“...so they were like "whens the next issue out? i mean, is it yearly? whats he do all day, read comix & watch semi-porno-euro-vampire flicks or something?" & i was like "no he's on it."
It's been a long time coming and its certainly not worth the wait but here's issue 5. Including interviews with Stare Case, Graham Lambkin, Eli Keszler and Gerry and the Holograms. Thomas Moronic interviews Scott Treleaven and writes about The New Blockaders (sort of) and there's art and photography from Steve Skwarek and Sian Macfarlane. Comes with added spelling mistakes and glaring omissions.
CD-r compilation (all in hand collaged sleeves) contains new and exclusive tracks from; Nacht und Nebel, Usurper, Preslav School of Industry, Brittle Foundries, ABYSSES and Inner City.
Photocopied to fuck and wonky to boot. £3.50ppd to anywhere in the world.
BONG From the icy wastes of the north come these ‘psychedelic doom drone warriors’ to crush all that oppose them beneath the weight of their monolithic riffs and sitar soaked dirges. For fans of Sunn 0)), Sleep and Om. New albums out now on Blackest Rainbow Recordings.
http://www.myspace.com/landbong
MOLTEN GODS Leaving a trail of smouldering and ruptured amplification in their wake, the Gods return to Rammel Club. Their improvised take on HEAVY will be so loud as to leave your eyeballs liquefied and your guts a damp and distant memory.
http://www.myspace.com/moltengods
NACHT UND NEBEL Henry's (Army of Flying Robots / Dead in the Woods) cassette driven doom project, tunneling into your inner most fears of disappearing into the fog of the night. At times it calls to mind the murky depths of Burial Hex or Culver.
MON 8TH MARCH @ CHAMELEON, Nottingham 8PM DOORS £5 adv / £6 Door
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The Rammel Club presents a night of guitar wrangling.
Steffen Basho-Junghans
The blurb says he’s a master of the six and twelve string guitar and I’m in no way going to dispute that, the last time I saw him play was at an Instal fest in Glasgow a few years ago and he had the audience eating out of his hand. When he stopped playing it was one of those rapt could-hear-a-pin-drop moments, which he duly then defused by telling us about going to see Tangerine Dream when he was a kid. This fellow has absorbed the usual Takoma influences and come out the other side with a personal style that manages to beguile and challenge in equal measures. We’re really looking forward to seeing this guy.
www.bluemomentarts.de/
Plum Slate
" Reverberant open-string/no-string improvisation for acoustic guitar." Hell, I’m not even quite sure what that means but it’s got my mid-section a-tingle already. You may recognise Stuart from such bands as Smear Campaign, Stuckometer, Barbarians and his label Total Vermin.
www.myspace.com/totalvermin
Bonsai Projects
When I first met Ali, I knew him firstly to be an extraordinary illustrator. When he popped round for a cup of tea and informed us he was going to do some music I didn’t think much of it but then he turned out to be brilliant as that as well. What a cunt eh? They say “somnambulist folk, guttural blues and comedic ramblings” and I’d probably agree. Let’s hope he plays his Shellac cover.
www.myspace.com/bonsaiprojects
Tuesday 10th November The Chameleon Nottingham £6/5adv
Picked a whole bunch of second hand records this week...This is just a handful of the album covers that i can find on the t'internet. I'll see if i can scan some of the more obscure ones in. It's a pity the Octopus LP wasn't in such great condition, that coulda paid my rent for the month, still completlely playable tho just a bit of surface crackle and the occaisonal skip. Someone has coloured the octo-girls nips in with biro.
Founded in the early ‘90s, Sister Iodine spurt out savage gouts of fiery, primal guitar drizzle that could be taken as no wave, free rock, or JUST VERY FUCKIN LOUD depending on how you woke up this morning. They were invited to open Sonic Youth’s "Sentational Fix" exhibition last year which might give you some idea of the primal pounding you’re gonna get from them. New recorded bumpf out on such labels as Editions Mego and Premier Sang.
Eli Keszler (USA)
From Providence, USA. Keszler uses drums, along with crotales, bells, bowed metal, strings, and amplification to create a unique whirlwind of sound that balances sparse droning harmonics with intense, fast, free rhythms. He’s played with artists such as Jandek, Phill Niblock, Roscoe Mitchell and Loren Connors to mention a few. You ain’t likely to get a second chance to see this guy.
Usurper (Scotland)
Great, skronking wasteland jams from Edinburgh. They’ve worked with Dylan Nyoukis (Blood Stereo) which only hints at the gibbering insanity that you can expect from them.