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of Arrowe HillThe disparate elements that resulted in The Entity now known as 'of Arrowe Hill' initially coalesced in a warehouse in East London, springing from the errant conversations of exiled Northerners, way back during the final year of the last century.
A one-sided 7" ("A Dull Today is Darker Yesterday's Bright Tomorrow") sleeved in a rubber-stamped brown paper bag and restricted to some 350 numbered copies, escaped the vigilance of the Secret Chiefs sometime around the first year of the 21st Century. This was followed, after a gestation of some 18 months, by another 7", this time with both sides left intact (the aptly titled "Gadfly Adolescence" b/w the bucolic "Cuckoo Spit").
Rumours of the band's demise shortly after recording a session for the late Sir John Peel and the release of the debut album "The Spring Heel Penny Dreadful & other Tales of Morbid Curiosity" in May 2003, whilst attractive to some, were completely erroneous, as witnessed by the release of the sophomore record "Hexadelica and the Speed of Darkness", on Hallowe'en 2005.
of Arrowe Hill have finished recording their next album, 'Dulce Domum' which they intend to release Autumn 2007. A limited edition one-sided 7" single 'Your Late Unpleasantness' (in poster sleeve) was released Monday 18th June.
A one-sided 7" ("A Dull Today is Darker Yesterday's Bright Tomorrow") sleeved in a rubber-stamped brown paper bag and restricted to some 350 numbered copies, escaped the vigilance of the Secret Chiefs sometime around the first year of the 21st Century. This was followed, after a gestation of some 18 months, by another 7", this time with both sides left intact (the aptly titled "Gadfly Adolescence" b/w the bucolic "Cuckoo Spit").
Rumours of the band's demise shortly after recording a session for the late Sir John Peel and the release of the debut album "The Spring Heel Penny Dreadful & other Tales of Morbid Curiosity" in May 2003, whilst attractive to some, were completely erroneous, as witnessed by the release of the sophomore record "Hexadelica and the Speed of Darkness", on Hallowe'en 2005.
of Arrowe Hill have finished recording their next album, 'Dulce Domum' which they intend to release Autumn 2007. A limited edition one-sided 7" single 'Your Late Unpleasantness' (in poster sleeve) was released Monday 18th June.
The Bastard FairiesYellow Thunder Woman - Vocals and Words
Robin Fuckin' Davey - Music
The Bastard Fairies could be termed an oxymoron. If this is the case then their music is most definitely oxymoronic. Naughty but nice, sweet and sour, beautifully macabre, wonderfully morose. Like a baby with a razor blade, it'll hug you then cut you with no warning.
The sweet melodies coupled
with the lo-fi pop sensibilities of multi instrumentalist Robin Davey create a musical landscape that eases you through
Yellow Thunder Woman's lyrical observances and passion for the darker
side of worldly workings.
The Black MadonnasViscount Leo Wetter - vocals and guitars
Iron Davor - Drums/percussion and vocals
Andy 'Mister' Custard - Guitars/backing vocals/effects
Simon 'Beatz' Byrt - Keyboards/bass guitar
Iron Davor - Drums/percussion and vocals
Andy 'Mister' Custard - Guitars/backing vocals/effects
Simon 'Beatz' Byrt - Keyboards/bass guitar
"I guess you could all The Black Madonnas garage rock but the fact that they have supported
both Har Mar Superstar and The 80’s Matchbox B-Line Disaster should hint to you that a tag
like that is not giving the full picture.
Their mix of blues, punk, rock & roll and Nick Cave-style darkness has already lead some of the hipper music and style magazines to proclaim that The Black Madonnas are the future of rock & roll." - Indigo Flow
"a frenetic slab of juggernaut rock, which delights in swaggering and bouncing between psychedelia and dirty garage." - The Independent
Their mix of blues, punk, rock & roll and Nick Cave-style darkness has already lead some of the hipper music and style magazines to proclaim that The Black Madonnas are the future of rock & roll." - Indigo Flow
"a frenetic slab of juggernaut rock, which delights in swaggering and bouncing between psychedelia and dirty garage." - The Independent
Simon BreedSimon Breed has been playing under his own name and steam around the UK and Europe for a decade. The size of the gigs has varied wildly, from the several thousands on the huge support slots he’s been asked to do personally by the Bad Seeds and the Magic Numbers, to the crowd who regularly cram into London’s tiny 12-bar club. Two things have kept him going – a faithful hardcore following and the respect of his peers. The Bad Seed’s Mick Harvey, the Magic Numbers, P.J. Harvey and Thomas Truax, to name a motley but fabulous few, have all sung Simon’s praises.
"Melodically beautiful, lyrically barbed." TIME OUT
"Simon is a playboy of the Western world who trawls the gutters of its cities for treasure, and holds what he finds up to the most blinding light possible, exalting the wretched and abandoned with a lexicographical delight in the invention and deployment of words, and a romantic, improvisatory fascination with noise applied to melody. Crooning one moment, howling the next, Simon and his band pull their inspirational music from the entrails or 'proper' and 'improper' instruments without favour or mercy." - the 12 Bar Club
"Melodically beautiful, lyrically barbed." TIME OUT
"Simon is a playboy of the Western world who trawls the gutters of its cities for treasure, and holds what he finds up to the most blinding light possible, exalting the wretched and abandoned with a lexicographical delight in the invention and deployment of words, and a romantic, improvisatory fascination with noise applied to melody. Crooning one moment, howling the next, Simon and his band pull their inspirational music from the entrails or 'proper' and 'improper' instruments without favour or mercy." - the 12 Bar Club
The Drown"More dreamy than disconsolate, the Drown’s heavy bass lines are indebted to the bleak underbelly of ‘80s New Wave, crossing the bridge between Echo & the Bunnymen’s mood-spinning psychedelia and Joy Division’s suicidal disco. However, the Drown dare to explore more styles than most of today’s New Wave revivalists." - cdreviews.com
"William Byron is a vocalist of rare energy and power, able to cut through the layers of sound with his british-esque intonations and impressive range . Brandon Van Spall might just be the next art-rock guitar god, with the way he makes his licks whine and moan over the most frantic of backings." - Pink Isis 'zine.
"Having no lyric sheets, band photographs, and mostly indecipherable lyrics, the Drown tap into the enigmatic side of New Wave. Just listen to the disorienting, ethereal guitars and spooky, whispered vocals on "Discourse." The title alone has the single-word Joy Division flavor, open to a number of interpretations, probably none of which the group intended."- Ink #19.
The Drown has a growing and significant cult fan-base, album sales and radio airplay worldwide from Britain to Japan, and has been featured in notable music publications like Magnet, Pop Culture Press, CMJ and NME.
Isobel HeyworthGifted with the voice of a tender angel - part heartbreaker, part heartbroken - Isobel Heyworth is a mid-20s misplaced Manchester songwriter who writes burning, intense songs using the simplest tools: a voice, a finger-picked folk guitar, the occasional piano. (David Sue)
"The best young female singer-songwriter in the UK. Prepare to be dazzled." - City Life
Born in the Royal Festival Hall, overcome by the raw power of Iggy Pop's 2007 Meltdown gig, a beautiful evening, and a smattering of beers... The line up includes Boyd of lo-fi noiseniks Partition and his solo work with Ian Catt, and Grant Wilkinson, filmmaker, writer and recovering bass player...
Ivan CampoIvan Campo, the super Spaniard with the big hair, shares his name -
with a nu-folk ensemble who will take you on a journey through the
mysteries of their minds.
Hitchcock and The Beatles’ White Album are just some of Ivan Campo’s
preoccupations. Characterised by a playful suspense, their songs are as
likely to be about the unsolved death of Alexander Litvinenko as they
are about love and loss.
Based in Preston and Manchester, Ivan Campo produce interweaving
melodies combined with a musical unpredictability influenced by artists
as varied as Devendra Banhart, Nick Harper and Arcade Fire. The effect
is a unique style infused with echoes of films, snatched memories and a
healthy sense of the absurd.
The Night TimeRebecca Roulette, Rory Store, Tara McPherson, Tom Stephens
Brooklyn based, they play around the city at venues like Pianos, Cakeshop, Glasslands, Sin-e, and Magnetic Field. Give them plane tickets, a car, gas money, and some personal days and they will gladly play elsewhere.
"The Night Time’s aptly titled debut endears intself by sounding very much like a first release. It’s got the feel of a guitarist carrying a travel bag worth of arpeggio riffs crossing paths with a singer that’s been itching to test out the vocal ideas floating around her mind. The resulting sound is redolent of mid-90’s alterna-acts like K’s Choice and Joydrop that succeded in melding clean picking verse/crunchy chords chorus arrangement style with pastel-shaded female vocals. Roulette’s smooth, Nightingale voice is the sweetest treat here" - The Deli Magazine
Brooklyn based, they play around the city at venues like Pianos, Cakeshop, Glasslands, Sin-e, and Magnetic Field. Give them plane tickets, a car, gas money, and some personal days and they will gladly play elsewhere.
"The Night Time’s aptly titled debut endears intself by sounding very much like a first release. It’s got the feel of a guitarist carrying a travel bag worth of arpeggio riffs crossing paths with a singer that’s been itching to test out the vocal ideas floating around her mind. The resulting sound is redolent of mid-90’s alterna-acts like K’s Choice and Joydrop that succeded in melding clean picking verse/crunchy chords chorus arrangement style with pastel-shaded female vocals. Roulette’s smooth, Nightingale voice is the sweetest treat here" - The Deli Magazine
The Poems are Kerry Polwart, Adrian Barry, Robert Hodgens, Maria Leahy, Stacey Sievwright & Michael Bryans.
The Poems was a name used briefly by a loose collective of proto-musicians, including a young Alan Horne (postcard founder) amongst others in the early 80’s. Barry has reported the group liked the name, considering it evocative of "underground poetry", and fitting, due to the fact Hodgens and Paterson had already having written "Ballad of the Bitter End", inspired by Emily Dickinson's book of the same name.
The newly named The Poems rehearsed and performed in Glasgow. Their music was generally much more relaxed than it would later become: Paterson described this era as reminiscent of beatnik poetry, with Polwart playing gentle "pitter and patter rhythms behind the drone".
While the Glasgow’s indie scene was undergoing a gentle Summer of Love, psychedelia and flower power, the typically contrary Poems concerned themselves with darker subject matter: transvestites, heroin addiction, and sadomasochism. Also setting them apart from their contemporaries was their use of silence and amplifier noise in a musical context, exemplified by the seven minute track "I Just Want Out Of Here" from their new album ‘Young America’.
The TeenbeatLee: Drums - From Finsbury Park, London
Neil: Bass - From Bromborough, Wirral
Kev: Lead Guitar - From South Shields
Ade: Vocals, Guitar - From Royston, Barnsley
The Teenbeat formed in Silverdale Road, Oxton, Birkenhead, Mersyside in 1991. They spent the early 1990s gigging in and around Birkenhead and Liverpool. During the last ten years the band have played irregular gigs in London and Merseyside. Recent gigs in London have seen the band make random appearances in venues around the New Cross area.
Ade: "The Teenbeat isn't just a band, it's a religion. It has its own intricate belief system. Lee Bailey is our spiritual guide."
"The Teenbeat formed in Liverpool in the mid-1990s, and are led by Adrian Shaw a dryly amusing fellow often seen rattling the perimeter fence of the London conceptual-art scene. The band record in vast, incoherent jams, then cherry-pick the best bits, which suggest Alan Bennett fronting the Velvet Underground, or George Formby singing Hank Williams. with a little spit and polish, they could be as quirky a commercial proposition as Pulp once were, but one suspects The Teenbeat are reluctant to spoil something secretly special." - The Sunday Times
Neil: Bass - From Bromborough, Wirral
Kev: Lead Guitar - From South Shields
Ade: Vocals, Guitar - From Royston, Barnsley
The Teenbeat formed in Silverdale Road, Oxton, Birkenhead, Mersyside in 1991. They spent the early 1990s gigging in and around Birkenhead and Liverpool. During the last ten years the band have played irregular gigs in London and Merseyside. Recent gigs in London have seen the band make random appearances in venues around the New Cross area.
Ade: "The Teenbeat isn't just a band, it's a religion. It has its own intricate belief system. Lee Bailey is our spiritual guide."
"The Teenbeat formed in Liverpool in the mid-1990s, and are led by Adrian Shaw a dryly amusing fellow often seen rattling the perimeter fence of the London conceptual-art scene. The band record in vast, incoherent jams, then cherry-pick the best bits, which suggest Alan Bennett fronting the Velvet Underground, or George Formby singing Hank Williams. with a little spit and polish, they could be as quirky a commercial proposition as Pulp once were, but one suspects The Teenbeat are reluctant to spoil something secretly special." - The Sunday Times
Tool Of The RegimeLem - Vocals / Guitar
Murphy - Lead Guitar
Two Hundred And Forty One - Bass / Vocals
Steve - Drums
We're Tool Of The Regime (T.O.T.R.) an upbeat, straight forward, honest (occasionally frantic) punk rock band. We're big fans of a heavy punk sound but still believe in carrying a decent tune and beat. We're not your standard studded leather jacket, 'up-yours' punk band - we take influence from many different punk and rock bands and produce music that we think sounds good. Listen for yourself.
Murphy - Lead Guitar
Two Hundred And Forty One - Bass / Vocals
Steve - Drums
We're Tool Of The Regime (T.O.T.R.) an upbeat, straight forward, honest (occasionally frantic) punk rock band. We're big fans of a heavy punk sound but still believe in carrying a decent tune and beat. We're not your standard studded leather jacket, 'up-yours' punk band - we take influence from many different punk and rock bands and produce music that we think sounds good. Listen for yourself.
The Travelling BandSnaf Ballinger, Adam Gorman, Steve Mullen, Nick Vaal, Chris Spencer, Jo Dudderidge.
"Chewing
straw and tipping a worn out hat to the mighty Creedence Clearwater
Revival. The perfect soundtrack to a riverboat float, this is
toe-tapping light revelry, all 60s middle Americana. Their finest
moments drip richly with a three-way vocal velvet; theirs is a soggy
bottom simplicity in all its hummable glory." (Carol Hodge)
The Would Be EmperorsMichael Bainbridge (Bam) - Vocals and Rhythm Guitar
Joe Butler - Lead Guitar
Efe Enobakhare - Bass
Alex Godfrey - Drums
Once tragically and inaccurately described as 'funkadelic punk beats', the sound of the WBEs is best articulated as an amalgamation of every decent rhythmic rock hook that's come our way in the last thirty years.
Songs combine the melodic integrity of Stevie Wonder with the bass driven funkiness of the early Chillies; upon this we add a loving coating of modern rock accessibility and an edge of sheer Mancunian vocal attitude. An uncannily varied set list references bands from Muse to Blur to George Clinton- as lovers of music we find it difficult to ghettoise ourselves into a single genre, other than being content to let our divergent range of influences mix in a big melting pot of melodic brilliance.
"Stunningly funky bass work and spiralling rifts that seemed to last forever (in a good way!), backed by strong but simple vocals made this band stand out as both an audience and band favourite alike...contenders to any indie/funk crown around" (courtesy of LEAF)
Joe Butler - Lead Guitar
Efe Enobakhare - Bass
Alex Godfrey - Drums
Once tragically and inaccurately described as 'funkadelic punk beats', the sound of the WBEs is best articulated as an amalgamation of every decent rhythmic rock hook that's come our way in the last thirty years.
Songs combine the melodic integrity of Stevie Wonder with the bass driven funkiness of the early Chillies; upon this we add a loving coating of modern rock accessibility and an edge of sheer Mancunian vocal attitude. An uncannily varied set list references bands from Muse to Blur to George Clinton- as lovers of music we find it difficult to ghettoise ourselves into a single genre, other than being content to let our divergent range of influences mix in a big melting pot of melodic brilliance.
"Stunningly funky bass work and spiralling rifts that seemed to last forever (in a good way!), backed by strong but simple vocals made this band stand out as both an audience and band favourite alike...contenders to any indie/funk crown around" (courtesy of LEAF)