GBH at BRIDGE HOUSE II SAT 10th APR 2010
February 19, 2010
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Bridge House 2
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BROKEN BONES – THE GROSVENOR, London FRI 12th March 2010
February 19, 2010
BROKEN BONES @ THE GROSVENOR FRI 12th March 2010
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CONSTANT STATE OF TERROR
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RUTHLESS
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ELECTRIC COCKS
@ The Grosvenor
£5 entry
Bands on 9 pm
Nightingales – Biography and Press updates 2010
February 16, 2010
NIGHTINGALES – BIOGRAPHY
BIRMINGHAM’S ORIGINAL PUNK GROUP, THE PREFECTS, HAD BEEN PART OF THE CLASH’S ‘WHITE RIOT TOUR’, RECORDED A COUPLE OF PEEL SESSIONS AND RELEASED A 45 ON ROUGH TRADE (PLUS THEY HAD TWO RETROSPECTIVE CDS ISSUED IN THE NAUGHTIES TO ALL ROUND RAVE REVIEWS, FROM ROLLING STONE TO WEBZINES).
THE NIGHTINGALES WAS FORMED BY FORMER MEMBERS OF THE PREFECTS FOLLOWING THAT BAND’S DEMISE IN 1979.
A SEMINAL AND UNIQUELY ENGLISH ART ROCK BAND, THE NIGHTINGALES HELPED BRING MUCH NEEDED EXPERIMENTATION AND ICONOCLASM TO THE INDULGENT ’80′S AND AT THE SAME TIME WERE BEING PUBLICLY PRAISED BY ASSORTED MUSIC BIZ ELITE, FROM ALAN McGEE TO JOHN TAYLOR OF DURAN DURAN.
WITH AN EVER FLUCTUATING LINE UP, BASED AROUND THEIR GIFTED WORDSMITH ROBERT LLOYD, THE ‘GALES ENJOYED CULT STATUS IN THE EARLY ’80′S AS DARLINGS OF THE CREDIBLE MUSIC SCENE AND WERE CHAMPIONED BY JOHN PEEL, WHO SAID OF THEM – “THEIR PERFORMANCES WILL SERVE TO CONFIRM THEIR EXCELLENCE WHEN WE ARE FAR ENOUGH DISTANCED FROM THE 1980′S TO LOOK AT THE PERIOD RATIONALLY AND OTHER, INFINITELY BETTER KNOWN, BANDS STAND REVEALED AS CHARLATANS”.
THE GROUP RECORDED A BUNCH OF CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SINGLES (ALMOST ALWAYS ‘SINGLE OF THE WEEK’ IN THE MUSIC PRESS) AND THREE ALBUMS, PLUS MANY RADIO SESSIONS FOR THEIR GREAT SUPPORTER PEEL – INDEED MORE THAN ANY OTHER BAND BAR THE FALL. 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 OCCASIONALLY BUT INFREQUENTLY BEFORE RE-GROUPING IN EARNEST IN SPRING 2004, WITH LLOYD BEING JOINED BY ORIGINAL PREFECTS GUITARIST ALAN APPERLEY. AFTER FUCKING ABOUT WITH VARIOUS WASTRELS, PRECIOUS SORTS AND MERCENARIES (PLUS TEEN GUITAR SENSATION MATT WOOD AND VOLCANO THE BEAR’S AARON MOORE) THE GROUP’S CURRENT LINE UP FEATURES LLOYD, APPERLEY, EX PRAM DRUMMER DAREN GARRATT, ANDREAS SCHMID (FROM FAUST STUDIO) ON BASS AND GUITARIST CHRISTINE EDWARDS (FROM CHRISTY & EMILY).
SINCE REFORMING THE GROUP HAVE BEEN MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN EVER – RELEASING FIVE 7″ VINYL SINGLES AND THREE STUDIO ALBUMS (PLUS A LIVE ALBUM), TOURING THE UK, MAINLAND EUROPE AND USA SEVERAL TIMES AS WELL AS RECORDING NUMEROUS RADIO SESSIONS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. THEY HAVE BEEN INVITED TO PLAY VARIOUS FESTIVALS IN EUROPE AND THE STATES, INCLUDING GLASTONBURY AND SXSW. THEIR “LET’S THINK ABOUT LIVING” 45 WAS ‘SINGLE OF THE WEEK’ ON BBC 6 MUSIC AND THEY HAVE CONTINUED TO RECEIVE REGULAR RAVE REVIEWS FOR THEIR RECORDS AND LIVE SHOWS.
IN 2008 THE GROUP RECORDED THEIR “INSULT TO INJURY” ALBUM WITH HANS JOACHIM IRMLER OF KRAUTROCK LEGENDS FAUST. THIS RECORD WAS RELEASED IN FEBRUARY 2009 ON THE KLANGBAD LABEL AND IS LARGELY CONSIDERED THE BEST ‘GALES ALBUM YET. ANOTHER IRMLER PRODUCED ALBUM HAS SINCE BEEN RECORDED AND WILL BE RELEASED IN 2010. THE BAND WILL ALSO BE PLAYING LIVE THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND THE U.S DURING THIS YEAR.
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NIGHTINGALES – CONDENSED PRESS
The Nightingales – they’re back and they’re marvellous – MARC RILEY/BBC 6 MUSIC
Nightingales are unreal. The level of playing and songwriting after their post-punk hiatus is unparalleled by any of their generational comeback cohorts – TERRE T/WFMU
With The Fall getting Lifetime Achievement awards and Gang Of Four canonised it is long past time the wayward genius of Robert Lloyd and his cohorts was recognised – RECORD COLLECTOR
The Nightingales are morally sound, cynically sweet, disturbingly comedic. All carelessly and unconsciously cool, Nightingales are grown men with something to say and sparse, post-punk soundtracks to back them. So, back them – UNPEELED
Consistently excellent, the Nightingales are back, as ferociously sardonic as ever. Nice to see them still mad, still funny, still wrecking the furniture after all these years. – DUSTED
Trebly guitar scrubs and busy drumming, both at a hyper pace, support Robert Lloyd’s snide, self-mocking, self-pitying, annoyed, despairing, sarcastically scathing and generally intelligent (if not always intelligible) tirades in the Nightingales. Dry wit, too. This boy from Birmingham has a lot of mind to give the world a piece of. – TROUSER PRESS
Brilliantly awkward Brummie buggers, the most fabulous melange of indie, punk, rockabilly, country and (weirdly) British folk you could imagine – WHISPERIN’ AND HOLLERIN’
Lloyd is the most underestimated songwriter of his generation – THE INDEPENDENT
LIVE
The Nightingales in Southend on Friday (May 06) jetted in to my top ten gigs of all time – PHILL JUPITUS/BBC 6 MUSIC
The Nightingales revisited their past and offered up the future. Still stunningly relevant – LONDON EVENING STANDARD
The Nightingales subjugate a rapt and breathless Spitz with a performance of sinewy magnificence. Sagacious frontman Robert Lloyd bellows his astute and witty lyrics about the dark satanic call-centres of England’s green and pleasant land with the priapic intensity of a rutting stag. – DAILY TELEGRAPH
Tuesday night at the Cake Shop in NYC. One of the best shows I’ve seen in years. Jangly, angsty, angular, punk, post-punk, just rock and roll, whatever, they destroyed. They played Which Hi-Fi?, one of my favorites, and it made the recorded version sound like easy listening. Original Prefects guitarist Alan Apperly is joined by teenage guitar sensation Matt Wood for the ultimate guitar attack, like the Magic Band, the Fire Engines and Television in a danelectro blender. Bassist Steve Lowe and drummer Daren Garrett ex of Pram just kill, and Robert Lloyd, well Robert is Robert. He ran into the audience, scared people, went out for a smoke while the band was still playing, performed Eno’s Hear Come the Warm Jets on a kazoo… predictable as always! – DAN SELZER/ILXOR
The Nightingales have taken the word ‘uncompromising’ to another level.From the very start, this set was about Lloyd spouting his border-line surrealism over intricate little riffs playing against each other, just as the old Don used to do. They ended with a rollicking rendition of their excellent new rockabilly styled single, ‘Let’s Think About Living’, which in an ideal world would be troubling the charts as we speak. Indeed, if they persisted with this more Nightingale-lite style they’d no doubt be playing bigger venues, but then they wouldn’t be half as interesting. Forget all these NME Band of the Week types, who make out they don’t care, they won’t compromise, etc, whilst wearing the same indie uniform and churning out the same tired old riffs. They don’t need your attention. The Nightingales do. Because rock’n'roll rarely gets as uncompromising as this. – PLASTELIN
Last time I saw the Nightingales in 2005 their set was looser and full of interruptions. This time, they worked a Ramones model: one cut lead directly into another, the intensity never let up, and the drummer never stopped. It was blistering, confrontational, and threatening. It wasn’t quite out of control you could tell from the look in Lloyd’s eye that he was still very much running the show but it felt a little bit dangerous, and you don’t see that at rock shows much anymore. – POP MATTERS
Songs tumble past, pasty faced and brimming with mothers pride, as fresh and corruptible now as when they started twenty years back. Age has neither dimmed their rage or diminished their satire – PLAN B
Rock & Roll at its best – SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
The show in Brooklyn two weeks ago at Death by Audio was pure fireworks of rhythm, rhyme and frantic melodies, swirling around the serenading, barking, burping, howling Lloyd. The band has been touring extensively and is vehemently tight – captivating from the first manic beats to the last stroke – ROMAN GAMES BLOG
I’d been warned that Nightingales leader Robert Lloyd could be incredibly mercurial, and I was more than a little worried we’d be catching the band on an off night. (This after hearing that their NYC-area shows had been consistently incendiary.) Well, I needn’t have bothered, because from the moment Lloyd stepped in to the spotlight on that tiny stage, there was no let-up. Thankfully the band was more than up to the task of keeping up with his funny, self-deprecating, always splenetic brand of rat-at-at talk-rant (stylistically more cohesive than Mark E Smith’s, but with the same level of lacerating bile). They alternated easily between locked-groove jangle and more caustic guitar workouts. Drummer and percussionist Daren Garatt (ex of Pram) was amazing to watch when he came offstage I was surprised to see that he didn’t, in fact, have eight arms. – WARPED REALITY
The Nightingales turn out to be bleedin’ mesmerising. Theirs is a driving force of sound full of threatening rumbles and fearsome glints, it feels intense and unstoppable. Robert Lloyd cuts a commanding dash, looming across the squiddly stage, growling out the words, staring out the room. They show up today’s runty excuses of art rockers for the soiled bags of old washing that they are. – KITTEN PAINTING
The Nightingales best material is delivered with a driving, manic intensity, that makes them sound like The Fall covering Captain Beefheart. Their execution is sharper now but they haven’t lost their nervy edge – CHICAGO READER
ALBUMS
INSULT TO INJURY
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
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’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
This album is uneven, undisciplined and overlong – UNCUT, UK
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
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
OUT OF TRUE
No.1 Record Of The Year 2006 – TERRE T/WFMU
No.1 September 06 Playlist Chart – WNYU
**** – MOJO
**** – UNCUT
**** – SUNDAY TIMES
This is that rarest of achievements: a comeback album that actually adds to an already illustrious reputation. Out of True finds the Nightingales not merely back to their best, but actually improved. – DAILY TELEGRAPH
This is a record that manages to sound more youthful and vibrant and packed with genuine humour and vitriol that any band currently pedalling themselves as post-punk, or anything near it, will no doubt be left feeling deflated – TASTY
After 20 years off, the Nightingales made a comeback with the outstanding album of the year for sheer brilliance of writing and originality. It’s eclectic and awkward, the lyrics from punk original Robert Lloyd are both profound and obtuse. Whilst guitar melodies are hurled around like sweaters in a playground scrap, songs with titles like ‘UK Randy Mom Epidemic’ and ‘Taking Away the Stigma of Free School Dinners’ worm their way into that itchy bit of the brain that so seldom gets scratched. – GUARDIAN UNLIMITED: ARTS BLOG
The first Nightingales LP for 20 years is their most cohesive work to date. A top album of this or any year, ‘Out Of Tue’ is out of this world. – INDEPENDENT
Wonderful stuff! Out Of True is yet another superior release from Birmingham’s finest. Indeed, you won’t hear many better albums this year. ****1/2 – BIRMINGHAM POST
The best of the many British ensembles that have attempted to anglicise Beefheart’s highly evolved primitivism, and helped make this venerable West Midlands outfit’s current album, ‘Out of True’, the finest of their career. – SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Out Of True is a tremendously refreshing listen. If a band can pull off Captain Beefheart-like riffs and not alienate the listener, they have achieved a delicate balance that will intrigue the listener to discover more of their music. Needless to say, this album is a success in my book. The polyrhythmic nature of ‘Born in Birmingham’ and the mysterious lyrics all drive me to want to listen to everything they ever recorded. It is truly wonderful stuff. – COVALENT BOND
The band do not seem to have even begun to mellow with age. In fact this record sounds as if it could almost be a debut album such is the freshness and the attitude. I really hope that people take this release on face value as a new record and don’t try to compare it to anything because this really is worthy of a place in anyones CD player. – LIFE
One of the UK’s greatest maverick rock acts has with Out of True dropped a true bombshell of an album. So cynically cool throughout, these are 14 tracks of alternative, glam, indie, blues rock… Just how many different genre boxes do they want to check? Uniquely weird but never pretentious, it is music that inspires and makes you think, and this album just inspires wonderment and confusion, do you dance or do you light up a joint and let the oddness wash over you? It’s dedicated to John Peel, a man who knew innovative and fresh music when he heard it. Let his legacy be your guide – I think he would have approved. 5/5 – ROCK MIDGETS
The Nightingales’ first new album for twenty years shows they are still as difficult, original and wonderful as ever. – BRUM BEAT
If Don Van Vliet had not come out of the Mojave, but off a slip from justdown from Spaghetti Junction, this is the record he may well have made. It’s brilliant stuff. Songs on ‘Out Of True’ sound cynical and weather-beaten, sure, but there is a kick in the legs, a distinct grit and canter that shows they’ve come back at the right time. No half-arsed comeback this, it is the sound of a voice rediscovered. – VANITY PROJECT
WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?
What’s Not to Love takes all the elements that powered ‘Out of True’ the furious drumming, the lyrical vitriol, the chaotic, post-everything guitar work up a notch. The six songs are so clamorous, so headlong, so brutal that the record seems like a milestone. You can tell that the band’s been playing together for a while by the way it continually skirts the edge of chaos and continually fails to fall in. Opening cut ‘Plenty of Spare’ emerges out of a rapid-fire maelstrom of a-melodic guitar notes and furious drum skitters, an almost free-jazz ooze that somehow births a song. Or, sort of a song. It’s too complicated to be punk, too hard and fast to be anything else…maybe it’s time for the Nightingales to invent their own genre. After all, it’s not like they ever fit very well into the existing ones. – DUSTED
Robert Lloyd, the Black Country Captain Beefheart, steamrolls his unwitting inheritors. Lesser talents plough the comeback trail, but the Nightingales press onwards – scratchy guitars scribbling furiously over exploratory drumming – the group reaching new heights in its third decade. – SUNDAY TIMES
It’s hard to warm to an album when the first track opens with almost an entire minute of out-of-tune guitar noise. ‘Plenty Of Spare’ gives us this, and sadly, more. This is a deeply un-enjoyable song, having no regard to rhythm, melody, or indeed any sense of cohesion. – THIS IS FAKE DIY
The 80′s John Peel icons still stand tall as an alternative art rock giants. A krautrock/post-punk/rockabilly/avant-garde attack is iced with the machine gun literary license of Robert Lloyd. Furious, twisted, grand prix guitars leave the power pop pretenders in the lay by. What’s not to Love? about The Nightingales? Nowt!!! – INDEPENDENT
The Nightingales remain as splendidly difficult as ever with new mini album What’s Not To Love? Plenty of Spare opening in full on Captain Beefheart mode with Robert Lloyd intoning in oblique spoken word about his ideal woman (‘maybe not too keen on mushrooms or bananas’) over discordant jazz n rockabilly guitar and skittering drums.
Things remain defiantly individual with the clattering punky surge of Eleven Fingers. Lloyd’s monotone sounding positively breathless. Bang Out Of Order is a rattling dose of train rhythm rockabilly punk pop that itches the soles of your feet, then it’s into a marvellously deconstructed drunk in the desert cover of Nancy Sinatra ‘hit’ Drummer Man with guest vocalist Sabina Shah, a riff pumping ramshackle Overreactor and, finally, the splendidly off its head Wot No Blog? which begins with Egyptian snake-dance swaying tones before crashing into scratchy punk and a mid-section that sees Lloyd’s voice possessed by some howling Armenian or similarly eastern European shaman. What’s not to love, indeed – TASTY
SINGLES
LET’S THINK ABOUT LIVING
Track Of The Month (May 06) – OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY
Single Of The Week – BBC 6 MUSIC
No.1 Single Of The Year – TERRE T/WFMU
Formed from the ashes of the awesome Prefects way back in the ’80′s, Nightingales were a post-punk band with great songs and sense of humour to boot. Now back touring again we have the first new single from them and it shows they’ve lost none of their verve and direction. ‘Let’s Think About Living’ is a rockabilly tinged pop single but it is B-side ‘Seconds’ that is the highlight here. Sounding far closer to their post-punk beginnings its all repetitive bass and great rhythms. It’s a choppy, angled song that really shows just how poor these skinny jeaned little shits currently doing the rounds really are. – TASTY
DEVIL IN THE DETAIL
*****
Devil In The Detail, one of the many highlights of the Nightingales gig I caught last year, is now the latest 7′ single from this fine re-formed band.And what a single! In fact, I’d go as far as saying that this is their best since they got back together a couple of years back, which amazingly – makes it even better than last year’s wonderful ‘Workshy Wunderkind’.Anyone expecting a simple re-tread of their classic early singles like Paraffin Brain or Urban Ospreys, however, is going to be disappointed because this is a long way removed from their early ’80′s roots, but then who your average Quo fan apart – wants a band to just re-live their former glories? This is The Nightingales flexing their muscles, indulging in incessant riffing over a ferocious, yet toe-tapping beat – it’s almost as if Cook and Jones, that steamrolling Pistols duo, joined your favourite Krautrock band for an extended run through Paranoid complete with searing feedback.There’s also a driving, yet melodic bass line underpinning the excitement, whilst singer Robert Lloyd adopts an almost Iggy-like drawl on top of itall. And as for that almost eastern-like bit (maaaan!) at the end, well . . . it’s just the aural icing on the vinyl cake. OK, so the competition’s not been great so far, but this six and a half minutes of pure bliss is undoubtedly my single of the year so far. Get your copy now. – BIRMINGHAM POST
CD REISSUES
PIGS ON PURPOSE
***** Reissue Of The Year 2004 & Top Ten Albums Of The Year 2004 – SUNDAY TIMES
Pigs on Purpose, The Nightingales 1982 debut, is the CD reissue of the year. The ‘Gales evolved from Birmingham’s proto-punks The Prefects, becoming John Peel favourites without achieving the blanket approval of latterly lionised near-contemporaries like Gang Of Four or Wire, perhaps because their deceptively difficult music was too complex to assimilate easily. Aspects of the period’s signature sound remain, scratchy guitars and pummelling rhythms, but The Nightingales’ circuitous, uplifting songs had more in common with the bargain basement bohemia of Captain Beefheart than they did with the post-punk polemicists, and Robert Lloyd’s elegantly hilarious, deadpan lyrics make Sistine Chapel shapes of mundane provincial minutiae – SUNDAY TIMES
IN THE GOOD OLD COUNTRY WAY
***** – BIRMINGHAM POST
**** – RECORD COLLECTOR
**** – MOJO
**** – UNCUT
In the Good Old Country Way wisely isn’t an attempt to make a straightforward country album. Many bands lacking a real identity might make such an error, but the ‘Gales are able to embellish their own sound with country and bluegrass elements. Lyrics are more smart-ass than ever (see ‘Part Time Moral England’ and ‘I Spit in Your Gravy’); the playing gets downright hot on ‘The Headache Collector.’ Highly recommended, even or maybe especially for those who hate country- western. – TROUSER PRESS
This is rock n roll, like punk was/is and it’s more blues than country based and kicks ass but weirdness abounds – I know that ‘Down In The Dumps’ would get them tearing up the joint whether the joint was the 100 Club or the Opry.
The Nightingales are a grown-up band who have mellowed as much as they’ve compromised, not at all. So it feels right that this is a record that covers the punk, the country, the noo-wave and the alt-rock books of the rock bible. As they say, ‘Let’s Surf’. – UNPEELED
On hearing back after almost twenty years, The Nightingales prove to have predated Pulp and Inspiral Carpets in a way neither of them would admit to. – PENNY BLACK
HYSTERICS
There’s plenty of drive and power on these tracks. Highly recommended. – TROUSER PRESS
LONDON BADFEST 28 MAY – 31 MAY 2010
February 15, 2010
LONDON BADFEST 28 MAY – 31 MAY 2010
LONDON BADFEST takes place at The London International Amphi Theatre, Brentford, London on Easter bank holiday weekend 28th May - 30th May 2010. Line up and ticket info to be announced soon. There is a rumour that P.A.I.N may be playing, keep an eye out for more information.
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Skinny Tribute Gig – Saturday 6th March 2010 Flyer Reknaw
February 15, 2010
Skinny Tribute Saturday 6th March 2010
A benefit gig and a celebration of the life of Paul “Skinny” Kelly 1966-2009
COITUS / COLDWAR / THE RESTARTS / P.A.I.N / DREAD MESSIAH / FLEAS and LICE / MASS COMA
The Jamm 261 Brixton Road,London SW9 6LH 8 till late, £10 entry
Skinny Tribute Gig – Saturday 6th March 2010 Flyer Reknaw
February 15, 2010
COITUS / COLDWAR / THE RESTARTS / P.A.I.N / DREAD MESSIAH / FLEAS and LICE / MASS COMA
The Jamm 261 Brixton Road,London SW9 6LH 8 till late, £10 entry
Dufus and Seth Faergolzia News February 2010
February 15, 2010
The Dufus website is back up and running http://www.dufus.tv
You can now add Dufus on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dufus/132987855192
Seth Faergolzia of DUFUS Residencies:
Every Thursday in February (4, 11, 18, 25) and March (4, 11, 18, 25)
Boulder Coffee Co.
100 Alexander St.
Rochester, NY
http://bouldercoffeeco.com
and
Every Tuesday in March (9, 16, 23, 30)
Sidewalk Cafe
Ave. A + 6th St
New York, NY
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Seth will also be playing the Winter Anti-Folk Fest at Sidewalk Cafe, NYC on February 24th.
In the works, there are two albums being worked on presently… one planned for release this Spring, another for this Summer… It’s looking like Seth will be touring solo throughout Europe in April or May and the band will do one more tour this Summer before taking a long hiatus starting in September.
Thanks for the continued support everyone!!!
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Microblog 2010-02-14
February 14, 2010
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- The slaveship is almost home…. 15 miles to musoplex and gear unloading time….. #
- Police bastard back in Birmingham and gear unloaded. Now time to return the van to moving space tours. All good. Tour was good fun. #
- Brumcast 8pm tonight ft Calories,Police Bastard,Tiny Cinema,We all need Heroes, & a new PWEI remix by Vile Evils http://bit.ly/pmkQT … #
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- Christians Claim Hate Crimes Law an Effort to 'Eradicate' Their Beliefs http://bit.ly/dgqHRP #
- 10 Questions for Birminghams Independent Music Industry. Your answers are requested http://hub.tm/dJsXc #Birmingham #music Pass It On #
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- Tonight on http://www.musicworldradio.com THE SOFT ROCK CLASSICS SHOW (Recorded in the UK) Presented by Dominic… http://bit.ly/aWVzoN #
- Seano managed to capture the quote of the Tour: "Police Bastard aren't singing about fuckin' Sugarpuffs…We're singing: Fuck Off God!!!" #
- packing and wrapping ebay orders….a lot of ebay orders…… #
- Don't forget to get your vote on this week for Music World Radio's Top Choons Charts! http://lnk.ms/57mrl #
- Extreme Noise Terror vs. KLF http://youtu.be/7CDButf0go8 #KLF #music #video #ENT #
- Photos by Midge from Apocalypse Now, 22nd,23rd,24th January 2010 at Swinging Sporran, Birmingham http://hub.tm/wnftp #punk #birmingham #
- Black Country Music Network Thursday 11th Feb 4pm Major Key Studios, The Public, West Bromwich http://bit.ly/KiOrp pass it on #
- "upcoming 2010 tour dates for CHRISTY & EMILY" http://hub.tm/VOwCa #
- "Tour dates for NIGHTINGALES, HOTPANTS ROMANCE, Christy and emily and Stewart home" http://hub.tm/TsXcJ #
- "Black Country Music Network – Thursday February 11th 2010" http://hub.tm/kOLOp #
- Scannergate: Facts Contradict Heathrow Claim That Naked Images Can't Be Printed http://ur1.ca/m0jc #
- "Borderline Crossing: An evening of acoustic, folk & blues on 3rd Monday each month at Boat Inn, Newbold-on-Avon,Rugby" http://hub.tm/YuiWo #
- Nigerian Security Forces Execute Civilians http://ur1.ca/m3gd #
- Internet Censorship Protest Shuts Down Australian Government Websites – http://tiny.cc/kILHp #
- In Brecon, found a cup of coffee at last but now the place is closing. don't ask. #
- How did I find myself with so much work to do and so little time to sort it all out? Back to work then…… #
- Go Back To Sleep, There's No New World Order http://ur1.ca/m3zp #
- Feds push for tracking cell phones http://ur1.ca/m3ym #
- Nearly 60% in UK Poll Say Torture is OK http://ur1.ca/m3tr #
- No Joke: South Carolina Now Requires 'Subversives' to Register http://bit.ly/aG697B #
- Claim: Blackwater Billed US for 'Morale Welfare Recreation' Provided by Prostitute: http://is.gd/8aUdY #
- Question: are you boring? #
- A character worth a follow @mrflubber "Where is the money? AWM plans to support Birmingham's music industry – years late" #
- Follow @mrflubber Birmingham's independent music industry needs more 'Morale Welfare Recreation' #
- Local IMC feature: Portland Indymedia Web Radio is looking for New Shows!: http://bit.ly/9W76jS #
- Ridicule of Conspiracy Theories Focuses On Diffusing Criticism of the Powerful http://ur1.ca/m3jo #
- P.A.I.N will be playing at Urban Haphazard Takeover III – Anti Valentines Extravaganza 13th February 2010, London #
- Commentator Exposes Dumbed-Down TV News Coverage http://ur1.ca/m4hc #
- Question: Do You Buddhist? #
- Surveillance Drones To Zap Protesters Into Submission – http://tiny.cc/eypuf #
- Tonight at scruffy murphy's, Birmingham – free entry gig feat. Contempt, eastfield and dik guru 8pm start #
- Xova live tonight at the ainbow, birmingham on stage 9.45pm #
- Giant Monster Crab Found In England http://bit.ly/ctuRPz #
- Moving Space Tours – Luxury Van Hire: Quotes & Bookings for Film & Music Industry http://hub.tm/?KOKNN or phone (+44) 020 8205 2503 #
- Civilized World Must Protect Iran and Consequently Itself http://ur1.ca/m7ny #
- Just in cased you missed it check out Seasick Steve on these radio shows: Seasick Steve on Front Row BBC Radio… http://bit.ly/9yrNcX #
- Angry Man Runs Naked Through Phoenix Airport http://ur1.ca/m7iz #
- New 9/11 photos 'prove WTC exploded from inside' http://ur1.ca/m8xd #
- Obama signs law lifting debt ceiling http://ur1.ca/m8uu #
- Ahead of Olympics, Vancouver assaults civil liberties http://ur1.ca/m8r5 #
- Listening to the accused….what a brilliant band….and still good after all these years… #
- http://twitpic.com/12zx7c – Five (yes, Five!) Free!! Metal bands @ The Old Wharf, Digbeth, Tonight #
- Listening to cop on fire #
- It's just a ride… — Bill Hicks Last Words http://youtu.be/OIy8rGa8p_g #
- Best and cheapest vegetarian take away in Birmingham: Milan Sweet Centre, 191 Stoney lane, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, B12 8HB, 0121 449 1617 #
- Thinking of going back to europe in may, perhaps germany around 20th may…but rehearsals on tuesday and wednesday o de… http://lnk.ms/5yXrx #
- Thinking of going back to europe in may, perhaps germany around 20th may…but rehearsals on tuesday and wednesday so d… http://lnk.ms/5xvHl #
- Israel Conducts Covert Assassination Campaign http://ur1.ca/m9yl #
- On the way to gatwick airport #
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links for 2010-02-13
February 14, 2010
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This just in to The Music Network from our good friends….. As many of you will recall a cache of lost and forgotten material was rediscovered during Jimmy’s house move early last year.
Some of the tracks were liberated by The Junior Insurgent Transmitter Ensemble for the soundtrack to the 2009 M25 Spin.
We have produced a single track DVD sampler and will be giving it away to all the “spinners” joining us this year.
The track featured is a unique version of the Pure Trance classic What Time Is Love and was recorded and performed by The KLF at the very first Helter Skelter illegal rave held on the 30th September 1989.
We will be meeting up at Thurrock Service Station just off the M25 at 11am on Saturday 20th March 2010 and will be on the London Orbital Motorway until 1pm on Sunday 21st March.
links for 2010-02-12
February 13, 2010
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Birmingham Promoters is a fast growing independent promotions group based in Birmingham.
We work in a variety of venues all over the city. Our aim is to work alongside venues in order to bring the highest caliber of signed touring acts to Birmingham as well as looking after our own homegrown talent and give them the support and direction they need to help get their music out there.
Unite Against Fascism & Love Music Hate Racism National Conference 13th February 2010
February 12, 2010
Unite Against Fascism has called this conference together with Love Music Hate Racism.
The event will bring together sections of society that oppose fascism including trade unions, Muslim, Jewish, Christian and other faiths, black, Asian, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans) and disabled communities and will allow us to come together to discuss strategies that have been successful in defeating fascism and organise activity across the country to stop the BNP in the forthcoming General and local elections.
Love Music Hate Racism
info at lovemusichateracism.com
http://www.lovemusichateracism.com
LMHR Office Facilities by kind arrangement with the PCS Union
Tel 020 7801 2781 // Fax: 020 7801 2782 // mobile: 07838 156052
Anne Marie Hurst & Rubella Ballet live at Scala, London, 19 FEBRUARY 2010
February 12, 2010
Friday 19th February 2010
Anne Marie Hurst (Ex-Ghost dance, ex-Skeletal family)
plus
Rubella Ballet (onstage at 9pm)
Lilygun
Nessus Red
advance tickets £8:50 from www.uvp-productions.co.uk/scala.html
Scala, 275 Pentonville road, Kings cross, london, N1 9NL.
www.myspace.com/lilygunband www.myspace.com/nessusredofficial
Urban Haphazard Takeover III – Anti Valentines Extravaganza 13th February 2010, London
February 12, 2010
Urban Haphazard Takeover III – Anti Valentines Extravaganza
13th February 2010, London – call 07507 162 708 or 07092 846 556 after 9pm.
Bands, Live Hip Hop, DJs, Performance, Cinema
This is a faaaaaaaaaaaaancy dress do! HALF PRICE ENTRY with Fancy Dress!
P.A.I.N. + Step 13 + Mush + Rejected + The K.A.D.T. + Beginning of the End + Roc-Roc-It + Kranked Kranken Kaboret - with compere : Dougie Torrent
Ghostown & MC Jam Baxter + Enreset & MC Wild Eyes + Manage + Sasquatch + Pieface + Ely Muff + Joe Z + Ronin Lenny Parker + Hue Jah Fink + Megabitch + BPM + Repeat + Munkyboy + Theo B + Blind + Frantic + New Orda + Serif Rat + Tim Leg
Jay Reatard – Testimonials and Comments
February 12, 2010
Jay Reatard aka Jimmy Lee Lindsey, Jr. died in his sleep on Wednesday morning. He was 29 years old.
He is survived by his mother Devonna May, his father Jimmy Lindsey, and his sisters Leslie Lindsey, Stephanie Duncan and Gara May. He’ll be missed by music fans all over the world.
With 22 full-length albums and over 100 releases, Jay dedicated his life to music. He played nearly one thousand shows in over 20 countries around the world. He was incredibly grateful for all the support his fans gave him over the years.
The memorial service took place on Saturday, January 16 at 5:00pm at Memorial Park Funeral Home, 5668 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN. This was open to the public.
If you knew, played with, or were a fan of Jay and his music, please share your thoughts, stories, memories and condolences.
I got a message through from Adam Shore who has been working with Jay for some time. He asked that I pass these comments on:
Adam Said: “I want to thank you all for your calls, texts and emails. It’s good know there’s so much support out there and warm thoughts for Jay. It’s just an unbearably sad time. The funeral was at 5pm 16th January 2010. You can read lots of great testimonials here…..”
http://www.jayreatard.com/2010/01/jay-reatard-1980-2010/#comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/music/15reatard.html
http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/tennessee/011410_punk-rock-legend-jay-reatard-dead-at-29
http://www.goner-records.com/board/index.php?action=vthread&forum=2&topic=47964
http://www.livefrommemphis.com/theintruder/1416-on-the-passing-of-jay-reatard
http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2010/01/people-s-republic-of-northern-california/read-a-requiem-mass-for-me-jay-reatard-.html
Eastfield / Steve Lake Tour Dates 2010
February 11, 2010
Thursday 18 February 2010 – KETTERING Sawyers.
44 Montagu Street.
Eastfield and Steve Lake.
8pm. £5
Friday 19 February 2010 - LANCASTER Yorkshire House.
2a Parliament Street.
Eastfield, Steve Lake and A Touch of Hysteria.
8pm. £4.
Saturday 20 February 2010 – LIVERPOOL (venue tbc).
Sunday 21 February 2010 – MANCHESTER Star and Garter.
Fairfax Street (Next to Piccadilly railway station)
Eastfield, Steve Lake, The Autonomads, Dead Subverts, Harijan and others.
Thursday 25 February 2010 – BIRMINGHAM Wagon and Horses.
Adderley Street, Digbeth.
Eastfield and Steve Lake.
Friday 26 February 2010 - DERBY Victoria Inn.
Midland Place (opposite railway station).
Eastfield and Steve Lake.
Saturday 27 February 2010 - LONDON 12 Bar.
Denmark Street. (Tottenham Court Road tube/BR – Charing Cross).
London, Eastfield and Steve Lake.
Sunday 28 February 2010 – BRIGHTON Prince Albert.
http://www.eastfieldrailpunk.co.uk
