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Oh, here I am again, plugging some more great-sounding gigs:
AN ELECTRIC STORM III
Wednesday April 25th -
7.30 pm - 2 am
£7
at Corsica Studios, Elephant & Castle, London SE17
Guapo
Shit and Shine
HTRK
plus a super rare DJ appearance by DJ OFETSU aka JG Thirlwell aka Foetus
Plus screenings of Richard Kern’s infamous Death Trip super 8 films featuring Lydia Lunch, Foetus, Henry Rollins, Nick Zedd etc , Kill Your Idols ( Scott Crary 2004) documentary on the NYC no-wave scene and more twisted visuals from the vaults and DJing from Marcelo Madrid (Kosmische).
GUAPO
Fusing fragments of kraut-rock, minimalism and folk then binding it all together in a prog-rock shell, Guapo make cluster-fuck post rock that dips, dives and crashes in the most pleasing fashion imaginable. Guapo is a force of nature; an infinitely expanding climax, a controlled catastrophe, a sun forged in sound. It can be shaped, controlled, even tamed; but the strain of trying to contain it is etched into the contorted faces and flailing limbs of those brave and foolish men who take it upon themselves to do so. Exposed to Guapo in a confined space, members of an audience will tend to do one of two things. Some will immediately seek the nearest exit, while those left behind turn to face the music, transfixed like prey engulfed in a tiger's roar. New album Elixirs will be released on Neurot Recordings soon.
SHIT AND SHINE
Lauded as the “group of the year” at Sonar 2006 Shit & Shine are a live sensation, fast begetting of much praise for their uber hyped performances. Having already gained a cult following due to their legendary one riff / multi-drummer live shows - and from sharing stages with Acid Mothers Temple, Lightning Bolt, Sunno))) and Earth and more. SHIT AND SHINE are primed to explode. Shit and Shine are a band that follow their own formula. They're a real take-no-prisoners noise trip to a verrrry darrrkkk place. The music is unrelenting, a deranged stew of the Strangulated Beatoffs, early Surfers, Skullflower, PiL, Melvins and the tribal drummier parts of the Boredoms. It's a glorious din, which startles, hypnotises and infuriates- the kind of devious experiment at the back of the science lab that blows the room apart - Usually they have between 5 and 10 drummers onstage and 2 bass players. At a show in Germany last year they had 10 drummers, played one riff on the 2 basses for almost 2 hours, blew one of the p.a. speakers, played on while toxic smoke filled the room and the speaker was changed, and then played for another hour. Fucking ridiculous. Fucking genius. FUCKING LOUD!
HATE ROCK
HTRK are a three-piece from Melbourne who reside in Berlin and London.
HTRK use TR-808 / electronics / guitar / tom-tom / maraca / bass / vox.
HTRK are interested in teenagers, night clubs, dreams and heartbreak.
"...what those in the know call the Glamorous Neu Underground ...'' [20jazzfunkgreats]
''Ominous collusions of downtown basslines and ricochet beats (in bullet-time). Sound like, y'know, a motel room, a tyreprint curve in the rain, an alibi." [Plan B]
HTRK are currently in the middle of a UK tour.
DJ OTEFSU aka J.G. Thirlwell
The inscrutable J.G. Thirlwell was dropped on this planet some time ago to bestow sonic majesty, chaos, violence & beauty and cunning linguistics on an unsuspecting earth. A Brooklyn-based Australian ex-pat, Thirlwell has used many names for his many visions: Foetus (and its many name variations), Steroid Maximus, Clint Ruin, Wiseblood, DJ OTEFSU, Manorexia and Baby Zizanie. His multitude of influential recordings under the name FOETUS and variations thereof (including Scraping FOETUS off the Wheel, the FOETUS All-Nude Revue, FOETUS Inc., etc.), has amassed a rabid world-wide cult following. Over the course of more than a dozen albums he has stretched from yearning orchestral soundscapes, meticulously organized chaos, electronic swathes, blistering big band pastiche, crunching hard rock and even inventing stupefying collisions of genres and forms with a raw emotion and irresistible musicality. DJ OFETSU is currently playing a handful of European festivals and is making a special UK appearance. |
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