After the noise has gone.

Soooooooo,  Sunday 25th February - I'll be at the Birds Nest, Deptford for a lead-headed hangover day, with some of the most vicious, visceral, generally badass fuckers this side of Norfolk. 

4 Legs Good presents the third and final instalment to the Brighton Noise Festival, in which- having thoroughly infected the coast- some of the key components will march up north to the dilapidated metropolis known as London and hold a similar night of debauchery there...

UNHUMAN (Berlin/Species Productions)

Having recently played at Lärm Alarm Lärm noise/extreme electronics festival in Berlin he thought it would be fun to bring some of the action over to the UK for a weekend.
http://soundcloud.com/unhumangr

HOPE IN DYSTOPIA

Straight outta Stonehaven. Bleak and industrial one-man noise barrage. Power Electronics at its finest.
http://soundcloud.com/hopeindystopia

THE DDN

Mythical Scottish entity. Experimental music output. Take it or leave it. Don't be a stranger. Don't be a sinner.
http://www.ultrayonic.bandcamp.com/

NOW WASH YOUR HANDS

The UK's cleanest power electronics artist. Very entertaining but also highly informative. Strong lessons about the importance of personal hygiene.
https://www.facebook.com/nowwashyourhands

DOGFEET

Experimental hate music.
https://www.facebook.com/dogfeetmusic

KOSTOGLOTOV

Lo-fidelity ambient drone. Other-wordly calming effects.
http://www.soundcloud.com/kostoglotov

MATTHEW PASTKEWICZ

Loud. Meaningless. Noise.
https://soundcloud.com/matthew-pastkewicz

SHIT FILTER

War & sex & death noize


4pm-10.30pm

This is a FREE show but there is a suggested donation of £4 to feed the starving mouths of artists (or at least compensate their travel expenses)

As the 'Sunday Afternoise' title may suggest, these festivities do not stand alone. Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th, the good people of 4 legs good and Club Zygotic are celebrating all that is loud, tantric and esoteric (see links below) - it will be one HELL of a weekend. 

Brighton Noise One - Link

Brighton Noise Two - Link

Sunday Afternoise

New Track

While you guys are out partying, fornicating and generally loving life... some of us are more than content, in our rooms, creating mock number stations.

Perhaps the first song to have been recorded into a phone, under a blanket. We'll have Guinness check it in the morning.

Featuring: Smile.

Live

24th February. Dirty South. Lewisham. London. £TBC

27th February. Catch. Shoreditch. London. £TBC

It'll be my privilege to play with these shithot bastards : 

Wars: Link

Kostoglotov: Link

Brutes: Link

5 & 1

5 & 1

Discipline 4

Thanks to anyone at The Bunker Club on Friday. I had an awesome night, privileged to briefly hear J-Pop / Noise duo Umez, and witness the breaking of a Bass guitar - sliced off at the neck.

A new record is waiting for airing - I'm just waiting to finalise the artwork and work out what name it will be release under, it's all super-exciting stuff.

   

Up-to-date

So it looks all quiet on the musical front..... not so, oh no. A busy summer is putting back plans to release a second album of drone ever so slightly, but musically we are busier than ever. 

Last wednesday ushered in Gwdihw's first Anti-Folk 'takeover', headlined by the band I'm playing with Quiet Marauder. The brain-dead hoards were treated to wonderful twisted narratives and enthralled by tales of Vlad the Impaler, the zombie apocalypse and Alan Shearer (listen above). 

We're at The Moon Club, Cardiff on Monday, banging kettles, baking trays and numbing our frankly empty skulls in front of Belgian guests. 

The allure of performing with the combined genius of Simon Read and Jonathan Day in October will mean missing what is surely the greatest festival line-up the UK has seen this year; Supersonic in Birmingham. For three days Kevin Drumm, Tim Hecker, Merzbow, Six Organs of Admittance, The Bug and the cream of weird, esoteric artists and musicians, swarm upon England's second city and abuse thousands of ears with an intense, euphoric, racket. Visit the Supersonic website here and salivate in expectancy. 

Elsewhere, my housemate and I recently went to see local ancho-acid-punk legends Sicknote. Now despite having seen (and enjoyed) Sicknote before, Friday's performance opened my eyes to a revelation of possibilities for live performance and the potential of inviting a wider audience to laptop noise, through rhythm and theatrics.   

The band were excellent, previewing and releasing their forthcoming anti-conservative single 'Tory Swing', big-beats, a tonne of charisma and a certain Mr Cameron swinging urmmm rather precariously. 

It got us thinking about ways with which we could combine anarchy, noise, surrealism and a 'kick-you-in-the-cunt', live show.......... The result; seven days of programming and two nights drinking, preliminary plumbing shown below and you can expect some harsh beat driven noise in the next couple of months, like Cut Hands - but better. 

listen to Sicknote <---- here.