FUCK BUTTONS

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fbFuck Buttons play a warm-up Show @ Deaf Institute, Manchester THIS Saturday 18th May 2013

Fuck Buttons are back with a new album and a string of live festival shows this summer.

Ahead of their appearance at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona later this month, Fuck Buttons have announced that they will play a small warm-up show (their first UK live show in two years) at The Deaf Institute, Manchester on Saturday 18th May 2013.

Further details of the new Fuck Buttons album will follow shortly.

LOOP Reform and Curate ATP

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Never ever thought this would happen – but LOOP have reformed. They will also perform at the last ATP staged in a holiday camp in the UK.

Robert Hampson explains:

It was a long time ago… and it didn’t really finish that well. I’m not sure anyone of us can really put our fingers on specific reasons, for they are legion, but after many many years of being asked why not play again, I can’t seem to find any excuses for why not to anymore.

To always pursue a forward motion has been my goal, but what goes around comes around as they say.

It seems that as much as you try to run as far as you can away from it, your past will always haunt you. I have never really slept well over the demise of Loop, it always felt unfinished. If I had a pound coin given to me for every time I get asked to reform Loop, I’d be a very rich man by now. I had always baulked at the idea, especially when I have been asked to perform songs with a pick-up band, something I could never do… ever.

It’s not that I am precious, but at the same time, without John and Neil holding down that centre, I’d never be able to wave, it would never be the same.

I’m so proud to say that the line-up of John Wills, Neil Mackay, Scott Dowson and myself have agreed to perform a limited number of shows from late 2013 to mid 2014 at various venues across the world. To perform from all stages of the Loop arc, enjoy it again, hoping that we make plenty of people happy again and maybe give people a chance to see it for the first time… then, we can put it finally to rest with a better feeling of completion and that a chapter is really over. I sincerely hope it maybe refreshing to us and to others. For some, it may simply not be on their radar anymore. Well, it’s simple enough for them, don’t buy a ticket. It’s going to blink and you miss it because it’s not going to be around long, I refuse to prolong it and for it to become embarrassing. It’ll be sharp and to the point…straight to your heart and then, it’s gone.

 

RH April 2013

UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS

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Within Mind Control’s it’s blood soaked grooves you will hear shocking tales of bizarre desert ceremonies, religious brainwashing and drug inspired mass slaughter!
Imagine the original Alice Cooper band jamming in a cell with early Black Sabbath and the Stooges, whilst sitting on murder charges and you may get a glimpse into their fuzzed up world of exploding tube amps and cymbal smashing mayhem. However, this enticing act of musical manipulation is merely the icing upon a very sick cake.
Mind Control is a concept album with a theme that makes the acts and intentions of the likes of Charles Manson and Jim Jones seem like petty crimes. What makes Mind Control scarier than most albums is that it doesn’t seem as sinister on the surface as it really is deep down, within the core of its black acid-drenched world of pain and torture.
There is no escaping the chained-to-the brain hooks and melodies of first single from the album, “Poison Apple” (released 18th March), but this is merely a trailer for the real hellish delights to be bestowed upon the earth.
The infectious energy surges and pulverizing grooves of “Mind Crawler”, tell the tale of a man on a mission who has fled from “Mount Abraxas” after mercilessly murdering all the members of his cult. He rides his motorcycle through the gates of hell and hijacks the weak minds of yet more foolish disciples to join him in his desert hideaway. This is when the real fun and terror truly begins….
Recorded at the legendary Chapel Studios over an autumnal full moon using the finest western electrical technology, engineer Jim Spencer (Bert Jansch, Robert Wyatt) has captured perfectly the bands live sound of saturated fuzz, mind-bending riffs and 60’s vocal harmonies.
A wider range of influences can be heard from both music and cinema, but their founding principle of presenting light and darkness still remains. Simple and ragged in all its low life glory, Mind Control is the ultimate expose of killer cult madness and mind manipulation.
More About Uncle Acid and The Dead Beats:
From humble beginnings in the witchy flat lands of Cambridgeshire, England,Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats have devolved into an international band of street creeps, burnouts and draft dodgers. Since unleashing the monumental, internationally feared and revered set of blood-curdling chainsaw anthems known as Blood Lust, they have been locked away in the barn ignoring all the ensuing hype and publicity, whilst preparing to deliver their own new nightmare message of madness.
It is a fact that Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats have, in recent times, become one of the most talked about rock bands currently in existence. The fact that no one even knew what they looked like until very recently is testimony to the enigma that surrounds this terrifying, yet extremely melodically minded cult. It is another fact that they have become one of the most collectable bands on the planet, with first press vinyl editions of Blood Lust fetching up to and over £700 (yes, British Pounds!) on the collector’s market. Pretty remarkable for a record that is barely two years old.

White Hills

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The awesome psych rock power trio White Hills (Thrill Jockey) are back over touring in April. BTWOS show at Blade Factory with special guests!!

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3rd – Cyprus Avenue, Cork
4th – Bourke’s Bar, Limerick
5th – Grand Social Club, Dublin
6th – Aunt Annies Porterhouse, Belfast
7th – Broadcast, Glasgow
8th – The Brudenell, Leeds
9th – The Musician, Leicester
10th – The Cluny, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
11th – The Continental, Preston
12th – Soup Kitchen Cafe, Manchester
13th – Blade Factory @ Camp and Furnace, Liverpool
14th – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
15th – The Green Door Store, Brighton
16th – Exchange Club, Bristol
17th – Cargo, London

Clinic & Mugstar Tour

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28 Feb – The Cluny, Newcastle
1 Mar – Stereo, Glasgow
2 Mar – The Deaf Institute, Manchester
7 Mar – Corsica Studios, London

Bardo Pond

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The sixth studio album from Philadelphia’s foremost purveyors of psychedelic space rock is due for a LP only reissue on Fire Records. Appearing for the first time on double heavy weight vinyl and with brand new artwork by Joy Feasley, Bardo Pond’s 2006 album Ticket Crystals exemplifies the quintet’s signature doom tempo, multi-layered drones while introducing a lighter pastoral feel.

Also featured on the album is the band’s unique reworking of The Beatles’ White Album classic, “Cry Baby Cry”, which was originally recorded for and broadcast by the BBC as part of their commemorations of the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s death.

FREE MP3!! Bardo Pond’s version of The Beatles’ “Cry Baby Cry” taken from Ticket Crystals
https://soundcloud.com/firerecords/bardo-pond-cry-baby-cry

MUGSTAR – AXIS

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MUGSTAR’s masterwork AXIS is released today!!!

“Axis sees the band at their most eclectic, playful and ambitious. It’s one of the year’s finest LPs..” Soundblab

“Mugstar are very much back floating and crashing through space. And Axis might well prove to be their masterpiece.” Both Bars On

“A surge of what have by all accounts been mind-blowing live shows has obviously strengthened Mugstar’s musical musculature… it feels good to be back on this particular road with Mugstar at the wheel.” Freq

“Their sound is ever evolving, here are the familiar sounds akin to early Pink Floyd performing ‘Set the controls for the heart of the sun’ but with more textures.” Ech(((0)))s and Dust

“A motherload of motorik psych exploration from Liverpool’s finest.” Boomkat

ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2013

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Roadburn 2013 tickets go on sale today. As they sell out rather quickly we would suggest you get ready!! Roadburn 2013 will run for three days from Thursday, April 18 to Saturday, April 20 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland. There will be an additional Afterburner event on Sunday, April 21, 2013.

2013 will see some of Behind The Wall of Sleep’s favourite band’s gracing the stages…..GOAT, ELECTRIC WIZARD, THE COSMIC DEAD, TEETH OF THE SEA, ETERNAL TAPESTRY, UNCLE ACID AND THE DEAD BEATS, MOSS and many many more.

Holland’s very own Roadburn Festival has become Europe’s leading underground festival for psychedelic, avant-garde, doom or any other variation of leftfield sonic pleasures that push the boundaries of music.

In addition to the music, Roadburn has earned a reputation as having a unique camaraderie between the festivalgoers, bands, organizers and staff, and ranks as one of the best and most laid-back festivals to be experienced.

MUGSTAR

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Psych masters MUGSTAR head off on tour through France, Spain and Belgium this month to promote their forthcoming album AXIS:

PENTAGRAM

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Doom Pioneers PENTAGRAM, led by the ghost like vocalist & founding member Bobby Liebling will be hitting the grim shores of Blighty for their First Ever UK Tour at the end of the month and will be playing the classic album ‘Relentless‘ in it’s entirety.

Tickets are still available priced £15 and £17 in London and the full tour schedule is as follows:

Oct 31st @ The Fleece, Bristol
Nov 1st @ The Garage, London
Nov 2nd @ Academy 3, Manchester
Nov 4th @ Ivory Blacks, Glasgow

Support for all UK dates comes by the way of Gentleman’s Pistols with Liverpool Doomer’s Black Magician now confirmed as opening the Manchester date.