Having influenced so many artists in both the electronic and rock world, Silver Apples will be playing an intimate show at Hare & Hounds, Birmingham.

Capsule are thrilled to host the act that inspired Krautrock as well as bands such as Spacemen 3, Stereolab and just about every band who uses electronics within rock music.

5th August 2010
Silver Apples
Pram
@Hare and Hounds, Birmingham

Advance tickets here

‘I’m closing my eyes until the colours appear’, sings Matthew Houck. As though he wants everything to change for the better, and we believe him. A hard hitting implication which has only previously been achieved by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.

While Jesse Anderson Ainslie surprises us with tear-jerking, guitar solos, made to fit the whole experience with a sense of fragility. It’s easy to see how the actuality gains reliance from the crowd, as simple sways match an alluring, sweet and gentle lap steel echoing sound.

Read the full review here

Words – Ross Cotton
Images – Katja Ogrin

Phosphorescent live at ICA, London
(Rated 5/ 5 )

By Ben Walsh

Houck and his hairy cohorts appear ready for it – ready for all of it – playing this intimate venue like it’s the Albert Hall; with bravado and precociousness. Swirling, cinematic and plaintive folk-rock, blessed with Houck’s pained, gorgeously cracked vocals, which are tailor-made for country-and-western laments. 

Read the full review here
and see him live for yourself…

Saturday 5th June

Phosphorescent / Forest Fire / Rich Batsford
@ Hare and Hounds, Birmingham

Adv tickets here

Acid Mothers Temple

Photography – Katja Ogrin

Stearica

Photography – Julia Murphy

Gum Takes Tooth

Photography – Julia Murphy

“It’s been two years since Acid Mothers last appeared at the Hare and Hounds, providing a much anticipated return all round, and they certainly don’t disappoint.

The adventurous thrill is still there, but has matured and induced on a whole new level, developing a star-gazing, out-of-this-world theme that leaves you breathless.

The fiercely Egyptian-sounding ‘The Tales of Solar Sail’ whirls an evading concoction of space age Roland synths with snake-charming guitar riffs, making the audience succumb to a hypnotic trance performed by true Pied Pipers.

By this stage, you could physically see the music pulsating around the room, leading everyone on the same journey of amazement, awaiting the Pharaoh to rise from his tomb.”

Read the full review on Brum Live

Review – Ross Cotton

Images – Katja Ogrin & Julia Murphy

After reading these stellar reviews of the new Phosphorescent album we’re getting more than a bit excited about his show on Saturday…

“…an undiscovered gem” Q Magazine

“…this is a really amazing album. Incredibly honest, very human, emotionally brave, musically coherent, with moments of real poetry. Thoroughly recommended, with a tear in the eye.” The Line of Best Fit

Saturday 5th June
Phosphorescent
Forest Fire
Rich Batsford
@ Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath
Adv tickets here

If you fancy something along the lines of this…

…then be sure to come by the Hare and Hounds on Wednesday, 26th May and witness it in the flesh!

Support come from Italians Stearica (check out their awesome Dalek collaboration) and Gum Takes Tooth.

Get your tickets here

26th May
Acid Mothers Temple
Stearica
Gum Takes Tooth
@ Hare and Hounds
Kings Heath, Birmingham

The rapturous applause that greeted the eight-strong collective as they snaked their way from dressing room to stage was deafening, and by the time the jittery keyboard intro to ‘Crystalline’ had shifted into the glam-math stomp of its main riff, not a single eyeball was diverted anywhere other than the otherworldly, shimmering spectacle onstage. Within their number they boasted the talents of a violinist and bassoonist amongst others, giving the band a really vibrant and authentic sound, with doses of electro, old English prog and mathrock jostling for attention within just the first sixty seconds alone.

With the band uniformly clad in matching silver robes (‘Sunn 1999’ perhaps?) and shrouded in heaving dry ice they looked like the resident house band from George Clinton’s mothership, having been lost through time and space for years, honing their skills – but turning them just a little bit insane. Vocalist Lola Olafisoye manages to be sultry, scary, endearing and terrifying all at the same time; her futuristic shades, figure-hugging catsuit and finger extensions giving the appearance of a particularly hard end-of-level boss in some Japanese sci-fi video game.

Read full review by Duncan Wilkins on Brum Live
photos by Katja Ogrin

Next up  ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE this Wednesday at the Hare & Hounds
Tickets for this show can be purchased from www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Polar Bear on York Rd in Kings Heath + Swordfish in Birmingham city centre

14th April 2010
Humcrush + Leverton Fox
@ Hare and Hounds
£8 adv
http://www.theticketsellers.co.uk

The combined curatorial powers of Capsule and Birmingham Jazz bring you this exciting show – featuring members of Food and Supersilent, Humcrush are a dizzying force combining jazz, electronica and free sounds.

We’ve been desperate to have Chrome Hoof back since their amazing show at Supersonic 2007 and it’s taken a while – last year’s scheduled show was cancelled due to those unforseen circumstances that do crop up now and then. But now they’re coming! Along with their platform heels, glittered freak outs and metallic heavy riffs.

Features CATHEDRAL bassist Leo Smee who has brought together a veritable orchestra of musicians decked out in futuristic monk’s robes kicking it like some unholy hybrid of SUN RA, GOBLIN, PARLIAMENT/FUNKADELIC and BLACK SABBATH, complete with choreographed dancers, actors taking vaudeville interludes, and a twelve foot tall metallic ram dominating the dance floor.
NOT TO BE MISSED!

Thursday 20th May 2010
Chrome Hoof + guests @ Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
8pm doors
Tickets – £10 adv

But before that -

Friday 9th April – Eyehategod + Totimoshi + Stinky Wizzleteat @ The Asylum. Tickets £12.50 adv

Wednesday 14th April – Humcrush (feat. members of Supersilent and Food) + Leverton Fox @ Hare and Hounds. Tickets £8

Please spread the word far and wide!

For your viewing pleasure, photos from our sold out Baroness + Taint show at the Hare & Hounds on Friday night – it was immense and we are very much looking forward to their return later in the year.
Photos by Katja Ogrin