Morning everyone!
Just a very quick reminder about our two shows this week! Tonight we have HUNX AND HIS PUNX bringing his sensational live show to new Dalston venue of choice, Birthdays. Whilst tomorrow the deeply mesmeric U.S. GIRLS head up our gender-fixated show at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club along with the creeping atmos of FEMALE BAND and sublimely reversing vocals of GOODBYE LEOPOLD too. Read on for all you need to know…
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HUNX AND HIS PUNX
RADIOSLAPS
LE PECHEUR
UPSIDOWNIA DJs
Monday 14 May
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/157169
HUNX AND HIS PUNX aren't the first group to marry the effortless, sugary pop of 60s girl groups with the rock-n-roll revival, but they might be the first whose skuzzy songs are explicitly homoerotic. You may recall front man Hunx, aka Seth Bogart, from Oakland's garishly theatrical, ambisexual band Gravy Train!!!! Here though there is a wry dissonance between the songs' edging three-chord strums, resonant organ flourishes, and hand-clapped percussion, plainspoken lyrics and their dazzling performance. Although Hunx takes centre stage his all-girl Punx back him up, featuring members of Shannon & The Clams and Justin from Nobunny, they only sweeten the love rush and heartbreak further. New album, 'Hairdresser Blues' was released through Hardly Art earlier this year, dealing with decidedly darker emotions than previous records and recorded by Ivan Julian, original member of Richard Hell and The Voidoids.
http://www.myspace.com/hunxsolo
RADIOSLAPS are a brilliantly fuzzy garage trio, 2 girls, 1 guy; Alba on farfisa, Pumu on guitar, and Melissa on the drums and yelps threefold! They tackle the never-ending conundrum of everyday existence in an unromantic world exactly like how the golden era Damaged Goods hordes used to do it. Radioslaps do frazzled pop primitivism like it's going out of fashion, minimal production, maximalist teen terror, turning an urgent panache into a wonderful drongo atmosphere. Radioslaps have a 10 track album out now and a new song included on Deathbomb Arc's 100th release comp.
http://radioslaps.bandcamp.com/
LE PECHEUR are our weird and wired French cousins. Having shared wax with the JC Satan previously, Le Pecheur on their first full lengther, 'Medieval Dreams', ascend by flipping their noisy squall into horrified new landscapes, peppered with psychedelic meltdowns - like the experimental excursions of the red crayola in parts - and even jangle-down 60s underbelly pop. With rabid vocals sounding at times like they're within a cough of disease and minimalistic percussion that powers the whole degenerate mess it's striking that avant-garage practitioners can still wring new ideas and sounds from old ideas but Le Pecheur do it brilliantly.
http://lepecheur.bandcamp.com/
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U.S. GIRLS
FEMALE BAND
GOODBYE LEOPOLD
Tuesday 15 May
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/161557
U.S. GIRLS is the moniker of Philadelphia's Meghan Remy, a chanteuse from (perhaps) the future, guiding all who choose to sail on an evocative trip through her unique hallucinogenic soundscapes. With U.S. Girls, Meghan's approach is deceptively simple and ethereal; a lithe ray of keyboard murk beamed over percussive loops and her unapologetic hazy pop vocal. After two albums on Siltbreeze which saw her reinterpreting Suicide via Diamanda Galas and hailed as an Eno of the 23rd century, her recent third full length 'U.S. Girls on Kraak' found a home on Kraak Records. Remy’s vocal abilities get centre stage on this record, clearly laying bare her 60's girl band and 90's R’nB influences, without losing touch with her early roughness en experimentalism. In barely 30 minutes, Remy is able to move from the hit parade favourite ‘Island Song’, over to her sublime cover of Brandy & Monica’s ‘The Boy Is Mine’, to a classic country song. This is all intertwined with her usual talent for shortsong-writing and raw esoteric adjuncts, simply inspired.
http://yousgirls.blogspot.co.uk/
FEMALE BAND are Anna and Melissa who write music aching with atmosphere. Their songs are sunk in restless samples, processing slow-sung vocals and shifting dual guitar creep-alongs. Creating a similar brooding intensity to Grouper in places, Female Band retain an almost elegiac punk resonance at the same time, allowing their music to follow you about and haunt all empty rooms.
http://soundcloud.com/femaleband
GOODBYE LEOPOLD combine the ethereal sound of three blended voices, choreography and a unique aesthetic to communicate their ideas, intrigues and passions. Their holistic approach to delivering music stimulates all the senses, recalling Liz Frazer at her most wild and worldly or Mountain Man at their glacial best. Their focus is to create alluring atmospheres, their work either self-composed or original arrangements of obscure songs from across the globe. They experiment with the extremities of the human voice in improvisation, adopting abstract sounds and techniques and playing with tension and release in their dynamics, at the moment Goodbye Leopold are experimenting with singing carols and sonnets in reverse, like in backwards, sdrawkcab...
http://soundcloud.com/goodbyeleopold
See you later and/or tomorrow!
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BLEACHED
(members of MIKA MIKO)
PAWS
WEIRD MENACE
Tuesday 22 May
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/157197
LUCKY DRAGONS
HIGH PLACES
JASON URICK
Thursday 31 May
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/160494
MIKAL CRONIN
FURROW
FAWN SPOTS
Monday 11 June
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Arms, Dalston, E8 2EB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/160500
SPECIAL "SECRET" GUEST
VERITY SUSMAN
FLAMINGODS
Tuesday 12 June
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/163706
JACK LESSER LEWIS' AWKWARD ENERGY
THE MIDDLE ONES
Wednesday 13 June
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/165113
JAMES FERRARO
BODYGUARD
Monday 18 June
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/168552
XIU XIU / LARSEN (XXL)
HEX ON THE BEACH
Friday 22 June
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/158424
SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE
GAEA GIRLS
LEFT LEG
Monday 25 June
Power Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/166631
TALK NORMAL
DEAD DAYS BEYOND HELP
Tuesday 10 July
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/166628
NITE JEWEL
Wednesday 18 July
XOYO, 32 Cowper St, Shoreditch, EC2A 4AW
8pm | £9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/163696
NAYTRONIX
(members of TUNE-YARDS)
Thursday 19 July
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/161602
EYELESS IN GAZA
Saturday 21 July
79 Endell Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9 DY
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/167161
TY SEGALL
SHARM EL SHAKES
SOFT ARROWS
Thursday 2 August
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/164741
DAN DEACON
Wednesday 26 September
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/168166
BLACK DICE
Thursday 4 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/166883
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT
Thursday 11 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/164744