Post by Sharpie on Dec 29, 2004 20:42:52 GMT
Yes yes yes, the time has come to release a compilation full of brilliant unsigned/independent bands that deserve your attention.
To celebrate this, we've got a launch night at my local (gig venue) Esquires in Bedford.
Headlining the event will be London-based Lutoners Garrett whose music is filled with interrupting, relentless guitars; buzzing synths; clever time signature work; controlled noise and when playing live, are unbelievably good.
The Beat Poet will also be playing the event, they caught my eyes, ears and other senses when they sent me their 'Hardest Battles Fought EP'. Amazing vocals, brilliant song structures, they truly kick arse. Just listen to them. I've never done them justice in a review.
The Clincher is just so... ahh! It's a brilliant piece of work.
Also there on the night will be my own band, Pandemonium and I won't talk us up. I'll put quotes instead:
"A thinking mans band best understood by an amalgamated union of philosophers, sages, luminaries and other proffesional thinking persons. Their music goes off in all directions and time swings like a cross between a trip to the North Pole via Australia, and a badly aimed rocket flying down the wrong leg of the trousers of conformity."
Bedford Metal
"One of Bedford's most vital young acts, Pandemonium are four teenagers with guitars, attitude and the wind beneath their sails.Sounds oddly familiar? Well not too many 16 year olds have even heard of the likes of Mogwai, Fugazi and Television and fewer still could mix them all into a heady mix of progressive rock and teenage energy "
Times & Citizen
"Pandemonium (or 'the Bedford bunch') have created some winding and angular music that is nothing short of astonishing. The stuff is tight."
The Bloodloss Collective Zine
And of course, DirtyMike's own... EPIDEME. As played on the John Peel show. Definitely something special. Just look at this:
"Apparantly they played tonight's set
entirely improvised & their singer announces "here is the news" at the start & throughout the set
he procedes to holler sentences taken entirely from the local paper cellotaped haphazardly to the
mic stand! These boys have some balls - sixteen years old & this experimental! Scary stuff!
This is brilliant jagged Fall meets Gang Of Four guitar, pronky bass, & jazzed up funked out drumming."
Richie Troughton
It's going to be such an excellent night.
To celebrate this, we've got a launch night at my local (gig venue) Esquires in Bedford.
Headlining the event will be London-based Lutoners Garrett whose music is filled with interrupting, relentless guitars; buzzing synths; clever time signature work; controlled noise and when playing live, are unbelievably good.
The Beat Poet will also be playing the event, they caught my eyes, ears and other senses when they sent me their 'Hardest Battles Fought EP'. Amazing vocals, brilliant song structures, they truly kick arse. Just listen to them. I've never done them justice in a review.
The Clincher is just so... ahh! It's a brilliant piece of work.
Also there on the night will be my own band, Pandemonium and I won't talk us up. I'll put quotes instead:
"A thinking mans band best understood by an amalgamated union of philosophers, sages, luminaries and other proffesional thinking persons. Their music goes off in all directions and time swings like a cross between a trip to the North Pole via Australia, and a badly aimed rocket flying down the wrong leg of the trousers of conformity."
Bedford Metal
"One of Bedford's most vital young acts, Pandemonium are four teenagers with guitars, attitude and the wind beneath their sails.Sounds oddly familiar? Well not too many 16 year olds have even heard of the likes of Mogwai, Fugazi and Television and fewer still could mix them all into a heady mix of progressive rock and teenage energy "
Times & Citizen
"Pandemonium (or 'the Bedford bunch') have created some winding and angular music that is nothing short of astonishing. The stuff is tight."
The Bloodloss Collective Zine
And of course, DirtyMike's own... EPIDEME. As played on the John Peel show. Definitely something special. Just look at this:
"Apparantly they played tonight's set
entirely improvised & their singer announces "here is the news" at the start & throughout the set
he procedes to holler sentences taken entirely from the local paper cellotaped haphazardly to the
mic stand! These boys have some balls - sixteen years old & this experimental! Scary stuff!
This is brilliant jagged Fall meets Gang Of Four guitar, pronky bass, & jazzed up funked out drumming."
Richie Troughton
It's going to be such an excellent night.
suppose you have to start somewhere....
