"Julian Cope and Lee Brackstone, author and patron, discuss the worldview of his new book COPENDIUM, a feast of obscure and neglected masterworks which takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. The Black Sheep’s Fido-X presents Tue’sday Night/Wodnesday Morning, further explorations in the style of the Black Sheep Radio Show. GNOD, the Manchester motherfuckers at full tilt, play a live set. Julian returns to present Copendium as revealed through YouTube. We conclude with a screening of Fido’s Blues – ‘awesome’, wrote Jon Savage, upon viewing this highly disorientating Black Sheep road movie."
Mono in Glasgow
Tuesday 6th November 2012, 7pm
For more information visit Julian Cope's site here
(Photo of Gnod at the recent Rocket Party taken by Tony Mountford)
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Here is a nice little write up of last Fridays Rocket party at The Lexington featuring Gnod Goat and Teeth of the Sea:
"I’ve been looking forward to this one. Three of my favourite bands of the past few years courtesy of Rocket Recordings, the coolest label around with great ears for some of the loopiest psych, prog-post-rock electronics this side of 1998. Oh and their records look lovely too..."
Read the full review here Velvet Owl Gig Collective
The Goat photo is courtesy of Kimberly Powenski, if you have any photo's video or recordings of the night, please share them with us
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Goat's 'Let it Bleed' has been nominated for 'Anthem of the Summer' by the UK Festival Awards 2012.
The shortlist will be announced on November the 5th, so to help us make this shortlist, we need your vote.
So, if you got a spare minute, please place your vote here:
festivalawards.com/vote
Thanks
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American magazine Spin are loving the Goat album and have written a nice little piece plus revealing Q/A with the band:
The mysterious crew from Sweden runs the voodoo down
Mysterious collective Goat dropped one of 2012's most coveted pieces of vinyl with World Music, a damn-near indescribable collision of searing psych-metal, trance-inducing Afrobeat congas, Krautrock infinity-gazing, and demonic disco. Recorded hot-as-hellfire to tape, this thing could be mistaken for a Now Again or Finders Keepers reissue from West-Africa (via Mars), but in fact the group hails from a small town in Sweden called Korpilombolo. The band claims this town runs deep with a history of practicing voodoo and ducking religious persecution, but this may just be another great backstory from a country filthy with genre-bending anonymous bands (holler at us, Ghost). Whatever the deal is, World Music is a delirious mix of brassy, hook-laden, royally thunderous heavy metal; fast-paced Nigerian disco; hypnotic African rhythms mutated through Cuba and Haiti; some accidental bhangra; and a full-on, rocked-out cover of Malian hit "Diarabi." Hear the whole thing below with our Q&A with the mysterious Goatman! ...
Read the feature in full here
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The mighty Terrascope say some very nice words about our Gnod/Shit & Shine Collisions LP:
"As the name clearly implies, this is the latest in a series of what it must be said are always-welcome collaborations featuring Rocket Recordings artists and affiliates. In this case the accolades go to Manchester experimental rockers, the ever-worthy Gnod, and the none-too delicately named but no less laudable Shit and Shine, with each given free reign over a side each of what in old language would be termed a “mini album” - under 30 minutes in total - to, as they say “do it to you”...."
Read the full review here
And just to clarify regarding the last (amusing) comment, Rocket is run by John O'Carroll as well as Chris Reeder.
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'Adventures in the Soundscape' have written a great review of our next Collisions release:
"Big thanks to Chris at Rocket Recordings for sending me a preview of the latest release of Collisions series on the label, a pairing of the mighty Gnod and Shit & Shine – a new band to me; and that’s what I love about the Collisions split releases is that they introduce me to new artists. Collisions 01 introduced me to The Heads and their mind-melting psych, and both this release and Collisions 02 continued to add brilliant tracks from White Hills, Oneida and Mugstar to my record shelves – and as always from Rocket Recordings the vinyl releases are fantastic looking mini works of art… great music, imaginative pairings of bands, freedom for the bands to explore the music they love and push themselves, brilliant artwork.
Gnod are going from strength to strength and the recent Chaudelande volumes are some of my favourite recent releases. Their contribution to Collisions 03 is Shitting through the eye of a needle in a haystack.
The hazy, late night mist of Chaudelande has lifted to reveal a throbbing brute of a band, metallic shards rattling through the soundscape and reverberating through your brain. The track pulses and throbs, brutal and heavy.. this is late-night headphone music, the kind you put on loud, your walking pace quickens and makes you feel fucking invincible – you, the music and the empty streets of a city at 5am.
Gnod haven’t lost their groove though; yes this track is more industrial sounding, definitely harsher and reminds me of some of the Foetus 12″ releases where the tracks are presented as industrial movements. Shitting through the eye of a needle in a haystack explore a new area; the loose jam-style explorations of drone and the layed-down groove of the riff are replaced with the industrial grooves and rhythms of the drum machine, the soundscape is cruel, bleak and lonely but as intriguing to explore and get lost in as their other work – great work from Gnod, chalk up another success to their exploration of sound, grooves and mood.
The flip side to Collisions 03 is Ladies Circles by Shit & Shine.. a new one to me. The track is built around a repeating lead guitar motif, drums driving the track but always the metallic funk of the lead guitar… sometimes hidden away under the organs, the vocals and then it hits you again the groove and the lead guitar takes centre-stage.
Very groovey track, Ladies Circles makes a great partner to the Gnod track and for another brilliant Rocket Recordings release, a mean slab of industrial psychedelic rock that your record player is screaming for you to drop the needle onto.
Installment number 3 of the Collisions series from Rocket Recordings is available from the 15th October so go hunt it down… Norman Records have it available and you may get some Maoam to go with your vinyl!!"
See the review in full here.
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Boomkat have said the following about our next Collisions instalment featuring Gnod and Shit and Shine:
**Yellow vinyl with photocopied acid tab insert that'll make you go bozz-eyed**
Immense split slab of modern industrial psych rock from two of the heaviest, freakiest units around. Manchester's notorious rotating assembly of rogues, GNOD (counting Paddy Shine, Chris Haslam, Raikes Parade, Neil 'Der Fisch' Francis, and Marlene Ribeiro) dump 'Shitting Through The Eye Of A Needle In A Haystack' on the A-side, making the smart move to replace live drums with a machine, resulting in a fifteen minute ritual sounding like an demented Can jamming with Shackleton and Vatican Shadow - we sh*t you not! The dub heavy production is outstanding, and while it's given them a firm boot up the sphincter into 2012, its certainly not at the expense of their primordial force and intention. Bra-f**king-vo! Flipside, their Texan counterparts $hit & $hine churn up some crooked-ass motorik brainburn, revolving overdriven bass and swaggering drums around a mesmerising guitar hook, all jerked with digital dub FX, for thirteen minutes of roiling, psychotic badness. Recommended!
See the review in full here
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Pitchfork have finally woken up to Goat and have written these words about the track Goathead:
"If, as Tom Krell opined, anonymity among bands is now passé, then surely boundless invention with backstory is the next logical step away from predictability. Goat, a collective of sorts from the northern Swedish hamlet of Korpilombolo, claim that their elders have performed under that name for many generations; this lot are just the latest kids of a tribe that were apparently deeply influenced by the arrival of a voodoo-practising witch doctor to the town many moons ago. Their tremendous first public release, World Music, makes their yarn the kind of myth you want to indulge irrespective of the facts: It weaves through disco, Afrobeat, yowling psych, and metal traditions, among others. "Goathead" blazes a psychedelic trail around a chanting, cackling female voice for a just plain gnarly song that owes as much to Fela Kuti and Funkadelic as it does Comets on Fire."
See what they say in full here
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Head scribe of The Quietus has done a Spotify mix for Fred Perry that includes Goat's Disco Fever. This is what he says about the track:
Goat - Disco Fever:
Goat's psychedelic odyssey World Music has been something of an underground smash this autumn, and this is one of the highlight tracks, sounding as it does like a group of fans of innumerable genres of far-out music capering around the fire in the nuddie after a particularly hectic peyote session.
You can here the full mix here
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The ever amazing Optical Sounds magazine (issue 4 coming soon apparently) have forwarded their review of our next release, the next instalment of our Collisions series, this time by Gnod and Shit & Shine:
Gnod & $hit & $hine - Collisions V.3 (Rocket Recordings)
We’ve certainly been treated well by those Rocket boys when it comes
to these Collisions series The Heads, White Hills, Mugstar, Oneida and
now fellow space brethren – Gnod & $hit & $hine. Once again, Gnod
refuse to be tied down to expectations with their charmingly titled
‘Shitting Through The Eye Of A Needle In A Haystack’, (which reminds
me of the toilet facilities at last year’s Supernormal festival). If
you’ve seen them live recently, you may have noticed an electronica
vibe, reminiscent of the ace Meat Beat Manifesto in places, starting
to percolate through the Gnod Machine. Neurons are decimated by the
fidgety stop-start beat and grinding drones, whilst Neil Francis
continues his stream of consciousness lullaby. Always mutating and
always brilliant, if you get the chance to see Gnod live, for fuck’s
sake, go and do it. NOW!
$hit & $hine are expatriate Brits now stirring up dust devils in
Texas. Every bit as disturbed as their spiritual forebears, Butthole
Surfers (they are regularly joined live onstage by veteran Butthole -
King Coffey) , S&S take coal back to Newcastle with the heat-warped
Beefheart-ian groove of ‘Ladies Circle’. Great stuff. This is an
inspired pairing and if you’re a fan of repetitive grooves that go
nowhere in particular but can take you anywhere you want, then this
transcendental piece of plastic is just for you. It makes you wonder
with delight what interstellar mix the next Collision’s pairing will
be. (Brett Savage)
Buy issues of the great Optical Sounds here
And don't forget, Optical Sounds new label Cardinal Fuzz are putting out some amazing releases, so get them before they vanish!!
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