Plaid & Southbank Gamelan Players show this Friday at the MAC has sold out – apologies to those wanting to see them.
Tickets have just gone on sale for TUNNG + HEALTH & EFFICIENCY who will be performing in the Arena at the MAC on Friday 13th August – www.macarts.co.uk
SILVER APPLES + PRAM tickets are also on sale for their show at the Hare & Hounds www.theticketsellers.co.uk
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
RIP Rue McClanahan who played Blanche Devereaux in The Goldern Girls.
McClanahan, who was treated for breast cancer in 1997 and had heart bypass surgery last year, died Thursday of a brain hemorrhage at 76.
HomeofMetal from Mr Nat Higginbottom on Vimeo.
Home Of Metal took Johnny Doom from Kerrang! radio to meet Lemmy at SXSW in Austin Texas in March of this year, to help us launch the digital archive Stateside.
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
Fresh from catapulting Kings Heath into the cosmos courtesy of Chrome Hoof a mere two days beforehand, Capsule returned to terra firma to give us a much earthier proposition this time round. On an oppressive, balmy Saturday evening the Hare & Hounds played host to the intriguing lineup of Tweak Bird and Wolves in the Throne Room, both of them playing their sophomore gigs for the Capsule ladies. A curious lineup on paper, with the stripped down stoner of Tweak Bird up against WITTR’s heady, trance-inducing spin on black metal, but in practise it worked splendidly.
Tweak Bird took to the stage at the almost ungodly hour of half past seven in front of a crowd who were appreciative of their efforts from the get go, certainly none of the stereotypical BM arms-crossed, brow-furrowed ‘grimmness’. After their blow-away slot supporting Lightning Bolt at the tail-end of last year it was satisfying to discover that nothing had changed from what struck me so much at that particular show, and most importantly there was a sense of familiarity with the material that I didn’t have last time round.
Blessed by a full-throttle, take-no-prisoners sound mix, the sheer volume forced people to take notice, never mind the fact that it was impossible to peel your eyes away from the absolutely powerhouse drumming from Ashton Bird, coming across like a hyperactive cousin of Keith Moon and Wizard-era Mark Greening.
Read full review on Brum Live
Review – Duncan Wilkins
Photos – Katja Ogrin