Kim Gibbins from Stirchley Stop the War coalition Interviewed
March 16, 2009
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March 16, 2009
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Peej works in visual arts as a videographer and photographer at Musoplex
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interview with kim gibbins from stirchley stop the war coalition – www.stopwar.org.uk
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interview with kim gibbins from stirchley stop the war coalition – www.stopwar.org.uk
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interview with kim gibbins from stirchley stop the war coalition – www.stopwar.org.uk
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interview with kim gibbins from stirchley stop the war coalition – www.stopwar.org.uk
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interview with kim gibbins from stirchley stop the war coalition – www.stopwar.org.uk
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In between I sing with Ex Cathedra (when I can) and am trying in vain to research for an MPhil….
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Half lizard, half machine, all party! Robot Vs Dinosaur is the most diverse and eclectic electronic event in the West Midlands. Taking place at top cocktail hangout the Island Bar on every third Friday of the month (next event – Friday 19th September!), we aim to bring brain-bothering live beats from the cream of the UK electronic underground as well as DJing an anything-goes monster mash-up featuring everything from Brian Eno to Venetian Snares.
We vapourise genre boundaries and tear pigeonholes limb from limb, if it has a man-made body and a machine’s pulse then chances are we’ve played it already! Entry is £3 for humans, but robots and dinosaurs get in for a mere £1. And, apes watch your backs- our robojurassic ranks are swelling…
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Jenny Moore and Lisa May – Started as a promotions company but as far as I’m aware are now also a record company. The main events that Capsule run are Supersonic festival and Home of Metal.
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Jenny Moore and Lisa May – Started as a promotions company but as far as I’m aware are now also a record company. The main events that Capsule run are Supersonic festival and Home of Metal.
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In January 2005, Mark E Smith and The Fall (described as "one of the most enigmatic, idiosyncratic and chaotic garage bands of the last 30 years") were the subject of a BBC 4 TV documentary, The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith.
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"Kings of Glam" profiles the leading men of the glam rock era, starting with Marc Bolan of T. Rex. Fan Johnny Marr briefly comments about this new music coming out in the early 70's.
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March 15, 2009
One Foot Skank’in in Paradise Reggae, Punk & Ska music event is on the Saturday 1st August ’09,
March 15, 2009
One Foot Skank’in in Paradise Reggae,Punk & Ska music event is on the Saturday 1st August 2009
The Nightingales – Insult To Injury – review summary March 2009
March 15, 2009
This is a living, breathing beast of an album – ARTROCKER MAGAZINE, UK
This is their fiercest, most lacerating album yet, better by a good margin than the mid-1980s Pigs on Purpose…and that was excellent – BLURT, USA
The Nightingales have been responsible for some of the most genuinely innovative minority music of the past three decades. What’s more with the release of Insult To Injury they have significantly raised their game. In fact, this is undoubtedly their finest moment – THE QUIETUS, UK
Boozy and deranged, Insult to Injury is how the new Franz record ought to sound – VICE, UK
This album had me hitting the button on the CD player to skip to the next track, and then the next track, and so on until it ended. If it wasn’t for the slightly enjoyable and humourous Monty Python styled Former
Florist To The Queen then this album would have been struggling to get even a two-star rating - MAVERICK, UK
Their freshest and most subtly intoxicating work to date – OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY, UK
They sound wired, edgy, boozy and as dangerous as ever, like a new band full of that energy that comes with those first moves and not a band who’ve been doing this since the start of punk. Robert Lloyd really shouldn’t be this good after all these years, should he? – THE ORGAN, UK
The new album from the ‘Gales is their finest for 27 years. Start here and work backwards – SUNDAY TIMES, UK
Unlovable as ever. The Nightingales remain hard work for precious little gain – MOJO, UK
Its no wonder that they are on the label of the Krautrock legends Faust. The Nightingales capability with sound and playfulness is endless. Their rough unruliness is very charming – ECLIPSED, Germany
Insult to Injury is probably as good as the Nightingales have ever been. This isn’t just an 80′s band doing good but it’s a fine record period, and puts most contemporary (and younger) “post-punk” bands to shame – SOUNDS XP, UK
This band doesn’t sound sleepy, but like a better version of the Beatnik Filmstars or early Pavement. Those who like that kind of stuff will love this album. But this is surely no food for the average main stream listener and those who dislike noise, repetitive structures and bands like The Fall or Sonic Youth must try something else – STADTKIND, Germany
It’s time The Nightingales received as much recognition as their reformed conteporaries such as Gang Of Four and Wire – and given that they’ve just released their best album yet, their story is far from over -
ARTROCKER ONLINE, UK It is a disturbing, funny, hard to classify, intelligent and interesting piece of rock music. Melancholic, sarcastic, with great musical skills and a charismatic frontman – a mix that makes it easy to see why John Peel loved them – THE GAP, Germany
The vibrancy of it all sets the post-garage/punk/rock(abilly) pulses wriggling while allowing room for exhuberant some Music Hall rollicking to fit right in -PLAN B, UK
This album is uneven, undisciplined and overlong – UNCUT, UK
The Nightingales for me are like Big Flame and Faust: groups that I admire and respect and which seem to have impeccable ethics, but that in truth I can not listen to. I tried. It gave me headache – ROCK DELUX, Spain
The Nightingales are back with a cool, noisy album featuring avant-garde, punk and some great cosmic music. The album scores with it’s bulkiness, bittersweet tricksy-ness and down to earth pop melancholy. Don’t miss their tour in Spring 2009! – SKRUG, Austria
Insult To Injury combines stuff capable of being on the radio with utterly entertaining experiments. Thrilling. – NOTES, Germany
Indignant lyrics with a punk accompaniment that deals a firm clip around the ear to all the pipsqueaks out there acting as pretenders to their anarchic throne – LEEDS GUIDE, UK
Beefheartian honk, skronk and groove mixed with discordant falling-apart-at-the-seams rock ‘n’ roll. Everything sprinkled over the top with those surreal streams of swiftly decaying consciousness lyrics – ROCK A ROLLA, UK
Band reunions seem almost compulsory these days, but few have done it with as much purpose as The Nightingales. Since re-teaming in 2004, they have released three terrific albums and a wedge of great singles. Insult To Injury, co-produced in Germany with Faust’s Hans Joachim Irmler, may well prove to be their best yet – CLASSIC ROCK, UK
This record can teach a lesson to the dozens of kids’ bands pretending to be ‘cool’ on myspace, talking of post-punk without knowing the real thing -RUMORE, Italy
Robert Lloyd’s almost spoken word vocals may be an acquired taste but the band’s progressive, Led Zeppelin-inspired jams will be a treat for many. This is mostly an enjoyable listen from a band who still manage to sound as relevant as ever – CLASH, UK
There’s a definite decadent mess here that John Peel would have loved – THE LIST, UK
Although you can virtually guarantee that a Nightingales album is going to sound even better in a few years than it does at the time, Insult to Injury really is shaping up nicely. I wouldn’t go as far as saying that everything has grabbed me as yet, but there really are some ‘Gales classics in the making… the two seven minute tracks, Double Whammy Bar and Big Bones are fabulous – EVIL SPONGE, UK
Neither retro nor modern, not punk nor new wave this is ruffian rock from angry blues rockers with frontman Robert Lloyd singing cool songs full of honesty – GUITAR, Germany
They have no shame in continuing the legacy of the Velvet Underground, without sounding like expired imposters. And it’s done with so much conviction and energy that, the man himself, Hans-Joachim Irmler can never have had an simpler record to produce – GO, Spain
Continues the surreal, caustic, verbiage and arcane sonic grafting of Captain Beefheart and The Fall of previous releases… which is good news for those who like their music warts and all – Q, UK
THE NIGHTINGALES
CATALOGUE NO: KLANGBAD40
FORMAT: CD
RELEASE DATE: 02/03
LABEL: Klangbad
BARCODE: 4260068040400
Insult to Injury
The Nightingales were formed by former members of Birmingham, England’s original punk group The Prefects. With an ever fluctuating line-up based around lyricist/singer Robert Lloyd, the band recorded a bunch of critically acclaimed singles and three albums, plus many radio sessions for John Peel. They also regularly toured the UK and Northern Europe as headliners and supporting acts as diverse as Bo Diddley and Nico, before splitting up in the late 80′s. The Nightingales reformed infrequently before kicking off again in earnest in Spring 2004 with Lloyd being joined by original Prefect Alan Apperley.
After fucking about with various wastrels, precious sorts and mercenaries (plus teen guitar sensation Matt Wood and Volcano Bear’s Aaron Moore) the groups current line-up features Lloyd, Apperley, ex Pram drummer Daren Garratt, guitarist Christine Edwards (from Christy and Emily) and Andreas Schmid (from Faust Studio) on bass. Since reforming the group have been more productive than ever – releasing five 7″ vinyl singles and three albums, touring the UK, mainland europe and the United States several times and recording numerous radio sessions in England and America. In March 08 the group recorded a new album ‘Insult to Injury’ with Hans Joachim Irmler of Faust. This record, the ‘Gales best yet, will be released in February 2009 on Klangbad and will be their fourth album in the last couple of years.
Concierto de KOP y Habeas Corpus contra la criminalización del antifascismo
March 15, 2009
Concierto de KOP y Habeas Corpus contra la criminalización del antifascismo
Sábado 21 de marzo de 2009 a las 20:00h (puntualidad) KOP + Habeas Corpus CSOA La Traba. C/ Batalla de Belchite, 17. Metro Legazpi Entrada anticipada: 6 €. Entrada en taquilla: 8 €. Puntos de venta: Porca Misera Tattoo. C/ Robles, 4. Metro Puente de Vallecas Bar Jimmy Jazz. C/ Payaso Fofó, 24. Metro Portazgo Convoca: Coordinadora Antifascista de Madrid
CONTRA LA CRIMINALIZACIÓN DEL ANTIFASCISMO
La criminalización del movimiento antifascista ha aumentado de manera paralela al proceso de madurez política que este ha ido experimentando con el transcurso de los años. Mientras que en un principio se limitaban a criminalizarnos en los medios de comunicación, en la actualidad nos ponen cada vez mayores dificultades a la hora de convocar manifestaciones y algunos hechos como las detenciones masivas de activistas antifascistas dejan claro que esto va en serio.
En un momento marcado por la crisis económica y por el aumento del paro conviene canalizar el descontento popular utilizando a la población inmigrante como cabeza de turco a la que culpar de todo. En la actualidad, el movimiento antifascista es el único movimiento político que está centrando sus esfuerzos en contrarrestar el discurso racista y demagogo con el que la ultraderecha pretende crear división entre trabajadores/as autócton@s e inmigrantes para evitar que ést@s se unan en la lucha contra sus explotadores.
Por ello, se ha intentado desacreditar y aislar al movimiento antifascista en los medios de comunicación equiparándolo con la extrema-derecha o intentando quitarle su carácter político al pretender presentarlo como una mera tribu urbana. Los medios de comunicación han ido allanando el terreno al manipular a la opinión pública de forma que ésta apoye nuestra posible ilegalización.
Además, las últimas detenciones de activistas antifascistas como las producidas en Málaga dejan claro que la magnitud de la represión está aumentando, pero que a pesar de ello seguiremos adelante ya que ahora más que nunca estamos convencidos del carácter justo de nuestra lucha.
SER ANTIFASCISTA NO ES UN DELITO
SI NOS TOCAN A UN@ NOS TOCAN A TOD@S
COORDINADORA ANTIFASCISTA DE MADRID
links for 2009-03-14
March 15, 2009
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Tuesday 21st April £5 Entry 7pm til Late.
The Old Wharf, 21 Oxford Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5NR
Tower Blocks gig The Old Wharf, Birmingham 21st April
March 14, 2009
It’s been over 5 years since Berlin’s finest played the Market Tavern, sadly that classic venue is now gone but this classic band is still here and on tour and playing at The Wharf.
Releases Page http://www.stigon.com/psr/releases/releases.htm
http://www.myspace.com/punkshitrecords
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March 12, 2009
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So Bored Magazine Rennes france reviewing anything from ROCKABILLY PUNK 77 GARAGE COUNTRY SURF HxC ELECTRONIC GRIND BLUES AFRO BEAT NOISE INDUS Lo_Fi SYNTH PUNK 8 BIT PSYCHOBILLY NEW WAVE JAZZ POST PUNK HIP HOP OLD SCHOOL
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L'UBU venue and concerts / Trans festival Rennes France.
This is one of the best venues I've been to, run by dangerous lunatics that love music and work really hard to give musicians the best opportunity to play to new audiences. the food is excellent, the people are organised and the sound is excellent. what more do you want?
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STAGE INVASION – Music review Blog based in and around Rennes
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March 10, 2009
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Music venue Lille, France.
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March 8, 2009
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NIGHTINGALES new album INSULT TO INJURY out now on klangbad
KLANGBAD40
UK distribution by Cargo
German distribution by Broken SilenceThis is a living, breathing beast of an album
ARTROCKER, UKBoozy and deranged, Insult to Injury is how the new Franz record ought to sound
VICE, UKTheir freshest and most subtly intoxicating work to date
OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY, UKThey sound wired, edgy, boozy and as dangerous as ever, like a new band full of that energy that comes with those first moves and not a band who’ve been doing this since the start of punk. Robert Lloyd really shouldn’t be this good after all these years, should he?
THE ORGAN, UKThe new album from the ‘Gales is their finest for 27 years. Start here and work backwards
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The new DUFUS album, “In Monstrous Attitude” is now available!
It features a three piece band comprised of Seth Faergolzia, Anders Griffen and Alex Coronado, mixed and mastered by Kramer, with a 12 page comic style book of artwork by Jeffrey Lewis
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Moozim has never had any form of funding or government support and we do not wish to pursue any in the future.
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Mark E Smith described “the Midlands mentality” in ‘Kimble’. Robert Lloyd has always had that in spades, from the punk days of the Prefects to the Nightingales (first time round), through his Vindaloo label and solo career (remember the great ‘Power of the Anchor’ single?) and back again to the Nightingales, who reformed in 2004. Like Smith, Lloyd is the charismatic frontman/ choirleader/ taskmaster who makes it all happen for his band and I’m pleased to report that Insult to Injury is probably as good as the Nightingales have ever been. It’s certainly, by some distance, the best of their post-reformation albums, with the same maverick mix of post-punk, Krautrock, skronky Beefheartian rhythms, rockabilly looseness plus Lloyd’s poetic observations on the absurdity of everyday life……
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Nightingales – Insult To Injury,KLANGBAD40, UK distribution by Cargo, German distribution by Broken Silence
March 7, 2009
NIGHTINGALES
new album
INSULT TO INJURY
out now on klangbad
KLANGBAD40
UK distribution by Cargo
German distribution by Broken Silence
This is a living, breathing beast of an album
ARTROCKER, UK
Boozy and deranged, Insult to Injury is how the new Franz record ought to sound
VICE, UK
Their freshest and most subtly intoxicating work to date
OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY, UK
They sound wired, edgy, boozy and as dangerous as ever, like a new band full of that energy that comes with those first moves and not a band who’ve been doing this since the start of punk. Robert Lloyd really shouldn’t be this good after all these years, should he?
THE ORGAN, UK
The new album from the ‘Gales is their finest for 27 years. Start here and work backwards
SUNDAY TIMES, UK
Unlovable as ever. The Nightingales remain hard work for precious little gain
MOJO, UK
Its no wonder that they are on the label of the Krautrock-legends Faust. The Nightingales capability with sound and playfulness is endless. Their rough unruliness is very charming
ECLIPSED, Germany
Insult to Injury is probably as good as the Nightingales have ever been. This isn’t just an 80′s band doing good but it’s a fine record period, and puts most contemporary (and younger) “post-punk” bands to shame
SOUNDS XP, UK
It is a disturbing, funny, hard to classify, intelligent and interesting piece of rock music. Melancholic, sarcastic, with great musical skills and a charismatic frontman – a mix that makes it easy to see why John Peel loved them
THE GAP, Germany
The vibrancy of it all sets the post-garage/punk/rock(abilly) pulses wriggling while allowing room for exhuberant some Music Hall rollicking to fit right in
PLAN B, UK
The Nightingales are back with a cool-noisy album featuring avant-garde, punk and great cosmic music. The album scores with bulkiness, bittersweet tricksy-ness and down to earth pop melancholy. Don’t miss their tour in Spring 2009! SKRUG, Austria
This album is uneven, undisciplined and overlong
UNCUT, UK
Indignant lyrics with a punk accompaniment that deals a firm clip around the ear to all the pipsqueaks out there acting as pretenders to their anarchic throne
LEEDS GUIDE, UK
Beefheartian honk, skronk and groove mixed with discordant falling-apart-at-the-seams rock ‘n’ roll. Everything sprinkled over the top with those surreal streams of swiftly decaying consciousness lyrics
ROCK A ROLLA, UK
This record can teach a lesson to the dozens of kids’ bands pretending to be ‘cool’ on myspace, talking of post-punk without knowing the real thing
RUMORE, Italy
Robert Lloyd’s almost spoken word vocals may be an acquired taste but the band’s progressive, Led Zeppelin-inspired jams will be a treat for many. This is mostly an enjoyable listen from a band who still manage to sound as relevant as ever
CLASH, UK
NIGHTINGALES PLAY EUROPE IN APRIL
for dates see www.myspace.com/nightingalesmusic
Dufus – “In Monstrous Attitude” is now available!
March 7, 2009
The new DUFUS album, “In Monstrous Attitude” is now available!
It features a three piece band comprised of Seth Faergolzia, Anders Griffen and Alex Coronado, mixed and mastered by Kramer, with a 12 page comic style book of artwork by Jeffrey Lewis
You can order and listen to it at the Dufus site: http://www.dufus.tv/index.php?section=product&album_id=22&id=18
New Dufus shirts on sale through ROIR: http://www.roir-usa.com/shirts.html#dufus
and here’s Jeff’s site…http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com
Also check out this new video we made for a track on the album called
“Speak in Whispers”: http://www.youtube.com/v/XtwbhyjDSyY&hl=en&fs=1
“In Monstrous Attitude” & our new shirts will also be available on our Spring tour:
US TOUR DATES:
(all dates are w/ Jeffrey Lewis)</b>
Mar 11 @ Sugar City, Buffalo, NY
Mar 12 @ Casa del Awesome, Rochester, NY
Mar 13 @ No Radio Records, Ithaca, NY
Mar 14 @ Record Release Party! – Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES:
Mar 16 @ Walpodenakademie, Mainz, DE
Mar 17 @ Franzis, Wetzlar, DE
Mar 18 @ The Siebener Club, Mannheim, DE
Mar 19 @ Kiosk Royal, Hannover, DE
Mar 20 @ Bewley’s Theater, Dublin, IE
Mar 21 @ Pine Lodge, Cork, IE
Mar 22 @ Crane Lake Theater, Cork, IE
Mar 23 @ TBA, Amsterdam, HOLLAND
Mar 24 @ Lemang, Cologne, DE
Mar 25 @ Stall 6, Zurich, CH
Mar 26 @ Le Quentin, Dijon, FR
Mar 27 @ Morya – Brescia, ITALY
Mar 28 2 TREeSESSANTA – Gambettola (Cesena), ITALY
Mar 29 @ Zuni – Ferrara, ITALY
Mar 30 @ TBA – Arrezzo, ITALY
Mar 31 @ TBA – Bolzano, ITALY
Apr 1 @ Fluc, Wien, AT
Apr 2 @ Feinspeiserei, Munich, DE
Apr 3 @ PMK, Innsbruck, AT
Apr 4 @ Kino, Ebensee, AT
Apr 5 @ Tab Tab Musicclub, Schaffhausen, CH
Apr 6 @ TBA, Weimar, DE
http://www.dufus.tv
http://www.myspace.com/dufus
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Dufus/132987855192
The Nightingales: Insult to Injury Review by Stewart Lee
March 7, 2009
John Peel died in October 2004. While Peel favourites the Fall and the Undertones were swiftly beatified by desperate Newsnight Review pundits, his beloved Birmingham post-punks the Nightingales somehow escaped such inappropriate appropriation. But the new album from the “Gales” is their finest for 27 years.
The twin guitars of Alan Apperley and Matt Wood chime and coruscate; the drummer, Darren Garratt, has perfected a unique kind of flailing accuracy; and Robert Lloyd’s Black Country burr carves wry couplets into the hammer-effect, copper-top tables of the subconscious. Start here and work backwards.
Klangbad KLANGBAD40
THE NIGHTINGALES – Insult To Injury (Klangbad) reviewed by Organ Fanzine
March 7, 2009
THE NIGHTINGALES – Insult To Injury (Klangbad) – Would it be adding insult to punk-fuelled injury to call them Birmingham’s version of The Fall? By that I mean, they’ve been around for as long, they really should be as legendary (to some they are, Mr Peel included I suspect), they’re as equally unpredictable and after all these years, still as uncompromising as The Fall have ever been. They have an ever fluctuating line up that revolves around Robert Lloyd and they as distinctively different, they are like The Fall, they sound like The Fall and of course they sound nothing like The Fall and they’re like no one but themselves and to compare them to anyone is to add insult so we won’t.
Insult To Injury is The Nightingales’ fourth album in the space of the last couple of years – they sound wired, edgy, boozy, they sound as dangerous as ever. They sound like a new band full of that energy that comes with those first moves and not a band who’ve been doing this since the start of punk… Age indeed has not mellowed Robert Lloyd’s wrath and this latest album is maybe as good as anything they’ve ever done. Wired English working class city blues, punky new wave razor edges, rusty bleakness and all the h-a-p-p-y domestic bliss of a former florist to the queen. Fact fiends might like to note those driving bass lines are being played by Faust’s Andreas Schmid – a Faustian pact indeed. Robert Lloyd really shouldn’t be this good after all these years should he? Pigs on purpose? Hard work and worth it all – you have to make the effort though, this is not easy listing, safety is not an option.
Re-ignited post punk mavericks then, you’ve got to love the self-obsessed awkwardness of The Nightingales – www.myspace.com/nightingalesmusic http://www.organart.com/
