Purr presents... S.C.U.M / YOU LOVE HER COZ SHES DEAD / POPPY AND THE JEZEBELS plus THE PANTHER GIRLS



S.C.U.M.’s debut single (recorded by Tomathy Furse of The Horrors) ‘Visions Arise’/‘Second Sea’ was released on Loog Records on the 15th of September.
In a few short months they have hammered a wedge into the cracking facade of the UK music scene, splitting it into the factions of old and new, sowing the seeds of what is to come.

“The Birthday Party being played on a ship in heavy fog. Crawling out of the Shoreditch night only months ago, their soupy no wave burns with sinister frustration.” – NME, Top 10 New Bands To See

My Favourite New Band by Faris Rotter of The Horrors…
“They’re all about 16 and sound like Mars (the ‘70s no-wave’ band) with loads of strobes. They’ve only been together a couple of months. I saw them the other night and Rhys (Spider Webb) was playing bass for them. They’re really good. Ones to watch.” - Faris Rotter

“'Visions Arise' is a dark, claustrophobic and desperate noise that sounds like a mix of The Scientists and Christian Death.” - Rough Trade

“A new, darkly-Gothic and threatening soundtrack for London. SCUM are certainly on a mission, and if they are the saviours of a 'new rock'n'roll' that's gone stale, their arrival is timely. Vocals, Moog, Bass and Drums is not the usual collected rock formation, but nor is their bass-heavy groove. Tracks like 'Rituals' and 'Visions Arise' are a contemporary Edgar Allan Poe meets Bauhaus/PiL approach mixed by a psychotic On-U Soundsystem.” – Artrocker

“Mates with the Horrors and named after the manifesto from trigger-happy, radical feminist Valerie Solanas, S.C.U.M are Shoreditch's premier arthouse occult-rockers. "Visions Arise" (Loog) is a tempest of brittle synth and no wave drone, but could do with a few more strobe lights shooting out of the CD case to drum up the same brusiing atmosphere of their live shows." - UNCUT

NME Radar piece... "Go on, hate them - that's exactly what they want"

Artrocker - Single review - Last Month's Artrocker cover stars produce a 'mini-epic' - Single Of The Month. Who's The daddy?. S.C.U.M. are…

“'Visions Arise' begins with the kind of totemic bass riff that could stay in the collective cultural conscience for a very long time. It's swamped in reverb, much like most other elements of the song, giving it a new kind of retro feel. This is a sound not heard in decades.
With associations with The Horrors and the Underage Club scene, some suspect S.C.U.M. to be some manufactured goth-lite troupe, but they'd be wrong - very wrong. S.C.U.M are real innovators. Eschewing the temptation - which they probably never felt - to get up on stage under the guise of the artrock band template (angular hair, skinny jeans, hooded tops, tiny keyboards, five hundered miles per hour tempos), they instead take the speed down, stand around statue-still (except for front man Thomas Cohen's elastic flailings), and wash everything in the aforementioned reverberations.
'Visions Arise' is melodramatic and moodily atmospheric. And there's nothing wrong with any of that. The bass motif continues, virtually uninterrupted, throughout. The vocals - like The Horror's Faris Badwan on valium - punctuate like little punches. A mini-epic.” - Richard Davis, Artrocker



YOU LOVE HER COZ SHES DEAD
YLHCSD write about superheroes, superheroes & superheroes but, mainly just about superheroes.

In early 2008 Kitsuné invited YLHCSD to be a part of one of their highly regarded & popular mix CD compilations. Entitled ‘Gildas & Masaya - 'Paris'’, the CD featured rare & exclusive tracks from Hot Chip, The Chemical Brothers, Digitalism, Autokratz, In Flagranti, Does It Offend You... Yeah? & many more. Besides the Japanese release, the CD was released in June 2008 in the UK on Rough Trade.

YLHCSD also won the Indy Awards for 'Best Electronica Act 2008' this year, which was televised on Sky TV throughout May.

Since then, YLHCSD have embarked on the recording of their debut 12” ‘Inner City Angst’ due for release on Kitsuné on 24th November 2008, & have a track featured on the forthcoming Kitsuné Maison 6, released on 20th October 2008.

“Amazing. Imagine if Digitalism and Crystal Castles were asked to make a few tracks together after going on an MDMA binge for a week whilst playing the entire collection of SuperMario Bros games. It wouldn’t surprise me to see them on the front cover of NME being heralded as pioneers within the next year or so.” – Dying Scenesters Press

“Their arrival signals the end to the sofas and the start of a full blown rave. The dance floor then erupts to this fitness workout meets Super Mario.” - Live Music Scene

“Ridiculous name. Ridiculously-brilliant. The End.” – Popjustice

“Disco-trash duo of superhero punk kids that won ‘Best Electronica’ at this year's Indy Awards.” - Drowned In Sound



POPPY AND THE JEZEBELS
Four girls - all in their last year at the same comprehensive school, 4ever 2gether, a band for two years, and twelve months in all good record shops…

A seven-inch single sold out within weeks of release…

“Like something Rough Trade might have snuck out during its eclectic early days, which is to say it really doesn’t sound like anything else.” – The Guardian

Then, radio sessions, fashion shoots, TV appearances and shows up and down the country. Every adventure captured in their own MySpace magazine and followed, to their delight, by those whose music has been such an influence and inspiration… Sweet & Blondie producer Mike Chapman, The Shangri-Las’ Mary Weiss, Raincoat Gina Birch.

With press attention inevitably focussing upon the girls’ strong links with the emerging ‘underage’ scene, they release a mini-album “Follow Me Down’ on the Reveal label.
Acclaim comes from all sides, from Teen Vogue USA and ID to Diva and The Independent. From Vice to the Daily Mail…

“Follow Me Down is a promising album which will inevitably have these four Brummies dictating to their peers.” - NME

Now to keep that promise…

New songs, including ‘UFO’ are recorded with John Rivers, engineer of ‘Ghost Town’ no less. It recalls, at once, the last clear signal from the New World of Joe Meek AND the sugar-rush fizz and shimmer of New Pop. Yet somehow, of course, STILL doesn’t sound like anyone else.

“They are clever, intriguing, funny and devastatingly cool – and they don’t sound like anyone else.” - The Guardian

“Set an impressive standard for a new generation.” – NME

“The beginnings of a classic indie-pop band.” – The Sunday Times

“Poppy and The Jezebels have an exceptional ability that is beyond their years.” – The Independent On Sunday

“Their quintessentially English pop is delivered with a neat shot of insouciant cool.” – Artrocker

“You’ll be superstars!” - NME



THE PANTHER GIRLS
Purr’s fabulous in-house dance-troupe will be throwing some dance-floor shapes. The Panthergirls dance to punk and glam and 60s girl groups and bang-up-to-date modern music and whatever they want to! They’ve danced with Los Campesinos! Crystal Castles, Tiny Master Of Today, Glam Chops, Friends Of The Bride, The Hot Puppies, Help She Can’t Swim and many more. They’ve appeared in Bath, Bristol, London, Cardiff, Margham Deer Park and on tables in Paris. They are the fabulous Panther Girls and have moves too myriad to put into words. Be warned, they’ve got claws as well as ears!

“Those glamorous, naughty all-dancing Panthergirls.” – The Guardian

"The Panther Girls twirl, shimmy and kick their way through cute ‘n’ kitschy dance routines." - Kitten Painting

“Synchronised moves come from the Panthergirls, the uber-glam in-house dance troupe at Bath's Purr night.” – The Guardian

"A kind of cross between Pan’s People, the Radio City Rockettes and a cheerleading squad entertain us dancing about, cat-ears waving, to cool tunes, including, thanks to Panther girl choreographer and Purrista Delia, a great dancing track from the previously unknown Frank Popp Ensemble." - Charleyspace.com

"I’m convinced Purr is one of the best clubs going! Two words: “Panther Girls” rrrrrooooaaar!" - from Piney Gir’s diary

“They've got tails, they've got attitude - and they've got the moves to make any party go with a swing.” – Bath Chronicle


Thursday 27th November
Purr @ Moles Club, 14, George Street, Bath, BA1 2EN,
Tel: 01225 404445 with themed DJing courtesy of The World-Famous Purr DJs & Dance-floor Shapes Thrown By The Panthergirls.
Doors open 9pm. First band on 10pm. Tickets £5, £4.50 concs, £4 mem, available in advance from www.wegottickets.com.