Chrome to play first ever London show

We have just heard that Baba Yaga Hut are bringing the mighty and legendary CHROME to London for the first ever live appearance. 

The show will be at The Electrowerkz on Saturday 21st June.

Tickets for this inevitable sell-out show can be bought from here: Baba Yaga Hut





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Nothing is getting out alive

'Nothing is…'. returns this Friday but without Rocket's Rik Motor.
The other usual suspects will still be present bringing their mix of kraut, psych, cosmic disco, biker funk, spacey techno and all other strange sounds in-between.

Nothing is...
Cage & Aviary (Emotional Especial/DFA)
Cherrystones (Brutal)
Little Dirty (Hed Nod)

The Alibi – Dalston/London
21 March
9-3
Free entry

Please show your love for us here: Nothing is…

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Teeth of the Sea and The Cosmic Dead to play Corsica Studios in July

That is right, Baba Yaga Hut has brought together two of the UK's best psych travellers to share the same stageon 13 July at Corsica Studios in Elephant and Castle in London.

More info and tickets to what will be a sold-out-show can be found here: BabYaga Hut

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The Quietus interview Rocket about 15 years of psychedelia

In conjunction with Eindhoven Psych Lab, The Quietus interviewed us about how Psychedelia has changed in the 15 years we have been around.

Plus we have put together a 'song a year' playlist soundtracking the 15 years we have been around (accruing to spotify):

Rocket Recordings Interview
Christopher Torpey , March 12th, 2014 10:25

With the Eindhoven Psych Lab on the horizon, Christopher Torpey talks to the Bristol/London label's Chris Reeder and John O'Carroll about the changing face of psychedelic music

A generation is a long time in music, a timeframe that spans a lot of growing up, moving on, taking time out to spend more time with the kids, reconnecting with your art. Over the course of 15 to 20 years a band may run the gamut of growing pains as they traverse adolescence, unless they're a stubborn child who prefers to stick resolutely to their guns, even if the furrow they're ploughing is a relatively lonely one.

For record labels, a generation is positively a lifetime, spent traversing the high seas of fads, and negotiating the swell's trends – both in buying and listening. In the case of Bristol/London-based Rocket Recordings, their existence has spanned a period of particular fertility in all things 'psych', with the label championing artists at the forefront of challenging psychedelic music's traditional boundaries. From the baby steps of initial 7" releases by The Heads, Lilydamwhite and Sawdust Caesars, to the tremor-inducing adult stomps of Goat's World Music LP, the men at the helm of the Rocket mothership have helped to add industrial drone and voodoo space rock to the ever-growing pantheon of what constitutes the mind-bending end of the musical spectrum.

The journey is one felt most keenly by those people at the helm. "We never saw the label as being anything more than a 7" label," explains Rocket founder Chris Reeder. "But it is hard to survive as a label solely releasing 7"s, as even back then there weren't many places that reviewed them or gave them exposure: John Peel playing a release was the sign of success and not how many we had sold!"...

Read the full piece and see the playlist here: The Quietus

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Exclusive Rocket Recordings showcase in Brussels

We are excited to announce that the day after our 'Counterblast Experiment' stage at Eindhoven Psych Lab,  four of our Rocket band will be playing together again at an exclusive label showcase at 'Magasin 4' in Brussels:

The full details are:

Rocket Recordings Showcase
Saturday 07.06.2014
Magasin 4 / Brussels
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GNOD
TEETH OF THE SEA
ANTHROPROPHH
LAY LLAMAS
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GNOD
Rhythm, drone & psychedelic noise collective formed in November 2006, Manchester, UK.
The line-up shrinks and swells as the music rotates & expands to reach new frontiers and quite possibly other worlds.

As a band they’re always creating, hours and hours of jams of which they occasionally see fit to release to the wider world. I say occasionally; since their formation in 2007 they’ve had at least twelve full-length releases and claim to have had many more. These appear out of nowhere though, ...

TEETH OF THE SEA
From the radiant consciousness of Britain’s most intrepid sonic assassins comes a shattered mirrorball of a record fit to transform and transfix all that surrounds it in 2013 and beyond. MASTER, the long-awaited and devastating third album of Teeth Of The Sea, is an unprecedented junket into mind-melting abstraction and neon-drenched revelation.

Nearly three years have passed since the band released ‘Your Mercury’, their transcendent second album, and the four-piece have kept very busy during ...

ANTHROPROPHH
Paul Allen from the Heads and Gareth Turner and Jesse Webb from the Big Naturals play heavy psych experimental rock.

LAY LLAMAS
Lay Llamas is an afro/kraut/psych project formed by Nicola Giunta (backing vocals, bass, synth, organs, drums, guitars, drum machine, percussions, tapes, Casio SA5, ukulele, vocoder), and Gioele Valenti (lyrics, lead and backing vocals, guitars, synth, sitar, indian flute, tibetan bells, tambourine, shaker, vocoder).

Cost:  10€
Doors: 7:00PM

Tickets and more info: Magasin 4

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More bands added to Eindhoven Psych Lab

As announced before, we are curating a stage at Eindhoven Psych Lab entitled 'The Counterblast Experiment' and the festival have just added some more bands to the line-up:

Eindhoven Psych Lab 
6 + 7 june 2014

Wooden Shjips / Suuns / Spectrum
Hookworms / The Growlers / Pink Mountaintops / Föllakzoid / Disappears / Terakaft
Night Beats / Elephant Stone / The Oscillation / Cosmonauts / Mugstar / Nisennenmondai  / Weird Owl / Crows / Dans Dans / Peter J Taylor Big Band

The Counterblast Experiment presented by Rocket Recordings:
Teeth of The Sea / Gnod / Terminal Cheesecake / Anthroprophh / Lay Llamas / DJ's – Chris Rocket and Walter Roadburn 

Fuzz Club presents:
Sonic Jesus / Cosmic Dead / Wall Of Death / Radar Men From the Moon / The Underground Youth / The Wands / The Woken Trees

Tickets can be bought from here: Eindhoven Psych Lab

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Lay Llamas to play Thalassa Festival

Lay Llamas have been announced to play the Thalassa Festival in Rome on 3-5 April.

They are joined by a stellar line up of Italian Occult psych bands that include:

CREAPOPOLVSQVE
DONATO EPIRO
DREAM WEAPON RITUAL
FULKANELLI
GUSTOFORTE
LA PIRAMIDE DI SANGUE
LAY LLAMAS
MAI MAI MAI
MAMUTHONES
METZENGERSTEIN
PSALM 'n' LOCKER
SPETTRO FAMILY
VALERIO COSI
VOSTOK LAKE

There will be a ltd edition cassette containing exclusive tracks by bands that are playing. We have heard the Lay Llamas track and it is great, so worth tracking down.

More info about the festival can be found here: Thalassa

We will have lots of exciting Lay Llamas news for you within the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned.

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Teeth of the Sea and Gnod to play at this years Supernormal Festival

As you know, we at Rocket are massive fans of Supernormal Festival, and proudly state it as the best festival we have ever attended (we even helped curate the first year).

The first bands for this year's event which takes place on 8-10 August have just been announced and as it is Supernormal's fifth year, they are bringing back some old faves to celebrate this milestone.

Teeth of the Sea and Gnod, join Thought Forms, Esben and the Witch, Sly and the family Drone, Henry Bleaker, Silver Stairs Of Ketchikan and many others for what will be as always a great weekend.

This is what the folks at Supernormal say:

First Acts Announced

Supernormal 2014 marks both the fifth year of the festival and also the twentieth year of Braziers International Artists Workshop, from whence Supernormal evolved. Although the festival’s been through plenty of changes since its first year in 2010, the spirit of iconoclasm and adventure at the heart of it is exactly the same. In 2014 we’ll once again be blurring the boundaries between art and music, encouraging collaboration between different disciplines and doing everything we can to transcend the conventional idea of what a festival can be.

This year we’ve decided, as a kind of celebration of what’s transpired so far, to invite back some of those who’ve contributed to Supernormal in the last four years, like Gnod, Sly & The Family Drone. Teeth Of The Sea and Thought Forms. Moreover, with brand new artists as diverse as Arabrot, Esben & The Witch and part wild horses mane on both sides also confirmed, along with projects like Phil Minton’s Feral Choir destroying the distinction between audience and artist, Supernormal Number 5 continues to represent the alternative’s alternative.

We are delighted to confirm:

Anji Cheung  |  Arabrot  |  Barberos  |  Death Shanties  |  Esben And The Witch
Falling Boy  |  Flamingods  |  Frank Fairfield  |  Gnod  |  Hacker Farm
Henry Blacker  |  Horse Loom  |  Joanna Gruesome  |  Kemper Norton
Luminous Bodies  |  Lutine  |  Maggie Nichols  |  MXLX  |  NG-52s  |  Palehorse
part wild horses mane on both sides: Conduit of the bottomless submundane
Phil Minton’s Feral Choir  |  Silver Stairs Of Ketchikan  |  Slum of Legs
Sly & The Family Drone  |  Spaceheads  |  Speak Galactic
SXSWNG  |  Teeth Of The Sea  |  Thought Forms

You can find more details about all the above acts by visiting the programme page

There are loads more acts and a full programme of arts and activities to come. Tickets are available now priced at £80 (no booking fees).

CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR TICKET!

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Julian Cope's last 'Address'

We were very sad to hear that after 18 odd years Julian Cope has made is last 'Address Drudion'. We are sure you are all well aware of this monthly piece where Julian presented to the world reviews of some of the best 'under the radar' sounds being made today.

The monthly address regularly introduced Mission Control to some amazing records, it even introduced us to bands that eventually released records on Rocket. One example is Residual Echoes, it was from Julian's review that made us contact the band and subsequently we put our their second record, plus it led to us releasing the stunning album by Residual Echoes friends the mighty Mammatus.

Apart from these great musical discoveries, Julian's 'Address' was also a champion of our Rocket releases, constantly raving about our Teeth of the Sea, Gnod, The Heads, Anthroprophh etc records.

So as a label the news of this is the last 'Address' leaves us with a massive hole, there aren't many people out there who 'get' what we do like Mr Cope did….so we would just like to say a big THANK YOU to Julian for all his support over the years, it definitely didn't go unnoticed.

You can read Julian's last address and an archive of previous ones here: Head Heritage

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The Quietus interview Teeth of the Sea about their 'The Last Man' project

This is what The Quietus have said about Teeth of the Sea's forthcoming 'The Last Man' project that we unveiled here :

For the upcoming CineGlobe festival, Teeth Of The Sea are set to perform a live audiovisual interpretation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four at CERN in Geneva on March 20 (head here for further details and tickets). It follows their album Master last year, one of the Quietus' top records of the year, as well as a number of live soundtrack projects the band have taken up previously, scoring Doomsday, 2001: A Space Odyssey and, most recently, A Field In England, at the 2013 Cork Film Festival, with the latter set for release for Record Store Day. The band are again collaborating with their visual partner Benjamin Barfoot for the CineGlobe set, which will mark 30 years since the book's eponymous date. We asked guitarist Jimmy Martin to fill us in on the project:

What made you choose to score a book this time around? What made you choose to soundtrack Nineteen Eighty-Four?

Jimmy Martin: Nineteen Eighty-Four's cultural cachet is so enormous that I'm not sure if we felt we were scoring the book per se. Although it sounds a bit arrogant, we always knew what we did would be informed by other versions and adaptations of the book in a sense, but in terms of steering clear of them we wanted to go back to the central themes of the book and re-invent them anew. There's a universal impact to Nineteen Eighty-Four, and I think we felt like we wanted to get that across in the most brutal, unflinching way possible. Obviously the nature of the proposal was very exciting to us too, not least because of the venue, and it was nice to have another challenge thrown at us so soon after the A Field In England – Re-imagined soundtrack project. It's our nature as a band to bite off more than we can chew!

Read the rest of the revealing interview here: The Quietus

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