{"id":6510,"date":"2010-04-30T14:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2010-05-28T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T14:25:09","slug":"stupidly-good-looking-mays-gig-highlights-for-cardiff-and-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/preview\/stupidly-good-looking-mays-gig-highlights-for-cardiff-and-bristol\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupidly Good Looking: May’s Gig Highlights For Cardiff And Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This bulging preview might as well have the subtitle ‘If You’re Not Going To ATP That Is’. Quite a few of these bands are squeezing in additional UK dates around their trips to Desolation-On-Sea (aka Minehead) and you’d be an utter dillnut to miss them: step forward Bristol gigs for sweet Japanese bubblegum garage girls Shonen Knife<\/strong> (Thekla, 6th), bone dry, Slint-y Yanks Enablers<\/strong> (Croft, 14th) and freaky cosmic sisters CocoRosie<\/strong> (Trinity Centre, also on the 6th). The massive doozy is Konono No.1<\/strong> and Omar Souleyman<\/strong> though, a gigantic serving of loud, raw Congotronics and Syrian fuzz guitar that hits Bristol’s Metropolis on the 11th like a wigged-out bomb. QU Junktions promotions, as always, take a bow.<\/p>\n

But there’s more. Young clowns riding hype waves are here: see for yourself whether the snotty guitar US\/UK touring team of Surfer Blood<\/strong> and Male Bonding<\/strong> cut mustard in both Bristol and Cardiff (Thekla, 4th and Clwb Ifor Bach, 6th); also whether Bethany Cosentino’s lo-fi surfer girl tunes as Best Coast<\/strong> are worth pushing through the male part of the audience’s puppyish eyes (Bristol, Louisiana, 5th). Odds look good to be honest. Cardiff’s Islet<\/strong> have been through their own cloud of fevered press; they are also genuinely fantastic, and playing this month with a tasty support bill of Yuck<\/strong> and Team Brick<\/strong> (Clwb Ifor Bach, 26th).<\/p>\n

Let’s be patronising and say the old guard are treading boards too. Dub fogeys Llywbr Llaethog<\/strong> play a rare live set, and in a graffiti-ed warehouse to boot (The Boiler House, 1st); Chuck Prophet<\/strong> drags his ballsy American Rock to Clwb Ifor Bach on the 9th, while Damon & Naomi<\/strong>, possibly sick of being called ‘ex-Galaxie 500’, pop up in Cardiff and Bristol (Arts Institute, 6th and Fleece, 7th). And these lot aren’t necessarily old, just well toured: Chrome Hoof<\/strong> bring ace progfunkdisco to Bristol (Thekla, 21st), Dead Meadow<\/strong> the lysergic scuzz (Cardiff, Barfly, 25th) and Thomas Truax the, er, homemade percussion instruments (Cardiff, Buffalo Bar, 2nd). Don’t forget Doozy#2 though – Rangda<\/strong> comprise Richard Bishop of Sun City Girls and Sublime Frequencies, Ben Chasny of Six Organs Of Admittance and Chris Corsano of avant-improv drums fame and their appearance with Japanese heads Acid Mothers Temple<\/strong> on the 28th will rearrange your\u00a0internals (Bristol, Croft – Rangda also playing Cardiff’s Norwegian Church 2nd of June).<\/p>\n

What else? Dig Kimya Dawson and Jeffrey Lewis restarting their old band The Bundles<\/strong> (Bristol, Trinity, 18th); get electronically knotted at the Cooler with Holy Fuck<\/strong> (Bristol, 23rd) or at Start The Bus with Sisters Of Transisters<\/strong> (1st); shimmer to the global sounds of the Ruby Suns<\/strong> (Cardiff, Buffalo Bar, 26th); get lost in the intensive sweeping indie hits of Parenthetical Girls<\/strong> and, featuring Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, Former Ghosts<\/strong> (Cardiff, Ten Feet Tall, 17th) and discover that if you want mysteriously named support bands hiding familiar faces, Gungadin<\/strong> are probably a better bet than The Sissy Hits (Cardiff, Buffalo Bar, 3rd). As is traditional, a horrible gigclash to end with: it’s the 13th of May and your choices are great US songman Ted Leo<\/strong> (with\u00a0the Pharmacists, Cardiff, Buffalo Bar), grizzled motorik loons Trans Am<\/strong> (Bristol, Fleece) or the sodding amazing line up of prepared piano nut Hauschka<\/strong>, 12 string genius James Blackshaw<\/strong> and folk diamond Nancy Elizabeth<\/strong> at\u00a0 St George’s in Bristol. Go to at least one to stay on my Christmas card list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This bulging preview might as well have the subtitle ‘If You’re Not Going To ATP That Is’. Quite a few of these bands are squeezing in additional UK dates around their trips to Desolation-On-Sea (aka Minehead) and you’d be an utter dillnut to miss them: step forward Bristol gigs for sweet Japanese bubblegum garage girls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,458],"tags":[1201],"class_list":["post-6510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-preview","tag-holy-shit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","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=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}