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This week - genre defying post indie electro blues explosion with:
Female fronted piono driven melodramatic indie-popsters. "eccentric ivory-bashing diva, ala Tori
Amos, meets rock rhythm section and has noisy and deranged barney"
"good looking" - Seatwave http://www.myspace.com/helzuki
Bass-driven, genre-bending, mutant electro fronted by 'the bastard love-child of Ava Gardner and Tank Girl' Waves of crunching bassline roll off the stage accompanied by cascades of gloriously unhinged Honky Tonk piano. Then there's Miss Blues, her vocals in turn smoky-voiced soft to full-throttle Blues howling and takes you on a vivid journey through the sleazy side of city life, strange love and absinthe-tinted trips of the imagination... Already creating a buzz across Londons underground for their white-hot live shows and sounding nothing like anything you've ever heard before, Hooligan Night are a Rock & Roll band straight from the pages of a 2000AD comic... http://www.myspace.com/hooligannight
Hungover Stuntmen are an unsigned four-piece group based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. They have supported The Subways, The Kooks, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Futureheads and Paul Weller. "Raw energy, overwhelming guitars, potent bass and drums and emphatic vocals" - Get Rhythm Magazine "A rocking young band with a fantastic flair" - Steve Cradock OCS / Paul Weller "A new Indie Britpop sensation" - Virgin Net "...spell-binding... original... incredible
performance ...the next big thing to come out of the north of
England" "Futureheads-style four part harmonies with a confidence and swagger. Intelligent, interesting songs" - Culture Magazine http://www.myspace.com/hungoverstuntmen
Philadelphia Main Line make molten-rock blues-scuzz brilliance. Formed in late 2005, the Hackney-based duo have built an arsenal of sonic onslaughts that sound like The Black Keys handing their souls to the devil. 2006 saw them self-produce their first demo from a dingy studio room in Hackney, the fruits of which are infected with those filthy environs, the sort of ballsy, bluesy-telltales that the bastard child of Tom Waits would draw its last hungover breath to make. With a thumbs up from "Stool Pigeon" and new releases much anticipated. Gigs have been roared and ears have been damaged at 93 Feet East, The Luminaire, Barfly, The Garage and Dublin Castle but plans for carnage do not end there. The latest signing to BANG! Records PML have a big year in their sights with a planned EP release this summer to coincide with some of their biggest shows to date. Philadelphia Main Line might take their influences from the past, but these bloodthirsty blackguards have their sights firmly set on the future. "Philadelphia Mainline employ the most rudimentary of guitar lines to weave their Holy Golighty-ish R & B menace, with a 13th Floor Elevators spin. Great vocals and twangy blues guitar " - Stool Pigeon demo review http://www.myspace.com/philadelphiamainline
The words "sleazy" and "filthy" get used a lot. Bass-heavy. White-noise guitar. Multi-layered beats. Distored vocals. BBC Radiophonic Workshop style noise (usually guitar generated). Reverse-reverb guitar. Bass riffs. White-noise syn-drums. "Slick spiky electronic rock that screams
darkness beneath a seemingly delicate exterior." "The Mekano Set get us all worked up with the promise of a song called 'Dirty Hand Job', and then totally spoil the mood by being goths... about as menacing as a Crow soundtrack." - Emily Strange Mackay @ The Stool Pigeon "Like entering an 80's burlesque club in
the middle of filming Miami Vice." "Impressive and compelling stuff." Meatbreak http://www.myspace.com/mekanoset  *****************************  |
