Steffen Basho-Junghans Tuesday 10th November

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

Record covers

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.

Sister Iodine Weds 28th Nottingham

Sister Iodine (France)

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.

Bitumen (Nottingham)

Weds 28th October

The Chameleon

Nottingham

£6/5adv

Dennis Wheatley

THIS EDITION ISSUED BY THE BOOK CLUB.

Gary War

I've been slightly obsessed with Gary War's LPs on SHDWPLY and Sacred Bones. Slurred, narcotic pop.I'd like to interview him for the next issue but maybe he's a recluse.

Party time

Space Travel Is Boring

This will be great. A (free!)night of electronica, ambient and post rock sounds with visuals based around space travel and the moon landing. Looking forward to it.