Fuzz Against Junk<\/strong> formed in Summer 2002 by Billy and Ian (tuned to C , jamming on double bass and 12 string acoustic and ripping off riffs from favourite records) to play a gig at Mark Hymas \/ St Piran\u2019s Limelight nights at The King Charles off Stokes Croft in Bristol.<\/p>\nSteve was asked to come along to provide percussion on the day of the gig \u2013 WE REALLY DIDN\u2019T KNOW WHAT IT WAS GOING TO SOUND LIKE, BUT THAT\u2019S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE BAND. The place was so small Billy had to move his bass everytime a punter wanted to come through the door !. Seemed to go down well. It was meant to be a one-off and nothing more was planned, but Fat Paul was at the first gig, dug it, and a few months later they played at his Espionage night on the Thekla , adding Paul on guitar \/ effects.<\/p>\n
More gigs followed around Bristol, with a more electronic element to the sound appearing, and most of the first album was recorded in a day \u2018live\u2019at The Cube Cinema, yards from their debut gig. Adding Keith \u2018Keth\u2019 Bailey on sax and percussion some more recordings at State of The Art finished the album off and it was the debut release on Geoff Barrow\u2019s Invada label.<\/p>\n
Another album was recorded at the Cube when the band \u2018\u2026.looking like cartoon beatniks\u2026..\u2019 backed the Blue Aeroplanes Gerard Langley for the second part of his \u2018Lit\u2019 series of limited edition CD\u2019s \u2013 now long out of print. Aaron on sax and flute appeared at this time, as did Stuart, playing Hurdy-Gurdy, Northumbrian pipes and trombone. Swedish Radio\u2019s legendary DJ Haken Persson picked up on the band early on and supported them, played tracks on his groundbreaking show.<\/p>\n
The band played a few more gigs, with various friends appearing on stage and stretching the sound further. The first gig with legendary ex-Can<\/strong> vocalist Damo Suzuki<\/strong> happened at a special Espionage night on the Thekla in Autumn 2003, whilst a second gig with Damo arranged by John Stapleton happened at Fiddlers in March 2004. Their first appearance at Ashton Court Festival in the Jazz Big Top was an exciting experience for all involved. The fuzzers really pulled it out the bag and won some well deserved praise from fans and sceptical onlookers alike!More studio recordings followed for the second album and more gigs with Oneida, Circle and Comets On Fire followed, as well as an all acoustic gig at the wonderful St Georges Hall in Bristol – \u2018one of the finest acoustic chambers in Europe\u2019 – alongside fellow Invada artists Gonga and Lucky Luke in Summer 2004.<\/p>\nRadio sessions in 2004 have included Star FM\u2019s Bristol Uncovered, Resonance 104 FM and Radio Caroline, and a 3 track, vinyl only limited edition single, the controversial Trenchfoot\/Dugout (with hand made labels by the band) was issued as a split release by Rocket \/ Invada in late 2004. More recordings saw the appearance of vocalist Maria, as a version of \u2018Ballad Of The Hip Death Goddess\u2019 written by psychedelic nobodies Ultimate Spinach was recorded for release on John Stapleton\u2019s new record label, which was released back in august 2007. 2007 was finished with 2 monumental gigs at the ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES<\/strong> festival in Butlins, Minehead in december. Curated by fellow Bristolians PORTISHEAD<\/strong>, the band opened the festival with a storming set of there own on the Friday and was then consequently asked to back the legendary DAMO SUZUKI again on the sunday with Kid Millions from ONEIDA on second drum kit and Adrian Utley from Portishead on 3rd guitar\u2026the kids minds were fried\u2026job done! 2008 begins with the release of Fuzz Against Junk\u2019s brand new long player \u201cNETTI NETTI\u201d on Febuary 4th through INVADA RECORDS<\/strong>. More madness is sure to come so keep your ears to the floor kids\u2026coz it\u2019s going to be a muvver!!!<\/p>\nSCIENCE BASTARD<\/strong><\/p>\nWith a name like Science Bastard<\/strong> and a track titled \u2018Cunt\u2019 the Welsh contrarians are clearly not aiming for the mass market! But it\u2019s a perfect name for a band that seamlessly blends experimental math rock (Science) with a punk attitude (Bastard) to create their own unique style of progressive punk\u201d<\/em> – The Devil Has The Best Tuna<\/strong><\/p>\nZAIL<\/strong><\/p>\nZail<\/strong>. A drum & guitar duo from deepest darkest Gloucestershire, Raised on a diet of Shellac & Kyuss and disciplined with the rhythm and structure of Garage, Jungle & Hip Hop,<\/p>\n\u201cDrummer. Guitarist. Although I swear I could here a cello somewhere. And bass. Not sure how they do this but their 2 man post-rock was fucking brilliant\u201d<\/em> – The Joy Collective<\/strong><\/p>\nHYSTERICAL INJURY<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Hysterical Injury<\/strong> are a noise-pop duo comprising of Drums, Bass and Voice. They formed in 2007 as a guitar, bass, drum three piece from an internet conversation and a hatful of bedroom demos. They became a duo in September 2008 where they developed a stripped down raw sound. Lee plays menacing, thundering drums to Annie\u2019s tapping slapping, 4-to-the-floor bass lines overlayed with sweet pop and feisty riot grrrl vocals.<\/p>\nDj\u2019s giving them a spin are Steve Lamacq (Radio 1, 6 Music) Bethan Elfyn (Radio 1, BBC Radio Wales), Tom Robinson (6 Music), Adam Walton (BBC Radio Wales), Gary Smith (BBC Bristol Introducing), Church of Girl(US), Woody Radio(Canada), Small Town America \u2013 Public Service Broadcast, Icast \u2013 Best of Myspace, Resonance 104 FM, to name a few\u2026<\/p>\n
The band were recently chosen and featured on the much coveted unsigned slot on BBC6 music\u2019s Steve Lamacq show and have just been given the much respected position of June 09\u2019s \u2018radio star\u2019 on the Church of Girl Radio Station in the US.<\/p>\n
They have just self released their second EP \u2018Our Lives Are A Futuristic Nightmare\u2019 which is the first of the duo recordings. The Artwork and name inspired by the work of artist Ben Garrod.<\/p>\n
\u201cA great rhythmically thrashing, pop racket!\u201d<\/em> – Steve Lamacq (BBC Radio1) <\/strong><\/p>\n\u201dMy favourite band this week! Catch their primal howl!\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Bethan Elfyn (BBC Radio1 Introducing)<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201c\u2026with pavement slabs of distorted bass being thrashed into rhythm by tinnitus-drums, the overall result is a melodic punch both intoxicating and enjoyable. A magnificent triumph\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Play Music Pick Up magazine – May 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cTo craft a skin peeling vibrant alchemy of cacophony and detuned angulated oblivion\u2026the incessant back beats pummelling away at your head space turning the grey matter to a jelly like substance, the fraying and fractured angular fuzz drills ad-hoc and disruptive needling away with a sublime out of focus disquiet beneath it all the would be a pristine bubblegum pop interior is scarred, maimed and pulled to pieces thread by thread by the fraught surface austerity. \u2019FAD\u2019 stands head and shoulders above all on the set and a formidable set it is, a raging titan of frantic and frenetic despairing disharmony finitely dipped in a gloom tinged warring intro that at 2.30 in accelerates stunningly through the gears into a seismic cacophonic squall\u201d<\/em> – Mark Barton, Losing Today<\/strong><\/p>\nCo-promoted by Sharp Noodle. Plus Switch DJs and DJ Graham The Bear<\/p>\n
for full into regarding the month festival in association with The Joy Collective, see http:\/\/www.mezefestival.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is Saturday’s Mezefest gig! You should go. Only last night one Joy Collective writer described Fuzz Against Junk as a Beefheartian nightmare. I’m paraphrasing there. And assuming it’s a compliment. Come to this if you like noisy, excellent music, and check www.mezefestival.co.uk for the other, rather good bands playing over the course of October. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[909,910,859,509,725],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preview","tag-fuzz-against-junk","tag-hysterical-injury","tag-meze-festival","tag-science-bastard","tag-zail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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