Tickets: Wharf Chambers
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12 May 2017
Gnoomes announce home town show
Gnoomes are premiering their Tschak! live set next week in their home town of Perm:
_DOORS : 19.00
_DJ GNOOMES: 20.00 - 21.00
_GNOOMES LIVE: 21.00 - 22.00
Free entrance
Then they hit the UK:
01 / The Wave Maiden / Southsea
02 / Open / Norwich
04 / Soup Kitchen / Manchester
06 / Cluny / Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
07 / Broadcast / Glasgow
09 / Wharf Chambers / Leeds
10 / Bootleg Social / Blackpool
12 / London / Brewhouse
13 / Purple Turtle / Reading
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Raven Sings and Blues reviews Flowers Must Die
It reads:
UK psych outpost Rocket Recordings roster is full to brimming with Marshall-stacked amp toasters, but Swedish six-piece Flowers Must Die vary the formula by adding a touch of deep bench influences to their sound. Not totally divorced from fellow Swedes Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation, who bend pop instincts through the prism of Krautrock and a fog of psych, Flowers Must Die are cherry picking bits of bottom-down disco dipped in space-rock swirls for a record that’s decked out in psych’s finery but feeling frisky with the notion of pop. The band has a habit of dipping the ends in free jazz squall and haunting Eastern drones as well and blending the styles subtly rather than throwing wholesale styles into a hodgepodge pot.
The extra hands make it possible to flesh the sound out with vintage keys, flourishes of flute and a clattered clutch of percussion. The hard to pin down styles mesh together nicely, not unlike some of the more outre soundtrack work of the ’70s. “Why?” seems like it might hold sway among some of the pieces from The Holy Mountain, with its ecstatic moans and chugging percussion. The band flips from Ash Ra Temple to Lindstrøm and finds space for both to butt against the ozone fry of dry ice riffs that feel like a Logan’s run dreamscape. Its a banner year for the psychedelic folds and Flowers Must Die are pushing things out of heavy riffs and into a heady haze that’s far more than the sum of its parts.
Read more here: Raven Sings and Blues
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11 May 2017
The Quietus reviews Gnod at Roadburn
It reads:
No other band could’ve done what Gnod did this weekend.
The first time I saw Manchester based psych institution Gnod some eight years ago now was a truly transformative experience. There relentless throb of their kraut influenced druggy psychedelia felt at once both monolithically oppressive but absolutely freeing too – their warped cacophony, I’m sure, on some level forever altered my brain. But quite honestly they looked more fucked up that most of the people watching them and band leader Paddy Shine spent the whole set looking as if he was having some sort of brain aneurism or stroke. Honestly, that they could have risen to the status of Artists In Residence at Roadburn was pretty unthinkable. Eight years later, though, and you really couldn’t envisage a band capable of doing what the Salford collective pulled off. From their searing, caustic improvised noise set on Thursday, to their nodding, multi-hued collaboration with Bristol’s Kuro on Saturday and their heavy-psych mainstage performance on Sunday as BBV with Radar Men From The Moon, like sonic chameleons the band moved through their guises with liquid fluidity without ever abandoning or jeopardising their core sound. It was their Friday ‘greatest hits’ set, however, that was the most special of the weekend. With vocalist Neil Francis back in the fold, the sextet powered through a heady melange of their heavier material, mostly culled from last year’s excellent Mirror, new LP Just Say No… and even, by the sounds of it, their psych-kraut masterpiece Chaudelande. At times soundings heavier and doomy-er than many of their more metal contemporaries on the bill yet also wandering into warped noise excursions that would make most other psych bands this weekend look about as psychedelic as shoe shopping this was a performance so buzzing with gnarled electricity as to be forever indelibly stamped into Roadburn folklore...
Read the full piece here: The Quietus
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Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation to play Way out West Festival
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation have been confirmed to be playing Way out West Festival in Sweden.
Tickets and info can be found here: Way Out West
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation have all these dates coming up:
20 May / Double Dot Dash / Reading / UK
26 May / Dot to Dot / Manchester / UK
27 May / Green Man Courtyard / London / UK
27 May / Dot to Dot / Bristol / UK
28 May / Dot to Dot / Nottingham / UK
25 June / Glastonbury Festival / Pilton / UK
09 July / Blue Dot / Jodrell Bank Observatory / UK
05 August / Skeleton Coast / Holylake / UK
10-12 August / Way Out West Festival / Gothenburg / Sweden
17 September / Beyond the tracks / Birmingham / UK
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The Monitors reviews Gnod's "Just say no..."
It reads:
Hello my dear friend, confidant, comrade. I write to you at a stage in 2017 where we are socially and politically in a very precarious position. With the upcoming election and on-going ‘Brexit’ deal, things have the potential to go a wee bit pear-shaped over the next few months; and by ‘pear-shaped’ I mean ‘really fucking tits up’.
Now, that might not be your fault (maybe it is) but whether or not you choose to involve yourself in politics you can still make a difference, the world doesn’t have to go down the shitter. We can still make things right by making the right choices, and Gnod are here to offer up help and advice.
Gnod have always been a band to push the listener with their music, but this time round they also provoke with a title that is as stark and antagonistic as the music within – deep breath here – Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine.
If you think that’s a mouthful try typing it out. Which I will do, in full, throughout this review. No corners cut on my part, Gnod deserve the full typed-out treatment...
Read the rest here: The Monitors
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10 May 2017
Tickets selling fast for Gnod Weekender in Bristol
Weekend and Saturday tickets to Gnod weekender now SOLD OUT!
And apparently Friday and Sunday going the same way...
Don't miss: Tickets
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