The noise that Yajé make swamps and gloops every surface like the tentacle monster from the end of Watchmen. The guitars make slicing, fuzzy waves of awkwardness, vocals beam in from some distant broom cupboard, moaning and shouting over the fractured effects pedal tidal waves. Yajé make songs located halfway between beer buzz and LSD freak out, weird and experimental yet scrappy and joyous, writhing around inside a giant, opaque jellyfish of sound. Champion dosers; monster thrills.

Course, rock music doesn’t have to made by nice people. Bitches look like they’d be more at home in Dalston, in vintage clothes, sneering. A good way to evaporate this slightly unfair air of suffocating cool though is to stomp on those effects pedals and make like a feral rock beast, and in this Bitches are at least partly successful. Blake, positioned in the audience, ignoring H & S with cavalier guitar neck swings, hacks out chunky, distorted bass riffs; Staz, on hard drums and off mic screaming, drives things with slightly unhinged energy. Their fuzzy rock is basic, harshly playful and has a seemingly random distribution of good/bad songs. On the whole, they beat the odds.

Jon Spencer, of Blues Explosion ‘fame’, once said playing live was like having all your pores opened, but he never set up four drumkits in the middle of a tiny basement and got the crowd in a circle around them. Of all the things to be said about Foot Village – their tightness, precision, megaphoned-in psycho ranting – the one thing that should be emphasised is how much fun the whole thing is. Games Workshop escapee men channel rolling thunder from their too close kits, call and response is batted between band and audience members keen to learn the benefit of shouting from the stomach, the drum workshop boils over and thumper Grace Lee lurches brilliantly around the outside of the circle, hooting and cooing head high over the rivers of rhythm. It’s like a demented workout DVD crossed with a superfun group therapy session. Once you’re plunged in the rolling, boiling racket you don’t want to leave, but you eventually get spat out with a dazed grin on your face.

TWO WINGS
ROZI PLAIN
ZEUK
& support

Sunday 22nd May 7.30pm
10 Feet Tall, Cardiff
Ages:18+
£4 entry
http://www.10feettallcardiff.com/

Expect vocals spanning KATE BUSH, GRACE SLICK and STEVIE NICKS, guitar solos spanning RICHARD THOMPSON, PETER GREEN and LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, harmonies a la CROSBY, STILLS & NASH and WINGS, and a rhythm section which may be the missing link between STEELEYE SPAN and LED ZEPPELIN. Roots in folk tradition that looks forward to the advent of rock’n'roll and beyond.

Borne of a song-writing collaboration between singer/multi-instrumentalist/visual artist Hanna Tuulikki (Nalle, Scatter, The Family Elan) and guitarist/singer Ben Reynolds (Baby Dee, Trembling Bells, Alasdair Roberts, Tompkins Square Records), Two Wings draws upon both musicians’ thematic fixation with love, death, spirituality, as well as a passion for the song-writing craft in its myriad forms – from its roots in folk tradition, forward to the advent of rock n roll and beyond.

http://www.twowings.bandcamp.com/

A nice supporting line too. Last time out, My Pet Monster were an intriguing mix of slacker guitar coasting and twee shambling, while James James are our Hot New Band of the moment, being Simon and Rich of King Alexander’s junkyard, meditative garage strangeness (and who will be playing at our Kellies gig next month AHEM). Give it up for the fine Shape Records DJ crew too, hopefully in full cheerleader outfits this time. Party times.

Thurs 19th May
THANK YOU
MY PET MONSTER / JAMES JAMES
& SHAPE RECORDS DJs

8pm £5 adv wegottickets.co.uk / Spillers / 10 Feet Tall / £6 doors / discount with Buffalo Swn stamp (from Three Trapped Tigers show which finishes 10pm)

Thank You could only come from one city, at one moment in time. Like Pere Ubu’s Cleveland and Joy Division’s Manchester, post-industrial Baltimore serves as simultaneous playground, obstacle course, and muse to this show-stealing art-rock trio. Jeffrey McGrath (everything), Michael Bouyoucas (everything), and Emmanuel Nicolaidis (everything) are veterans of a cold era when the Baltimore music scene barely exceeded the carrying capacity of a warehouse elevator. Things change, and the band’s urgent collision of rhythm, melody, and noise has placed them at the creative center of today’s Baltimore renaissance, sharing stages and tours with such acts as Beach House (Sub Pop), Lungfish (Dischord), Celebration (4AD), Dan Deacon (Carpark), Zomes (Holy Mountain), Jason Urick, and Future Islands (both Thrill Jockey).

www.myspace.com/wethankyou

GIRLS NAMES
VANITY FAIR
& DJ JEN LONG

Wednesday 4th May 8pm
Buffalo Bar, Cardiff
Ages: 18+
£4 entry
http://www.buffalocardiff.com/

Forming in Belfast in January 2009 initially as a two-piece, Cathal Cully and Neil Brogan booked their first gig as Girls Names before theyʼd even played together. Expanding to a three piece some months later with the addition of Claire Miskimmin on bass, the band have effortlessly refined their own personal take on the early/mid eighties shadow world of Black Tambourine, Felt and the Sound of Young Scotland. Although still in their infancy, Girls Names have traced their development through a series of releases, having already issued a 12” (Captured Tracks), an 8 track mini-album (Tough Love) and a split 7” with San Franciscoʼs Brilliant Colors (Slumberland). From humble beginnings their live show has also been dramatically improved, helped in part by sharing stages with Times New Viking, Dum Dum Girls and Abe Vigoda, amongst others.

Girls Names debut album ‘Dead To Me’ will be released in the UK on the 25th April via Tough Love Records and the next day in the US on Slumberland Records.

http://www.myspace.com/girlsnames

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7:30pm doors
£6 on the door
advance tickets £6 from the here shop

FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUTAINS
Just days ago announced their signing to DOMINO RECORDS , FATAM very excitedly returning to Bristol where it all started out. They’ve been in a strict rehearsal regime over the last few months and have emerged with a killer stage show, tight moves and lovely jumpers.
look here:
www.kidfrancois.com

THIS IS THE KIT
New album Wriggle Out The Wrestless is getting hearty praise all over the shop, new single Earthquake is about to get hearty praise all over the shop. Working so hard they’ve now got frequent traveler status on the Eurostar. Totally amazing songs and vibe.
look here:
www.thisisthekit.co.uk

+ ROZI PLAIN DJ

THIS MIGHT WELL SELL OUT SO MAYBE DO GET THERE IN GOOD TIME IF YOU CAN OR BUY A TICKET IN ADVANCE FROM THE HERE SHOP

see you there
x x

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Zoopop & Loose present:

FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
THIS IS THE KIT
JOSHUA JAMES MORGAN (& BAND)
FFRED JONES

Tuesday 3rd May 7.30pm
10 Feet Tall, Cardiff
Ages: 18+
£4 entry
http://www.10feettallcardiff.com/

Multi-talented songwriter, musician, animator and artist from Saintes – FRANCOIS moved to Bristol and quickly found himself supporting acts like GRAVENHURST, PATRICK WOLF, PANDA BEAR and ELECTRELANE, and assembling an ever-changing band of players called ‘The Atlas Mountains’ whose cast has included RACHAEL DADD and ROZI PLAIN.

Over the years Francois has recorded albums and EPs through TOO PURE and STITCH STITCH, and performed around the globe, as well as being a touring member of CAMERA OBSCURA on trumpet & percussion.

www.kidfrancois.com
www.myspace.com/francoisinbristol

Spring has actually bloody gone and sprung.  Longer days, bank holidays, the first wave of festivals.  People attending gigs in shorts. Clearly it’s not all good news, then, but the glut of live activity this month should provide even more encouragement to get you lazy gets out of the house and into the musical cattlesheds of South Wales and the surrounding area.  Let’s have a look at it, shall we?

Kicking off in Cardiff, the cream of the city’s indie promoters offer a nice mix of the familiar (but welcome) and unfamiliar (but intriguing).  A rare live outing for THE HIGH LLAMAS, Sean O’Hagan’s seasoned Brian Wilson/Tropicalia-referencing outfit, is hugely recommended, so top work Swn.  Expertly chosen support from Cardiff’s own hyper-literate composer/arranger extraordinaire SPENCER McGARRY too (Globe, 21st).  Also very nice to see in the listings are Wolf Parade side-project HANDSOME FURS (Buffalo, 14th); Dan Boeckner’s me-and-the-missus distraction has delivered two albums of streamlined synthpop/indie-rock which beat out most of his main band’s work.  They’re here courtesy of Loose, who also have a paw in several other lower-key but excellent offerings this month; WET PAINT put out a cracking album of hooky, archly funny Pavement/Broken Family Band-esque pop to near-silence a while back and should unreservedly be checked out at Undertone (30th), and there you can also see the ungoogleable yet thrillingly ace post-punk polyrhythmic attack of Baltimore’s THANK YOU (19th, with ex-King Alexander duo JAMES JAMES supporting).  Back at Buffalo, get discovering the chiming lo-fi pop and mush-mouthed crooning of Belfast cuties GIRLS NAMES (4th), and a cracking Swn-helmed double bill of inventive, kinetic mathy noodling from THREE TRAPPED TIGERS and TALL SHIPS (19th).  There’s also welcome returns for prolific Richman-esque indie mavericks THE WAVE PICTURES (Clwb, 12th, with THREATMANTICS), THE VOLUNTARY BUTLER SCHEME (Rob Jones’ shuffling kitchen-sink pop enterprise supports the VEG Club at 10 Feet Tall on the 17th), FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS, now Domino-signed and back at 10 Feet Tall on the 3rd, and MISTY’S BIG ADVENTURE whose Panini sticker-style collection of Cardiff venues is complete with a stop at 10 Feet Tall on the 5th where they’re assisted by your GINDRINKER.  Yes.

It’s a packed month, actually; there’s loads more of this stuff to recommend.  The mighty ISLET play Primavera Sound this month, which is great news for them and the dozens of Cardiffians doubtless attending; they’ll limber up with an, er, intimate show at Undertone (23rd) which should be chaos.  Likewise, FUCKED UP kindly mark my impending birthday by squeezing in a full-bill matinee show (Clwb, 7th) ahead of their Croft gig in Bristol that night.  Tour supports BLACK LUNGS and, better, nutso Copenhagen hardcore pups ICEAGE join the fun.  Tickets strongly advised.  Staying with the harder stuff, there’s an alldayer at Clwb on the 15th in aid of MIND with a ton of fine punk, doom and hardcore types like THE DEATH OF HER MONEY, BASTIONS and GOODTIME BOYS and, courtesy of Lesson No. 1, the Bristolian cosmic prog magnificence of ANTA ably backed by local doom/sludge purveyors PUS and THORUN (9th).  Over in Newport, Cardiff City Hardcore’s 60th and final show is a half-day blowout (Le Pub, 7th) with a full eight hardcore outfits bidding them farewell.  IRONCLAD, HARBOUR and DEAL WITH IT feature strongly, while the night before a preview show features CROSSBREAKER and more.  LAST PARTISAN do the Meze (6th) that night too, a pretty splendid weekend for Newport heads all told.  YUCK‘s peppy grunge revivalism is all fine and dandy, and good luck to them as they play Millennium Music Hall’s smaller room (15th) and the Thekla (16th), but spare a thought for the giddy pop shambles of LET’S WRESTLE as they tag along in support.  If you’re going to either date, turn up early and clutch the Wrestle to your bosom, kids.  Oh yeah, and because I didn’t fit it in elsewhere, props to Cardiff Arts for booking blissful Chicago electroacoustic drone duo MOUNTAINS because they’re awesome.  That’s on the 26th, with a show at the Arnolfini the following night.

What of Bristol, then?  Fucking loads, that’s what.  Some top marquee shows this month at the Trinity, with captivating, idiosyncratic alt-folk hottie BILL CALLAHAN making an overdue return (10th) before the heartstoppingly wonderful LOW arrive on the 20th.  That’ll do for starters.  Keeping the folk/country thread alive, old pals THE HANDSOME FAMILY‘s gothic Americana hits the Fleece (16th), the glacially beautiful trad-country songcraft of LAURA CANTRELL is a should-see at St Bonaventure’s (2nd) and the ragged, rootsy and downright lovely RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE are a hot tip at the Cooler (18th).  Best of all, Matthew Houck’s PHOSPHORESCENT return to the Thekla (30th) still trailing a career-high breakthrough album of skyscraping country-rock wonder.  Maybe I won’t break down en route short of the bridge and end up getting towed back home this time, eh?  Elsewhere there’s folky eccentricity old and new, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III doing the Colston Hall (21st) and St David’s Hall (11th) and Howe Gelb-esque piano man HANS CHEW taking in Buffalo Lounge (free show, 6th) before the Mother’s Ruin (8th).

In the mood for something a little different, a bit challenging?  Course you are.  Bristol delivers in spades, naturally, and Qu Junktions are the reason.  Over here for ATP this month, Sun City Girls’ Richard and Alan Bishop perform as THE BROTHERS UNCONNECTED, a tribute show of sorts to recently deceased colleague Charles Gocher.  Qu and the venue (Cube, 10th) are being coy about an extra-special support guest too, if you need further encouragement.  At the same venue on the 14th there’s a cracking double bill featuring the reunion of DAMON & NAOMI with MICHIO KURIHARA of Ghost and Boris – epic drone-folk ahoy – and the masterful RICHARD YOUNGS.  Essential, exploratory, tangential folk aceness.  Currently subject of a cinema documentary on their remarkable journey, joyous Congolese rhythmists STAFF BENDA BILILI are brought to the Colston Hall by Qu on the 20th, and if you’re into that check out GRUPO LOKITO, a sprawling Afro-Cuban troupe relocated from Congo to London.  Blinding booking at the O2 Academy on the 7th, where godhead MC and total voice of hip-hop RAKIM marks the 25th anniversary of ‘Paid In Full’ (eek!) with support from DJ Format and beatbox legend RAHZEL.  On a different tip, fiercely intelligent, playful, culture-savvy Brooklynites DAS RACIST may be divisive and blog-friendly enough to arouse suspicion but they’re one of the most interesting and certainly culturally unique voices in hip-hop, and allegedly pretty riotous fun live too.  Thekla on the 14th for that one, again highly recommended; as are, while we’re on hipster suspicion, WARPAINT, whose tribal, psychedelic indie-rock gets a run-out at the O2 Academy (17th, with Connan Mockasin) ahead of a Swn show in Cardiff next month.

Rowdier fare in Bristol this month comes in the shape of returning metal noiseniks ROLO TOMASSI, always tight as the proverbial live (Fleece, 10th, with HOLY STATE); frat-thrash rabble CEREBRAL BALLZY, back  at the Thekla on the 9th (props to support Thrush Metal for keeping their end up name-wise); Liverpudlian psych bruisers MUGSTAR, teaming up with the aforementioned ANTA and – brace yourself – Urethra Franklin at the Croft (5th); and Alec Empire’s latest incarnation of ATARI TEENAGE RIOT going around again at the Fleece (13th).  Blissful Scandinavian noisepop from THE RADIO DEPT, like a super-sugary MBV, comes to the Fleece on the 12th backed by Sarah Records alumni SECRET SHINE; elsewhere, forced into despatches by constraints of time and patience, there’s the return of oddball MOR genius ARIEL PINK (Thekla, 17th); urgent, likeable pop from FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS (Fleece, 9th), adorable beach-bum BEST COAST‘s woozy polaroid chug (Thekla, 1st), perfectly poised PJ Harvey torch-pop moves from ANNA CALVI (Thekla, 2nd) and proggy, dramatic Euro-synth flourishes from ex-M83 man TEAM GHOST (Louisiana, 16th).

Round-up time; this month sponsored by me not having packed for a camping trip to Machynlleth tomorrow morning.  Brief mentions, then, for two festivals bookending the month; Simple Things (Start The Bus/Old Firestation, 1st) offers JAMIE XX, GONJASUFI, BATHS, DAEDELUS, FLOATING POINTS and some more suspect stuff; Dot To Dot (various Bristol venues, 28th) hits big with …TRAIL OF DEAD then tails off dramatically with flaccid sub-MGMT crap like The Naked & Famous.  Hmm.  Much more admirable, and to be featured in these pages soon, is a Spillers Records-curated series of 12 Saturday afternoon sessions at the Big Little City exhbition in the Old Library.  The exhibition itself is a joyous multimedia celebration of Cardiff curios past and present; musical turns this month include HUW M (7th) and LLWYBR LLAETHOG (14th).  Elsewhere, give up some time if you please for THE KEYS (album launch, Globe, 6th), THE MIDDLE ONES (Buffalo Lounge, 1st), SARABETH TUCEK (Buffalo, 15th), AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR (Cooler & Clwb, 4th & 5th), NEDRY (CAI, 11th – they’re dead good), the double bill of ROZI PLAIN and TWO WINGS (10 Feet Tall, 22nd), THE JEZABELS (Buffalo, 17th) and SHAPES (Louisiana, 12th).  Before I finish, just time to mention some old lags treading the boards one more time to the same crowds and probably diminishing returns; enough about the Manics, though, let’s hear it for THE ZOMBIES (Globe, 25th), THREE OF THE MONKEES (Motorboat Arena, 24th) and barmy old ADAM ANT (Coal Exchange, 31st).  It’s a shit business.

Hats off, then, to Easter; enabling 72-hour drinking and the binge-eating of rabbit-shaped chocolates since 1871.  As is customary on these occasions, the tireless Loose have put together a budget-priced alldayer, this time spread between two floors of 10 Feet Tall; relaxed acoustic loveliness of varying stripes upstairs in the afternoon, with more noisy fun in the less salubrious surrounds of Undertone later on.  Hey, the  baby Jesus died on a cross for your sins; navigating the toilets in Undertone is the least you can do in thanks.

THREATMANTICS will revel in a boozy, late-night slot here; their clamourous, viola-streaked folk-rock thump always hits the spot but there’s something about their demeanour when a room needs winning over or keeping going that really captivates.  A steely stare between vocalists, the songs untethered and careering to a halt.  We’ve already recently noted how you need to check out Oakland’s hyperactive jazz/hardcore skronk maniacs NO BABIES, who by happy accident are in the area this weekend and if there’s any justice will exfoliate a room full of tipsy faces with sheer volume.  No word how H. HAWKLINE will line up, but whether three-piece wiggy Krautrock/Jonathan Richman pop nuggets or troubled solo acoustic laments it’ll be special as ever.  Dedicated chap, that Evans; he’s also the best thing at Gwdihw’s own alldayer the same day.  Earlier on there’s swoonsome, spare acoustic plucking and to-die-for harmonies from BAREFOOT DANCE OF THE SEA and Threatmantics guitarist ANDREW LEWIS‘ own solo-with-band spot to look out for amongst others, and with DJ sets long into the night – including a titanic power struggle between our own Vivers and Interior Monologue which will surely end in a tearful, chocolate-smeared clinch  – this is a splendid way to give Monday morning the finger.

LOOSE EASTER PARTY!
Starting upstairs in 10 Feet then moving down to the Undertone basement until late!

THREATMANTICS
NO BABIES (UPSET THE RHYTHM)
H. HAWKLINE
MY PET MONSTER
ANDREW RHYS LEWIS & BAND
JOSHUA CAOLE
BAREFOOT DANCE OF THE SEA

DJs: Modern Life Is Rubbish, Gary Twisted By Design, The Joy Collective, Loose

Sunday 24th April 6pm til late
10 Feet Tall & Undertone
Ages: 18+
£3 entry including lots of chocolate
http://www.10feettallcardiff.com http://www.undertonecardiff.com

10 Feet will have 2-4-1 cocktails.

Undertone will have £2 drinks all night – Stella 4%, Stella bottles, rum & mixer, vodka & mixer, gin & mixer, Tequila shots.

The Broken Family Band’s decision to call it a day in 2009 after eight years and seven releases was a sad, bittersweet one.  Happy with their achievements and mindful of losing the fun by plugging away to diminishing returns, the amicable retirement allowed for some fittingly reflective, funny and cheeky farewell shows and a run-out for some back catalogue favourites.  In particular, a lump-in-the-throat, tear-in-the-beer set at End of the Road and a closing night slot at Swn will live long in the memory. 

Songwriter Steven Adams, happily, had no intention of stopping outright.  Returning to the alter-ego under which he released 2006′s slept-on, low-key solo gem Problems he dropped the definite article, recruited a band and wrote the songs which now form the first SINGING ADAMS record Everybody Friends Now.  Retaining the eye for a tune, the acerbic tongue and unnerving ability to convey personal, affecting words while avoiding any hint of mawkishness, the excerpts placed online so far suggest a continuation of the more streamlined indie-rock of later BFB albums stripped of some of the anglicised alt-country of their earlier work.  The band, recruited from Absentee and Saloon among others, carried off an initially tentative lunchtime main stage set at last year’s Green Man with ease, and Adams continues to be one of those effortless songwriters who makes you wonder how so many others get it so horribly wrong.

DEER PARK are favourites of the fine folk at Diverse and Gathered In Song, and with good reason.  They’re a band for whom name-dropping comparisons are a benefit, rather than a hindrance, which bodes well for lazy gets like myself; raucous alt-country with an emphasis on the alt-, think Replacements/Camper Van Beethoven folky thrash, Okkervil River erudition and Willy Vlautin’s storyteller’s pen.  Jon Greenwood of THE DOUBLECROSS adds an opening acoustic set – think Nebraska, the downbeat Lemonheads songs and a shade of pent-up Promise Ring emo.

Me and Matthew Jarrett are DJing too, apparently.  Don’t let that stop you taking a smoking break.

SINGING ADAMS (ex Broken Family Band)

DEER PARK

THE DOUBLECROSS (acoustic)

& Joy Collective/Diverse Music DJs

Sunday 10^th April 7.30pm

10 Feet Tall, Church Street, Cardiff

£6 adv / £7 door http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109661

Featuring former singer of THE BROKEN FAMILY BAND Steven Adams, SINGING ADAMS are just about to release their debut album ‘Everybody Friends Now’ on Records Records Records.

Still retaining the sharp wit that earned Adams his reputation as one of the finest lyricists and songwriters of recent times, mixed with optimistic indie, folk and rock ‘n’ roll sounds – this show is not to be missed!

http://www.myspace.com/thesingingadams

http://www.myspace.com/deerpark

http://www.myspace.com/doublecrossmusic

Loose & The Joy Collective present…

NODZZZ
THE MANTLES
STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR
DRAINS
+ DJ RICHARD S JONES (SHINDIG MAGAZINE)

Wednesday 16th March 8pm
Undertone (below 10 Feet Tall), Cardiff. Ages: 18+
£5 adv from wegottickets.co.uk / £6 doors

NODZZZ

San Francisco garage trio who jitter and twitch out minute long pop songs like true caffeine nerds. Their eponymous debut crammed 10 songs into 16 minutes; expect bracing, ungainly melodies and singable thrills. You like MODERN LOVERS, MINUTEMEN, WEEZER, ABE VIGODA? You’ll die happy.

‘Nodzzz’ is fun. Fun in the way that the second incarnation of the Modern Lovers and the first Weezer album are fun. Nick Lowe, Billy Childish, Feelies – you name it. The best moments on the album approach that classic garage-pop abandon, only shot through with a present tense ragged aesthetic. Nodzzz isn’t a throwback, but a modern celebration. It’s stunning that there aren’t more bands like Nodzzz and Eddy Current in this sweet spot between numbed revivalism and the noise garage. – Dusted

Nodzzz, a band who sound like they were conceived in London sometime around 1976, shuffled off to Manchester for a couple of years until the turn of the decade, then arrived back just in time for the first wave of Dan Treacy-inspired madness. – DiS

Like the Feelies or Modern Lovers before them, the group wears its quirkiness as a kind of badge of honor – Pitchfork

http://www.myspace.com/nodzzz

THE MANTLES

Also SF-based, but this time as heavy on the hazy psych-pop as on the straightahead fuzz riffing. Releases on SILTBREEZE and MEXICAN SUMMER (amongst others) should give you a rough idea: trebly, dirty, dreamy garage rock for fans of the CHILLS, HUSKER DU, SOFT BOYS and JAY REATARD. As a bonus, try and work out what Byron Coley is on about here:

“… a vibe somewhere between the crisp gauze of Midwest groups associated with the early-’80s garage revival (Vertebrats, Plasticland, etc.) and the mysto-stroke of late-’80s New Zealand.” — The Wire

http://www.myspace.com/mantles

STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR

Deranged, ultra-tight riff rock and alarming audience interaction from three denim-clad local athletes. Hard and fast primal garage that sounds like a bull having sex with a china shop. Debut EP ‘Full Frontal’ came out last year and is an essential purchase.

http://www.myspace.com/strangenewsfromanotherstar

DRAINS

Moonlighting members of Samoans and Kutosis make killer party grunge that’s mad, flippant and hacked back to its essentials. Will probably feature screaming, wandering nudity and Wayne’s World quotes. And fun. Small Cities have just released their first EP and it is good.

http://www.myspace.com/drainsmonde

Plus! The excellent Richard S Jones of Shindig magazine and others will be your DJ for the night…

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http://www.loosecardiff.com/

http://www.thejoycollective.co.uk/
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