30 Nov 2018

Rocket Probes – November playlist



Gum Takes Tooth – Borrowed Lies (Radio Edit)
(Really great new single from their killer new album 'Arrow' – video made by Rocket's Johnny O)

Flowers Must Die – Hey, Shut Up! (Radio Edit)
(Killer FMD track which has now been remixed by loads of very talented people, the remix album is available to download/stream from today!)
Flowers Must Die

Cosey Fanni Tutti – Tutti
(First track to be revealed from Cosey's new album...bit of a TOTS sound to this!)
Cosey Fanni Tutti

Obey Cobra – Mwg Drwg
(Really digging this this track by the Cardiff band)
Obey Cobra

Head Drop – EP1
(First release from this Reading band that features Rockets good friend Kev from Slow River Slow / Coley Park – for fans of early Loop, early The Heads, Hi-Fi Killers etc)
Head Drop

Acid Cannibals – Life is alright
(Proper party-rock stomper)
Acid Cannibals

Stara Rzeka - Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem
(Thanks to Jussi from Gum Takes Tooth for turning us onto this great project by Korba Ziolek, on the always amazing Instant Classic label)
Stara Rzeka

Afro National ‎– Push Am Forward
(Great repetitive Afro track)
Afro National

Pentagram – Sinister
(Lock horns and hit the groove!)
Pentagram

JIBÓIA — Diapente
(Killer new track from one of our fave Portuguese artists!)
JIBÓIA

Eiko Ishibashi – Iron Veil
(Another great Cherrystones recommendation...really nice repetitive pop on Drag City)
Eiko Ishibashi

John Heussenstamm – Sawan
(Great Eno/Fripp meets Gnod/White Hills 'Per Sempre' track)
John Heussenstamm

Hawkwind – Astounding Sounds
(An often ignored 'Wind album – but this is them at their most CAN sounding)
Hawkwind

Bang – Idealist/Realist
(Great bit of grooved 70s rock!)
Bang

Naujawanan Baidar - Volume 1
(Solo album from The Myrrors member – nice lofi repetitive psych, with a very nice Swedish/Middle Eastern vibe) 
Naujawanan Baidar

Teitanblood - Death
(Title says it all!!..courtesy of a GOAT)
Teitanblood

Keith Mlevhu - Love and freedom
(Zambian psych)
Keith Mlevhu

Pretty Things – Cries From The Midnight Circus
(From their killer Parachute album)
Pretty Things

Impetuous Ritual - Blight upon Martyred Sentience
(Australian death)
Impetuous Ritual

Loto – Elite Feline
(Second album on Instant Classic on this months playlist...if Massive Attack went minimalist jazz)
Loto

Laurie Spiegel - Drums 
(Stunning piece of proto-techno from 1975)
Laurie Spiegel 

The Durutti Column - Hotel Of The Lake, 1990
(Sounds like Nurse with wound gone disco)
The Durutti Column

Oneida – The Wedding
(Forgot how great this album is...)
Oneida

Mayhem – Necrolust
(As the nights get longer...)
Mayhem

The Seeds – Evil Hoodoo
(Having a big Seeds revival in Rocket HQ of late, just love Sky Saxon's voice)
The Seeds

Housewives – Speak to me
(And finally, a new Housewives track from forthcoming album on Blank Editions)
Housewives

Listen to our updated monthly 'Rocket Probes - Spotify Playlist' here:



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CRACK magazine Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Live at Metropolis Studios

Earlier this year Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs went to Metropolis Studios in London care of Crack Magazine to lay down a live session of 'A66'. 

You can now watch the full video here. Crackmagazine

Tickets for our UK tour in March and April 2019 are flying out. Bristol and Birmingham are sold out already. A good number of the rest are nearing sellout too, the band are greatly appreciative of the recent support. So they wish to thank you all. 

If you’re looking to get tickets for our March and April shows we’d recommend getting them sooner rather than later.

Tickets: http://www.pigsx7.co.uk

March 27th, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
March 28th, The Exchange, Bristol, UK - SOLD OUT
March 29th, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK - SOLD OUT
March 30th, Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
April 3rd, Rebellion, Manchester, UK
April 4th, The Scala, London, UK
April 5th, The Haunt, Brighton, UK
April 6th - Esquires, Bedford, UK
April 8th - Waterfront, Norwich, UK
April 9th - Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK
April 10th - The Bullingdon, Oxford, UK
April 11th - Rock City, Nottingham, UK
April 12th - The Cookie, Leicester, UK
April 13th - Guildhall, Preston, UK (w/ Evil Blizzard, Part Chimp, Strange Bones)
April 14th - The Live Rooms, Chester, UK
April 16th - King Tut's, Glasgow, UK
April 17th - Mash House, Edinburgh, UK
April 19th, The Sage, Gateshead, UK


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Gum Takes Tooth - 'Borrowed Lies' Single Out Today
































Today also see's the release of Gum Takes Tooth - Borrowed Lies (Radio Edit) Single.

The second track to come from their forthcoming album 'Arrow' (released on 25 January) this three and a half minute rhythmically driven stomp is a killer track.

Watch the video here

The stunning b-side of this single is a ‘rework’ of Borrowed Lies by Italian astral-voyaging collective Lay Llamas. Led by Nicola Giunta, he has masterly produced an afrofuzz cosmic funk rework as a travelogue powered by a pan-global tribal fascination with rhythmic hypnosis and an unquenchable experimental mindset. 

The track centres around an addictive percussive groove and climaxes with a heavily overdriven fuzzed organ that create a psychedelic mantra in the vein of some of the early 1970’s tracks from Ethiopiques series albums.

You can purchase from Bandcamp: Here
You can stream or buy the track here: Borrowed Lies

The full length version also available the album on 2 x red/grey vinyl – ltd vinyl and CD.
We have copies up for pre-sale now here: Bandcamp

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Gum Takes Tooth will be heading out on the road in 2019 to support the release of the album:

24 Jan - Leicester (The SoundHouse)
25 Jan - London (Electrowerkz – with Nik Void, Sex Swing, Michael and Coldnose)
01 Feb - Ramsgate (Ramsgate Music Hall)
02 Feb - Sheffield (Audacious Space)
14 Feb - Dublin (Drop Dead Twice)
15 Feb - Cork (The Roundy)
16 Feb - Manchester (Star & Garter)
05 March - Paris (Badaboum)
07 March - Lille (L’Aeronef)
08 March - Tours (Le Temps Machine)

With more to be confirmed.

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Gum Takes Tooth, the London duo of Jussi Brightmore and drummer Tom Fug unique approach whereby manipulated drum-triggered electronics achieve a dynamic, rhythmically driven and flagrantly unclassifiable fury that flirts with both speaker-ripping psych-rock pyrotechnics and synapse-shredding acid house delivered avoiding any of the trappings or clichés of either. 

“It concerns the small change victories and comforts our culture portions out to us to placate us and prevent action towards change - the lie of self-empowerment and paranoia is the ‘weapon offered as a gift’”elucidates Jussi the bands singer. “It ends with a call to arms to look inward to find the weapon to overcome this”. 

Gum Takes Tooth are mavericks to the last, perpetual square-pegs and a band intent on forging onward to break all or any paradigms before them, creating a collection of kinetic anthems to battle everyday oppression - a work of machine-driven mania with its very human heart on its sleeve.

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Flowers Must Die - Hey, Shut Up, Again! Out Today
































Today see's the release of Flowers Must Die - Hey, Shut Up, Again!

Buy it now via Bandcamp: Flowers Must Die
Or stream from Apple and Spotify

The band asked a myriad or artists including label mates Gnoomes and VED, Rocket friend Jamie Paton, as well as other artists that includes Mai Mai Mai and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff​​.

This Saturday the band are playing a couple of very special shows, and for these shows the band are joined by some special guests, Agathe Max from KURO/Messange and Tom Fug from Gum Takes Tooth/Melting Hand etc:

01 Dec / London / 100 Club (with The Heads) Baba Yagas Hut
02 Dec / Margete / Elsewhere Tickets

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FLOWERS MUST DIE
Hey, shut up again!

Good music never gets old. A case in point is the Flowers Must Die track ​“Hey, Shut Up!”,​​ which was on last years ​‘Kompost’​​ album released on ​Rocket Recordings​​. It’s old in the sense of how fast the music industry moves nowadays, but also because the original recording session took place in 2013. And it doesn’t stop there, the song is an homage to ​Bo Diddley´s “Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut”​​ from 1964, or ​The Pretty Things​​ version from 1965 or ​The Missing Links​​ or…

The list could be long so we decided to keep that tradition and asked some friends of Flowers Must Die to do their version of the track. Some from the “Rocket family” like Russian group Gnoomes​​ or ​long time Rocket collaborator Jamie Paton​​ (Höga Nord/DFA), Mattias Nihlén​​ from the Malmö-based band VED who earlier this year made their Rocket debut with their brilliant EP DDTT. Mattias is a longtime friend of FMD and they have often collaborated and/or shared a stage with over the years.

Underground rave legend ​NOS and his duo ​NOS++T++ are another Swedish act
with strong ties to the adventurous but somewhat furtive Malmö music scene that
we have always felt very much a part of, despite only ever having one member actually living there.

Swedish artist ​Carl Michael Von Hausswolff​​ under the alias ​CMVH​​ is FMD drummer Lars’ childhood friend from Linköping, and they have collaborated on various art projects every now and then since the 80s. If the name rings a bell for people not familiar with the Swedish art scene it’s probably because of his daughter ​Anna Von Hausswolff​​.

A more recent FMD friendship comes from the band ​Horseface​​ who instead of remixing the track made a cover singing the lyrics in Finnish. Further darker or moodier tracks on the compilation are from the American artist ​Dorit Chrysler,​​ who is a Theremin genius, and our great Italian friend ​Mai Mai Mai​​, one of the leading artists in the Italian Occult Psychedelia scene. Finally, ​Jonas Höglund​​ from FMD added his ​Manuel Göttsching​​-inspired remix he created back in 2013.

Hey, Shut Up! has always existed in different mixes, the “original” from the record, a slightly longer and rougher version for ​Rockets’ Rough Trade´s “Label Of The Month”​​ sampler also the contained Radio Edit. If that wasn’t enough, FMD’s ​Rickard Daun​​ decided to release the so far unheard ‘full version’ for this remix album. But hey, who doesn’t like all those different versions of ​Stereolab tracks or example?

The video to accompany the track’s Radio Edit is again made by ​Rickard Daun​​
and uses simple images made with crayons as well as images of a deaf and dumb shepherd dancing around in his own creation, The Stone Garden. A symbolic reference to the lyrics of the track which was a reaction to the sad and worrying climate in Sweden and the rest of the world, with more and more right wing parties coming to power. Images of a dancing man with a disability showing he can be happy and appreciate his beautiful garden in the desert, the small and simple things in the world, to go against the grain and live their own way of life. So dig into almost 70 minutes of music which twist and turn the track into Noise, Industrial, Disco Dub, Post Punk, Cosmic Techno and Minimal Drones. 

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Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation Play Handmade Festival

On Sunday the 5th of May Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation will be playing the Handmade Festival in Leicester.

Ticket Link: Handmade


More Info: Facebook

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A Final 'Twentieth' Thank You From Rocket

A final 'Twentieth' thank you from Rocket

2018 has been a massive year for Rocket, reaching such a landmark has been humbling.

So we wish a massive thank you to all the fans, bands, journalists, shops, and friends etc who have supported us along this journey. In an ever changing musical landscape it is the people like you who have allowed us to continue to functions as an independent label and survive this long.

As a one last 'thank you' to fans we are offering one last 30% sale for 10 days, so your chance to scoop up some of the items in those end-of-year charts!

01-10 DECEMBER ONLY
30% OFF
USE THE UNIQUE DISCOUNT CODE ‘ROCKET'

Shop here: Bandcamp

Many Thanks John & Chris

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29 Nov 2018

CRACK Magazine Premiere Exclusive 'Live' Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Performance


















Today tune into CRACK Magazine's Facebook page at 15:00 (UK Time) for an exclusive Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs live performance at Metropolis Studios.

To watch live visit here: Crack Magazine

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Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation announce Spring UK Tour

Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation have announce the following Spring UK tour that includes appearances at Brighton's Mutations Festival and Handmade Festival in Leicester:

23 Feb / Brighton / Mutations Festival
23 Apr / Oxford / The Bullingdon
24 Apr / Leeds / The Brudenell Social Club
25 Apr / Manchester / The Deaf Institute
26 Apr / London / Islington Assembly Hall
27 Apr / Bristol / Thekla
30 Apr / Birmingham / Hare & Hounds
01 Mar / Liverpool / Jacaranda
02 Mar / Glasgow / Stereo
03 Mar / Newcastle / The Cluny
05 Mar / Leicester / Handmade Festival

Tickets for all shows can be bought from here from 10am tomorrow (Friday 30th): See

Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation's acclaimed second album 'Mirage' has recently been reissued on special Green/Purple Swirl vinyl, buy from here: Bandcamp



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GNOD announced as one of the first Raw Power 2019 headliners

Raw Power festival has always had a good plethora of Rocket bands littering it's line-up and we are very proud to announce that GNOD have been revealed as one of next years headliners.

The festival takes place on 24-26 May at their usual home in Tufnell Park, London

Tickets can be bought from here: Baba Yaga's Hut

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28 Nov 2018

Watch New Gum Takes Tooth Video 'Borrowed Lies'



Gum Takes Tooth have just revealed a new video 'Borrowed Lies' (Radio Edit) the second track to come from their forthcoming album 'Arrow'. The album is released on 25 January and you can watch the video above. The Johnny O Rocket created three and a half minute rhythmically driven stomp of a video is riddled with Strobes, so you've been warned!!!

You can stream or buy the track here: Borrowed Lies
Bandcamp: Bandcamp


And see what The Quietus say about the track here: The Quietus

The stunning b-side of this single is a ‘rework’ of Borrowed Lies by Italian astral-voyaging collective Lay Llamas. Led by Nicola Giunta, he has masterly produced an afrofuzz cosmic funk rework as a travelogue powered by a pan-global tribal fascination with rhythmic hypnosis and an unquenchable experimental mindset.  

The track centres around an addictive percussive groove and climaxes with a heavily overdriven fuzzed organ that create a psychedelic mantra in the vein of some of the early 1970’s tracks from Ethiopiques series albums.

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Gum Takes Tooth, the London duo of Jussi Brightmore and drummer Tom Fug unique approach whereby manipulated drum-triggered electronics achieve a dynamic, rhythmically driven and flagrantly unclassifiable fury that flirts with both speaker-ripping psych-rock pyrotechnics and synapse-shredding acid house delivered avoiding any of the trappings or clichés of either.

Borrowed Lies (Radio Edit), the second track to be released from bands debut Rocket album ‘Arrow’ is a three and a half minute rhythmically driven stomp like a heavy strobing LCD Soundsystem from the future.

“It concerns the small change victories and comforts our culture portions out to us to placate us and prevent action towards change - the lie of self-empowerment and paranoia is the ‘weapon offered as a gift’”elucidates Jussi the bands singer. “It ends with a call to arms to look inward to find the weapon to overcome this”.

Gum Takes Tooth are mavericks to the last, perpetual square-pegs and a band intent on forging onward to break all or any paradigms before them, creating a collection of kinetic anthems to battle everyday oppression - a work of machine-driven mania with its very human heart on its sleeve.


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Gum Takes Tooth will be heading out on the road in 2019 to support the release of the album:

24 Jan - Leicester (The SoundHouse)
25 Jan - London (Electrowerkz – with Nik Void, Sex Swing, Michael and Coldnose)
01 Feb - Ramsgate (Ramsgate Music Hall)
02 Feb - Sheffield (Audacious Space)
14 Feb - Dublin (Drop Dead Twice)
15 Feb - Cork (The Roundy)
16 Feb - Manchester (Star & Garter)
05 March - Paris (Badaboum)
07 March - Lille (L’Aeronef)

08 March - Tours (Le Temps Machine)

With more to be confirmed.

The album is also available on 2 x red/grey vinyl – ltd vinyl and CD.
We have copies up for pre-sale now here: Bandcamp

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27 Nov 2018

Brighton First reviews Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs live at the The Hope & Ruin


They say:

The noise levels surrounding this gig is the only thing that comes close to the volume on the night. Amongst a certain scene, the only question on anyone’s lips is, “Are you going to Pigs?” Over and over. It’s no surprise that a show at The Haunt early next year has already been announced, such is the anticipation tonight...

...That would have satisfied many as a headline slot, but there was still time for Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs to rattle some eardrums and ribcages. Frontman Matt Baty may look unassuming initially, but he awakens a sound that is by far the loudest band that this reviewer has ever heard. Like the thunder of war, riffs from the kinetic Sam Grant and Adam Sykes roll across the room like a shockwave - everything else is swallowed by their sound, to the point that the only sensible option from the sound engineer is to turn everything else up too. It almost seems churlish to pick out particular highlights, such is the relentless quality exuding from the stage - but at a push the colossal ‘Gnt’ and ‘Thumbsucker’ just take the title, though in truth the entire performance was magnificent. There’s even time for Resident’s very own living legend Barney to join the stage and take over guitar duty, leaving Sykes to flatten the poor drummer (and most of his kit) mid-finale. A suitably chaotic way to end a night of huge scenes.

Read the full review here: Brighton First

Photo by Jamie Macmillan

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Flowers Must Die reveal new remix album and video ahead of next weekends UK shows




Flowers Must Die are releasing an eclectic remix album this Friday called 'Hey, Shut Up, Again!''. The album contains 9 remixes, a radio edit and an unheard unedited version of their killer track 'Hey, Shut Up!'. 

Listen and download from the 30th November here: Bandcamp

And stream via APPLE and SPOTIFY 

The band asked a myriad or artists including label mates Gnoomes and VED, Rocket friend Jamie Paton, as well as other artists that includes Mai Mai Mai and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff​​.

You can download and stream the album on Friday via he links below, but in the meantime, watch this great video for the Radio Edit above:

This Saturday the band are playing a couple of very special shows, and for these shows the band are joined by some special guests, Agathe Max from KURO/Messange and Tom Fug from Gum Takes Tooth/Melting Hand etc:

01 Dec / London / 100 Club (with The Heads)
02 Dec / Margete / Elsewhere 

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Press release reads:

FLOWERS MUST DIE
Hey, shut up again!

Good music never gets old. A case in point is the Flowers Must Die track ​“Hey, Shut Up!”,​​ which was on last years ​‘Kompost’​​ album released on ​Rocket Recordings​​. It’s old in the sense of how fast the music industry moves nowadays, but also because the original recording session took place in 2013. And it doesn’t stop there, the song is an homage to ​Bo Diddley´s “Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut”​​ from 1964, or ​The Pretty Things​​ version from 1965 or ​The Missing Links​​ or…

The list could be long so we decided to keep that tradition and asked some friends of Flowers Must Die to do their version of the track. Some from the “Rocket family” like Russian group Gnoomes​​ or ​long time Rocket collaborator Jamie Paton​​ (Höga Nord/DFA), Mattias Nihlén​​ from the Malmö-based band VED who earlier this year made their Rocket debut with their brilliant EP DDTT. Mattias is a longtime friend of FMD and they have often collaborated and/or shared a stage with over the years. 

Underground rave legend ​NOS and his duo ​NOS++T++ are another Swedish act 
with strong ties to the adventurous but somewhat furtive Malmö music scene that 
we have always felt very much a part of, despite only ever having one member actually living there. 

Swedish artist ​Carl Michael Von Hausswolff​​ under the alias ​CMVH​​ is FMD drummer Lars’ childhood friend from Linköping, and they have collaborated on various art projects every now and then since the 80s. If the name rings a bell for people not familiar with the Swedish art scene it’s probably because of his daughter ​Anna Von Hausswolff​​. 

A more recent FMD friendship comes from the band ​Horseface​​ who instead of remixing the track made a cover singing the lyrics in Finnish. Further darker or moodier tracks on the compilation are from the American artist ​Dorit Chrysler,​​ who is a Theremin genius, and our great Italian friend ​Mai Mai Mai​​, one of  the leading artists in the Italian Occult Psychedelia scene. Finally, ​Jonas Höglund​​ from FMD added his ​Manuel Göttsching​​-inspired remix he created back in 2013. 

Hey, Shut Up! has always existed in different mixes, the “original” from the record, a slightly longer and rougher version for ​Rockets’ Rough Trade´s “Label Of The Month”​​ sampler also  the contained Radio Edit. If that wasn’t enough, FMD’s ​Rickard Daun​​ decided to release the so far unheard ‘full version’ for this remix album. But hey, who doesn’t like all those different versions of ​Stereolab tracks or example? 

The video to accompany the track’s Radio Edit is again made by ​Rickard Daun​​ 
and uses simple images made with crayons as well as images of a deaf and dumb shepherd dancing around in his own creation, The Stone Garden. A symbolic reference to the lyrics of the track which was a reaction to the sad and worrying climate in Sweden and the rest of the world, with more and more right wing parties coming to power. Images of a dancing man with a disability showing he can be happy and appreciate his beautiful garden in the desert, the small and simple things in the world, to go against the grain and live their own way of life. So dig into almost 70 minutes of music which twist and turn the track into Noise, Industrial, Disco Dub, Post Punk, Cosmic Techno and Minimal Drones. 

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25 Nov 2018

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs King of Cowards in Residents Albums of the Year


Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs album King of Cowards is in Resident Records 'Albums of the Year' rundown!

See the shops full list here: Resident

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24 Nov 2018

Heads on Stick reviews Mamuthones album Fear on the Corner


It says:


A slimy, eyeless alien bares its teeth in a ghoulish grimace, all sickly pink clashing against an electric blue background, colourful yet disturbing. Fear on the Corner is an acid trip that could go ‘bad’ at any moment. What’s not to like?

Mamuthones, named after the mysterious creatures featured in an obscure Sardinian festival, is a freaky Italian psychedelic project fronted by Alessio Gastaldello, former drummer for Sub Pop’s Jennifer Gentle. With line-up changes, an appearance at Liverpool’s Psych-Fest, and a split 12″ with masked Prestonians Evil Blizzard, the unholy spawn that is their debut LP has had a slow gestation.


Opener ‘Cars’ is a feverish ball of nervous energy, skittering drums and glockenspiels, reaching a manic collage of Remain in Light Eno synth boings and jitters. ‘Cars, people in the cars’ Gestaldello squeals, like an alien observer watching our bizarre routines in the silly little worlds we’ve made. ‘Show Me’ is a krautrock burner, steady motorik beats attacked by dissonant guitar jabs and static blasts before unnerving electronic Paul Lanksy keys ooze in, a cold unease fighting against the Nuggets freak-out. ‘The Wrong Side’ is a funky frenzy, boggy bass and scratchy guitar which takes over you, forcing you to dance in a sweaty possessed mania. The swaggering menace of  ‘Simone Choule’ changes pace toward the end, a strutting stomp behind Damo Suzuki whispers and murmurs interrupted by atonal synth noodles and soft piano drops. Things take a turn for the truly weird in finale ‘Here We Are’, a nightmarish soundscape of buzzing electronics wash over each other, building to a hellish brontide of impending peril. Primal and tribal percussion loop against the screaming vocals, bearing witness to some ritualistic conjuring of evil. It’s like Apocalypse Now in space, and you’re the caribou.


Mysterious and curious, yet utterly direct and accessible, Fear on the Corner is a fascinating and original marriage of the peripheries of imagination that psych music can take you to, with a determined urgency to make you move like you’ve never moved before. 


See the full review here: Heads on Stick


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Bonnacons of Doom announces London show


Bonnacons of Doom return to London for a headline show at the Seabright Arms on Saturday 9th March.

Tickets can be purchased from here: See

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23 Nov 2018

Teeth of the Sea reveal Moth Club show


Baba Yaga's Hut have announced that Teeth of the Sea are playing the Moth Club on Saturday 2nd March – and a big night is in the planning!!

Tickets available from here: Baba Yaga's Hut

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22 Nov 2018

Three Rocket releases in Piccadilly Albums of the Year


We are chuffed to announce that Piccadilly Records have put three Rocket Releases into their Albums of the Year rundown:

MIEN – MIEN

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs  – King of Cowards

Goatman – Rhythms

See their full rundown here: Piccadilly Records

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21 Nov 2018

Gigwise reviews Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs at Le Guess Who



They say:

Several jaegers later we’re aptly ready for the final band of the night, Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs.

Reaching into the early hours now, we slice through the city by bike for our final destination. Once we arrive there is no chance of a sleepy end to the night. De Helling is alit with Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs’ heavy riffing, high energy set. Front-man Matt Baty is leering down at us while we absorb his sweat, dripping from above on stage while the band rip through singles ‘Cake of Light’ and ‘Sweet Relief’. While the noise may sound heavy and intimidating at first glance, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs’ are as light-hearted a band as you will find this weekend. Everything is delivered with wry wit, engaging to the last.

Read the rest here: Gigwise

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Loud and Quiet interviews Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

It says:

One Sunday afternoon last April, I wandered the dark corners of Camden basement venue Underworld, numb underfoot and bleary of mind. I was mid-way through the final day of riff mecca Desertfest and, frankly, fit for fuck all. As I coveted the cloister of my bed, unslept in, one billion miles away in Belfast, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs strolled out on stage. Led by Matt Baty, a caterwauling knight in shining armour (1990s Newcastle United shorts) they inexplicably drove out my pining for home in sixty face-searing minutes.

Nineteen months on and Pigsx7 could, if they so wished, lay claim to being the UK’s perennial sludge-doom band. A jewel in the glistening crown of the North East’s underground scene, their newly-released second album, ‘King of Cowards’, is a skull-rattling triumph of down-tuned maximalism and a feature-length flare lit by one of the very few bands to have made a dent in my solar plexus.

Having written and recorded their 2017 full-length debut, ‘Feed the Rats’, in their hometown of Newcastle, the seeds of its follow-up were sown in much less familiar climes. “We had a couple of gigs in Italy that, for whatever reason, fell through on a tour,” reveals Baty to me. “So instead of cancelling the tour, we holed up in a converted barn in the country to write. There was nothing for miles. I think the closest village was, like, a twenty-minute drive away.”

Read the rest here: L&Q

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20 Nov 2018

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs GNT makes BBC 6 Music's 'A-playlist'

We are blown away to announce that Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs latest single GNT has been promoted to BBC 6 Music's 'A playlist'...so expect to hear it even more on the radio you lucky people!

BBC 6 Music

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16 Nov 2018

Gum Takes Tooth announces Manchester Show


Gum Takes Tooth are heading up to Manchester to play a show at the Star and Garter on February 16th.

Info and tickets can be found here: The Beauty Witch

And you can preorder GTT new album 'Arrow' on Ltd colour vinyl here: Bandcamp

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs announce massive Preston show


Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs will join Part Chimp and others at a massive  home town show for Evil Blizzard.

Tickets are available here: See

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs full show list now reads:

NOVEMBER
22 / UK / Sheffield / Picture House *SOLD OUT*
23 / UK / Brighton / Hope and Ruin *SOLD OUT*
24 / UK / Leeds / Temple of Boom *SOLD OUT
29 / UK / York / Fulford Arms *SOLD OUT* 
30 / UK / Liverpool / Shipping Forecast *SOLD OUT*

DECEMBER
01 / UK / Glasgow / Nice ‘n  Sleazy *SOLD OUT*
10 / UK / Bristol / The Fiddlers *SOLD OUT*

MARCH
27 / UK / Leeds / Brudenell
28 / UK / Bristol / The Exchange
29 / UK / Birmingham / Hare & Hounds *SOLD OUT*
30 / UK / Cardiff / Clwb Ifor Bach

APRIL
03 / UK / Manchester / Rebellion
04 / UK / London / Scala
05 / UK / Brighton / The Haunt
06 / UK / Bedford / Esquires
08 / UK / Norwich / Waterfront
09 / UK / Cambridge/ Portland Arms
10 / UK / Oxford / The Bullingdon Arms 
11 / UK / Nottingham / Rock City
12 / UK / Leicester / The Cookie
13 / UK / Preston / Guild Hall
14 / UK / Chester / The Live Rooms
16 / UK / Glasgow / King Tut's
17 / UK / Edinburgh / Mash House
19 / UK / Gateshead / Sage

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Give Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs your vote for Amazing Radio's Album of the Year


Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have been nominated as one of Amazing Radio's Album's of the Year and you can help them win it by giving them your vote.

All you have to do is vote for Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs here: Amazing Radio

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Psych Insight reviews Shit and Shine's Bad Vibes


They say:

Listen, I’m the first to admit that I’ve never got Shit and Shite, the now long running noise project from Craig Clouse. This really is not for the want of trying because I know people whose music taste I trust impeccably who rave about every release. Each time I dutifully listen and just don’t see what they are on about. I’ve never found anything that I can grab on to… nothing that has given me a way in.

That is, until now. Maybe I’ve changed, maybe Shit and Shine has moved towards me… it doesn’t really matter how or why but from the first listen of this album I get it, or at least my version of ‘it’. That’s not to say that this has been easy, but there was enough here for me to get a foothold into and explore from there.

So fans of Shit and Shine are going to have to excuse my ignorance when writing about this album, but really you know you’re going to love it. This is more aimed at those who, like me, have always found Shit and Shine to be difficult to the point of impenetrability. Firstly, you are not alone. Secondly, this might be the entrance to the cave that you have been looking for...

Read the rest here: Psych Insight

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Poster for Gum Takes Tooth Album Launch


Gum Takes Tooth mark the release of their new album 'Arrow' with this massive 'FUNHOUSE' show being put on by Baba Yaga's Hut! 

Tickets are on sale now: Baba Yaga's Hut

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14 Nov 2018

Viva Mag reviews Goatman album Rhythms


They say:

Rhythms: there is no more apt title for this afrobeat bomb with fusion flavors and gospel groove. The unknown origins of its author make this project even more intriguing. In fact, Goatman knows only his name, his country, Sweden and his membership in the Goat collective, which is also shrouded in mystery. This debut owes much to the great figures of Afro culture, from Fela Kuti to Sun Ra, thus contributing to the rebirth of the genre in the West. Jaam Ak Salam opens the dances in the true sense of the word with its festive and pressing rhythms. Oud's solo is a one-way trip to tribal and cosmic atmospheres. With Hum Bebass Nahinback to western music, rock '70s and guitar solos so dear to good old Hendrix. The electronic percussions of Limelight jar with the rest of the album, thus lowering the level of this publication. Carry the Load thinks to raise the bar again: his spiritual jazz, the choral voice of the Swedish Amanda Werne and the sax and flute solos make this magic track, almost possessed by the spirit of free jazz. The voice of the Senegalese artist Seydi Mandoza is the protagonist of Aduna , the penultimate track of the album, which becomes more electronic through the use of monophonic synths, then returning to the wind and the free and wild guitar. A base of drone music characterizes the last piece,Baaneexu , which with its melancholic atmosphere, is positioned in complete antithesis with the opening song. 

What the listener is assisting is a real journey that shows the different facets of African culture. A hymn to timeless love and peace. An anthem we damn need. 8/10

Read the full review here: Viva Mag

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Cherrystones gives Shit & Shine some NTS love


As you probably know we are Rocket are avid listeners to NTS so it is always great when one of our fave DJs drops a Rocket tune.

This time, the legend that is Cherrystones plays the mighty Shit and Shine track Mingler off the new album Bad Vibes.

Dig in here: NTS

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GNOD R&D reveal new vinyl release for Sound of Cobra records


GNOD R&D have just revealed a new release via The Quietus.

They say:

GNOD's Paddy Shine and Chris Haslam are back with a new release from their GNOD (R+D) offshoot. Following on from two previous cassette releases on Tesla Tapes over the last year, the Sounds of Cobra label will oversee the release of Vol 3 from the pair, from which you can stream a five-minute excerpt of one of the four tracks above.

The excerpt sees Shine and Haslam combine drones with loop-driven, industrial atmospherics. It builds gradually, layers of percussion gathering pace as a distant vocal enters the mix just past the three-minute mark.

GNOD (R+D) is described as "a platform to research, develop and expand on sound environments as well as collaborators for the future workings in their main band." Vol 3 sees them turn in four long-form pieces which the label describe as "21st century ritual music," and were recorded while on tour through Italy in November of last year.

Sounds of Cobra will release Vol 3 digitally and on vinyl on January 11.

Listen here: The Quietus

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Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation to play Mutations Festival


Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation have been announced to play next years Mutations Festival in Brighton on 23 February with White Denim, Goat Girl and others...

Tickets and Info can be found here: Mutations Festival

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