Festival is a unique event that joins the dots between exciting new bands and the artists who influenced them.
Taking place in a beautiful forest location just 30 minutes from London, the event features 7 stages with over 150 artists, hand-picked to represent the most exciting and creative lineup you'll see at any festival this year.
Put together by a team with over ten years of experience in putting together festivals, the event also offers camping, organic food stalls, art, a funfair, kids areas and a rare-breeds farm.
Date: 5-6th September 2009
Location: Hainault Forest Country Park, Redbridge, London
Oneida will embark on a rare European tour this August, including the following UK headline shows:
August 17 Brighton, Prince Albert w/My Device + Teeth Of The Sea August 18 London, Garage w/Very special guests tba + Teeth Of The Sea August 19 Bristol, The Croft w/Cardinal Fuzz + Teeth Of The Sea
Teeth of the Sea will be the opening band on all three dates, plus Cardinal Fuzz, featuring members of The Heads will make their live debut in Bristol. All three nights will feature light shows by our very own Johnny Rocket.
Tickets on sale now: Brighton.... www.ticketweb.co.uk London and Bristol..... www.seetickets.com Blog A
The votes have been counted and the winner is....’blue’!!!!
However due to the great response we had for ‘grey’ shirts, we are going to do a small run of them as well.
If you are interested in one of these please e-mail rocketrecordings@yahoo.co.uk with your colour and size of choice and we will get back to you with ways of payment.
We are making a total of 50 shirts only, in medium and large and after this run we will not be making any more.
Though we are willing to take pre-orders, so if you require a different size (see below), then drop us an e-mail, but payment will need to be made up front.
Shirts will be £10 plus postage
Sizes available are: S / 37-39 M / 40-42 L / 42-44 XL / 45-47
Well...well...well...children of the now sounds. I missed last months installment of ON THE DECKS due to the recent White Hills tour of Europe. Now I'm back and so is this fair blog about what is gracing my turntable.
This month's album is the fantastic new LP Under the Moon Of... by Aqua Nebula Oscillator hailing from Paris, France. During White Hills' recent European tour Aqua Nebula Oscillator's singer Shazzula ventured from Paris to Lueven, Belgium to see us play at Sojo. Fortunately for me she came with a copy of their new LP. Since my return this LP has been in constant rotation at home base.
The album opens with the track LSD Therapy...I was instantly taken back to the glory days of the early 90's music scene in NYC. The tune is a dirty garagey romp reminiscent of Boss Hog's finest moments. I felt the dirt wash over me...and I liked it. Distorted vocals...grunt and growl...over a thumping rhythm and a tremolo drenched guitar riff that harkens back to Bo Diddley. Utterly sweet! At this point I was hooked.
With the second track Flying Mountain the LP shifts into a frenzied Stooges-esque riff played by speed freaks on a week long binge. Fuzzed out and reverb drenched guitars flying around...head pounding bass and chaotic drums propel the song into oblivion while vocals summon forgotten Gods of years past.
From this point on the LP dives further into oblivion. Somebody in Your Nose is garage punk at it's best...simple...appealing to everyones inner moron. Utterly fantastic. "Lost In Space" dives right in with wailing gutiars over a repetitive riff that builds and builds...synths fly like banshees...while Shazzula moans..."We're lost in space...oh...come on!" The female Iggy Pop? I think so!
Side two kicks off with the short spaced out Incantation. Effect laden vocals and synths swirl right into the second track Silvermoon. Another reved-up killer that harkens back to the sounds of Spacemen 3 but dirtier. Synths and organ float over a dark riff while the hypnotic vocals swirl around and around. At this point in the LP I think to myself...is there a bad track on this album? The answer...Hell No! This album kicks some serious ass!
Other highlights of the LP include Beware...a primal stomp at it's best, Girl ...another pummeling speed fuel stomp, and 3013...a heavy psych drone of organ and nasty guitar leads that will melt your mind.
What more could one ask for? This LP has it all...glitz and grit all wrapped in one. A Stooges-esque romp through the rat infested streets of Paris. Memories of New York Cities dirtiest of dirtiest days...crazed and diseased. Whirling feedback banshees...a firestorm of sound. Fuzzed out beyond belief! Raunch... Rawk... Space... Punk...that is what you get with Aqua Nebula Oscillator. For more information and sound clips visit the band on myspace... http://www.myspace.com/aquanebulaoscillator
After reviewing pervious albums by The Heads, Notorious Hi-Fi Killers and White Hills, Rockets fave comedian shows he is a fan of Rocket by writing another favourable review in the Sunday Times, this time for The Heads / White Hills Collisions 01:
“The Collisions series pairs like-minded acts on split albums. New York’s White Hills and Bristol’s the Heads submit two elongated psychedelic jams of intimidating density, clocking in at 18 and 21 minutes, respectively.
White Hills’ I Will Find Peace of Mind throbs and bristles, subsiding in a muggy recording of some people chattering in a street. On Camden Brain Slurry, the Heads rev up like Lemmy-era Hawkwind, and spend six tantalising minutes going nowhere brilliantly, the bass arcing and bubbling over tumble-dryer percussion and sheets of guitar skree, before collapsing into a locked, assembly-line groove of gradually growing intensity.”
‘Here is a list of some of the strongest transmissions we have received from orbiting satellites that have been engulfing Rockets mission control this past month’
Loop - Fade Out (2nd CD, reissue) (looped guitars, blown out distorted buzz, krautrocky rhythms, cyclical, repetitive, hypnotic,dripping with effects)
Soft Machine - Middle Earth Masters (1967 organ solo's shimmering, rumbling and roaring punk psychedelia)
The Inner Space - Agilok & Blubbo (OST) (tripped out, acid soaked, free-pop-jazz-rock odyssey)
