Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Your invite to THE MUSIC NETWORK Thursday 29th January 2009 4pm til 6pm at The Technology and Innovation Centre(TIC), Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG
The Music Network organises a NETWORKING EVENT on the last Thursday of each month, 4-6pm
The next Music Network meeting is open to all on Thursday 29th January 2009 4pm til 6pm at The BCU Technology and Innovation Centre(TIC), Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG. (directions/info tel: 08712 262725)
Come and talk about music and what you’re up to and meet some new people.
The meeting this month will be lead again by Andy Derrick who some of you will know from the good work he has done with the Birmingham branch of Musicians Union over the past year or two. The Music Network organises the meeting for the benefit of music related businesses in the West Midlands region.
If you are a musician, work with musicians, represent musicians, have involvement with the music industry, or are looking to make new contacts the meeting will be useful to you.
If you have news to report, a presentation to give, an event to promote, any new points for discussion, a pitch to make, business cards or flyers to hand round, an appeal for help, advice or guidance or even if you just want the free tea and biscuits and some quality entertainment…you are all invited.
You can also post in by email any news or gig dates or press release information for inclusion on the website and for distribution through the mailing list and RSS feed. More details on the website.
There will be luxury chocolate biscuits and good coffee for all. There’s food and drink afterwards supplied by the creative networks too. Please pass this invite on to Musicians you know or anyone else who you think may benefit.
Monday, January 19, 2009
The Orb updated for 2009 - Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, Last.fm
You can find The Orb here:
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orbinfo
Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Orb
Website: http://www.theorb.com
Fran Nevrkla on Copyright Term update January 2009
| Dear Friends and Colleagues |
Firstly, I hope that all of you together with your loved ones had a thoroughly enjoyable and restful Christmas and New Year holiday. Now that we are all back in the fray, I thought I would drop you a line about one of the key issues currently on our agenda. As you know, our recent and very intensive political lobbying has paid off – thanks to your efforts. The video message(www.ppluk.com/fairplay) to the Prime Minister and the letters to MPs have got through. Just before Christmas, the Government announced a change of heart on copyright term. In his speech to the Creators' Conference, Andy Burnham revealed that they have now accepted that the term should be extended in principle, although they still fall short of offering performers parity with other creators. We will continue to talk to them about moving to 95 years. Our focus is now shifting to Europe where the draft Copyright Term Directive is being debated. There are two crucial votes coming up in the European Parliament in February and March. We have already been talking to many of the MEPs (Members of the European Parliament), urging them to support us. If you would like to help further in the Fair Play for Musicians campaign, then you could write to your MEP, urging him/her to vote for the Copyright Term Directive. The main points to make are below. Just choose two or three to include in your email: |
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You could also ask them if they will be supporting this Directive. We will put the names of all supportive MEPs on the PPL website. Make sure your MEP is added to the list! You can find your MEP by looking at the European Parliament website http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/MembersMain.htm. If you click on your region, you will find a list of half a dozen MEPs, all of whom represent you in Europe, with their email addresses. If you are feeling strong, send an email to each of them, and copy my colleaguedominic.mcgonigal@ppluk.com. Many thanks again for your support in this. That support is showing results and we are determined that in these final stages we get the copyright term that you deserve. Watch this space and in the meantime, on behalf of all of us here at PPL, I offer our very best wishes for 2009. Kind regards Fran |
FRAN NEVRKLA PPL WATCH OUR VIDEO MESSAGE TO GORDON BROWN AT www.ppluk.com/fairplay |
ORGAN: THIS WEEK'S ISSUE, WHO GOT REVIEWED
Well we've hit the year running, second 2009 issue of ORGAN is up on
line, an issue goes on line every Thursday afternoon over at
www.organart.com
Already a good year for albums...
This week's album of the week is from Canada's rather impressive WOMEN
(Jagjaguwar)
We also have reviews of the following albums...
MAEGASHIRA - The Stark Arctic (Spare Change)
DANKO JONES - Never Too Loud (Bad Taste)
JACK SHIRT - Silent Beef (Scratch My Back)
FEN - The Malediction Fields (Code 666)
LOW BUDGET ORCHESTRA - The Second Best (Low Budget Music)
MEN OF UNITUS - Gland Of Hope And Glory (No Lite)
GRAHAM REYNOLDS AND THE GOLDEN ARM TRIO - Cult Of Colour (Shamrock)
Two singles of the week, told you we were off to a good start this
year....
OH, ATOMS - Sugar Mouse (Lucky Motel)
DENNIS HOPPER CHOPPERS - Smart Ones Always Lose (D Wink)
Plus...
THE WOE BETIDES - Play Dead EP (Songs In The Dark)
DEVOTCHKA - How It Ends (Anti)
THE SOCIAL - A Call To Arms EP (Divided London)
Demo of the week is from
AWESOME WELLS
Plus LITHURGY and SUNDAY SCHOOL
And all the other bits of downloads and news and bits and oh go have a
look... www.organart.com
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House of God Friday 30th january 2009 Birmingham Surgeon, Sir real, Harvey lane, Nicky B, PCM, DJ X 10pm-6am
Friday 30th January 2009
The Rainbow Warehouse and Garden
Adderley St
Digbeth B9 4EE
Featuring, in the Warehouse:
Surgeon - (Tresor/Counterbalance/Dynamic Tension/HOG) - Live A/V set - UK Exclusive
Paul Damage (1881/HOG Records)
Sir Real (Kracktronik/HOG)
Harvey Lane (Veto Records/HOG)
Nicky B (HOG)
In the Garden:
PCM (Live)
DJ-X (PCM/HOG)
Phase 2 (Broken Minds)
Madjack (Sol-Dat/Kracktronik)
Sherwen (Sol-Dat/Kracktronik)
Freenote (Tria Mera)
Tek Prime (Tria Mera)
Deadbeat (Contact/HOG)
10-6am £7+bf / More on the Door
https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/events/?id=10005842&ref=let_aft
The Midlands longest running club night and one of the UK's most respected Techno nights, House of God has entered club folklore with their monthly nights at the Dance Factory and Subway City along with stunning allnighters at the Que Club and the Sanctuary.
Moving to Brum's best underground venue - the Rainbow Warehouse and Garden, HOG celebrates its 16th Birthday with an exclusive Audio/Visual set from Tresor legend and original HOG member, Surgeon. Aided and abetted by HOG residents - Paul Damage, Sir Real, Harvey Lane and Nicky B.
In the Garden, PCM perform one of their legendary LIVE sets of some of the filthiest Drum n Bass ever to hit a dancefloor alongside HOG resident, DJ-X and guests Madjack, Sherwen, Phase 2, Freenote, Tek Prime and Deadbeat.
Neil Spragg - Sales / Purchasing
neil@veto.co.uk
Latest releases from Black Seeds Records
BSR 013 LAUTSTURMER - "Audio Plague Outbreak Alert" 7" EP (Ltd 308)
Swedish brutal hardcore crust! 5 track debut EP recorded April 2008 - RAW, BRUTAL meets early Swedish raw-punk style! These lads were playing with Kurbits IR, Article Nine, Slemäters, Final Holocaust and another infamous d-beat crust/metal bands!! And its limited 308 copies!! (150 on black, 59 on red/marron and 99 on red wax)
(Also available on tape in distro section)
www.myspace.com/lautstrmer
BSR 014 FLYBLOWN/WARVICTIMS - split CD
Swedish brutal hardcore crust! 5 track debut EP recorded April 2008 - RAW, BRUTAL meets early Swedish raw-punk style! These lads were playing with Kurbits IR, Article Nine, Slemäters, Final Holocaust and another infamous d-beat crust/metal bands!! And its limited 308 copies!! (150 on black, 59 on red/marron and 99 on red wax)
(Also available on tape in distro section)
www.myspace.com/lautstrmer
BSR 014 FLYBLOWN/WARVICTIMS - split CD
England's FLYBLOWN play harsh & brutal crust noise with grunted vocals and downtuned guitar. They influenced by bands such as Disclose, Dismachine, Totalitar and Framtid. The band has cut a space for itself on the underground punk scene as a band with political intent and an extreme musical style. This is their last track ever!!
WARVICTIMS play raging D-beat raw punk in the Scandinavian tradition, including a cover of DISCHANGE's classic "After War Scars".
WARVICTIMS play raging D-beat raw punk in the Scandinavian tradition, including a cover of DISCHANGE's classic "After War Scars".
This split consist 10 track from WARVICTIMS and 5 track from FLYBLOWN.
(12" vinyl version available only at the distro)
http://www.myspace.com/warvictims
http://www.myspace.com/flyblown
(12" vinyl version available only at the distro)
http://www.myspace.com/warvictims
http://www.myspace.com/flyblown
BETON/CAD - split LP (Co-release with other 12 D.I.Y label)
Both bands comes from Slovakia. BETON with six furious tracks of heavy brutal D-beat with pissed off vocals. Short simple cold, dark dead lyrics. Nothing new just D-beat rawpunk that you can't get enough off! CAD already have several releases out and have played together for many years by now. 11 furious tracks of grind/crust/rawpunk. Great cover art. No translation for the lyrics. You can find BETON's lyrics translated on their myspace. This is released by 13 labels and limited to 500 copies.
(CD version available at the distro)
http://www.myspace.com/betoncrust
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=353702114
Both bands comes from Slovakia. BETON with six furious tracks of heavy brutal D-beat with pissed off vocals. Short simple cold, dark dead lyrics. Nothing new just D-beat rawpunk that you can't get enough off! CAD already have several releases out and have played together for many years by now. 11 furious tracks of grind/crust/rawpunk. Great cover art. No translation for the lyrics. You can find BETON's lyrics translated on their myspace. This is released by 13 labels and limited to 500 copies.
(CD version available at the distro)
http://www.myspace.com/betoncrust
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=353702114
Still available/in stock:
BSR 011 WARVICTIMS – "Lognen Om Fredsavtalet" CD
D-beat crust out of Sweden. Brand new track with 8 page booklet. One of most active bands with new release every season. Silver stamp logo.http://www.myspace.com/warvictims
BSR 012 ETACARINAE – "In These Dark Times" CD
Spanish cosmic apocalyptic crust. 10 new track plus bonus track from split with ASEDIO and "Faith in Chaos" EP. Included infamous track "Misery" from Bastard. 20 page special booklet that you can't get from download!! http://www.myspace.com/etacarinaehc
D-beat crust out of Sweden. Brand new track with 8 page booklet. One of most active bands with new release every season. Silver stamp logo.http://www.myspace.com/warvictims
BSR 012 ETACARINAE – "In These Dark Times" CD
Spanish cosmic apocalyptic crust. 10 new track plus bonus track from split with ASEDIO and "Faith in Chaos" EP. Included infamous track "Misery" from Bastard. 20 page special booklet that you can't get from download!! http://www.myspace.com/etacarinaehc
PROJECT HOPLESS "Välkommen till vår sopfyllda fabrik" CD
(Co-release with Wasted Sound and Shaman Records)
(Co-release with Wasted Sound and Shaman Records)
An A//E political hardcore raw punk from Malmo Sweden. With touch of fast Swedish HC tradition and d-beat, here in the digital format and 12 page booklet. Comes with 2 an extra bonus tracks which are not available on vinyl version.
BSR 006 DISTRUST "World OF Tommorow" CD
DISTRUST are Singaporean crusties was formed in 1999 with greatly influenced by Discharge, Doom, ENT and UK crust punk band and Swedish HC as well. This CD contains 17 tracks full of d-beat/crust. Comes with 8 pages booklet, glossy cover and silver stamp logo. http://www.myspace.com/distrustpunk
BSR 007 SKULLCRUSHER "Darkness Falls" CD
SKULLCRUSHER was formed in early 1999 as well. Hail from Malaysia. In early days they were played covered from Discard, Bastard, Anti-Cimex, Masskontroll and of coz' Discharge. When they hiatus for a few years the music change little bit. With the new guitarist the band still played like they used to play, bit Amebix influence in it make this recording variety of tune. 14 tracks full of heavy and brutal d-beat. Big layout poster size, glossy cover and silver stamp logo.http://www.myspace.com/skullcrusher
BSR 008 NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR - s/t CASSETTE
NDT hail from K-Town, d-beat crustcore of Doom with some metallic elements in an amazing combination. Downtuned, aggressive and violent, the rhythm section is full of energy and moves fast while the vocals are deep low howls with some slow apoclayptric crust intros. Brilliant!! Glossy cover and silver stamp logo.http://www.myspace.com/nucleardeathterror
BSR 009 DISCOVER "Stench Of Death" CD
DISCOVER hail from Sweden. This is split release with Black Konflick Rec.8 new tracks plus 6 cover song from Shitlickers, Doom, BOD, Discard and mighty Disclose!! they put all influence and put into the package raw punk arise!! Make sure play it loud!! Glossy cover plus silver stamp logo. http://www.myspace.com/discoverdbeat
BSR 010 WARVICTIMS – Until Man Exist No More" CASSETTE
BSR 010 WARVICTIMS – Until Man Exist No More" CASSETTE
D-beat destruction from Sweden. Tape version with 3 extra track taken from their D-Beat Destruction EP.
One of most active band with new releases every season.16 track in total. Glossy sleeve and silver stamp logo as usual. http://www.myspace.com/warvictims
One of most active band with new releases every season.16 track in total. Glossy sleeve and silver stamp logo as usual. http://www.myspace.com/warvictims
Other label:
NEVER BUILT RUINS CD (Bulit to love 10" + demo)
Germany-Switzerland d-beat driven punk engine. Complete track from 10" and demo collections.
Get in touch!!
cheers!
-jery
www.myspace.com/blackseedsrecords
www.blackseedsrecords.blogspot.com
Colin Preece writes on a warning to Cannabis users in Birmingham
"As a supporter of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, I feel that we should warn the many thousands of cannabis users in Birmingham and the UK that our Government has defied its own efforts and will be raising cannabis from Class C to Class B next week.
The Government-appointed committee, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has for the third time stated that in their expert opinion cannabis should not be put into class B of the Misuse of Drugs Act.
However, Gordon Brown, who has mistakenly referred to some of the stronger versions of cannabis as "lethal" , Jacqui Smith et al, have decided to ignore that advice and go with the scare-mongers in order to try to win more votes.
The recent downfall in the number of cannabis users that followed downgrading to class C, has also been ignored. Maybe the Government want to see an increase.
The real effect of this will be an increase in maximum sentence for possession to 5 years in prison - the maximum sentence for cultivation, production or supply will remain at 14 years.
In other words, the only difference will be to cannabis users - whether they say it is medicinal or recreational or religious: and we are talking about users who have done no harm or posed no threat to anyone. Obviously people who harm others are punishable under other laws.
And of course the police who originally wanted downgrading to enable them to focus more on class A and B drugs, will now find themselves once again arresting cannabis users. Once again the courts will be filled up with people charged for possession instead of being given warnings or cautions. Once again our young people will be given criminal records for nothing more than possession of a plant product - and those that risk growing cannabis for their own medical benefit will be threatened by prison.
And the increased cost on top of the billions of pounds sent annually policing cannabis, will be born by the taxpayer - yes readers, your tax bill is about to go up so we can arrest more victimless cannabis users.
As a taxpayer I object most strongly to this: as a voter I object most strongly to our Government ignoring the advice of a committee we have paid for.
I hope that this will encourage readers to write to our MP's as well as this letter page, and get this decision reversed before disaster strikes on top of disaster"
Sadly not only do governments past and present fail to tell the truth about cannabis they also fail to tell the truth about hemp....
HEMP4SHED sustainable human environmental development...
I believe the world needs to utilize as much land as possible for the cultivation of biomass, for food, fiber and fuel. Humanity needs to be working in cooperation globally, under the supervision of the United Nations, in order to cultivate biomass as a resource for sustainable human and environmental development. President Elect Obama has been speaking about the need to cultivate biomass in his drive to lower the USA's carbon footprint, we in the UK need to be doing the same.
The below is a link to my myspace blog which goes into far more detail on the issues of how humanity can work toward global peace and human harmony with nature. I do hope you take the time to look at the link and forward it to all your contacts listeners readers and or viewers.
http://profile.myspace.com
yours faithfully
colin preece
4 rodborough road
sheldon
birmingham
b26 2qb
colin preece
4 rodborough road
sheldon
birmingham
b26 2qb
THE ARCADIAN KICKS (Birmingham) "The Arcadian Kicks are one group whose star is most certainly on the ascension.....
"Love the idea it's what all young bands should do to get profile"…….. Alan McGee BRITAIN'S BEST 4 NEW BANDS - ALL PLAYING EACH OTHER'S CLUB NIGHTS THROUGHOUT 2009 www.myspace.com/syndicateclubnight First night: 6th Feb 2009 Featuring: The Arcadian Kicks & The Chairmen playing live with extra support from Tantrums and Jessie Rose plus Jon Brookes (from The Charlatans) dj set. Place: The Sound Bar, Corporation Street, Birmingham, open at 8pm. Cost: £3 on the door. Syndicate Solutions are proud to announce a new concept in club nights....The first batch of gigs will involve 4 amazing bands from Birmingham, Liverpool, London and Leicester - each of them getting a chance to play at each other's club night - three "home" and three "away" gigs for each band creating a fantastic opportunity for new music lovers across England to check out the next big thing. There will be drinks promotions and guest djs too so look out in these cities for the next Syndicate Club Night. Bands who have confirmed to be involved in the Syndicate Club Nights are The Arcadian Kicks (Birmingham), The Grants (London), The Chairmen (Leicester), Bells For Rene (Liverpool). The dates are listed in the events section with more to follow over the next few days. THE ARCADIAN KICKS (Birmingham) "The Arcadian Kicks are one group whose star is most certainly on the ascension, and their hybrid of indie rock and a smattering of funk and soul............Finishing with a funked up swagger." - FUSED MAGAZINE THE GRANTS (London) “I got it wrong. Hands up. I will admit it. I have been saying the Grants are the best unsigned band in the United Kingdom. No. They are the best unsigned band in the world.” - ALAN MCGEE - THE GUARDIAN BELLS FOR RENÉ (Liverpool) “This band are defiantly showing promise and having energy and reaction similar to bands such as The Arctic Monkeys and Operator Please, I can see them pasted all over next years sell-out festivals.” - HALTSMAL MUSIC MAGAZINE THE CHAIRMEN (Leicester) “It was once again the combination of the quality of their material with their electric live performance that saw them standout as one of the most exciting bands of the event. Expertly written and arranged their tracks are packed full of ideas and sparkle with wit and energy.” - SURFACE UNSIGNED FESTIVAL (2008 WINNERS) _______________________________________________ REMEMBER KEEP CHECKING THE MYSPACE/FACEBOOK PAGES FOR ALL THE UPDATES AND GIG DATES - THEY WILL ALL BE UP OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS www.myspace.com/syndicateclubnight | ||
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Review of forthcoming NIGHTINGALES album
(Skug magazine by Heinrich Deisl)):
The Nightingales, follow-up project of Birminghams first legendary punkband the Prefects around Robert Lloyd, that supported acts like Nico or Bo Diddley, are back with a nonchalant noisy album. While we're in history: Lloyd, in his various incarnations, has been a regular guest at John Peels, only outplayed by the Fall. Lloyd, Alan apperley, Daren Garrett and young Matt Wood drone themselves through 12 rocknumbers, containing Avantgarde, Punk and borrowings to große kosmische musik - (annotation: i like that one) there are two guest appearances by Faust bass player Andreas Schmid (he he) - held together by Lloyds grumbly(?) singing, that sometimes sounds like Iggy Pop. Rock&Roll and Surf also consistently look around the corner: not for nothing the 'gales dedicate "insult to injury" to Bo Diddley and Link Wray. This record scores with bulkiness, lots of bittersweet (there's no way to translate Hinterfotzigkeiten... backc..tness? something like sneakyness) and pop-down to earth melancholy. A tour is coming up in spring 2009. Don't miss it.
Wolves In The Throne Room + Haxan + Taint Pram + Women Chris Corsano & Paul Dunmall + Theo Vetiver + guests Mono + Iroha
Wolves In The Throne Room + Haxan + Taint
Friday 30 January, Dragon Bar, Digbeth
Tickets £10 in advance www.theticketsellers.co.uk
The music of The Wolves In The Throne Room is rooted in the traditions of Black Metal, but they subvert the common aesthetic and ideology in order to remain true to their own personal manifestations. Their strong convictions appropriately compliment the confident decisive execution of their sound. This is the sound of paradox, ambiguity and confusion. Catharsis is the objective, not a lilly-white and guilt free existence. Death and rebirth, transformation and enlightenment. They believe that in Black Metal, there is great truth, transcendence and power.
"Our relationship with the natural world is a healing force in our lives. If you listen to Black Metal, but you don't know what phase the moon is in, or what wild flowers are blooming then you have failed. The music is about wild forests, unfettered rivers, nature: furious and vengeful."
This "natural" aesthetic permeates the bands every expression, Lyrically, musically, and ideologically. "Black Metal is the cleansing fire that frees us from the bondage of rationality, science, morality, religion, leaving us free to choose our own path...The deep woe inside black metal is about fear that we can never return to the mythic, pastoral world that we crave on a deep subconscious level"
www.myspace.com/wolvesinthethroneroom
Haxan is a Midlands based musical project that mixes dischordant black metal riffing, psychedelic atmospherics and melancholic doom into epic pieces that openly address mans relationship with religion, nature and self. Formed in 2004, the band rarely play live and openly shun most aspects of the modern music business. Their self titled debut album, available later this year will be a varied 40 minute concept piece and story that details the descent into madness and chaos of the main protagonist. Haxan tread a line between many genres to create something fresh and organic and truly emotional. Features ex members of Doom and Police Bastard.
http://www.myspace.com/000haxan000
Taint Of South Wales are something of an enigma. Many have striven to place their sound within a handy genre definition, only to find themselves wondering whether a band so dynamic and full of surprises can really be called 'sludge', or whether music so antithetical to boredom can justifiably be termed 'post-hardcore'. Taint's 2005 full-length debut for Rise Above, 'The Ruin Of Nova Roma' was a crafty beast that revelled in contructing such riddles for the listener and, of course, the critic. Pigeonholes are for pigeons, after all. It's the purpose of great rock groups to not quite fit in.
http://www.myspace.com/taintuk
Pram + Women
Friday !3 February, Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
Tickets £6 in advance www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Pram Birmingham's Pram craft fairytales from concrete reality. The second city's spin cycle of perpetual renovation, from the slum clearances to its current cosmetic upgrade, is etched in Pram's restless groove, an endearing and gently refusenik mix encircling early Rough Trade innovators The Raincoats, astro jazz, sci-fi soundtracks, creepy Victoriana, tropical analogue and tumbledown funk.
www.myspace.com/pushthepram
Women, latest signing to Jagjaguwar (home to Bon Iver + Black Mountain) produce light and spacious sounds, at other times eerie and dense with an ominous weight, touching upon Velvet Underground, Swell Maps or This Heat while not really having any obvious precursors - a lo-fi masterpiece cloaked in layers of vibrato and guitar wash.
Noisy and claustrophobic songs smash through junkyard trash brawls while others lift and soar across the landscape of 50's-informed pop; a contradiction and an enigma, the debut album by Women will find its way onto summertime pool break-in boombox mixes and the turntables of record store devotees.
".... straddles the 1960s' divide between the Warhol crowd's speed-addled New York cynicism and the echoes of psychedelic San Francisco that bubbled up across the pond in the fey, catchy pop of UK groups like the Zombies."
- Pitchfork
http://www.myspace.com/womenmusic
Chris Corsano & Paul Dunmall + Theo
Sunday 22 February, Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
Tickets £7 in advance www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Both players, Chris on drum and Paul on saxophone, have vibrant solo and group and improvised projects but the two love playing together and this is a rare instance to be celebrated. Their music manages to move people in a way that is just beyond words. Bear witness.
Chris Corsano's drumming has to be seen to be fully appreciated. An ‘into the void’ musician who collaborates with a huge range of artists and can still pull off mad solo shit. It is a rare drummer that can hold his own with his customized kit, clatter practice and circular breathing drone exhortations but retain a dynamic and structure that works. He also self-releases a CD of distorted and spiked keyboard pieces on the Hot Cars Warp label to confuse those who try to pin him down. Loose-limbed, intense, even melodic, he exposes the audience to sounds and rhythms that defy normality. He moves light footed around the world sparking off into all kinds of collaborations playing with/alongside Jim O'Rouke, the Dimension X project, Whitehouse, Bjork, Mick Beck, Okkyung Lee, Thurston Moore and Bill Nace among many.
PAUL DUNMALL
For thirty years Paul Dunmall has carved out a reputation for himself and is now widely recognised as one of the most uncompromising and talented reed players on the International jazz/improvised music scene. Whether playing in small groups or big bands his musical sensitivity and imagination combined with a powerful sound to make him one of the most distinctive improvisers playing today.His octet and Moksha big band showcases his abilities both as a composer drenched in the Jazz traditions and Folk traditions and as a sympathetic leader able to give maximum freedom to a elite group of fellow improvisers.
Theo, the work of one Sam Knight, is one for themath rock fans. Taut, chugging guitar loops layer up with frenetictapping patterns that interweave in spiralling complexity before nearsub-atomically precise, powerhouse drumming clatters and builds eachsong into juggernaut of riffs and rhythms. To achieve something likethis recorded is one thing, but to see Theo perform live is quiteanother as each song blurs into the next and the dazzling guitar anddrum acrobatics leave jaws sagging on the faces of all who bear witnessto the talent on offer.
www.myspace.com/theo1000
Vetiver + guests
27 February, Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
Tickets £10 in advance www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Vetiver is an American folk band headed by songwriter Andy Cabic and often joined by Devendra Banhart, cellist Alissa Anderson, drummer Otto Hauser, violin Carmen Biggers, guitarists Kevin Barker and Sanders Trippe, bassist Brent Dunn.
Vetiver released their debut album in 2004 on the small indie folk label DiCristina. Since the album`s release Vetiver has toured extensively, opening for and collaborating with Banhart and Joanna Newsom. Before moving to San Francisco, Cabic was a member of the Greensboro, North Carolina indie rock band The Raymond Brake who released some records on the now defunct Simple Machines label. The band shared the bill with Vashti Bunyan on her US tour in early 2007.
The band is named after the grass, vetiver. Their music has been described as `surreal`, `lullingly pleasant`, `tender and accessible` and `quirky and warm`.
http://www.myspace.com/vetiverse
Mono + Iroha
Saturday 21 March, Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
Tickets £10 in advance www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, MONO return to Birmingham in support of their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal Wind.
The music is naturally majestic, with MONO’s trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up.
Recorded to analog tape with long-time friend and producer Steve Albini, there is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little terrifying. The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes, and even the conductor’s opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet opening moments
While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO's music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONO’s strongest virtue.
http://www.myspace.com/monojp
IROHA
Featuring current and former members of Jesu, Cable Regime and Final, Iroha mixes layers of textured guitar and basslines with heartbreaking melodies and brutally slow beats to produce songs of melancholic beauty.
"Although its scent still lingers on, the form of a flower has scattered away. For whom will the glory of this world remain unchanged? Arriving today at the yonder side of the deep mountains of evanescent existence. We shall never allow ourselves to drift away intoxicated, in the world of shallow dreams"
www.myspace.com/irohamusic
If you are organising any live events in the midlands region and would like your listings posted here too then get in touch
12/11 days to go: The story of Bearded Magazine
With Bearded relaunching on 29 January we here at Bearded towers thought it would be good to count down the 12 days in typical hungover Christmas style with 12 posts chronicling the journey of Bearded from an idea in my head.
Did you know I used to edit a golf trade magazine? Did you know I worked with the guy who was Paul McCartney's right hand man for 15 years? Did you know he and macca got into a fight with a photographer outside David Blaine's box 'trick'?
Read on... http://beardedmagazine.co.uk/wp/?p=589
Part 2 will be on later today and a new one every day after that until we are in the shops. Enjoy!
Gareth
Bearded Magazine
RELAUNCHING 29 January 2009
Get Bearded from WHSmith, Borders, independent record stores and newsagents across the UK
BUY ONLINE AT WWW.BEARDEDMAGAZINE.CO.UK
Gareth Main
Editor
Bearded
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Free MP3 Streaming is one thing, Free downloading is another.....or is it?
Can you give away MP3 downloads of your music for FREE and increase your sales income?
I think you can but have a look and make up your own mind, here's a few things i sent to some people i work with for discussion,
listen to this: http://freetail.tumblr.com/post/69439673/bbc-radio-4-program-on-free
have a read of this:
"Is the business model of the future one where the customer no longer pays? Already products in the digital marketplace are being given away free, yet companies are still making profits.
The internet has created a revolution for free products, says Anderson
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7811481.stm
One firm believer in this increasingly common business model is Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine.
He claims the costs in the digital world are so low that both the companies and their customers are winners. "
also
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/
and
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1194442
Friday, January 09, 2009
STOP THE WAR National Demonstration: Sat 10th Jan 2009 Assemble 12.30pm Speakers Corner,Hyde Park - PASS it ON
STOP THE WAR National Demonstration: Saturday 10th January 2009 - PASS it ON
Assemble 12.30pm Speakers Corner, Hyde Park
March to Israeli Embassy High St Kensington, London
Bus from Birmingham: 8.30am opposite moor st station. Please call Helen on 07905 212 297 for tickets.
Shoes for the widows and orphans and all those killed - In the spirit of Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, who used his shoes to protest over George Bush's war crimes, we will deliver shoes to the Israeli Embassy at Saturday's demonstration. Please bring old shoes, so we -- like Muntadar al-Zaidi -- can say, "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed."
Here is the latest video:
Anyone with a semblance of humanity watching this video, hearing what the doctor in a Gaza hospital says, will know the extent of Israel’s barbarity.
“This is Dante’s Inferno, hell. There are injuries here you just don’t want to see. Children with their abdomens open and legs cut off. We just had a child and we had to amputate both legs and an arm. Their only crime is that they are civilians, Palestinians, living in Gaza. The bombing has to stop immediately. This cannot go on. Anyone who portrays this as a clean war against another army is lying. This is an all out war against the civilian population in Gaza. They cannot flee as other populations can in war time because Israel has them trapped in a cage. Israel is bombing one and a half million people trapped in a cage.”
Gaza has a population 1.5 million. Israel has slaughtered 650 Palestinians and injured 3000 more in the last eleven days. A proportionately similar death toll in Britain, with a population of 60 million, would be 26,000 dead and 120,000 injured. If Britain was Gaza, Israel would be condemned by the whole world for monstrous crimes against humanity and forced to stop the carnage. The mealy mouthed statements by governments so far are pitiful. Israel is only able to act in this barbaric manner because of the support it gets from governments who habitually turn a blind eye to its war crimes.
Join the national demonstration: Stop the War is asking all its local groups outside of London to book coaches or arrange other transport to help make this the biggest demonstration yet seen in this country.
Mass slaughter and devastation in Gaza shows barbarity has no limits. Half of Gaza's one and a half million people are children, dozens of whom have been killed or injured. Hospitals in Gaza are overflowing with dead and wounded while facing severe shortages of essential medical supplies and spare parts.
The full horror of war crime is not being shown by the British media. Stop the War has been sent these pictures which capture what happens when the fourth most powerful military in the world unleashes its arsenal of terror on people trapped in the most densely populated area in the world.
Demonstrations across the world call for an immediate stop to the carnage. Every country in the world bar one wants the killing and destruction to stop now. But just as it did in the Lebanon War in 2006, The United States has given the green light to Israel to intensify its barbarism.
The US is blocking all UN diplomacy for an immediate ceasefire with the tacit compliance of the British government, which calls for an immediate ceasefire while at the same time endorsing America's refusal to allow any discussion in the United Nations to achieve this end.
When Israel broke the six month ceasefire on November 4, it was the trigger for this long planned invasion, deliberately timed for the last few weeks of George Bush's presidency and a few weeks before Israeli elections, in which all the leading politicians are competing as to how many Palestinians they can kill.
Stop the War, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, British Muslim Initiative, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament are organising continual protests in the next week, culminating in a national demonstration marching to the Israeli Embassy in London on Saturday 10 January.
We urge all of our supporter to do all keep informed about our activities via out website and by subscribing to our regular newsletters. Everyone who is shocked and outraged by Israel's barbarity, and the prospect of hundreds more Palestinian civilians being killed by the fourth most powerful military in the world, should commit themselves to helping mobilise for the protests in the coming week and for making the national demonstration on Saturday 10 January the biggest yet seen in this country for the freedom of Palestine.
The text and contents of this message has been passed on from http://www.stopwar.org.uk if you have any queries, questions, comments or further information please contact: http://www.stopwar.org.uk
Actors, musicians, writers... speak out PDF Print
Wednesday, 07 January 2009
"We speak out for the people of Gaza. What is happening there is a crime against humanity. We are asking everyone to be at Speaker's Corner in London at 12.30 pm on Saturday, 10 January, and join the march to the Israeli Embassy."
Signed:
Tony Benn, President Stop the War Coalition
Annie Lennox
Peter Gabriel
Michael Nyman
Miriam Margolyes
Nigel Kennedy
Bill Bailey
Brian Eno
Janet Suzman
Alexei Sayle
Katie Mitchell
Professors Hilary & Steven Rose
Iain Banks
Terry Jones
Tariq Ali
Dr Richard Horton (Editor, The Lancet)
Vanessa Redgrave
Katherine Hamnett
Mark Thomas
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Samuel West
Caryl Churchill
A.L. Kennedy
Corin Redgrave
John Williams
John Pilger
Timberlake Wertenbaker
David Gentleman
Craig Murray
Ian Macdonald,QC
Susan Wooldridge
Michael Kustow
Mark Steel
Michael Rosen
Andy de la Tour
Professor Paul Gilroy
Lauren Booth
Kika Markham
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Roger Lloyd Pack
Jehane Markham
Janie Dee
Kathy Panama
Mike & Kate Westbrook
Ed Harcourt
Dave Randall
Michael La Rose
Louise Christian
Ali Hussein
Liane Aukin
Eugene Skeef
Keith Burstein
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Eureka Machines - Wolves Little Civic - Sun 18th Jan 2009
Eureka Machines - Wolves Little Civic - Sun 18th Jan 2009
Nuventure UK and Musoplex Studios are proud to bring Eureka Machines back to the Midlands on their latest tour. Leeds' finest played to massive crowd and critical acclaim at this year's Leeds and Reading festivals and their Do or Die album sees them teetering on the brink of greatness....so come and give 'em a push.
'it is an album that staples Chris's name in the histories as a genuinely super superstar of British music and one that gets better with every single listen... wonderful stuff - 5/5' - Andi J Chamberlain,Subba-Cultcha, August 2008
'power-pop perfection - a dazzling debut - 4/5' - The Sun, 15 August 2008 (scan)
Eureka Machines will be ably supported by local talent personally hand-selected by Nuventure......DISCOTHEQUE WRECK, SARCASTIC COMMENT and ELLE DIABLO.
Tickets are £6 from www.midlandboxoffice.com, 0870 320 7000.
Enjoy
Fused Magazine are working with UKTI to organise a mission to South by South West Music event in March 09 in Austin Texas
Fused is excited to announce that they are working with UKTI to organise a mission to the South by South West Music event in March 09 in Austin Texas. They are looking for people involved in the music industry - promoters, Labels, Managers, etc - to join them on this very exciting and potentially expensive trip and have £500 to help each company. Better than a kick in the head I suppose.
SXSW MUSIC, 18th - 21st March 2009.
Fused are welcoming entries from a range of music related businesses and individuals to attend South by South West music conference in 2009.
Why apply?
The SXSW MUSIC AND MEDIA CONFERENCE showcases hundreds of musical acts from around the globe on over eighty stages in downtown Austin. By day, conference registrants do business in the SXSW Trade Show in the Austin Convention Center and partake of a full agenda of informative, provocative panel discussions featuring hundreds of speakers of international stature.
The fund covers up to 50% of your costs. These costs can include: your event pass or ticket, travel expenses and accommodation costs. Costs will be reimbursed upon production of receipts up to a maximum of: £500.
Deadline for applications: Noon Tuesday 20th January, 2009.
http://www.fusedmagazine.com/2009/01/08/sxsw-music-delegates-wanted/#more-1127
If you know of anyone that would be interested please forward the link to them.
Warmest Regards
Kerry & Dave
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Kerry Thomas - Fused Magazine - 315 The GreenHouse - Gibb Street - Birmingham - B9 4AA t: 0121 246 1946 - e: kerry@fusedmagazine.com - www.fusedmagazine.com
DUFUS Tour dates and NEW ALBUM "In Monstrous Attitude" FEB 23rd, artwork by Jeff Lewis
January 9 The Mez, Rochester, NY
January 18 Funk-n-Waffles, Syracuse, NY
February 12 Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY with Diane Cluck
February 14 ABC Cafe, Ithaca, NY
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Anyone who was interested in booking
European dates, do get in touch soon!!
quankmeyer@hotmail.com
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EUROPEAN TOUR (March 16 - April 6)
3.16.09 Walpodenakademie, Mainz, Germany
3.17.09 Franzis, Wetzlar, Germany
3.18.09 TBA
3.19.09 BENELUX
3.20.09 TBA
3.21.09 TBA
3.22.09 TBA
3.23.09 TBA
3.24.09 Café de la Danse, Paris, France
3.25.09 FRANCE
3.26.09 le Quentin, Dijon, France
3.27.09 FRANCE
3.28.09 ITALY - TBA
3.29.09 ITALY - TBA
3.30.09 ITALY - TBA
3.31.09 ITALY - TBA
4.01.09 CROATIA - TBA
4.02.09 WEIN - TBA
4.03.09 PMK, Innsbruck, Austria
4.04.09 Kino, Ebensee, Austria
4.05.09 TapTab Musicclub, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
4.06.09 Germany, Berlin - TBA
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NEW ALBUM
It's called "In Monstrous Attitude" and features a three piece band
comprised of Seth Faergolzia, Anders Griffen and Alex Coronado, mixed
and mastered by Kramer, with a 12 page comic style book of artwork by
Jeffrey Lewis http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com The album coming out
in Europe FEBRUARY 23rd, 2009.
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http://www.dufus.tv
http://www.myspace.com/dufus
Another Nice Mess DFM Radio 6th january 2009
ANOTHER NICE MESS
DFM Radio, 6th January 2009
Hostess: Marcelle van Hoof
Hostess: Marcelle van Hoof
LISTEN LIVE online: www.dfm.nu every Tuesday between 19-22 hours CET (Dutch time) / 18-21 hours BST (UK time)
LISTEN (AGAIN) AT ANY OTHER TIME via www.anothernicemess.com
LISTEN (AGAIN) AT ANY OTHER TIME via www.anothernicemess.com
DOWNLOAD THIS WEEK’S SHOW: http://download.yousendit.com/bVlBdFdVdVVGR0hIRGc9PQ
MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/djanothernicemess
DANDELION RADIO MONTHLY SHOW: www.dandelionradio.com/marcelle
POSTAL ADDRESS: see www.anothernicemess.com/contact.html
For INFO/REQUESTS mail Marcelle at: info@anothernicemess.com
She broadcasts from home, so she might play your requested song (almost)
instantly!
She broadcasts from home, so she might play your requested song (almost)
instantly!
BOOKINGS:
The 2008 Mix
Marcelle plays and mixes some of her favourite records and acts from 2008 in random order
1. Signature tune: Jon E Cash/untitled
2xlp: DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess Meets Her Soulmates At Faust Studio Deejay Laboratory (www.klangbad.de)
2. Mark Stewart and Ari Up/Mr You’re A Better Man Than I
2xlp: Edit (www.crippled.com)
3. Daniel Meteo/The Beat Of The Heart
12’’ ep: Beat Of The Heart (www.meteosound.net)
4. Shackleton/Shortwave
12’’ ep: Soundboy’s Suicide Note (Skull Disco)
5. Leila/Little Acorns
2xlp: Blood, Looms & Blooms (www.warprecords.com)
6. Zea/Song For Electricity
mp3 (www.zea.dds.nl)
7. The Congos/The Upsetter/Congo Natty (Carl Craig Edit 2)
12’’ (Honest Jon’s)
8. Paul Wirkus & Mapstation/Summer Rain And Fading Plane
9. Kromestar/Badman
12’’ (www.zaudio.co.uk)
10. Venetian Snares/CCUK
12’’ (www.planet-mu.com)
11. Anne James Chaton & Andy Moor/Vous Êtes Riche
cd: Le Journaliste (www.unsounds.com)
12. Portable/Optional
12’’ ep: Distance (www.katapult.fr)
13. The Lovely Eggs/I Want To Fall Off My Bike Today
7’’ ep: Have You Ever Heard The Lovely Eggs? (www.cherryademusic.co.uk)
14. The Bug feat. Spaceape/Fuckaz
15. Aardvarck/track 2, side 1
12’’ ep (Bloom)
16. SJ Esau/What Happen’d
lp: Small Vessel (www.anticon.com)
17. Bong Selecta/Guntest
7’’ (www.clashrecords.com)
18. 2562/Morvern
2xlp: Aerial (Tectonic)
19. Stöma/La La La
20. Ghislain Poirier feat. Abdelhak Rahal/Exils
2xlp: No Ground Under (www.ninjatune.net)
21. Istari Lasterfahrer/Can’t Tek No More
12’’ ep: All Wrongs Deserved (www.sozialistischer-plattenbau.org)
22. Disrupt/Riddim Grid
lp: Foundation Bit (www.werk-it.com)
23. Jorg/track 9
download album: Lomek 07 (www.lomechanik.com)
24. Bar 9/Untitled Symphony
12’’ (www.zaudio.co.uk)
25. High Places/Namer
lp: High Places (www.thrilljockey.com)
26. Cauto/Bona Vida
12’’ ep: Dutty Remix Zero (Dutty Artz)
27. Mark Boombastik/Putzen (Nerk & Dirk Leyers Remix)
12’’ ep (www.myspace.com/iamsinglerecords)
28. Ellen Allien/Its
12’’ ep (www.bpitchcontrol.de)
29. Nina Nastasia/What She Doesn’t Know
7’’ (www.fat-cat.co.uk)
30. Pinch/136 Trek
12’’ (Punch Drunk)
31. Cardopusher/Homeless (Quarta 330 Rmx)
split 12’’ with Quarta 330 (www.hyperdub.net)
32. New Bloods/Doubles
lp: The Secret Life (www.killrockstars.com)
33. Bulgar Brothers feat. Big Bully/side B
10’’: We Are 07 (We Are)
34. Born Ruffians/I Need A Life (Four Tet Mix)
12’’ (www.warprecords.com)
35. Skream/Hedd Banger
12’’ (Tectonic)
36. Phokus & The Next/Smoke Ganja
12’’ ep: We Bomb Fi Dubs #4 (www.sozialistischer-plattenbau.org)
37. Death Sentence: Panda!/Insect Awaken
split 10’’ with The Dreams (www.oreille-equitable.org/_philscrotumproduction/_bibimbap/)
38. The Fall/Taurig
lp: Imperial Wax Solvent (Sanctuary)
39. Food For Animals/Shhhy
cd: Belly (www.cockrockdisco.com)
40. Warrior Queen And The Heatwave/Things Change
12’’ (www.souljazzrecords.co.uk)
41. Schlammpeitziger/Konservatives Einzellzimmer
lp: Schwingstelle Für Rauschabzug (www.sonig.com)
42. Si Begg/Are You A Big Boy DJ
12’’ ep: Jetlag And Tinnitus Part Three (www.sibegg.com)
43. Jazzsteppa/Jakin
44. Liz Christine/A Song To The Lilac Fairy
cd: No Women No Cry Vol. 3 (www.monika-enterprise.de)
45. Alpha Omega/Concrete Pillows
12’’ ep: Don’t Panic It’s Just Drum & Bass 2.0 (www.alphacutrecords.com)
46. Compound One/Coohagen
12’’ (www.compoundone.co.uk)/
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