Unhindered by the impositions of the vocal yoke, Chicago instro-sorcerers Pelican transcend the limits of time and space to expound upon the stunning finesse and painstaking subtlety with which they command their already indelible sonic signature. Restoring instrumental composition to its former glory is no insignificant task, and to do so with such remarkable authority and presence is a testament to the sheer will and unmitigated talent of Pelican’s membership. Levying cinematic melody upon glacial heaviness, they achieve the sort of inevitability usually reserved for weather systems and natural disasters.
http://www.hydrahead.com/pelican/

Born of the ashes of seminal art thrashers Botch and Minneapolis punk heroes Kill Sadie, Seattle’s These Arms are Snakes are fast-becoming an integral part of the Pacific Northwest’s ever-dynamic musical fabric. Employing sinister guitar licks mixed with equal parts snarly vocals and a pension for spaced out musical long form – has painted the buzz heavy Snakes as anything but conventional. The band has toured endlessly, plastering both coasts with their livid live shows and with their eyes squarely focused on progressing and challenging all the current notions of hardcore, These Arms are Snakes are now poised to take their game to the next level – bringing all the passion and promise of their previous endeavors to splendid completion.
http://www.thesearmsaresnakes.org/

Beestung Lips

chaotic,
drunken, loud, fast, punk rock music (think the jesus lizard, song of
zarathustra, refused, and charles bukowski thrashed around in a
blender).
http://www.myspace.com/beestunglips1

Born
from a blizzard of horned cats, Crippled Black Phoenix bring you a
twisted cinematic experience, handcrafted by a mercenary crew of
underground heavyweights, giving depth and gravity to regal songs about
love, loss, tragedies and redemption.

Back in the summer of
2004, Electric Wizard drummer Justin Greaves (also of Iron Monkey,
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine) started recordings songs and
soundscapes he’d had in his head for several years onto minidiscs,
looping them through an old stereo to achieve the multi-layers, these
were the bones of what would eventually become the international outfit
that is CBP. The songs that marked that moment in time would take on a
new strength, initially aided by good friend (and Mogwai bassist)
Dominic Aitchison. Other great compadres followed, Panthiest members
Andy Semmens and Kostas Panagiotou, Nial McGaughey of 3D House of Beef
and -(16)- amongst others and solo folk singer-songwriter Joe Volk, who
also fronts heavy rock band Gonga, all stepped up to bring a variety of
influences and skills to complete the line-up.

Bringing us up to
date in 2006, CBP enter SOA Studio (Portishead, Gonga, The Heads etc..)
in Bristol, UK, to record the debut full-length album “A Love of Shared
Disasters”, a collection of self-penned “Endtime Ballads”. During this,
one of the hottest summers on record, the old friends aligned and the
fully realized visions that had been pestering Greaves for the past few
years were finally given life. The album, the first of a trilogy, deals
with in the timelesness of honesty and tragedies laid bare, featuring
sordid tales from the pages of literary history combined with personal
stories of contemporary loss and love. Musically, the songs are driven
by a need to stretch out and do something timeless and different from
the band-members previous musical ventures but at the same time
carrying over a little of their collective influences. This is about
pushing personal musical boundries and taking the listener on a journey
of their own. Using a blend of modern amplified and Victorian era
equipment plus an esoteric collection of strange but wonderfull ways of
creating the dark-americana type ambience, the crew of CBP have
lovingly fasioned a soundtrack for the “endtime” that has the impact of
a Marshall stack, but with the timeless voice of classic instruments.

“A
Love of Shared Disasters” is to see it’s release through Invada Records
(owned and run by Geoff Barrow of Portishead) and will see the band
enter into the live on stage phase, playing shows in selected cities,
bringing the public the melodic-but-twisted carnival that is Crippled
Black Phoenix.

http://www.myspace.com/unacorda

Einstellung. Power, beauty, noise, melody, hypnosis, simplicity. Ex
members of Sally, Godflesh, Grover, Katastrophy Wife, Cable Regime have
fused krautrock, shoegaze and hard rock into a beautiful, hypnotic
noise since October 03.

http://www.myspace.com/einstellung

Hey kids!!!
This has become our regular bi -monthly night, where you can come and listen to some records, eat cake with the grannies and have a bit of a gossip, this is not a disco, more of a get together.
Each month we’ll be inviting special guests to delve into their record collections and share some aural delights, this months special guest dj slot comes from DJ X aka The Dark Lord + Johnny Doom.
+ The Capsule Girls will be djing  so you can expect to hear some of the following + loads of other random shit:
Black Sabbath, Melvins, Lungfish, Zeni Geva, Shellac, Fugazi, Lightning Bolt, Khanate, Sunn 0))), v/vm, The Bug, Slayer, Merzbow, Iron Monkey, Eyehategod, Don Caballero, Melt Banana, Oxbow, Noxagt, Indian Summer, Universal Order of Armageddon, Danzig, Palace, Mule, Circle, Cavity, PCM, Shitmat, Venetian Snares, Jesu, Isis, Soundmurderer, Calvados Beam Trio, Mistress, Modified Toy Orchestra, Formation Flight, Knives, Mike In Mono, Black Galaxy, Tunng, Bonnie Tyler and so much more…

Only £2 or free with cakes you can share.
Get Baking.

Steve Reid is the legendary drummer who in 1964 at 19 years of age played on Martha Reeves & the Vandellas’ ‘Dancing In The Street’, and subsequently went on to play with Miles Davis, Fela Kuti and James Brown (think about that for a moment), not to mention Fats Domino, Sun Ra, Peggy Lee, Chaka Khan, Dexter Gordon, Dionne Warwick and many, many more. Their unique live show blends Kieran’s electronic experimentation with Steve Reid’s laid back yet complex driving polyrhythms.

http://www.steve-reid.com/
http://www.kieranhebdenandstevereid.com/
http://www.fourtet.net

Formed in 1993, Trans Am remains the trio of Nathan Means (bass, keyboards, vocals), Phil Manley (guitar, keyboards, bass, vocals) and Sebastian Thompson (drums, vocals, bass, guitar, programming). Over the course of six albums and three eps, Trans Am have pleased and confounded critics with their ever-changing music style. From their most Deutsch-influenced self-titled debut to Futureworld, their 80’s inspired super-synth pop tunes (about 2 years before it was cool) to the raw rock of Red Line, their musical style has always varied.

http://www.myspace.com/transammusic 

COPTER…
Five men and one robot, needle-down rock & soul from outer space to your inner ear.
They play with a fierce right side of the brain and are all about fire and soul.
They don’t understand why you are crying.
They don’t care why you are crying.
They just want your sandwich.

“Sci-fi theatrics morphed with soulful rock ‘n’ roll from a six-piece who feature a robot droid called M.I.L.O among their numbers. Bonkers, but in a totally brilliant way.”
NME

http://www.myspace.com/copter

PW Long (Ex-Mule) in the form of the Young James Long band which
features Talor Young (ex-Young Heart Attack) who is mean as fuck on the
drums and a chap called James….
http://www.myspace.com/youngjameslong

Dark yet achingly sweet melody full of love,
found, lost and found again, incredibly atmospheric, a beautiful
 melody
http://www.myspace.com/dlouisbakerfriends

Chris Corsano – a kinetic DIY drummer [one of the world’s most exciting] – uses this project to inject some punk tabla-type rolls into being while Mike Flower – an incendiary guitar player – also plays the “shaahi baaja” or “japan banjo” from India in an amazing solo style and transcendent manner.

As a powerful and loud guitar/drum duo, Lightning Bolt comparisons come cheap, but the Flower-Corsano Duo are something else; more like a punk-jazz-trash Konono No1, they have that special power to elevate through noise, rhythm and special harmonies. This is an experience the audience wants to have, an exhilarating sight/sound that shudders the body and cleanses the mind.

Michael Flower is best known as a member of Leed’s Vibracathedral Orchestra, a lynchpin of the improvising rock/noise/drone world. He has also has played with legendary artists such as Tony Conrad and Jandek as well as in projects such as the trio with Matthew Bower + C. Spencer Yeh.
Vibracathedral’s close relationship with Sunburned Hand Of The Man has meant MF has toured with them across the USA and Europe, both as a member and solo.

Rick
Tomlinson, self taught jack of all musical trades has since drawn
influence from an oblique archive of obscure LPs and bizzare
instruments and forged his own unique approach to making music. A
potent cocktail of krautrock, folk, jazz, tropicalia and Welsh
progressive rock has seduced stalwarts of Manchester’s alternative
music scene into countless collaborations with Rick at the helm.
Brandishing a masala of instruments ranging from brass and acoustic to
electric varieties Rick has shared studio sessions with the likes of
Lone Pigeon, Jane Weaver, Badly Drawn Boy, Dave Tyack and Aidan Smith,
as well as stage time supporting Lincoln, James Yorkston, Turin Brakes
and David Kitt. Various impromptu appearances at local folk clubs have
earned Rick a bourgening reputation amongst hard core enthusiasts and
mainstays of the folk scene such as John Renbourne who recently asked
Rick to accompany him on future live appearances.

Mills & Boon
Infamous locals channeling the spirit of Beefheart, creating their
own ramshackle brand of rambling psych spazz folk.  They
always deliver a stunning live performance that bristles with a
chaotic excitement and a sense that anything could (and might)
happen, these are the wonderful drunks of times gone by,
instruments in hand entertaining anyone they encounter.
http://www.myspace.com/millsandboon