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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Texas Radio Band - Live Date Confirmed
First and foremost, we can confirm Texas Radio Band will be appearing on Saturday 15th July in Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach - a homecoming gig, and back with more of the good stuff! Support is being arranged by the band. Other dates, before and after will be confirmed shortly - with more dates in August & September looking likely...
Genod Droog @ Chester, Telfords Warehouse
Went to see Genod Droog in Chester last Friday night, and was by far the best performance ive seen them play, and reminded me of the early Pep Le Pew gigs (OK, so a different music and line-up but followers will understand, im sure). Ed leading a large conga around Telfords kind of sums up the success of the gig! Even Dyl singing a track in place of Gwyneth Glyn was pulled off.
Losing Today Mag
Our friends over at Losing Today Indie Magazine have this week had some more good stuff to print about the label and our releases (thanks guys!);
"A copy of Gintis' "Supersoakers and Megadrives broke these li'l hearts" EP found it's way through our mailbox and onto our hi-fi. Apparently formed while still at school and before the could play instruments - could have fooled us - this sounds like classic era Gorky’s smooching up against the Inspiral Carpets especially on the super cooled and excellently titled "Philosophical Transactions of a disappointed Physicist" with its softening psyche glow and innately kooky sense of delivery. Best of the set the hopelessly crooked "Carrot = Donkey" that one minute sounds like Pavement having a real gas pouring over old Hefner inspired ditties before warping into a delicately hued sumptuously lazy eyed summer grazed nugget as though the West Coast had been transplanted to Conwy.
Having already knocked us bandy with that superb "Push and Shove" / "Kilos" release which we reviewed a few missives back (both tracks incidentally feature here) this album features more of that exquisitely skewed bubblegum pop the kind of which takes you strolling here, there and everywhere. Stand out cuts the frantically wired "Andromeda" - a kind of Welsh Ministry with attitude - while the simply lulling steel guitar treated title track will have you swooning a plenty the only thing missing a porch, a rocking chair and some home made possum pie. The band are currently putting the finishing touches to a follow up which so far has a working title of either "Vete" or "Nothin but a tone bone" depending on which side of the fence the sun shines - expect dates in support during July or thereabouts. More please and sharp about it."
posted by Marc (North) | 9:39 AM
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Another glowing review to add to the pile for "Oscillation - New Way To Feel", courtesy of Losing Today Indie Magazine:
Absolutely fucking superb head tripper of a record that had our ever reliable radar ears prickling to life. Pressed on blue vinyl as though you needed any further prods, Oscillation - of whom - and again not for the first time this particular missive - we have no information about - is in the main the brain child of a certain Demian Castellanos, this hypnotic mind melting psychotropic beast is blessed by having perhaps one of the most monstrously catchy looping pysche (how I can I best describe it) woo woo effects (yea a piss poor description granted) youll hear all year - in fact quite possibly any year from herein - if you think Im lying just check it out and tell me Im wrong (which I never am so there up yours - ha ha). Very much appearing like a disciple of Sonic Boom - Spacemen 3 era sparked with a sense of John Moores and the Expressway blurring the edges of sanity (John Moore incidentally has apparently been dissing old Moz of late - check the maudlin Moz message board at http://www.morrissey-solo.com/articles/05/01/07/070204.shtml - quite right to) - damn its bloody good okay.
If New way to feel was Spacemen 3 era Sonic Boom inspired then the flip side Waves of Radiation is pretty much littered aplenty with post Spacemen 3 Sonic Boom signatures - a kind of idiots guide condensed into three droning minutes of everything you needed to know about both EAR / Spectrum with spatial atmospherics, hypnotic trippy-ness and the sultry dabbing of middle eastern tablatures all thrown in for good measure - think BBC Radiophonic Workshop in a mind link with Pimmon - icy stuff. Future recordings will see Castellanos appear on Static Caravan with his Mesma guise (reviewed at Missive 95 or thereabouts - Ed), while the Orichalc Phase will shortly have their debut outings released by DC recordings). Single of the missive by some distance.
posted by Marc (North) | 11:00 AM
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006
The Texas Radio Band second album rolls even closer to completion; frontman Matthew has, via email and various disjointed MSN conversations, told me that he was having a day or two putting the final vocals down in Spain last week. The album is under the working titles of "Vete" or "Nothin' But A Tonebone". Expect to hear things from the album this summer, because there are other record companies out gunning for the album, we can't confirm any release dates.
At the moment i'm trying to arrange a few gigs for Texas Radio Band during July and August (any promoters reading this and fancy putting them on this summer 'email me'). Details of confirmed dates to follow.
I got out to see Richard James in Chester last week with TRBs "Squids" on bass - great gig (with what seemed like The French Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Appreciation Society in too - a coach of 30 or so were there for the gig anyway). Good to have seen Carl and Dave Gintis there too for a catchup - and Dave; that Neil Morrisey documentary on BBC3 "was" a pisstake mate!
Genod Droog are putting together an EP for release this summer, can't really put anymore of an accurate date on it just yet (sounding familiar?)... for rough mixes, new stuff, gigs and all things Genod Droog visit their MySpace.
Apologies for the silence the last 3/4 weeks or so, regular regulated programming of posts will be resumed.
posted by Marc (North) | 10:25 AM
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