MONTHLY PLANET
JANICE GRAHAM BAND The 21st Century Northern Soul
UPRISE manifesto of hope. FLOODLINERS teen rock gets hot. PLAYHARD live music adventures. Deathline, Gaolers Daughter, Pink Cigar & more. Music pictures and TIPS ZINE issue 22
MONTHLY PLANET issue 22 Spring, Gold Year Everybody in this zine is connected on these pages, many of which click through to new finds.
Contents 6 - Music Tourist Board updates. 7 - Credits/Thanks.
16 Newer Wave of Team GB Music 2012 going for gold including Breton, The Thirst, Dexy & The Hand Me Downs 18 The Arcadian Kicks (ws such a cool gig) live at This Feeling, in pictures. 20 The Big Red - a new venue kicks off with Ceri James and Anita Maj, live. 23 Edit/Select new LP is coming. 24Room 94 tour dates. (More on this, in the next issue). 25 Janice Graham Band, Its Not Me tour dates. (and see back pages for article).
8 - Off Lining is so GO! (March social mixers in London)
26 - 12 Dirty Bullets - rock! tune in now for imminent tour news.
9 Touchstone - new live dates
27 - Coming soon. The Bots hit the UK and The Midnight Barbers.
10 Hope. UpRise - a manifesto of peace.
28 - Warehouse Republic new songs. Plus, The Youth Anxiety tour dates.
12 BandWagon. The latest news.
29 - Gaolers Daughter. New single/shows
12 Beast. 10 March. East London Bass Fest.
30 Floodliners - you’ve been tipped!
14 A word on guitar bands; The Carpels. 15 - Dizzy Jam
32 Deathline; The Hollywood diaries. Ever dreamed of going to LA to record?‌ 38 The Walpole helped put New Cross on the UK music map, its back, yer invited. 39 We love South East Zine and Joyzine.
40 - How Many Ts? Too Many Ts! 41 - PLAYHARD live music adventures are go (The Carpels, The Rivalry, Public Service Broadcasting, Exit Calm, Pink Cigar and more) 48 Stampede new LP 49 - It’s Not Me. It’s Janice Graham Band Top rock chicks
Gabi Garbutt and Jean Genie. Bottom Kalamity Kate, Rhiannon The Nightmare and Tristan Scutt.
LAUNCH Coming soon. Tune in already;
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Monthly Planet is published by the world’s only Music Tourist Board. This tip zine welcomes word of mouth Recommendations. There is no taste making here, just Entertainers with a capital E, Charisma with a capital C and Talent with a capital T. Many thanks for all the contributions. Don’t worry too much about the design being notall-that, click the links and enjoy the tunes and videos that the pages link to. Love, Caffy x
And a massive thank you to music film / video makers , This Feeling, a Gin In Teacups travelling rock n for some lovely roll club is pick- feedback about ing up national Monthly Planet’. acclaim from grass roots up Good to know the info and with a load of links are on the sussed music bloggers, talent pulse. The feedscouts, industry back was espeshakers and art- cially hear warming coming ists at the for creative talshows. The January ‘Big In ents with such a 2012’ event was passion for what mobbed before they do. the first band http://gininteacups.co.uk/ went on. Help yourself to free downloads at the ‘Bands’ page. Starbreaker Alliance on a roll;
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Adam and The Purple Turtle AltSounds.com BandWagon Gigs www.ruperthitchcox.com Ben Dodd Ben Hutchinson Cavendish Arms With additional images Chenaii Madhoo Community Music By Carolina Faruolo Deathline Foxy at The Walpole and Megan Hood GotSeen Heather Minx Ferguson Jean Genie Joyzine Leon The Canteen Lizzie at Evans Above PR Lucca Barrett Mark Bennett at Crosshair Mikey at This Feeling Nancy Pankhurst Neil at Dizzy Jam Extra appreciation for anybody One Beat Records that sent something to cut n South East Zine paste, I mean Monthly Planet is The Big Red Pizzeria not exactly Time Magazine. I The Bots would rather there was a Good Time Magazine, anyway… keep Too Many Ts William at SE13 Records those diaries n pix coming…!
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February Music Tourist Board mixer was an informal gathering of performers, creatives, ideas, friends old and brand new. In a bar. Among the laughter, conversations (and games with sprouts!), news/contacts were exchanged and future was made. Off liners began with Joyzine and more (inspiring Music Tourist Board) and is becoming recognised as a way of making things really happen on a shoestring in a recession. On this vibe are live music events by Panda~Power!, BandWagon and Playhard warm welcomes and cool experiences.
Free Entry Off Line MIXERS London March 2012 9th; BandWagon Gigs 4.30pm The Purple Turtle, Camden NW1. 10th; Music Tourist Board 3pm The Cavendish Arms, Stockwell, SW8 (below).
As much as I enjoy Star Trek, Star Wars and various alien race sci fi tales I’ve never understood what the other race(s) that Planet Earth’s media are on about in surreal life. Say it loud, I’m Music and I’m Proud. Inevitable that Rocklands would get involved with UpRise really…
http://uprise.org.uk/ The following themes, launched 22nd February 2012 (UpRise Talks at Channel 4) are authored by UpRise and will be presented in the full manifesto soon: Number 1 (the past): Raceless Society ‘Race’ is something that is not intrinsic to our identity. It does not define who we are. It is something we have inherited. Grouping together people based on salient traits requires that we ignore the wealth of aspects that make us individuals. A raceless society will take nothing away from our identity, but will in fact, add to how we identify with ourselves and others. It will allow us to be defined by the many customs, cultures and traditions that weave the rich tapestry that is humanity.
Number 2 (the present): Poly-Culturalism Across Britain, we are rightly proud of our multicultural nation. Eleven per cent the country was born abroad and there are over three hundred languages spoken in London alone.
However the very term MULTI-Culturalism, though never actually truly defined, implies individual strands of ‘ethnicity’ that exist side by side. UpRise believes in POLY-Culturalism. That is, strands that interweave and infinitely influence each other becoming the very fabric of the actual culture.. such as the integration of Patois in contemporary English language – that is the very essence of Polyculturalism.
Number 3 (the future): Cognitive Diversity We live in a unique time and place, surrounded by people of all different backgrounds. Classifying diversity by race, religion or other age-old definitions has lost its relevance. Cognitive diversity is understanding our neighbours through our experience and environment, and not ‘ethnic’ diversity. A Chinese teenager living on an estate in Tottenham will struggle to identify with a wealthy Chinese business man living in Canary Wharf. He will probably have much more in common with the Somali kid he walks to school with. Cognitive Diversity allows us to empathise with each other as people and be the defining path toward equality
Did you know…? “Race” is an idea, and not a biological or anthropological fact, as proven by genetic science? Though often used and often cited as “not working”, there is no actual doctrine for multiculturalism? The word “ethnic” is derived from the Greek ethnos which originally meant heathen or pagan?
A 2012 music success passes 1000 artists/bands in 12 weeks of existence. The site gets an more hits, week on week. BandWagon helps find gig and festival opportunities. Slots are posted daily (currently 260+ UK wide). http://www.bandwagongigs.com Free to use and focused on transparancy its an effective concept. “Put simply, it acts as a social hub between new bands and promoters, helping to cut out all the headache-inducing arseyness that comes with securing spit 'n' sawdust gigs." (NME) The site has come to attention in USA, with comparisons to Reverbnation and Sonic Bids. BandWagon plans further proliferation, offering a sustainable platform. It also now features a blog where users are invited to share their on the road experiences and music professionals to offer useful insights. Read articles about Powers Bar head honcho, Patrick Power and the (frankly) rock-TASTIC Marner Brown. Stay tuned for a Live Music Event in London on 19th April and BandWagon is also the official submission site for newly created Fulham Fest (27th April across six venues in including Under The Bridge, a fantastic new music venue designed by Jim Cafarelli whose client list includes Quincy Jones, Motown, Universal Studios and The Walt Disney Company). Monthly Planet checked it out. Its outta this world. Following the success of the first social in December, there will be an informal free entry mixer 4.30pm 9th March at The Purple Turtle, 65 Crowndale Road, Camden, London NW1 (opp, Mornington Crescent tube/2 mins from Camden Town tube). There’s optional discount entry into the Playhard Gigs launch after. http://facebook.com/bandwagongigs * http://twitter.com/bandwagongigs
Michael Barwise “How do you feel about the general absence of guitar bands in the charts?” The
Carpels : "can’t remember
guitar music ever being in the charts and its just weird to think that The Stone Roses and others used to get into it...” “...don't really mind that guitar music doesn't make it into the charts. It would ruin it I think because everybody would be trying to do it and it could create a kind of generic sound that the charts have turned r'n'b music into. Guitar music will be loved by its fans no matter where it appears."
Photography by Rupert Hitchcox http://ruperthitchcox.com at Playhard / One Beat Records night in Camden. The Carpels are to be the subject of a short film by EyeSee Tv in April. Hear one of the featured tunes - “Towelie” (recored at Neon Studios, Staffordshire ) http://facebook.com/thecarpels Having staged the best teen music /arts event in a long while. “The Carpels and Friends” to start the year the band continue to raise their game and will also announce a one day, outdoor festival for Birmingham on 22nd July with their label, One Beat Read the full iinterview at Michael’s Music Madness. http://michael-barwise.blogspot.com/2012/01/carpels-interview.html
#teamgbgold2012 With mainstream awards season in full swing, there are some real star turns storming the small to medium up n comers venues. A few of them are in this zine. If you can, get a ticket to a show or watch them on YouTube. They are full of autotune-free charisma, and are oozing with future potential. Cheer up a bit.
Eclectic electronic Breton @bretonLABS www.facebook.com/bretonlabs
Groove rockers, The Thirst @TheThirst www.facebook.com/thethirst
Country punkers Dexy
And The Hand Me Downs @dexymusic www.facebook.com/dexyspace
All diverse, delicious delights. I’ve caught them all live too and would recommend 100% worth a ticket.
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The Arcadian Kicks photographed at This Feeling in London by
Carolina Faruolo for www.altsounds.com
www.facebook.com/thearcadiankicks @arcadiankicks
One Saturday evening in February the moon was smiling brightly in the sky. Behind a double decker bus (that is a pizza restaurant) and a fairy-lit bar is a lorry container stage where music magic made something start. A few images from the pilot of The Big Red Sessions made in Costa del Thames.
Singer, songwriter and instigator, Ceri James, airs tunes from his new album, ‘The Lost Soul’s Parade’ http://cerijames.com photographed by Rupert Hitchcox
The lovely Anita Maj is currently completing the recording of her debut album, ‘Truth Or Dare’ which is due for release this Summer. http://anitamaj.com This, and the image below of Sessions presenter, Jean Genie, taken y Rupert Hitchcox
The Big Red pizzeria and bar, 30
Deptford Church Street, London SE8 4RZ http:/.facebook.com/thebigredpizza
12 Dirty Bullets end 2011 headlining Koko in London. Photographed by Megan Hood. Internationally acclaimed on the strength of debut album ‘Downsides To Making A Living’ and extensive tours at home, around Europe and USA, they are one of the UK’s biggest (word of mouth) )rock secrets. To call that their next moves “anticipated” is very much an understatement. 2012 News imminent: http://facebook.com/12dirtybullets
MONTHLY PLANET - coming soon . . . The Midnight Barbers Garage blues, funk,punk duo; Ben Rowntree, vox/guitar and Jack Pepper, drums/backing vox. Inspirations include Johnny Cash, Joanna Newsome, Stooges, White Stripes, Pixies and Bob Dylan. They met a few years ago at secondary school. After playing in a series of trios and quartets they kicked out their final bassist. And voila! Caught them live a couple of times at Toejam and Panda Power events and felt a crackle of lightening excitement each time. VERY promising. http://strummerville.com/the-midnight-barbers/ See them for free at the next Panda~Power! (Saturday 7th April (with headliners Daytona Lights and special guests, Tin Can 44's, Bow Street Runners and Jean Genie's MASSIVE HUGS!!! Powers Bar, London.
The Bots
For me, were love at first power chord/beat. They hit the UK. Rock fans, I assure you not to miss them if possible. Playing with Tellison (and additionally, Stagecoach in London). May 2012 - 3 Andover The George Venue, 4 Bristol The Croft, 5 Manchester Sound Control, 6 Glasgow The Captain's Rest, 7 Middlesbrough Cleavland Westgarth Social Club 8, Birmingham The Rainbow Warehouse, 9 London The Garage. Investigate Mikaiah and Anaiah Lei at http://thebotsband.com
Some new recordings from Warehouse Republic ‘The Lights Of New York City’ and ‘Ghost’ (featuring Gabi Garbutt of The Breadstealers) have elicited enthusiastic anticipation for what is in the pipeline. As a thank you to the fans who are following their organic evolution, WR have uploaded a gorgeously sparse version of ‘Revolver’. They are also in the first wave of confirmed acts announced for this year’s Secret Garden Party Festival in July.
http://facebook.com/wrfans Image; Rupert Hitchcox caught Alex, Ben and Charlie during a candid moment at Notting Hill Arts Club recently.
Recommended viewing; March 2012 - 23rd Jacksons Pit Manchester, 24th Factory Manchester, 27th The Castle Manchester Supporting PEACE, 30th The Mad Ferret Preston Supporting PEACE, 31st The Finsbury London https://www.facebook.com/theyouthanxiety
this:
happening!
Monthly Planet caught up with some fave alternative popsters,
Gaolers Daughter new single How Do You Know. This story s a joy to witness unfold. I asked Ben Hutchinson what’s new? “We're really excited about our single launch. There's gonna be some very special gust DJs. Also, we're playing the Yardlife festival on April 28th with Hatcham Social and Pete Doherty. There are some exciting sync deals in the pipeline that are awaiting confirmation. We are going on tour to Spain with more European dates to follow soon. Most of my recent time has been spent getting the launch together. Also having meetings with agents and managers trying to decide which way to formulate a plan for our next single 'When We Were Young' in summer.” ‘How Do You Know’ is already on radars. Mary Anne Hobbs' played it on XFM. and said some lovely things. Tom Robinson, Gary Crowley , Jacob Rickard (BBC Kent) and Goldierocks (NME Radio) have also given it a spin. It has also been chosen by Lance Mountain for a Nike SB video!I Live shows; March 11th Yard Life, Lock Tavern, London. NW1 8AJ * March 19th Single Launch Party. Underbelly, Hoxton Square, London. N1 6NU, the first 50 through the door will get a limited edition CD with great re-mixes by Paul Sensor and the ever ace Mr. Bligh plus bespoke artwork by the band . April 28th Yard Life Festival, Hackney Downs Studios, May 4th 2+2 Festival Palma de Mallorca.,
http://gaolersdaughter.com/
FL OODLINERS “We can’t think of any thing else we would rather do but play and write music. We just want to experience everything!”
Monthly Planet remains a massive fan of this band and always looking forward to what they do next. Three girls, two guys, aged fifteen to eighteen, Floodliners hail from London. They write all their own songs and met at a teenage songwriting workshop in Goldsmiths Uni where their disparate backgrounds and musical tastes quickly started to gel. When the funding (predictably) ran out, it was a no brainer to become a permanent musical item and since autumn 2010 they’ve been steadily ramping it up, with gigs all around London, ranging from nightclubs, and bars that can afford to overlook their extreme underage-ness, through to skateboarding parties and anywhere else that will have a bunch of youthful rock outlaws. Their music is the new bubblegum manifesto - a lot of punky guitar courtesy of Lizzy and Jodie, two finger power chords with an energy only a teenager high on life can give you. Georgia supplies dirty basslines, early 80s New York disco or fuzzed to the max. There is tasty drumming from Ellis whose massive beats draw on urban, metal and even free jazz grooves. Daniel weaves in mind melding synth - three note squarewave super tone poems. All topped off with vocals from Lizzy and Jodie, who power away like Amazonian torch singers spitting out super modern pop waiting to bounce round stadium walls. Live, you get a frisson of the Runaways glam dream; the clever rhymes and sonics of N.E.R.D blended with surefooted tunes, sheer musical inquisitiveness spliced with unstoppable choruses and the voices to deliver a perfect reminder of what rock n roll should be, NOW. I’m willing them to happen as they have the latent power to vamp up the music scene. http://www.facebook.com/floodlinersmusic http://twitter.com/floodliners http://floodliners.tumblr.com/
In September 2011, Deathline flew to LA to record our second album with producer Josiah Mazzaschi. From there we published a @Deathline diary http://storify.com/deathline/ for our fans and friends to read. Here is an edit of that diary , expanded with extra notes. The first release from the recording session, our new single, Ten of Clubs, will be released on May 7th. 1. The buildup 11 Aug 11 - Month and a half to LA!! Lots to do, so little time... Spring & summer were spent writing/rehearsing new material to take into 5 days of tracking and mixing in LA, including ‘Nova’, a heavy instrumental http://youtu.be/0R6o78wGd8U With a month and a half left, we were rejecting songs faster than we were writing them. We took over twelve songs out of about twenty to try and record in the end. Of those, as you will see, we tracked or partially tracked ten.
17 Aug 11 - Great rehearsal / recording session today. Final album 2 demo in the can and in your ears soon! The sound of speed. Album 2 demo, play loud. http://vimeo.com/27825343 ‘Crystal Pistol’ was the last song we wrote before leaving for the US. The idea came from the proliferation of bands with the word “crystal” in the name. Almost as many as use the word “death”, like us. We felt them to be interesting opposites. The song is about as punky, fast and summery as we ever get.
14 Sep Two more sleeps then the birds are in the air...We are fucking ready to rock and fucking roll .Watch out LA, News about our trip m Josiah, our producer and his band Light FM: http://bit.ly/deathlinediary 15 Sep 11:21 am Jennie is packing her flight case. Kaoru is collecting his shoes from the mender. Riveting stuff no? 9:44 pm Bedtime. When we wake up it is airport time, then it is LA time baby!
Chasing the sun 16th Sept 6:42 am - Piccadilly Line train, somewher, Today we chase the sun across the world to record album 2. 9:17 am – Unexpectedly heading to Houston Texas… When we arrived at Heathrow, our flight had been overbooked and we were treated shockingly badly by the airline. Eventually we managed to get transferred to a flight that went via a two hour stop at Houston, Texas. It was a bad start… 4:23 pm CST - George Bush Airport, Houston TX. Continental Airlines' Heathrow staff are shit. However the flight crew are lovely and change of plans means we get to visit Texas. Howdy! We are waiting for a connecting flight. “Houston. We do not have a problem”
4.25 pm PST I-110 Northbound We are here. We've apparently brought the British weather with us. But the traffic is all LA baby! 6.27 pm - Highland Park, LA. Staying with producer Josiah in a lovely hillside terrace cottage . Picked fresh lime for our Corona beer from the garden. Nice! 8.27 pm - Our anti jet lag plan is to stay up till at least 11pm. It's now 7 and we're almost unconscious. Been up 26hrs now. Good luck Deathline… We arrived Friday evening and allowed ourselves the weekend to get over the journey and jet lag so we could enter the studio fresh on Monday morning.
9.29 pm - Cave Studio, LA. Visiting where we are based next week. This is William Reid's guitar as heard on countless JAMC records.
11.30 pm Silverlake, LA Delicious Mexican at El C onquistador. Our waiter is a blond Latino Elton John. We are stuffed and we made it to 11pm. Night x
3. Lobsterfest. Sat 17 Sept 8:47 am Highland Park. Welcome to Camp Deathline. Breakfast will be served on the terrace soon
(the view from Josiah’s terrace) 10 amLobsterfest here we come!! The annual Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival. Josiah’s band Light.FM http://facebook.com/lightfm were down to do a 4pm slot and we tagged along as guests. We’ve never seen so many people eating shellfish in our lives. 3:16 pm - San Pedro Watching Deep Valley at lobsterfest. Cool band. Light fm next 3.25 pm That is “Deap Vally” apparently. Imagine if Led Zep were two Californian birds. Awesome. http://facebook.com/deapvally We knew one half of them already, Julie, whom we met with her other band (another LA duo) Pity Party. It was nice to bump into her again - she lives in the same housing complex as Josiah.They often work together. 4:07 pm Watching the amazing Light FM. Josiah is the frontman. Buy their stuff. … At dusk, our friend Dougee from the glambient band The Gentle People http://www. thegentlepeo ple.com came and picked us
up with his boyfriend Brady and took us for cocktails and seafood at the brilliantly tiki-tacky Old Tony’s on Redondo Beach Pier. 11:41 pm - Stuffed. Bedtime. Tomorrow we rehearse in prep for tracking. Night x
4. Under the sign 18 Sept 7:08 am - Highland Park. Overheard yesterday at lobsterfest. Girl in black: "those two are wearing my favourite colour - black". We were. We are Deathline. Morning! 1:13 pm - Beverly Center Brunched. Now shopping Sunday was a day to kick off the final bits of jetlag. We spent the day time with our friend Alison who took us around the famous flea market on Fairfax in Hollywood after brunch, before taking us up into the Hills for a photo op at the iconic sign. We spent the afternoon by the pool at her house in the foothills. Then it was off to rehearse at Cave Studio in a couple of hours 1:33 am Highland Park. Quick sprint through the songs at Cave Studio this evening. All went well. Ready for recording After rehearsing the songs in Josiah’s studio, we took off for pizza in Larchmont Village before catching Deap Vally again at a club in the heart of Hollywood. Great band - check them out now.
1:33 am - Tracking starts tomorrow! We saw the fab Deap Vally again tonight at Hemingway's in Hollywood. 5. Studio day 1 Mond19 Sept 7:33 am Highland Park Peanut butter filled pretzels rock!! Rock n roll breakfast... 8:29 am Another hot sunny day. We start recording today with Josiah at Cave Studio.
10:49 am We’re using the Led Zeppelin drum machine for Black Money 10:59 pm Highland Park. Knackered. But a good day. Basic tracking for 10 songs complete. Vocals and overdubs start tomorrow. 6. Studio day 2 Tues 20 Sept 12:01 pm Back in studio after a massive breakfast at Auntie Em’s in Eagle Rock. Tracking vocals now on Crystal Pistol! 12:41 pm It’s hot in the shitbox today. (what William Reid of Jesus and Mary Chain calls Josiah’s control room. He spends a lot of time there). Lead vocals for Crystal Pistol and Buffalo 1867 now down. Every Dying Breath next. 2:07 pm Listen to basic tracking for Sweden v Poland. It’s immense
4:26 pm All lead vocals tracked. Moving onto bvs and overdubs 4:40 pm Listening to your own vocals in isolation is never that great. Might go for a walk while Josiah does this bit. This was probably the hottest day of the whole week. Sweltering inside and out, so it was good to use the opportunity while Josiah was editing vocals, to get out and about (though there was very little to do in the area - we spent a lot of time back and forth between the studio and the massive, somewhat sketchy, Armenian supermarket up the road to buy cigs, water fruit etc). 6:11 pm Wrapping a bit early today as Josiah has to rehearse with Light FM. They go on tour with Smashing Pumpkins next month. 11:34 pm –Evening ended at Jumbo's Clown Rooms. Pole dancers, not Polish dancers. (Though some of them may have been Polish of course). A cool little pole dancing club in Hollywood, where rockers, bikers, hipsters and dykes hang out. We went there for a late night drink with Alison before heading back to Josiah’s to go to bed. Studio day 3 Weds 21s Sept 9:42 am - Another hot sunny day in LA. To the studio for tracking day 3. 12:15 pm - Cave Studio “go for a pee” vs “‘ave a piss”, innit? 2:38 pm Ten of Clubs sounds like a Cramps / Fall monster 2:46 pm Ten of Clubs is the most extensively reworked song so far.
Josiah was doing some mixing as we progressed and would suggest things that would improve the songs (and some that didn’t that we jointly rejected). Ten of Clubs in particular was massively simplified during into the nagging riff monster that is on the upcoming single version. (We added the horns and sequenced elements later, in December to finish the song off). 5:55 pm All bv's now tracked including some nifty whispers and talking recorded using a bit of old solid state kit. This was for Kaoru’s voiceover on Every Dying Breath and his whispers on Ten of Clubs. 10:42 pm Tired. Most guitar overdubs tracked. Start mixing tomorrow. On the final leg now. Sounding good! Studio day 4 22 September Day 4 was gruelling. We realised early on that we would not be able to finish the mix, so we had to make some decisions on which songs to focus on. 1:02 pm . Kaoru on William Reid’s guitar for Buffalo 1867 overdubs 1:09 pm Josiah 4:51 pm Surrender Monkey new sound is Miami Vice. It was reworked with sequenced elements reminiscent
of Jan Hammer-esque 80’s synth rock 4:54 pm Exciting reworking ihappening in Cave Studio LA 9:42 pm Pizza was delivered and eaten. Mixing goes on into the night. Food coma too We went late into the night working on stuff and hardly emerged all day. We were still adding elements and overdubs to push the songs as far as possible. 10:21 pm City of Night 9. 23rd September 10:22 am - Cave Studio. Final day of mixing. We are almost there and it is sounding very huge. Another massive day, given added incentive by the fact that it was the last one! 4:01 pm Deathline rule of mixing you want to make people go "wow" not "whoa". 4:48 pm whoa! 12:54 am . Done: Black Money, Buffalo 1867, Crystal Pistol, Every Dying Breath, Nova, Something is You, Surrender Monkey, Sweden v Poland We hope to finish "Return" and "Ten of Clubs" later this year with Josiah 1:02 am We've now moved to our friend Alison's amazing pad in Hollywood. Kicking back and partying for the next few days. We spent the next three days in Los Angeles, catching up with friends in bars, at gigs and by the pool before flying back to London, which was
gripped by an unexpected Indian summer and was hotter than Los Angeles for a while after we returned. In December, we started working with Josiah again, this time swapping mixes, extra overdubs, MIDI sequences and notes via Facebook and email. Four songs have been finished and mastered in this way, including Ten of Clubs, which will be the first single, on May 7 2012. The rest of the album will follow in the subsequent months. Our thanks go to everyone who made us welcome in LA, but especially Josiah Mazzaschi, Alison Wilson and Rob Mune.
Jennie and Kaoru http://deathline.co.uk http://facebook.com/theDeathline http://theDeathline.tumblr.com
The Walpole - Its back, and better than ever. 407 New Cross Road, London, SE14 6LA http://facebook.com/TheWalpole @TheWalpole Get involved. Things are starting. Different DJ's every Friday. Film nights on Tuesdays, if no major sports. Weekly Open Mic starting on March 18th . We do Sunday Roasts and the papers / Bloody Mary's for Recovery Day. Soon to be stocking Meantime (of Greenwich), bottled real ales, draught and Brewdog Craft Beers. Some dates in
March
Thursdays 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th - Karaoke with Pat, 9th MarchYour New Favourite Records with Foxy (Noisy stuff and odd covers etc), 10th March- Big Tig's Party Night (Guilty Pleasures, Glow Sticks and Potential Party Games), 16th March- DJ Steve Kleenex (Commercial Indie, Ska ad Rock from the 60's to the present day), 17th March- Milk and Alcohol with Johnny Nothing (Punk, New Wave, Ska, Quality Pop and Party Tunes), 23rd March Love Pirate DJs (Pop Of The Tops) 30th March- Suck My Pop (Pop Gems and Indie Gold from the people who bring you Cheeze and Whine at The Hoxton Underbelly), 31st March- Art Brut DJ's Destroy (Ian Catskilkin powers himself on Red Wine and Cider and plays whatever takes his fancy)
South East London - the cheekily nick named “Costa del Thames” is a hive of creative industry that is a rough edged urban fairy tale cross between Eastenders and a sci fi sit com. The every day people are Its treasure. There’s a new free publication South East Zine to help you know whats what! http://southeastzine.co.uk
@SouthEast_Zine An instigation of inspiration, Joyzine is what it says. Contributors flavour the articles. Guests design pages photographers and new writers get seen via this nu cultural discovery channel which also stages its own events. Joyzine has art at its
heart. You,are invited to be part of it. @Joyzineuk
http://joyzine.org/
https://www.facebook.com/toomanyts @TooManyTs
Massive t night out at The Wheelbarrow in Camden started the PLAYHARD 2012 Travelling rock n roll circus, with a One Beat Records special. Huge thanks to The Rivalry, Public Service Broadcasting and headliners The Carpels (above, smashing it to a packed out dance mosh). Jon Brookes (left) of One Beat / The Charlatans, pumped proper Friday night party before the ever rocking DJ Gabi Garbutt continued the cracking tunes good work. PLAYHARD is go! Right; View from the back of the venue The Rivalry are on stage. They travelled down from Stoke, rocked out and made some new friends. With The Carpels and One Beat in the house tonight was a bit of a Midlands special
The Rivalry
Camden Wheelbarrow by Rupert Hitchcox
Public Service Broadcasting
The Carpels at The Wheelbarrow, Camden (Playhard / One Beat Records night) by
Rupert Hitchcox.
Next stop
Birmingham Thank you
Janice Graham Band (top pic,
The Rimes (bottom pic)
The Tone Thieves and Saturday nighters that came to The End
@playhardgigs Launch Friday 9 March The Purple Turtle, Camden
Exit Calm Widescreen guitar scapes Heavily tipped for, and on the brink of, greatness. Exit Calm take a break from recording new songs to come and PLAYHARD. This is the show to catch before they head out on tour with Marion in April. (Drowned In Sound)
London Calling The World - PLAYHARD will be a global gig event from GMT! Come to The Purple Turtle, in Camden Town wherever you are.
GotSeen (Music Week Breakout etc) the UK's fastest growing live streaming channel for unsigned bands and more. GotSeeN is a platform for artists to show off. Having live streamed events for brands including Giorgio Armani and Oxfam, GotSeeN guarantees an audience for every broadcast'. http://gotseen.com/ @GotSeeN
Moones
sold out Islington Academy on their first outing a few months ago. Sublime melodic atmospheric soundscapes - Guitarist, ‘Lags’ Barnard is better known for on stage rioting with one of the UK's bestknown hardcore punk bands, Gallows. Miss this, miss out.
The Sea
have played with Muse, The Enemy and recorded their new album with producer John Cornfield (Oasis etc), then played 20 sellout gigs in 7 countries in 22 days. They continue their rise at PLAYHARD.
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Essex new wavers whose debut single is produced by Verve guitarist, Nick McCabe. ‘Death Row’/’’Animal Style’ will be releaed (in April) on Gary Powell’s label; 25 Hour Convenience label with art by Micro Dot ( Oasis, Suede, SFA, Beta Band etc) legend Matt Sankey.. Buzz ON
Morrissey & Marshall Soaringly beautiful in an epic, Dublin, style. When Greg Marshall decided to climb, uninvited, upon the stage already occupied by Darren Morrissey, and his (former) band a year ago, the ensuing double vocals created magic. They have writing and performing together ever since, becoming a name on sussed lips.
BandWagon Gigs “This mega-handy site aims to take gig bookings into the future” (NME). http://bandwagongigs.com
Free mixer - 4.30pm for musicians, media and promoters + discount entry to PLAYHARD.
PINK CIGAR the high energy rock n roll outfit from Ladbroke Grove, London, England. "One of the hottest new bands out there at the moment" (Metal Talk). Infused with the true rock n roll spirit that is rare now days, an energetic blast of filthy, catchy, massive tunes to excite and ignite. Since forming in late 2009, Sharkie Cottrell (Singer) Edd Whyte (Guitarist) Sam Rutland (Bassist) and Sid Mayall (Drummer) have thundered through the London circuit earning a reputation for the fiercest live show in town. Pink Cigar have gigged all over the UK, supported Razorlight, toured with The Eighties Matchbox B line Disaster, played the Vintage festival, had various radio interviews and launched self titled self released E.P at a packed to bursting Hawley Arms. Gonna be a PLAYHARD spectacle! "it's that rough and ready 'don't give a fuck' charm that quickly has the fast growing crowd leaping around like idiots" (Uber Rock)
Janice Graham Band This riot-n-celebrity blighted Britain is struggling for some sanity. There’s a new album titled ‘It’s Not Me’ to soundtrack our times with dark and nasty twists that are some how uplifting.
Janice Graham Band already have a live presence that no self respecting music festival should be without.. ‘It’s Not Me’ makes good on all the promise of the gigs. Ska guitar surges smash the screens of “reality” TV with a tribal beat and a horny blast.
The combination of their spring 2012 album release and tour is like throwing a box of fireworks on a bonfire. But don’t stand back. This is something else. Punk soul? Ska jazz? Whatever it is, its good stuff that rocks like a tropical carnival during a prison break out. A joyful rave of spot on words over sinister under currents . Unassumingly down to earth but also lacking false modesty, Janice Graham Band play the kind of gigs that they themselves love being at, and it shows, infectiously.
With this contradiction of a concept album they are free of the chains of pop culture’s dictations for this season. This is 21st century Northern Soul. Since early support fand interest for what they do, the buzz has tuned up over the last three years. Thanks to the net, I’m not the only one who has been following their progress. The fan base is growing with every murmer. By last autumn, with an album up their sleeves for Acid Jazz Records, they had developed into an exciting prospect on the annuel end of year “ones to watch” front. Especially exciting as they didn’t come with that generically acceptable “indie land fill”, as opposed to an independent, sound and the necessary accompanying haircut of the month. “Geared up to go stellar.” said Monthly Planet in September. Actually I wanted to write more, do the interview thing and all that, but I’d had an accident and couldn’t walk far. I thought about it again when we went up to Birmingham the other weekend but to be honest the live show does a lot of the talking for them. So I usually just say hi, or wave or something. I feel the music connection comes from the heart, where all kinds of people can access it. The album is 4 REAL superb musicianship, an explosion of ideas and great production. A quartet of young mancunians created everything themselves from start to finish without expensive studios, name producers or fancy art concepts.
With a heart beat of dub hip hop rhythm laced with new wave veering between frustration, love and scorn its plain to see that despite comparisons galore you can’t slap a label on what Janice Graham Band are doing to make you dance. (cont/‌)
Janice Graham Band ‘It’s Not Me’ album launch , This Feeling, February 2012, by Rupert Hitchcox http://ruperthitchcox.com (cont)
With musical arrangements as diverse as Britain itself,Janice Graham Band hold up a scum stained mirror to the “news”. Its an exuberant, but sincerely felt wake up call. Get off that X box and on to a dance floor or stage, where IT is AT. In a way they almost belong in the past. Wanting to move people in every way possible. But thats what makes the future they are part of an unexplored thrill. As a live music promoter on the new music circuit, I LOVE a lot of what is coming through the bars and badly lit stages right now. Music genres chewed up and spat out with sparkle from characters who are already stars to us. None of it contrived by main stream taste maker media. Word of mouth, independent media and documenting these shows is the jungle telegraph. There seemed to be some kind of amazement at The Brits that Ed Sheeran had actually “played loads of gigs” before making it. As if this was something unusual. Mate, right now, talented people are still living the back line share dilemmas, etc ,over and over, like groundhog day, to get their songs heard live. Makes it all the sweeter when a great band’s potential gets recognised and supported. Like many of the best groups, Tom (drums), Josh (trumpet), Andy (guitar) and Joe (bass, vocals) were friends, with the normal teenage persuits, who only discovered their chemistry after forming, performing to mates, pissing off neighbours with the noise, dead end jobs and the dole. Hence the familiarity of experience, for many of us, that the songs are steeped in. Rainy sky escapism to impress an audience above an industry or hipsters, but heck if they get it too, then there’s no exclusion zone. In short It’s Not Me is the punchiest album to pull no punches, in a long while. I’m just glad it exists. (overleaf - they say…/)
@janicegrahambnd “£4.99 buys you a whole lotta hate/paranoia/regret /madness/love/remorse/hope.... x
"MANC act cause an absolute riot on stage" (The Sun, This Feeling Big In 2012) "Shades of The Arctic Monkeys lyrical chutzpah and The Specials at their lairiest; this band have got the lot" (The Times) “If you wanna follow a top new band then these Young Mancunians are the best new band Ive seen for years...” @Happy_Mondays ”If ‘’It’s Not Me’ isn’t one of 2012’s Albums Of The Year, then this isn’t 2012" (God Is In The TV)
“Band are seriously good... music and politics mix” (Manchester Evening News) “JGB are on the path to greatness with ‘It’s Not Me’, which is most certainly an early "Album of the Year" contender.” (Carpe Musica) It's Not Me' is brilliant: dark, danceable and demented just like them." (ManchesterMusic ) “There is a new criminal classification in town, “JGB”, a musical assault with intent to both harm and harmonise”. (Reviewed OnLine) “already being dubbed a strong contender for Manchester music 2012's debut of the year, added to the buzz of aniticipation in the air”. (Mancunian Matters, HMV Next Big Things) “It’s Not Me” is something of a landmark” (Music-Dash) * "It's Not Me is 2012 urban existence...” “Chaotic, snidey , hurtful yet hurt , this record demands to be heard. 5/5” “If these geezers ain't massive before the end of the year , rock is dead" (Record Collector) “Is it too soon to start talking about undercover album of the year?” (Music-News.com) “They’re the bats bollocks” (The Carpels)
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