3 Oct 2015
Gnod to play Qu Junctions night at the Arnolfini in Bristol
PLAYPEN
Friday 30 October 2015, 20:00 to 23:30
£10 / £8 concs
PLAYPEN is an evening of artfully engineered chaos taking over the auditorium: a lo-fi, hi-jinks meta-gig in which a plethora of quick fire, energising music and audio-visual interventions flow round the space in a blur of ever-shifting performance dynamics.
Artists getting caught in the three hours of crossfire include Pop Group frontman and legendary Bristol music provocateur Mark Stewart: US free improv/blues/punk solo guitar channeller Bill Orcutt: Young Echo no-fi dub upsetter Ossia: many-tentacled Manchester psych collective Gnod: Southend industrial shape-shifters Liberez: out-jazz miscreants The Evil Usses: protractor-defying art/rock upstarts The Jelas and analog noise merry-maker Phantom Chips. More names to follow.
Produced by Qu Junktions in collaboration with Arnolfini.
Tickets here: Arnolfini
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Hills to play Roadburn Festival
Rocket have always had a good showing of bands at Roadburn Festival and this year is no different as Hills have been confirmed to be playing a rare show outside of Scandinavia
Tickets and info from here Roadburn
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The Quietus makes Hey Colossus – Radio Static High it's Album of the week
The Lead Review: Noel Gardner On Hey Colossus' Radio Static High
Following on from the release of In Black And Gold earlier this year, Noel Gardener examines the group's continual moving further away from big riffs and sludge metal, into hypnotic melodies, creamy bliss, and giving breathing space to tangible human emotions.
If this review made a point of praising Hey Colossus for embarking on their own stylistic path, while so many try weaselishly to fit into moulds carved by others, it would run the risk of selling them short. This is because they're not a ragtag group of rootless nomads, but an affable – if ear-bleeding – British heavy rock band who, since forming in the early part of the millennium, have operated on principles derived from DIY punk culture, and have equally taken from and given back to a community of likeminded souls. Except if I were to hold up Radio Static High as a shining example of the greatness produced by the UK […] scene (the blank space is because it's never really been given a name that stuck, as far as I know), that too would feel slightly demeaning towards this marvellous album...
Read the rest of the piece here: The Quietus
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Lay Llamas plays Night for the Deaf
NIGHT FOR THE DEAF :
Lay Llamas
Da Captain Trips
@Cox18 Milano
More info here: Night for the Deaf
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2 Oct 2015
Hey Colossus new album 'Radio Static High' is out today
Hey Colossus's new mindblowing album 'Radio Static High' is out today!!!
Though due to the every growing problem of congestion at the record pressing plants the vinyl LP's are not back from the manufacturers and are gonna be several weeks late...we and the band are gutted!!
But preorder the vinyl from here: Bandcamp
But you can buy CD's and Downloads as of today from us or your usual shops.
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You can also read some great reviews of the album here:
The Clash 9/10
Soundblab 9/10
Narc 5/5
Line of the Best Fit 9/10
Drowned in Sound 8/10
The Quietus Album of the week
Echoes and Dust
Monitors
This will be a regularly updated post adding new reviews as they come in...so come back!
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1 Oct 2015
The Quietus review Hey Colossus at Liverpool Psych Fest
Saturday is undoubtedly about the groove
With a set that sounds like Jan Hammer having a nervous breakdown, Sun Araw's electronic meadering fails to hold interest so it's with a state of excitement that tQ makes its way to a rammed District Stage for an unforgettable set from Hey Colossus, a band going through an intense period of creativity and artistic highs. With the band about to release their second album of the year in the shape of Radio Static High, Hey Colossus are playing at the peak of their powers. 'Hot Grave' is especially pummelling tonight, its atonal strumming intro drawing huge cheers down the front but it's with 'Hop The Railings' that the band truly hit paydirt. A massive, swaggering beast that levels all before it, this is a moment to savour before fully surrendering to its relentless groove and letting the feet and hips take over. JM
Read the full review here: The Quietus
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Annihilate Gathering teaser video –feat Gnoomes and Lay Llamas
Check out this teaser video for Annihilate Gathering Festival in Leipzig that features Lay Llamas and Gnoomes on Oct. 29th/30th 2015
More info here: Annihilate Gathering
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