BIG NATURALS
Big Naturals live up the name with one hell of a big bass wave. As many as four bass stacks, electricity and drums are carved into mesmorising, throbbing hooks that are enough to disturb any vital organs in the body. Influenced by bands such as Can, Minutemen, Boris, Black Flag and the Melvins.
Link: Official Site
THE DEATH OF HER MONEY
The Death of Her Money have spent the last five years finding their way to something that offer’s a unique take on heavy music, no more generic description need’s to be said other than it’s heavy, and it’s music. To explain what it sounds like is not a very easy thing.
Constructed from improv and a freeing of the mind process, TDOHM’s spacious, simplistic driving rhythms carrying blood clotted veins of sound flowing down to the dark pit via strange discordant melody, off-kilter chordal progression’s accompanied by intense screamed vocals and layers of feedback that crack through the battered beast that will go down fighting.
During the last 3 years they have released a 7” vinyl (Rat Patrol Records), an E.P. (Flood of Love e.p.) through they’re own Suntreader Recordings.
TDOHM’s current release is titled “Spirit Of The Stairwell” (Superfi Records / Rat Patrol records), they’re debut full length has had praise from the British rock press as well as rave review’s from various countries around the globe and was also voted number 44 in Rock sound magazines top 75 album’s of 2008.
Having just finished the recording of they’re 2nd album titled “You Are Loved” with plan’s to release it next year at some point, they are planning another UK tour in September and they’re first European tour in November.
Link: Official Website
Record Label: Rat Patrol / Super Fi / Sundtreader
SPIDER KITTEN
Formed in 2001 whilst founder members Chi (vocals, guitar) and Ptew (drums, synth) were at University the band, at that time, was an exercise in distorted noise and performance art, mostly playing around Campus and occasionally the odd club. From 2003 to 2004 Spider Kitten was predominantly performing eerie drone to confused emo kids in tight tight t shirts. But they did manage to turn some heads. As a two piece Spider Kitten enraged audiences and broke PAs with such bands as Taint, Suns Of Thunder and Necrocest. The band acquired a cult following from their live shows which utilised visual projections and on stage mixing to great, and sometimes nauseating, effect.
Then in 2005, as an experiment, the band wrote some songs. With words and solos and everything. These songs became “Things I Can’t Kill”, an EP that was given away and enjoyed only partially for it’s price. In order to play the more structured material they brought in two local noise merchants who, for the sake of decency we’ll call Nid (bass) and Twan (guitar). With more arms it was possible to have at least another two guitars playing at the same time. Big valve amps sure sound swell on those American records we all know and love so Kitten acquired a quantity and soon after they finished recording their first “real” album, “Ineffable”, which was released in December 2007 through their own Rugland Records.
Since then Spider Kitten have gigged in both England and Wales (including shows with Firebird and Gentlemen’s Pistols), sold all but a few copies of their debut CD and put out a free download only concept album via their website called “Future Echos”. Twan left the band in pursuit of rave drugs in the summer of 2008. In 2009 Spider Kitten will release a new EP entitled “Rats From A Sinking Ship” and have been working on an accompanying music video.
Do Spider Kitten have a message? Sure they do…I mean they’re bound to aren’t they?
Link: Official Website
BROWN WINGS
Brown Wings are a band made up of a guitarist and a drummer. They play music influenced by labels like Load Records and Skin Graft and like to play loud music with stupid titles. They have played with bands including Racebannon, The Death Of Her Money, Kling Klang and Action Beat.
Link: Official Website
ATOMCK/CEMENTIMENTAL
Atomck. Influenced by…Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Lightning Bolt, Pig Destroyer, Mastodon, Sunn0))), Gigantic Brain, Sparklehorse, King Crimson, Merzbow, Fantomas, Anal Cunt, Nile.
“Atomck consequently reduced their performance to a stop start managerie of insanely deft and brutal guitar out-takes from a recently axed commercial for BBC Masterchef. No actually I don’t know what I’m saying anymore. Atomck essentially were the best heavy duty spaz grindcore to be seen, well…anywhere” – Hulk Dash
“A pair of fellows kicking out really quite badass future grind jams” – Noel Gardner
“Newport’s heaviest band! Fact. Super digital grindcore played by nerds.” – Mikeee
Link: Official Website
Listen/download all their releases to date (for free) : Bandcamp
Cementimental based in London, is the name under which I currently make all my experimental noises, using ‘circuit bent’ electronic sound-toys and basically whatever and whoever I can get my hands on. The project is becoming more of a ‘band’, as I team up with various other noisy types to produce and perform deranged music and noise of many genres. Cementimental is also part of/indistinguishable from other projects including Gymnastic Decomposition and Hypno-Bacon. For this Meze Festival show, I shall be playing alongside Atomck.
Link: Official Website
Co-promoted by Lesson#1 and Sharp Noodle. DJs from Lesson#1 and Torn.
for full into regarding the month festival in association with The Joy Collective, see http://www.mezefestival.co.uk
