Monroc, Mira Calix, Murcof / XX+XY
Evolution
24 May 2008
7.00-10.30pm
Monroc
Mira Calix
Murcof / XX+XY
Victoria Hall
Leeds Town Hall
The Headrow
Leeds
Tickets Available At
Moncada Rocks 2008
* MONCADA ROCKS 2008
* Saturday 7 June 2008, Brudenell Social Club Leeds. 2 pm - 11 pm. £5
* Raising money for basic necessities (such as sanitary towels, blankets etc.) for women unfairly imprisoned in Colombia for their trade union activities.
FEATURING:
* THE HYDROPATHS (folk-punk with a celtic quality)
* CAPTAIN HOTKNIVES (one man comedy folk punk from Bradford)
* THE DEMON BARBERS (funk-folk-punk - one of the best bands in Britain!)
* GEOFFREY OI!COTT (cricket-themed rowdy punk)
* CONQUEST OF STEEL (one of the country’s finest real metal bands)
* BOW & ARROW (stoner / metal from Liverpool - in Leeds for the first time)
* TANGAROA (technical metal)
* BEARHEAD (alternative heaviness)
* THE SKULL-BRANDED PIRATES (pirate themed metal fun)
* GUEST SPEAKER - BOB CROW, General Secretary, RMT union (speaking on Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and Latin America in general…)
Sad Shields, Vile Vile Creatures
friday 30th may @ common place, leeds, 9pm-2am, £3 in
end of tour party for sad shields & vile vile creatures
with more bands tbc and special guest dj’s from lola and the cartwheels, female trouble, suck my left one, shelles belles & colouring outside the lines & chrispauldaniels
Men Diamler, Mary Hampton, Benjamin Wetherill
@ The Packhorse, Leeds
Tuesday 20th May
8pm doors
£4 entry
Bloody lovley gig coming up in May. Men Diamler is worth the £4 alone if you aint seen him and these two supports will make this an amazing night……
Men Diamler
I’ll be honest, he’s mad, like David Thomas Broughton but full of ecstasy.He blew everyone away at the Royal Park last year. Watch him on youtube if you have some spare time - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMx0uLeCSq4
http://www.myspace.com/mendiamler
with support from……………………………
Mary Hampton
Seriously spine chilling ‘Mary Hampton’ is something very special indeed. “A woman who appears to have spent much of her life attempting to imitate the shimmer of wind-chimes. The effect is mesmerizing” (The Guardian 10/11/06)
http://www.myspace.com/maryhampton
Benjamin Wetherill
Ben needs no introduction. A truly breath taking live performer. “…Wetherill mixes traditional songs with haunting originals and veers between straight-up gritty folk and ethereal psychedelia.” Sandman Magazine
http://www.myspace.com/benjaminwetherill
Cursive
From Manchester, with love!
An electro/indie-remixes/pop fun & (funny) digital dance party at the heart of Leeds at Hyde Park’s The Library pub!
MAY 17TH - FREE BEFORE 11PM
FREE TAT AND MIX-CDs AT THE DOOR
www.myspace.com/cursivekulture
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Come dance to the sounds of:
mgmt, midnight juggernauts, ladyhawke, late of the pier, cazals, kap bambino, jackson and his computer band, guns N bombs, burial, health, Mr OIZO, CFCF, tiga, rex the dog, ocelot mthrfckrs, holy fuck, bark bark bark, pendulum, computeher, interpol, steppa, mstrkrft, tronik youth, goose, dead disco, new order, utah jazz, the faint, the teenagers, blondie, kavinsky, peter bjorn and john, the cribs, ikara colt, sons &;; daughters, uffie, princess superstar, Shy Child, M.I.A., 8-bit weapon, goldie, SebastiAn, Trash Talk, The Ghost Frequency, Sono, Get Shakes, Frankmusik, Chromeo, Lo-Fi-Fnk, Hott Beat, Islands, Architecture In Helsinki, Daft Punk, Yelle, Bonde Do Role, CSS, The Blow, Tiger Tunes, these new puritans, thieves like us, autokratz, joy division, SMD, goldfrapp, DFA 1979, blonde redhead, crystal castles, denali, the postal service, division on laura lee, electrelane, boyfriendgirlfriend, blood brothers, erase eratta, lesbians on ecstasy, metric, minus the bear, new young pony club, ok go!, pop levi, pretty girls make graves, datarock, say hi to your mom, shit disco, sleater-kinney, justice, goxxip, the go! team, the kills, digitalism, the locust, the rapture, peaches, the strokes, tokyo police club, viva la fete, white rose movement, foals, velvet underground, the cribs, tiger force, miko miko, the knife, the faint, does it offend you yeah, gay against you, hot chip, soulwax, DJ STV SLV, uh huh her, fight like ape, lcd soundsystem, richard cheese, felix da housecat, david sugar, anamanaguchi, of montreal, robots in disguise, annie, junior senior, patrick wolf, scream club
Yay!!!
Miranda Arieh, That Fucking Tank, The Yamaha Mannequins
there will be a gig this wednesday at the old housing advice centre which was squatted for real housing advice on squattin but is now also being used to host fun events and get a jolly old crowd down for a right old time!!! yeah! so if youre interested in playing please email kanga73@hotmail.com.
also want a performance night of weird cabaret type stuff. but this will be intermingled into this night too. all entries considered!! come along its bound to be amazing!!!
MIRANDA ARIEH;THAT FUCKING TANK the YAMAHA MANNEQUINS; GARETH S BROWN; THIS AMBULANCE CONTAINS SKITTLES; the NANDA and RU FLUORESCENT EXPERIMENT
potential acts: FULBIBULBOUS, WORRIED ABOUT SATAN;HUB; QUIP; HANDS FINGERS; MONSTER KILLED BY LASER
potentially startin early !! woo!!!
Beach Fuzz, The Piss Superstition, Johnny Scarr, Spoils and Relics
Wednesday 30th of April, at the packhorse
£4/ £3 unwaged
BEACH FUZZ - from manchester swirling major scale drone with primal drumming of the Mo Tucker school
THE PISS SUPERSTITION - Julian Bradley plays some late night early morning void songs. HYPNOTICUNIVERSALINTERCOURSE
JOHNNY SCARR - Nottinham based squelchy minimalist sci fi adventure a rare appearence..
SPOILS AND RELICS - electronic groan and tape lactations
Corsano-Flower Duo
Corsano- Flower Duo (+ 1 tbc), Friday May 2nd, Christchurch Crypt Skipton
Chris Corsano is a drummer / percussionist who has recently toured with Bjork; Wire magazine describe him as “arguably the most riotously energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz”. Together with Mick Flower of Vibracathederal Orchestra, they make an intoxicating, kaleidoscopic racket with free drums tumbling over each other endlessly and Japan Banjo sparking off like a row of misfiring synapses, hitting one epiphany after another. Or something. Will be totally epic in the Crypt, anyway.
Doors at 8, £5/4 (4 if you’ve come from Leeds) - bring your own alcohol, will finish by 10 so you can get the last train. Info - adalim_ssz@yahoo.co.uk
Fangs, Beards, D’Astro, Ghost Fleet
FANGS/ BEARDS/ D’ASTRO/ GHOST FLEET
Total Party duDE!
Thursday 29th May at the Packhorse, first band on at 8 pronto.
cost = four hundred pence.
FANGS (www.myspace.com/fakefang)
(****ex-MOTORMARK****)
From Glasgow, Scotland, JANE QUEEN, MARKO NEIN and FINDLAY FALLS spit new-wave dirty glamour on the dancefloor!
Diamente disco and make-up bag boombox!
Full-on glammed up excellent B-52s/Cramps-style punk disco action.
Fresh from support with JUSTICE, THE PRESETS, and SONS AND DAUGHTERS they were recently voted XFM’s “One’s to watch 2008″.
Brilliant band, sweaty dance action for sure!
BEARDS (www.myspace.com/beards2000)
BEARDS are three outstanding beasts of prehistoric times, recently
acknowledged by Plan B Magazine as one of the best support bands of 2007,
their persuasive basslines and bullish vocals turn the air blue while
their creators hop from instrument to instrument, leaving you
struggling to stand still amongst their day-glo retro mollusc outfits.
D’ASTRO(www.myspace.com/thedastro)
“It’s in your blood
Oh yes, it’s in your guts
It’s in your neck
And as you know, it’s in my nut”
GHOST FLEET (www.myspace.com/ghostfleeting)
They are Ghost Fleet. They were washed up on the shores of Leeds and formed from the shipwrecks of two ill-fated voyages. Combining the age old art of songwriting and guitar plucking with their first steps into electronic music making, they sound like red wine and gin but not in the same glass, like vinyl crackling in a cd player, like a stylus making merry across a .wav file.
All their songs are in the scale of Fuck Off, and the key of confused.
munster munster
Efterklang, Bracken, James Yates
The Brudenell Social Club and Forest of Sound present:
Sunday: 13/07/2008 @ The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds. Doors 8pm.
£7 adv / £9 on the door. Tickets available at Jumbo Records and Crash Records.
Join the Last FM fun here.
Efterklang
A Danish collective on the excellent Leaf label, Efterklang are astounding on record - a fusion of electronics, sea song, rock and ambience that envelops you slowly and beautifully. Live, they take this core of beauty and project it with such force in to the audience that it takes on a whole new life - every emotion amplified, every note laden with passion.
Last time they played Leeds they captivated 250 people in a packed out Brudenell Social Club. If you caught them last time, you know you can’t miss it again. If you didn’t… well, you know what you have to do…
“Efterklang, live and on record, are rarely less than an incredibly moving and inspiring listen. If you’re yet to let them breach your taste defences, watch the bombs explode below ‘til your heart pops in time.” - www.drownedinsound.com
Bracken
Oh. My. Yes. Bracken, being a “a collective of like minded individuals spiralling in an uncertain and ill defined orbit” led by Chris Adams (aka co-founder of legends Hood) make simply stunning music - walls of ambient sound, dark dub bass and atmospheres, destroyed and re-claimed found sound, beats that range from over-powering to perfectly understated… all topped with vocals and lyrics from a man who knows his own heart. FoS are HUGE Bracken fans, ’cause they’re f**king amazing.
“…[Bracken] perfects the mixture of atmosphere and dub thump. The density of the sound - a soup of horns, organs, guitars, reverb-soaked vocals - sounds like screwed-and-chopped background noise. But in a good way. There are untold details to sift through, melodies to follow, in the washes of pirate-radio static… warm and icy, mechanical and natural, at the same time.” - www.pitchforkmedia.com
James Yates
You may recognise James from his skin hitting duties in the jaw droppingly good The Pattern Theory. So it’ll come as no surprise that his solo show is something to behold - organic electronics, perfect drums, spot on percussion and mad-as-a-hatter inventiveness. Four Tet or Battles are reference points… but Master Yates makes them sound like worthless s**t. On his own. You have to watch this guy. If you don’t believe, listen to ‘Yammystar’ on his MySpace. You won’t resist it’s charms.
