Rocket bands on tour in November and December

November and December are busy times for several of our Rocket bands, GNOD, J. ZUNZ, PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS, SEX SWING, TEETH OF THE SEA, THE UTOPIA STRONG are all heading out on tour, dates are below.

But as well as those tours we have GOAT, PETBRICK and SMOTE also playing one-off dates:

GNOD 

Oct 29-31 / Salford / Fat Out Fest

Nov 11 / Preston / The Ferret

Nov 12 / London / Studio 9294

Nov 13 / Margate / Elsewhere

Nov 14 / Brighton / The Hope and Ruin

Nov 15 / Bristol / The Lanes

Nov 16 / Cardiff / The Moon

Nov 17 / Leicester / The Soundhouse

Nov 18 / Leeds / Mabgate Bleach

Nov 19 / Glasgow / Nice & Sleazy

Nov 20 / Newcastle / Brave Exhibitions Festival

April 29 (2022) / London / Desert Festival

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J. Zunz

Nov 24 / UK / Bristol / Rough Trade

Nov 25 / UK / London / Werkhaus

Nov 26 / UK / Birkenhead / Future Yard

Nov 27 / UK / Manchester / The Peer Hat

Nov 28 / UK / Newcastle / The Cluny

Nov 29 / UK / Todmorden / The Golden Lion

Nov 30 / BE / Antwerp / Het Bos

Dec 01 / DE / Bremen / MS Loretta

Dec 02 / DK / Copenaghen / Råhuset

Dec 03 / DK / Odense / Pataget

Dec 05 / DE / Dresden / Club Debil at Alte Feuerwache

Dec 08 / CZ / Prague / Underdogs

Dec 09 / HU / Budapest    Aurora

Dec 10 / AT / Graz / Cafe' Wolf

Dec 11 / SLO / Ljubljana / Gromka

Dec 12 / IT / Padova / Nadir

Dec 13 / IT / Roma / Fanfulla

Dec 14 / IT / Bologna / Venue TBA

Dec 16 / IT / Busto Arsizio / Circolo Gagarin

Dec 17 / IT / Torino / Living Room

Dec 18 / FR / Lyon / Le Sonic

Dec 19 / DE / Mannheim / Der Mannheim Kult 

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs 

Oct 23 / Stowmarket / John Peel Centre

Nov 12 / Norwich / The Waterfront

Nov 13 / Swansea / Sin City

Nov 17 / Belfast  / The Empire Music Hall

Nov 18 / Limerick / Dolans

Nov 19 / Cork / Kino

Nov 20 / Dublin / Whelan's

Nov 23 / Manchester  / Albert Hall

Nov 24 / Bristol / Motion

Nov 25 / Birmingham / The Mill

Nov 27 / Brighton / Concorde 2 – SOLD OUT

Nov 29 / Southampton / Engine Rooms

Nov 30 / London  / Electric Ballroom – SOLD OUT

Dec 1 / London / Electric Ballroom

Dec 2 / Leeds  / Stylus

Dec 8 / Nottingham  / Rock City

Dec 9 / Edinburgh / Summerhall

Dec 10 / Glasgow  / St Luke's

Dec 11 / Aberdeen / The Lemon Tree

Dec 17 / Newcastle Upon-Tyne / The Cluny – SOLD OUT

Dec 18 / Newcastle Upon-Tyne / The Cluny – SOLD OUT

Dec 19 / Newcastle Upon-Tyne / The Cluny

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Sex Swing 

Dec 01 / Leicester / The Soundhouse

Dec 02 / Manchester / Yes

Dec 03 / Bristol / Crofters Rights

Dec 04 / Cardiff / Clwb Ifor Bach (w/ Part Chimp)

Dec 5 / London / Moth Club

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Teeth Of The Sea

Nov 13 / Manchester / The Carlton Club 

Nov 14 / York / The Crescent

Nov 15 / Barrow In Furness / Barrow Underground Music Society

Nov 16 / Newcastle / The Cluny 

Nov 17 / Glasgow / Broadcast 

Nov 18 / Bristol / Strange Brew 

Nov 19 / Cambridge / Mash 

Nov 20 / London / Lexington (MATINEE AND EVENING SHOW) 

Nov 25 / DE  / Copenhagen / Lopen (w/ Hey Colossus)

Nov 26 / NO  / Oslo / Bla (w/ Hey Colossus)

Nov 27 / DE  / Aalborg / 1000FRYD (w/ Hey Colossus)

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The Utopia Strong 

Nov 13 / Manchester / The Carlton Club 

Nov 14 / York / The Crescent

Nov 15 / Barrow In Furness / Barrow Underground Music Society

Nov 16 / Newcastle / The Cluny 

Nov 17 / Glasgow / Broadcast 

Nov 18 / Bristol / Strange Brew 

Nov 19 / Cambridge Mash 

Nov 20 / London / Lexington (MATINEE AND EVENING SHOW)

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GOAT

Oct 23 / SE / Malmo / Plan B

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Petbrick

Nov 19-21 / Newcastle / Brave Exhibitions Festival

Dec 15 / London / Electrowerkz

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Smote

Nov 19-21 / Newcastle / Brave Exhibitions Festival

Nov 27 / Manchester / The Talleyrand

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs announce further support acts on up-and-coming tour

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have announced further support acts for their up-and-coming 'Viscerals' tour!'

Tickets available from here: Tickets

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Petbrick announce London show

After a massive performance at this years Raw Power, Petbrick have announced a London show at Electrowerkz on 15 December with Kulk in support.

Tickets: Dice

And buy Petbrick's face melting debut album here: Bandcamp

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Kuro announce London show with Sons of Viljems

Kuro have announced a rare London show on 20 January at Camden Assembly (Former Barfly), playing with Italian/London band Sons of Viljems.

Events page

Tickets

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The Sleeping Shamen review's GOAT's Headsoup

They say:

Somehow it feels like a different world back in 2012 when Goat’s debut World Music was released in all its syncretic technicolour glory. Tapping into some of the hokey semi-ironic occultism that seems to surface with each wave of retro-revivalism, they threw in a slightly provocative blend of exoticism, drawing on influences from other musical cultures. Whether they were prepared for this to also be a relatively big commercial success is something we’re unlikely to find out from the purposefully mysterious group, who maintain anonymity in an effort to preserve the mythos.

Regardless of intent it wasn’t long before Goat were extremely high profile for what may have started as the side project of obscure Swedish psych-rock musicians. And with that has come some uneasy criticisms of what may be seen as cultural appropriation in their work. The band seem largely to have ridden this out however, and while I would like to hear more from them about their influences so that those with curious ears might dig deeper into the West African traditions, Ethio-jazz and afrobeat they tap into, I broadly feel that their intention is no more than making a good noise that pleases them...

Read the rest of the review here: The Sleeping Shamen

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Sleeping Shamen review's Smote's Drommon LP

They say:

Coming to us on Rocket Recordings with a certain amount of mystery, this is a re-release of the original Parts 1 and 2 of Drommon, bookending two newer and shorter pieces of similarly murky and crepuscular droning psych. Driven by an insatiable need to know, and empowered by the endless memory-palace of the internet, I had a rummage about for a meaning in the song titles, and while it appears the two central tracks are items of medieval armour, the eponymous bookstops are not quite a kind of medieval ship. Make of that what you will, all is equally valued, and significance/insignificance is probably not a useful category.

Smote sets the scene with some field-recording type birdsong and drone, several minutes pass in this pleasant glade. We’re not permitted to rest here indefinitely however, with a percussion building force that almost becomes an air of menace. Rich, jangling layers build on the rhythmic core of this percussion and bass. Repetition offers a steady onward drift and unfolding, the prospect of a sudden break into coruscating riffing in the vein of defunct Boston pummelers 5ive CRP remains a tease, as Smote delivers head-down psych conjuring, where the spiral turns ever inward, even as the noise reaches outward...

Read the rest here:  Sleeping Shamen

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Shit and Shine announce London show

Shit and Shine have announced a new show at Cafe Oto on 23 February.

Tickets can be bought from here: Dice

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Rocket acts on 'Wrongpop/Running Punks for Single Homeless Project' charity album released today

As it is bandcamp Friday, dip into your pockets and pick-up this digital charity album  'Wrongpop/Running Punks for Single Homeless Project' that features lot's of incredible bands including Rocket acts: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Kooba Tercu,Julie's Haircut, and  Gum Takes Tooth featuring Wayne Adams.

Buy the album here: Bandcamp

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Smote's 'Drommon' is released today

"A mountainous storm of guitar like a deluge from the heavens." Radar Sings the Blues

"A mystically-aligned voyage into abandon and epiphany." Psychedelic Baby Mag

"Wow this album is quite a trip…" Fragmented Flaneur

"A deliriously absorbing psych odyssey with an immense totemic potency."
Backseat Mafia

"Vigorous, mesmeric and trancelike, it pummels remorselessly." Terrascope 

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Newcastle band Smote's album 'Drommon' is released today!!

Though frustratingly due to the vinyl manufacturing chaos we find ourselves in at the moment, the ltd edition LP has been delayed and won't be in the shops now until late October early November. 

You can still preorder a copy from your local record shop or via Bandcamp here:

Bandcamp

The band have announced the first live dates, starting at the incredible Brave Exhibitions Festival in Newcastle:

Nov 19-21 / Newcastle / Brave Exhibitions Festival
Nov 27 / Manchester / The Talleyrand

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Summoned from the murkier reaches of the subconscious and summoning a powerful aura of twilight communion, Smote’s ‘Drommon’ is here to intimidate and enchant. The first Rocket release for this enigmatic Newcastle-based entity is no less than a mystically-aligned voyage into abandon and epiphany.

Replete with doom-laden atmospherics and crepuscular intensity, this is an intimidating denouement to return to time and again. Join the ritual, and submit to ‘Drommon’.

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Today is October's Bandcamp Friday!

Bandcamp have decided to run their Bandcamp (no fee) Fridays again, from August until December.So as previously, it is a great time to buy some ltd Rocket albums and shirts.

No new releases this month but we do have:

GOAT – Goatman Tshirt
Back by popular demand we have made some more of these classic shirts in women's and men's sizes.

We still have a handful of these presales and recent reissue available:

Nova Express – Nova Express LP
Red

Smote - Drommon LP
Green/black splatter

Teeth of the Sea – WRAITH (Repress) LP
Moss Green and Black

The Utopia Strong – The Utopia Strong (Repress) LP
Radiant Yellow and Black vinyl

Plus we have raided the archives and found some ltd amount of copies of these gems:

The Holy Family – The Holy Family 2LP (+CDs)
Frosted Clear 

GNOD - Easy to Build, Hard to Destroy 2LP
Pink/Black Splatter

GNOD - Chapel Perilous LP
Colour unknown

GNOD - Just Say No LP
Red Vinyl

Hills - Frid LP
Fire Orange Splatter with Poster

Hills - Alive at Roadburn 2LP
Cream & Yellow vinyl

Shit & Shine - Malibu Liquor Store LP
Red/Blue Swirl

Pharaoh Overlord - 6 LP
Blue/Black Splatters

Autotelia - I LP
Black & White

Kooba Tercu - Proto Tekno LP
White/Blue Galaxy Swirl

Goat - Double Date 10"
Clear/red

Goatman – Rhythms LP
Black

Gnoomes - MU LP
Pink/Blue Swirl

Housewives - FF061116 LP
Blue

Lay Llamas - Thuban LP
Orange/Black Swirl

Hey Colossus - Radio Static High LP
Red Vinyl

Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - Horse Dance LP
(Unknown Colours)

+ there are loads of other great albums, shirts and posters to pick up from the Rocket or individual bands Bandcamp stores:

Rocket Bandcamp 

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