone who's welcome email http://by21fd.bay21.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=a168d3f84ffb334e58eb000fe32d2af8&mailto=1&to=gojonnygogogogo@ntlworld.com&msg=MSG1107208307.22&start=7673860&len=3393&src=&type=x / www.gojonnygogogogo.co.uk
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Saturday February 12th
Fenton
8.00pm, £3.50
Obscene Baby Auction present:
Das Double Muslim Machine
Isambard Kingston Brunel
Cowtown
Eagle Eye
All the way from London UK, the idiot brother team Isambard Kingston Brunel come to hurt your head and tickle your fanciables in a Wolf Eyes/Black Dice mannerism.
Eagle Eye are a new Leeds group featuring current members of That Kill Eighty Six Fucking Tanks. Loud synths and rank guitars cover up lack of bass: think the Fall or Arab on Radar.
Cowtown feature Jon Nash of LS6-fame plus other recognisable faces playing surf-Deerhoof style.
Das Double Muslim Machine feature a Tiger and Humanfly doing pervo-Melvins/Load records style harshness. Look out for snapping Travis Beans! Get there early because the order is undecided yet.
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Saturday, 12th February
Otley Courthouse, Courthouse Street(behind Boroughgate)
7.30-11.00pm, £5
Otley Crue present
A Night in the Nick with
The Scaramanga Six
Stuffy/The Fuses
Endless Grey Windows
The Scaramanga Six: Feel the Wrath of the Morricone outfit!
Stuffy/The Fuses: Like a new wave Dave Clark Five - only heavier!
Endless Grey Windows: Local alternative rock-type action
Last bus to Leeds (via Headingley) 11.23, Bradford 11.32
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Sun 13 February
Brudenell Social Club
7.30pm£5 waged or £3 unwaged
www.qubik.com/termite/
The Termite Club Saint Valentine's Day Noise Massacre
The night before Valentine’s Day, the Termite Club offers the sonic equivalent of wilted flowers and rancid chocolates in the form of an evening of harsh racket and crazed antics. Amongst other things, this will feature warped noise, B-movie monster costumes, film loops and old junk from Fckn Bstrds (Holland); rude and spasmodic storms of cut-up sound from the modified electronic toys and gadgets of Andy Bolus of Evil Moisture (UK via France); “sharp and edgy electronic noise, fluctuating wildly between rhythmic distortion and piercing static, thunderous bass heavy waves and screaming bursts of blistering, shredded electronica” from o.m.s-n.m.a. (Holland); and gleefully unstructured and aggressive noise on electronics, radio and even a set of barber's clippers courtesy of Eaten by Children (London).
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Thursday 17th February
The Royal Park
£3.00
Petit Machin presents....
Saturday Looks Good To Me
Speedmarket Avenue
The Dragon Rapide tbc
Saturday Looks Good To Me (Polyvinyl Records): Good-looking Lo-Fi popsters from the city of Detroit, Michigan, with a sound somewhere between The Violent Femmes, Belle & Sebastian and The Shangri-Las, swept up by a single cheap microphone and mixed on a 4-track recorder. Totally ace.
Speedmarket Avenue: Organ-driven melodic pop from Sweden, with a sound that hints at The BMX Bandits, Phil Spector, The Pastels, The Hidden Cameras etc. Rough Trade describedtheir debut album as "a shining pop gem."
The Dragon Rapide (tbc): Instrumental songs with influences ranging from British indie, 60's jazz, and Chicago bands such as Euphone, Noyes and 5ivestyle. New record out in 2005 on Chinchillatone Records. Possibly with added Hammond-organ module or something similar.....
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Saturday 19th February
The Fenton
Doors 8pm Admission £5
tasty fanzine presents...
The Broken Family Band
Lionshare
Adam John Killip & The Tailors
David Thomas Broughton
The Broken Family Band: 'That the tumbleweed-strewn streets of Cambridge have thrown up a gem of the calibre of The Broken Family Band is a joyous surprise. They're four whiskey sodden, flannel-wearing, sensitive types who shit for breakfast the kind of ragged alt.country that makes the output of Will Oldham so invigorating.' NME
Lionshare: 'With all the stately dolorousness of early Leonard Cohen, they combineguitar, cello, and melancholy with strong, quiet hands. Its beautiful,mood-swung, post-psych folk'. The Wire
Adam John Killip & the Tailors'.....if Adam John Killip and his Rusty String Breakers are any sign,then good ol' tin shack rattlin', hoedown scarin' country-punk is aliveand well in the Leeds suburbs. Their '80% Proof' (Blind Bear) tells ofthe consequences of taking advantage of Leeds' many happy hours: "Twofor one is my only excuse / for drinking 80% proof". Let that be awarning kids.' Leeds Guide
David Thomas Broughton'layers of banshee-esque vocals, looped on a delay pedal, constantly adding and expanding. For a while he is hypnotic, and for a while his gentle lament makes every cigarette smell like incense.. ' Leeds Music Scene
www.tastyfanzine.org.uk
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Saturday 19th.February
It's at The Packhorse, it's £3 in and it starts at 8pm.
Oblong and Spaced Out presents:
D'Astro
The 7 Inches
Mz Sojourn
I guess everyone knows what these bands sound like (i.e. pretty damn good), so it should be an amazing night by all accounts. It's a fundraiser for the Disasters Emergency Committee, too, so it would be good to get loads of people down.
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Sunday 20th February
The Packhorse
8pm £3 entry.
Semisquared - glitzy electronica.
Miss Fuzzy Jones - dirty funk and soul from a curly girl.
Mz Sojourn - Makes your hair shiny and manageable.
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Tuesday 22nd February
Brudenell Social Club
7.30 £5
Kimya Dawson (ex Moldy Peaches)
+ Schwervon (a duo who "peruse the therapeutic properties of volume while digging deeper into NYC's battered post punk and early new wave music history")
www.kimyadawson.com
www.olivejuicemusic.com
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Tuesday 22nd Feburary
The Packhorse
8pm , £4
waterintobeer and 12-oh-5 fanzines present:
An evening of total punk rock destruction!
KAUNIIT POLIISIT (From Finland, their name translates into 'Beautiful Police' and they tour in an old police wagon. They play fast, 80's style Finnish punk rock similar to Kaaos and there are hints of Sex Pistols in there too).
KNOTAROT (From Austria, 2 piece folk punk with a synthesizer, like Active Minds)
BICKLES CAB (From Sheffield, Anarcho-punk rock)
BROKEN ACCESS (From Leeds, 3 man hardcore thrash brigade, fast!) + 1 more maybe TBC
Contact: waterintobeer@hotmail.com for more information
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Wednesday 23rd February
The Bassment, Merrion Centre
£6
Pollen present:
Plasticman (Rephlex Records) andPollen DJs:Semi-Squared, Dave Reckoning Pumkinagherkin
Plasticman you may have heard of from acclaimed "Grime" album on Rephlex last year.He plays what most people are calling grime or dub-step. Basically the bastard son of garage music. Dark sub bass lines and disjointed rhythms from the same school of thought as Dizzee Rascal and co. He's managed to avoid Leeds until now as have the majority of DJ's in this genre so it'll be completely different to anything you've heard in town in the past year.Supporting is Semi-Squared who'll be pumping out his usual crunchy electronica which will blow your innocent little minds. Also Dave Reckoning and Pumkinagherkin will hit the decks with their cutting edge sounds mixing allsorts of brand new everything and there'll be visuals from Pistol Pete and friends to feast your balls on.Oh and possibly some sweets.
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Thursday 24th February
Various Sources, at the Packhorse Pubfrom 8pm £3 entry
3 bands tbc.
various sources is a delectable monthly mish mash of local musical talent served with yummy flavoursome sauces to tickle your every taste.
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Friday 25th February
Bar Phono (Merrion Centre),
£3 (£2 with flyer)
Pussy Whipped - Punk-Rock-Random-Disco-Riot In 10-2 Cheap Drinks, Zine Distro And Fun! Requests To Letsgetwhipped@Hotmail.Com Bring Yr Own Records: we play stuff we can dance to like... Gravy Train!!!!, The Bags, Peaches, The Cramps, Detroit Cobras, Suburban Lawns, Erase Errata, Kaito, X Ray Spex, The Slits, X, Le Tigre, Tracy And The Plastics, Raincoats, Distillers, Gossip, The Casual Dots, The Third Sex, Deerhoof, Melt Banana, Les Georges Leningrad, The Soviettes, Esg, UXA, Sleater Kinney, Red Aunts, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Bantam... It Has A Beat So Move Yr Feet www.manifesta.co.uk
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Saturday 26th February
Freedom Sounds In Pub
Strawberry Fields, Woodhouse Lane.
8 till 12. No more than £1 entry (Probably considerably less than that).
Those great guys at Freedom Sounds In Pub bring you another night of interesting and enjoyable music from their recordings library. Expect the exceptional as regular DJ's The DJ Skeleton Unit (TM) AKA Daddy, DJ King Of Byblos (special guest star), Bunny Rabbit, DJ Chinchillapusher, MC Escher, DJ O'Rourke, Toast-Man Twat and The Man From Funkle rock the pots and pans, whistles and bells. Also, your chance to rub shoulders with Leeds nano-celebs and people who used to be and that band with wotsit from thingy. Throw in the attractively priced tipples (make 'drinky-drinky' motion with hand) and you've got yerselves a tip-top night out.
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Sunday 27th February
The Fenton
7.30pm doors £3 in, zine distro
Thee Merry Widows
The Priscillas
Mary Jane
Thee Merry Widows - all female psychobilly horror rock from San Francisco, singer Eva Von Slut's background in burlesque dancing and a love of horror and exploitation films, domination and all things dark. these girls don't give a damn about their reputation, they just wanna rock
The Priscillas - london based all female garage rock n rollers return to commans and conquer our hearts with their unique blend of sound ranging from the Shangri-La's, The Cramps and The Ramones, topped off with wigs, short skirts and a helluva attitude.
Mary Jane - amazing punk rock n roll from Huddersfield with a voice somewhere inbetween Brody and Cinder Block and enough tunes to keep your feet tapping till some time next week
www.merrywidowsmusic.com
www.thepriscillas.co.uk
www.mary-jane.biz
http://www.manifesta.co.uk/ for more info
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Monday 28th February
"Monitor tunes in at The Packhorse, with a night of artists' film, video and performanceand live acoustic music (details TBC). £2 quid in. 8pm start. www.monitorleeds.org"
Monitor is a Leeds based non-profit arts organisationwho offer a diverse approach in recognizing the fact that visual arts do not exist in isolation from the cultural activity of the city.
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Friday 4th March
The Fenton
£4, 8pm
Copsandrobbers present:
The Coachwhips
Brown Owl
Kill Yourself
Snowsuit*
The Coachwhips are an energetic San Franciscan trio who produce blasts of sharp, to the point , distorted garage noise. More Pussy Galore, Guitar Wolf or the Gories than The Hives, they claim they are deemed too ‘arty’ for the garage scene. Frontman John Dwyer is something of a legend; he was half of the frenzied rock duo Pink and Brown (Pink in fact), part of confrontational performance art leatherguy act Ziegenbock Kopf and is also in Revenge SF, to name a few. I hear that they are explosive live but how can “fuzzy 3-chord trash for its own sake” not be? www.narnackrecords.com/bands/coachwhips.asp
Kill Yourself keep getting better and better; Songs, performances, headgear, everything. They say they are “Constantly barraged by (deserved) Shellac comparisons but shifting to create horrific live experience racket in the vein of Dazzling Killmen or Melvins”. I agree.
Snowsuit* is Steve Touchton, from Oakland. A member of New Robot Theory, K.I.T. and XBXRX. His sound/approach is reminiscent of Atarti Teenage Riot and other digital hardcore acts as he shreds and splinters demented, blasting beats and blips whilst propagandising in simple, shouted vocals, unafraid of stepping out from behind the laptop.
Someone other than me will now describe Brown Owl; “Choppy funk-guitar and upsettingly well played and melodic bass get driven along by intenso-drumming that forms short, sometimes instrumental pop-ditties like The Sorts or Heroic Doses. Very much their own, rather amazing, band that get twice as good every time they play.” That’ll do.
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Tuesday 8th March
The Packhorse
£3 / £4 if you've got it to spare...
Viking Moses
David Thomas Broughton
Jana Hunter
Viking Moses
is Brendon Massei, tour junkie from Michigan. In mid
2004 he played in
a dank dark room in Leicester and managed to captivate
the audience with his
biographical, beautiful sad songs ... recently
featured on the superb
compilation 'Golden Apples of the Sun' - underground
folksy
stuff selected by Devendra Banheart. Previously toured
with the
likes of said DB, Cat Power,Calvin Johnson, Little
Wings, Mountain
Goats,Joanna Newsom, Scout Niblett, Will Oldham and
Songs Ohia, so you
know what to expect...
David Thomas Broughton
If you haven't had the pleasure already, you really
should. DTB plays
his own unique blend of off-kilter folk. Using looped
guitars and
vocals and with the addition of a drum machine, he
creates, as The
Guardian put it, 'layer upon layer of musical
quality'. The effect is
bold, beautiful and honest and to quote Leeds Music
Scene 'there really
are no comparisons'. No doubt he will be peddling his
debut release
The Complete Guide to Insufficiency' which I'm looking
forward to
hearing...
Jana Hunter
Jana Hunter sings in a whispered style of lo-fi
dreaminess. She is from Houston and she is amazing. At
a glance, few would expect such a powerful, and
confident voice from her. Brave enough to use
pre-recorded material, talented and charming enough to
make it work. Just her and her acoustic guitar,plus
her digital sampler.Also features on the afore
mentioned Devendra Banheart Comp, so expect a similar
kind of vibe....Haunting, devastating, and sometimes hilarious.
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Friday 11th March
The Packhorse
£4
AN ALBATROSS Kindly visiting from Philadelphia, where Will Smith was born and raised. Short attention span friendly no-wave noise hardcore horror with synth and skronk to boot, hot on the heels of split record with XBXRX and a Peel session.
VIALKA Transatlantic twosome performing drums bass and vocals, exciting nomadic jazz punk!!!
TIGERS! Well groomed hardcore noise fun with a notable lack of bodily attire.
COWTOWN Close knit booty shakers Devo Casio surf style-ee.
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