BIRTHDAY PARTY

Hey hey, so just a quick reminder that tonight we play BIG TAKEOVER's 3rd birthday party with Black Time, Hygiene, Quango and City Yelps. I for one am very much looking forward to it, not only because we can just walk with our gear to the venue, also because for the past 3 years Bryony and BTO have been attempting (and succeeding) in trying to create spaces to play outside of the usual pub/bar/mobile phone sponsored venues that we, more often than not, find ourselves in when going to ingest 'live music' (i LOVE live music btw).
This is important for many reasons, most of which i'm sure you can figure out. However, I'm mainly down with using this as a means to try and provide a situation whereby the whole thing can become an experience, rather than just a chance to check out a band, form an opinion based on their performance and then relay this opinion (well informed or not) to your peers. There's no harm in trying to keep things interesting...

Reading that back i don't think i've made my point at all. Fuck it, i'm on my way to work and I probably think about things too much anyway. Up the punks, etc. See you tonight.

FUCKIN' AWESOME

ORANGE HEART

FLOOD MYTH

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PVI008

SAUNA YOUTH / OMI PALONE / THE STEVENS / FULL UGLY - "PVI008" 7"

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1. Full Ugly - No Plans
2. Omi Palone - The Light

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3. The Stevens - Weaving A Basket
4. Sauna Youth - Ripping Leather

SAUNA YOUTH - 'RIPPING LEATHER' (PVI008) by Paradise Vendors Inc

This record is a split between four bands, 2 from the UK (one of those is us) and 2 from Australia. It has been curated by Paradise Vendors Inc, that London based label run by those guys in The Horrors who are on that label Fuxony that's run by that guy who had to run away from London because he ate somebody. It's been so long since we released something I almost forgot what it means to be in a modern band. This release however has had the quickest and easiest turnaround ever. We were asked to be on it a while ago, we wrote a song, then we kinda left it for ages, thinking we had ages because there were 4 bands involved and if they were anything like us it'd see the light of day in about 3 years time... made plans for recording it, then about two weeks ago i thought we were demoing it, turns out everyone else was waiting on us (of course) so it wasn't a demo anymore... it took about half an hour to record, we also got a quick Nirvana cover in there too, did some other stuff, posted it off and records will be here without us even knowing it.
The song is a 'power song', a tribute to the future, a celebration of change and movement. Written while visiting the British Museum after work one day, being surrounded by grand pasts after working a job that was seeped in stagnation and standing in one spot for too long. We can do what we like really. The lyrics are on the page where our records are if you want to know. You've got to get in flux.
The cover image is a tribute to our winter spent as Goths, when Lindsay dyed his entire wardrobe black, including his shoes... The release party is going to have a strict corpse-paint only dress-code and is on the 9th July at the Victoria in Dalston, more on that nearer the time eh?

There is a pre-order up now, which will shortly be turned into a post-order as of Saturday.

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In other news, we have unfortunately had to pull out of the Gringo Records 15th birthday celebrations this weekend in Nottingham. We're gutted, again it's my fault... I have to help some kids write and record songs about P-Tron the robot and Disco Diva and we wouldn't have made it up in time. I am sorry.

In other, other news there may be some light at the end of the DREAMLANDS tunnel...

 

LITERALLY UP THE ROAD

BB sez -

"It’s been three years since that fateful night in a railway arch in London Bridge that was Big Takeover I. In the time since we’ve made gigs happen everywhere from occupied offices, boats on the Thames to the roof of the Hayward Gallery. As a special celebration, legends of the night time (its the right time) BLACK TIME (last seen in London at said railway arch, I believe) have agreed to rise from their coffins/book a babysitter and headline this special show on Friday June 29th. Get real pumped.

Five killer bands, record distros and the best DJs til 1am. The Others is a warehouse space above a pool hall, less than two minutes walk from Stoke Newington Overground station. We'll be selling cheap booze, there are sofas (!) and so much room for dancing.

BLACK TIME

Back From The Grave for one night only. With a rabbit-hole back catalogue stretching way into the darkest depths of the early to mid 2000s, including three LPs on indefatigable label In The Red Records, Black Time play unmissably wild garage numbers that pick up where The Cramps left off, and are still truly are force to be reckoned with. Cranking up the fuzz and treble for one contorted and distorted nightmare night, you better get hip.

intheredrecords.com/pages/blacktime.html

HYGIENE

After several years of high-concept awkwardness and an LP on La Vida Es Un, you might have thought it was over for Hygiene. Hold the presses! Nat (vox/shuffling) is back in town from Canada because Richard (Bass) is getting married, and what better way to mark this blissful punk union than a live outing for all your favourite songs about polytechnics and O-levels. Charming post-glam aggression sticking the shambolic UKDIY boot in to maximal effect.

hygieneband.blogspot.com

SAUNA YOUTH

An evolving band of young future humans making truly irregular punk not quite comparable to anything else. 'Weird' is a meaningless platitude, and 'art punk' is a classifier that shouldn't be required. SY have upped their game and changed their pace, don't get in the way of their narrative-heavy bangers.

lostinidea.blogspot.com

QUANGO

The aforementioned Groom from Hygiene gets up on the mic backed by ex-Oi Polloi personnel to bring us their debut set, where an appetite for unforgettable choruses meets studiously gloomy (gloimy?) bass negativity and a set of hard-edged bootboy numbers.

http://soundcloud.com/natkingdole/sets/quango-demo/

CITY YELPS
Brand new mysterious boy/girl revolutionaries from Leeds take up the Swell maps mantle - pure pop for now people


THE VENUE:
http://www.theothers.uk.com/



This show will also be a fundraiser for a new DIY project for London. Stay tuned for more on that."

CONSTANT LURKER

CATFORD

pre-orders now available for the 4-way split with Omi Palone, The Stevens & Full Ugly on PVI