Normans Records say what they think about the Gnod / Shit & Shine Collisions LP

Norman records has said the following about our forthcoming Gnod / Shit & Shine Collisions Vol.3 LP (please note Cargo made a mistake with the track titles saying both tracks have the same title, hence the confusion in the write up):

"Here we have a very limited and slightly confusing split LP from repeato-psych bastards Gnodand Shit & Shine, who each deliver their own side-long track, ‘Shitting through the eye of a needle in a haystack’. I’m not sure if one of them is a cover of the other or if they just have same name or what to be honest. 

Gnod are up first, and it’s a bit of a departure for them, with an insistent, muddy drum machine beat driving us through a swirling, clanking post-industrial bleakscape of dark techno-noise. It’s not the shit-kicking riffathon I was expecting but it’s a hard hypnotic groove and an interesting new direction for the Gnods.

On the other side, Shit & Shine are using live drums, rumbly bass and wibbly repetitive guitar leads for their take on the track, with weird gibbering, filtered, distorted vocals rippling around in the middle distance. There’s something strangely funky about the minimal murky groove, and in the middle it develops this spacious Sun Araw-esque feel before they kick back into a loose, lazy kraut groove, this time with added organ drones, reminding me of Geoff Barrow’s mighty BEAK>. It’s well tasty and my pick of the two tracks here. Their last album was totally ace too, incidentally. 5/5"

You can see the full write up here

The record will hit the shops on Monday, 15th October.

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GNEW GNOD SHOWS

 

 GNOD have a host of new shows to announce for the increasingly chiller nights ahead. First off we will be supporting the legendary Hawklords at Band On The Wall, Manchester on Friday 12th October. Gnod tip: Get down to see Ancient Methods’ first Manchester show at The Roadhouse afterwards. It’s gonna be a belter!

A week after we play at The Lexington in London with our label mates Teeth Of The Sea & Goat on the Friday and then were off to Birmingham to play a set at Supersonic on the Sunday. At the end of the month we’re off to Ireland to play Hunters Moon Festival in Carrick-On-Shannon. Looking forward to seeing all those heads again.

On 4th November we are playing as part of ORBIT, a festival with a difference hosted by Volkov Commanders & Sounds From The Other City. We’ve heard a few of the plans for this, it’s gonna be special! At the end of November we have just been confirmed to play Les Urbaines in Switzerland! There you go, some amazing shows ahead of us. We can’t wait to get going!

12th October - Band On The Wall, Manchester
19th October - with Teeth Of The Sea & Goat - The Lexington, London
21st October - Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
26-28th October - Hunters Moon Festival, Carrick-On-Shannon, Ireland
4th November - ORBIT @ Islington Mill, Salford
30th Nov - Les Urbaines Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Rocket London show after party at 'Nothing is...' featuring a special DJ set from GNOD

Friday October 19th see's the mighty Teeth of the Sea, Gnod and Goat take the stage at the London Lexington for the sold out Rocket party.

And now there is no reason to go home after the show as we are having an after party at the monthly 'Nothing is...' at the Alibi in Dalston.

Regular DJ's Cage and Aviary, Cherrystones and Little Dirty will be joined by Gnod on the decks, and if you have ever heard Gnod DJ before you know what a night you will be in for!!.

'Nothing is...' is free entry and we have gained a late licence until 5am to celebrate.

More info can be found here:

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Goat add Swedish dates to their October shows

Goat have added three Swedish dates and a launch party for the Scandinavian release of their album on Stranded records.

These will be the only shows this year, so make sure you get your tickets and not be left disappointed.

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Win tickets to see Goat in Newcastle

Beard Rock have set up a competition to win tickets to see Goat at their Newcastle show in October.

Goat are only playing three shows in the UK this year, so this is a gonna be a rare chance to see the band in full action.

You can enter the competition on the Beard Rock Website

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Vintage Shit & Shine footage

Just found this great footage of Shit & Shine live at the Corsica in 2008.

If you look closely at the beginning you will see a nice close up of a smiling 'Little Dirty' from 'Nothing is...' fame.

Dont forget, Shit and Shine's split Collisions LP on Rocket is out on October 15th.

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Gnod to support Hawklords

Gnod have been announced as support for the mighty Hawklords at Band on the Wall in Manchester on October 12th. There will be a full light show too by Big Dave's lighthouse

You can buy tickets from the Band on the Wall site

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Rough Trade sings it's praises for our Gnod / Shit & Shine Collisions LP

Rough Trade shops says this about our next release that is due out on October 15th:

"Next up in rocket's collision series sees a much talked about split between manchester's gnod and the simply wonderful shit and shine. gnod deliver 'shitting through the eye of a needle in a haystack' - built on heavy rhythm drum machines and heavy dub echoes. a rolled and smoked groove built for late nights. a nice little starter before the main course if you like because next up is 'the magic moment' - 'the main course' - 'ladies circles' by shit and shine. over the past year the now austin based band have delivered two jaw dropping albums - 'jream baby jream' and 'le grand larance prix' - taken europe by storm on a rare summer tour and are getting ready to play a very special one off show at the wire's 'adventures in modern music' in chicago. 'ladies circles' could be seen as a progression from the 'larance prix' set - a hot n' heavy slice of machine funk, dipped in krautrock and spun out for around 13 minutes. lynch-like vocals creep in and out while the groove carries the synths, church organs appear and disappear, the track starts repeating on itself and then - the drop - a jerked out guitar and drum section splashed with synth bass and jazz keys. this is shit and shine for the dancefloor. the voices come back and it all kicks off again. and again. and again. absolute magic. another stunning 2012 release from 'the shine."

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Gnod / Shit & Shine Collisions Vol.3 artwork fully revealed

We are pleased to show you these photos of the next Rocket release; Volume 3 of our ongoing Collisions series which features sude long tracks by Gnod and Shit & Shine.



The album is released on October 15th and is ltd to 500 copies, 150 on yellow vinyl and 350 on black.



Like all Gnod and Shit & Shine releases these aren't expected to hang around for long...



You can preorder a copy from Normans records

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See our previous post for more information.



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Teeth of the Sea to DJ at Supersonic

After blowing minds live at last years Supersonic Festival, the band are returning this year with a record bag full of gems!!!

Fresh from their sold out show with Gnod and Goat at London Lexington, the band will be jumping on the train up to Birmingham to blow minds again with DJ sets on the Saturday and Sunday.

They will be joining Rocket's very own Rik Motör who will also be spinning records on the Sunday...and of course this Sunday worship is being led by live sets by the mighty Gnod and Goat.

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