Alright!
After last Saturday’s blazing headline show (drums!!! harmonicas!!! baby
masks!!!), our Wolf Eyes double party concludes tonight at Café OTO with all
three members serving up some solid solo performances. We’ll have thick walls
of static and guitar drone from CRAZY JIM, creeped-out horror electronics from
Nate Young’s REGRESSION, whilst John Olson will provide the cherry on the top
with his brutally-blasted techno project HENRY AND HAZEL SLAUGHTER. Live music
will start from 8.30pm and we will have tickets available on the door for £10.
Read on for the whole scoop including the listing for our next event with
PROTOMARTYR too.
See you later!
\\\\\ TONIGHT /////
WOLF EYES - THE DOUBLE
DAY 2… solo shows!
DAY 2… solo shows!
HENRY AND HAZEL SLAUGHTER
REGRESSION
CRAZY JIM
Tuesday 5 August
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/7788
Both day dual-tickets for £18: http://www.wegottickets.com/f/7788
REGRESSION
CRAZY JIM
Tuesday 5 August
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/7788
Both day dual-tickets for £18: http://www.wegottickets.com/f/7788
HENRY & HAZEL
SLAUGHTER is a solo moniker of Wolf Eyes' John
Olson seeing him cook up some absolutely ace, squashed and f*cked basement
techno. And when we say f*cked, we mean totally backwards in the best possible
sense of the word. Unlike his bandmate Nate Young's Moon Pool & Dead Band
techno exploits, this is waaaay more blasted and basically demented, decimating
unhealthy loops of sludgy kicks and scummy synths with salty distortion and a
wickedly unhinged sense of funk. To add to the fun, each track ends in a locked
groove. Massively recommended to fans of KPLR or Astral Social Club who want to
go more primordial.
https://soundcloud.com/submit-recs/henry-hazel-slaughter-breather
https://soundcloud.com/submit-recs/henry-hazel-slaughter-breather
REGRESSION is the solo project
of Nate Young, a founding member of seminal Detroit noise band Wolf Eyes. More
recently he's been honing an equally distinctive solo sound that blends myriad
sources from musique concrète, vintage film atmospherics, layered synths and
archive library recordings into something thrillingly intense. Summoning up
crushingly ominous crepuscular soundscapes and synth-washed phantasmagoria,
Young undercuts the brutalism of Wolf Eyes with the kind of ambient dread that
conjures images of lost horror soundtracks from the 70's. Minimal analogue
synth violence is punctuated by thunder cracks of metal percussion ala the
early Akita/Null Merzbow duets, massively doomy beat hypnotics and an
atmosphere that's somewhere between the most apocalyptic Throbbing Gristle
recordings, Coil's Musick To Play In The Dark, The Conet Project and your
favourite Kraut kosmonaut. Young's most recent album 'Blinding Confusion' (out
now on NNA Tapes) has the feel of a kind of post-synth electro-acoustic ritual,
albeit tied-in with a visionary compositional aesthetic that is a couple of miles
beyond your average weird-beard in a basement non-vibe.
https://soundcloud.com/nate-young
CRAZY JIM aka James ‘Crazy Jim’ Baljo, is proof that not every side-project of Wolf Eyes results in noise. Veering towards the sweet and ambient, Crazy Jim uses only guitars to build huge waves of tonic abstraction. Nate Young credits Crazy Jim as "the first person to coin the term INZANE and plays and lives accordingly", look out for some sweet folk-tuned bliss.
https://soundcloud.com/inzaneazylum
https://soundcloud.com/nate-young
CRAZY JIM aka James ‘Crazy Jim’ Baljo, is proof that not every side-project of Wolf Eyes results in noise. Veering towards the sweet and ambient, Crazy Jim uses only guitars to build huge waves of tonic abstraction. Nate Young credits Crazy Jim as "the first person to coin the term INZANE and plays and lives accordingly", look out for some sweet folk-tuned bliss.
https://soundcloud.com/inzaneazylum
\\\\\ TUESDAY 19 AUGUST /////
PROTOMARTYR
SAUNA YOUTH
FEATURE
Tuesday 19
August
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
PROTOMARTYR play a taut, austere
rock that's been incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer
cans and cigarette butts and warmed occasionally by space heaters. Short songs
made for short practices, and the band learned quickly not to waste time.
Despite the cold, Protomartyr emerged with a sound that is idiosyncratic but
relatable, hooky but off-kilter. With respect to the local predecessors, this
isn’t the primitive stomp of The Dirtbombs or The Stooges’ greasy roar. Punk
works, kind of, even if it leaves the hardcore kids confused. Post-punk
suggests something too retro; indie rock, something too precious. What
Protomartyr is, is “stuck between the cracks.” If that’s the case, though, they
aren’t alone. Protomartyr’s economical rock elicits comparisons to possible
antecedents like Pere Ubu or The Fall as well as local contemporaries like
Frustrations or Tyvek (whose frontman Kevin Boyer played bass in an early
iteration of Protomartyr). Singer Joe Casey’s dry declarative snarl serves as a
reliable anchor, granting his bandmates (guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer Alex
Leonard and bassist Scott Davidson) the opportunity to explore textures and reinforce
the rhythm section. In other words, to “fuck around a little bit more.” This is
never more apparent than on the band’s excellent sophomore LP on Hardly Art,
'Under Color of Official Right'. Where 2012’s 'No Passion All Technique'
favoured comparatively straightforward punk structures, 'Under Color' takes a
more exploratory approach and has led to the band coming on tour to Europe for
the first time to show us how weird it can get.
https://soundcloud.com/protomartyr
SAUNA YOUTH are an evolving band of young future humans making truly irregular punk not quite comparable to anything else. The band, attracted to the possibilities apparent within a DIY philosophy have been self-recording and self-releasing their own music since 2010, creating a number of seven inches, splits and cassettes. Artistic affinities are pledged to Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Pissed Jeans and The Intelligence, but as Kurt Cobain once asked "Why can't we be both Black Sabbath and The Beatles?", Sauna Youth consistently and urgently pose the question, 'Why can't we be both The Ramones and Steve Reich?'. Sauna Youth's debut album, 'Dreamlands' was released in 2012 through Gringo Records and Faux Discx, whilst their most recent 7" 'False Jesii Pt. II' came out last year through Static Shock Records, new album coming soon!http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/
FEATURE are a melodic drone-punk trio from London. They recently released an EP entitled 'Culture of the Copy' on Tye Die Tapes, via cassette and digital download. 'Culture of the Copy' was recorded by Jen and Liv while still a two-piece at Tye Die Tapes HQ in Sheffield in February this year, and features three new songs plus a cover of Supergrass’s pop-hit ‘Caught By The Fuzz’. With Jen also being in Sauna Youth, Feature recently became somewhat of a supergroup when Heather of punk-slackers Slowcoaches joined the band in March of this year.
http://tyedietapes.bandcamp.com/album/culture-of-the-copy
https://soundcloud.com/protomartyr
SAUNA YOUTH are an evolving band of young future humans making truly irregular punk not quite comparable to anything else. The band, attracted to the possibilities apparent within a DIY philosophy have been self-recording and self-releasing their own music since 2010, creating a number of seven inches, splits and cassettes. Artistic affinities are pledged to Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Pissed Jeans and The Intelligence, but as Kurt Cobain once asked "Why can't we be both Black Sabbath and The Beatles?", Sauna Youth consistently and urgently pose the question, 'Why can't we be both The Ramones and Steve Reich?'. Sauna Youth's debut album, 'Dreamlands' was released in 2012 through Gringo Records and Faux Discx, whilst their most recent 7" 'False Jesii Pt. II' came out last year through Static Shock Records, new album coming soon!http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/
FEATURE are a melodic drone-punk trio from London. They recently released an EP entitled 'Culture of the Copy' on Tye Die Tapes, via cassette and digital download. 'Culture of the Copy' was recorded by Jen and Liv while still a two-piece at Tye Die Tapes HQ in Sheffield in February this year, and features three new songs plus a cover of Supergrass’s pop-hit ‘Caught By The Fuzz’. With Jen also being in Sauna Youth, Feature recently became somewhat of a supergroup when Heather of punk-slackers Slowcoaches joined the band in March of this year.
http://tyedietapes.bandcamp.com/album/culture-of-the-copy
Thank you for
reading!
UTR
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\\\\\ UPSET
THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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WOLF EYES solo projects...
REGRESSION
HENRY AND HAZEL SLAUGHTER
CRAZY JIM
Tuesday 5 August
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/7788
Both day dual-tickets for £18: http://www.wegottickets.com/f/7788
PROTOMARTYR
SAUNA YOUTH
FEATURE
Tuesday 19
August
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
JULIE BYRNE
HEIDI ALEXANDER
SLUSHY GUTS
Thursday 28
August
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
Upset The Rhythm
Label Party…
SILVER FOX
TRASH KIT
THE PHEROMOANS
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
DOG CHOCOLATE
Friday 29 August
Friday 29 August
Bethnal
Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm
| £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/280254
SUN FOOT
MEN OH PAUSE
CODY NOON
Saturday 30
August
Power
Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
JACK OBLIVIAN
STRAIGHT ARROWS
THE SHEIKS
Sunday 31
August
Bethnal Green
Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
Mississippi Records
on tour: 'A Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music according to
Mississippi Records' (A film & talk presentation)
Including live
performances from…
MARISA ANDERSON
LORI GOLDSTON
DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH
WATER
Monday 15 September
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
MAGIK MARKERS
Tuesday 23 September
Tuesday 23 September
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10
| http://www.wegottickets.com/event/280978
SPRAY PAINT
$HIT AND $HINE
THE GUTTERS
TENSE MEN
Friday 31st October
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/277625
Friday 31st October
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/277625
FUTURE ISLANDS
Thursday 6
November
O2 Shepherd’s
Bush Empire, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8TT
7pm | £15 | SOLD OUT
TY SEGALL
THE INTELLIGENCE
Wednesday
12 November
Electric
Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP
7.30pm | £15.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/279358
7.30pm | £15.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/279358
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