Filed under: Capital of Culture, Class a audio, a.P.A.t.T. Syndication, apatt, post music, post music night | Tags: A.L.A.N, BARBEROS, CINEMA, Class a audio, CREEPY, Liverpool, post music, POSTMUSIC, Samizdat, THE BENDAL INTERLUDE, THRASHGIG, Up It UP, Useless, ZOMBINA AND THE SKELETONS
POSTMUSIC ~ Useless ~ Class A Audio ~ Thrashgig
invite you to a secret evening at
THE GOORRREMONT CINEMA
HALLOWEEN SHOW
feat;
ZOMBINA AND THE SKELETONS
BARBEROS
THE BENDAL INTERLUDE
A.L.A.N – (a.l.a.n.local.a.l.a.n.network)
special guest
Creepy Sideshow dj’s:
Up It UP
Class A Audio
Useless
Post Music
Samizdat
SATURDAY
OCT 31st 2009
LIVERPOOL
more details at
WWW.CLASSaAUDIOrecords.co.uk
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MONOBROW – Liverpool Free Noise Collective.
Many drummers, much shouting, many different noises,many different people. Lots and lots of fun… no guitars, no laptops”sax, double bass, oboe, mics, keyboards, and of course, DRUM KITS
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Clear 12″ Vinyl Split with Deep Sea Dumping on
lancashire and somerset records released Aug 09
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2007 – Bar Fresa with Kong
2007 – Everyman with Fockea Crispa
2007 – Everyman with Mechagodzilla
2007 – Bar Cava with a.P.A.t.T.
2007 – Class A Audio with Germlin, Duracell.
2007 – Next 2 Knowhere with White Mice, b.P.A.t.T.
2008 – Buffalo Bar with Scotch Egg, Im Being Good, Orion Arm.
2008 – Static Gallery with Marvin, Deap Sea Dumping.
2008 – Class A Audio @ The Swan with MoHa, Barbie Shop, Tarpey.
2008 – Cali with Broken Arm, Deap Sea Dumping.
2008 – CAA @ Mello mello with Bob Corn, Action Beat.
2008 – The Blue Coat with Barbie Shop.
2008 – with Neptune.
2009 – kro bar with Pneu, shield your eyes.
2009 -Class A Audio @ The Cali with pneu, shield your eyes.
May 28th – CleRmont FerrAnd, France.
Raymonds Bar
May 29th - Musica Nelle Valli, Italy. valli 624,
San Martino Spino with / Vialka /Cock Destroyer.
Go here for ‘recording’ session
general : say.hello@monobrow.org.uk
booking : van.full.of.drums@monobrow.org.uk
Filed under: Balloons, Class a audio, a.P.A.t.T. Syndication, apatt, demons, icy demons, post music, post music night | Tags: apatt, aPehAt recordings, Balloons, black and white mass, icy demons, KAZIMIER, Liverpool, merseyside, metro, miami ice, obey your brain, post music
POST MUSIC Night
Icy Demons / a.P.A.t.T. / Balloons @ The Kazimier, Liverpool
14/05/09
Lazy comparisons. Shit, aren’t they? And Balloons had best get used to them, because frontman Tom’s tremulous yelp means that they’re going to become quite familiar with superficial Sparks references. Look a little closer, however, and there’s much more to be heard in their perkily peculiar pop: the synthetic funk of prime Devo, the devil-may-care weirdness of the Swell Maps… even the grandly surreal lurchings of proto-Blur oddballs Seymour. The pulsing energy of their tremendous set coalesces into post-punk jerks and highly danceable quirks, and the stupid grins plastered onto the faces of all present prove that Balloons put on a darn good show. It’s gonna be so fucking exciting to see what their potential could develop into.
Absurdist faves a.P.A.t.T., meanwhile, are well into their second decade of existence. Let’s not even consider the number of line-up changes that have been weathered in that time. Or, for that matter, just how many musical genres have been absorbed and systematically annihilated by their decidedly non-linear approach. Tonight they’re dealing mainly in prog-funk with a smattering of avant-folk, but frankly their scope is so broad that it’s difficult to pin them down to mere taggery. To watch a.P.A.t.T. is to realise that you know nothing about music. And goddammit, they’re fun too.
And then there’s tonight’s headliners, Icy Demons. Cut from a similarly adventurous cloth to their support, the Chicago quartet’s sound is underpinned by funk grooves not a million miles away from the Beastie Boys’ instrumental jams. Coupled with their relatively-outré melodic sensibilities and a drummer who casually blows The Fly’s feeble mind, they’re a seriously demented but unbelievably exciting live act. There’n definitely a hip-hop root here, but it’s been cut up, chewed and spat out into barely-recognisable shapes – ‘prog-hop’, as your humble reviewer overhears someone else calling it. Experimental music is often derided for being either self-consciously wacky or chin-strokingly over-serious. Refreshingly, Icy Demons are neither. Live music should always bring this much joy.
Words by Will Fitzpatrick
Pictures by David Smyth
Video by GM
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Icy Demons/a.P.A.t.T./Balloons – Performance of a lifetime! @ – THE KAZIMIER
Icy Demons/a.P.A.t.T./Balloons – Performance of a lifetime!
@ – THE KAZIMIER- May 14th
Icy Demons
Started by Bablicon’s Griffin Rodriguez (aka Blue Hawaii) and Man Man’s Christopher Powell (aka Pow Pow), Icy Demons are a genre-spanning hypno-rhythmic indie project borrowing heavily from electro, Krautrock, and prog rock, specifically its Canterbury subgenre. Rodriguez takes bass and vocal duties while Powell drums, and the two act as the primary ringleade
rs of the band, roping in a rotating circus of musicians from their home cities of Philadelphia and Chicago. Upon initiation into the group, members adopt aliases like Graveyard P, Young Master Schneider, Ta-Freek-Ya, and the Diminisher. Cloud Recordings, a label with close ties to Elephant 6, another collective-friendly band of brothers, took a liking to Icy Demons’ first record an
d released Fight Back! in 2004. Between touring with their respective groups and recording albums for other musicians at Rodriguez’s Shape Shoppe studio, Rodriguez and Powell found time to piece together their second Icy Demons album, Tears of a Clone, in 2006, which was released by Eastern Developments. To add to their musical endeavors and house their creative output, the two started a record label called Obey Your Brain, and released Miami Ice in April of 2007. Plans followed to play live shows as a touring band with guitarist Russell Higbee of Man Man, guitarist Jeff Parker of Tortoise, upright bassist Josh Abrams of Prefuse 73 and Sam Prekop, and atmospheric improviser and cellist Tomeka Reid, in support of Slint and Arcade Fire, and as a main stage act at the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival. Miami Ice was reissued that summer.
www.myspace.com/icydemons
www.icydemons.com
a.P.A.t.T.
a.P.A.t.T. sound like the best bits of eveything you’ve ever heard. File next to ABBA / Zappa. Completely original bewildering 2-7 piece band using all the genres possible to create a daft yet beautiful mess. Running all over stage whilst swapping instruments. Eclectic dosn’t cover it.
“To hear a.P.A.t.T.or more specifically their ‘Back and white mass’ full length album is to experience a musical odyssey like no other, avoiding the usual pragmatics of pop, they are a law unto themselves” -M Barton.
2009 = Prepare for the village idiots of pop
www.apatt.com
www.myspace.com/apatt
Balloons
There are five of them and they call themselves Balloons, beyond that we know nothing except that on the evidence of these showcased cuts they sound like they’ve been overly tucking in to the kaleidoscopic sherbet over the festive season concocting and cobbling deliriously skewed sounds that sound for all the world like wired road kill resulting from a head on collision between early career Sparks, Cardiacs, Devo and ‘SF Sorrow’ era Pretty Things
www.myspace.com/wereballoons
PLUS POST MUSIC DJ’s
£5 entry
8:30pm doors
9pm first act prompt
CHEAP ENTRY FOR GROUPS
OF FIVE PEOPLE FOR £20.
(5-4-20)
THE KAZIMIER
4-5 Wolstenholme Square
Liverpool
L1 4JJ
United Kingdom
ANYONE WISHING TO HELP WITH MEDIA COVERAGE OR OR HELPING OUT IN ANY WAY PLEASE GET IN TOUCH
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The Wombats earlier
Liverpool has always had a long lineage of musicians and artists. In fact, there can’t be many people who aren’t aware that Liverpool’s artists have reached the coverted Number 1 spot in Britain more than anywhere else. Well whoop-de-doo!
What on Earth does that mean ? We have better P.R. companies ? Better haircuts ? What’s the relevance?
Who knows! What I do know is that there is large amount of music being made in Liverpool that will never sink into ‘average Joe’s’ CD collection.
Music that seems to be intrinsically trying to put the listener off can only be liked to a threshhold point by the normal music listening public!
Thank God, thank Dog. It’s ours.
The Beatles 'Yesterday'
According to Wiki:
“1990s bands that enjoyed success were The Boo Radleys, The La’s, The Farm, Ooberman, Scorpio Rising, Sian and Slug.
Since 2000 bands such as The Zutons, The Wombats and The Coral have become popular. As a backlash to this regular guitar pop music, another scene far more influenced by post punk and experimental music has emerged more recently, spearheaded by bands such as a.P.A.t.T. , Hot Club de Paris, Kling Klang and Stig”
So, there must be something that binds a lot of bands together in Liverpool; well, progressive is one aspect…hmmm and it’s safe to say that simply the music MUST must be a little Wonky.
Wonk may refer to:
- Wonk, slang for a person preoccupied with arcane details or procedures in a specialised field
Wonky may refer to:
- Wonky, slang for off -kilter. Wonky face , Wonky throat etc
What else could these bands have in common? It’s safe to say all the bands embrace a DIY ethic. However, it’s not something to be surprised by, and it’s not just complementary to the music but indicative of it.
This is a collection of the Liverpool practitioners of Wonk and their goods!
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“There’s a kind of bullishness to just DO stuff. Everyone seems to be always scheming things which is a very healthy sign. Of course, there’s the occasional whinger but they seem to be outvoted by those who just go out and grab some action – that’s very inspiring sometimes.”
-Shooman, Spank
“This is for us, this is ours, this is what we’re going to do, so some sponsor is not part of what we’re involved in.”
- Foxy, SS
“The minute we started it, it was slightly anti-music or something like that, but it’s absolutely guaranteed, set on, to be our life’s work, whatever goes on with it, this is what we’re going to do, even if it’s just goes back to giving out CD-Rs to our friends or something. And it’s me learning, the band learning, it’s us all learning together, and that’s why we enjoy it loads.”
-GM, a.P.A.t.T.
“We try to make what we consider to be good pop music with a progressive mindset. We like to make music which is melodic, innovative and sometimes needlessly complicated”
-Indica Ritual
“Crazy noise, granted, but nothing quite prepares for the flamenco-featuring random meandering, enthusiastically ploughing through unhinged rhythms, bewildering Henry Mancini-isms and Mclusky spikiness” .Rum N Brass. Dis. A semi-abandoned café, bring your own booze, donation entry, crusties, arties, old men with harps. THIS IS THE UNDERGROUND MUTHAFUCKERS.The Stig Noise Soundsystem start as we’re likely to go on with intense, overwrought sounds. Based around brass and drums, it’s a fast improvised exploration of something approaching tribal doom jazz. As they batter their instruments with force and feeling, there’s odd wonderfully brain-searing moments. Class A Audio. - Drowned In Sound.com About Stig Noise Sound System
monobrow @ Class A Audio Jne 2008
Already by the 19th century, Liverpool was a centre of musical innovation, in particular the development of the sea shanty. Many shanties specifically refer to Liverpool, such as “Heave Away”, “Liverpool Judies”, and “Maggie May”, which was later performed by The Rutles.
“A gleeful, Technicolour zombie stomp through the dark, B-movie underbelly of music. And if you don’t like the sound of that, well, you’re clearly too alive”
- Drowned in Sound about Zombina & the Skeletones
Let’s simply list more of these D.I.Y. timewasters shall we :
Norwich Unicorn
