Garagepunk, gedreven door adrenaline en amfetamine. De intense sound van de Britse band Avalanche Party is tegelijkertijd nieuw en bekend. The Pistols, The Clash, The Stooges, The Damned; allemaal aanwezig in de gruwelijke stijl van deze band. Punk op z’n best, garage vanuit een oerinstinct. “The beats blast like cannons while the guitars stampede like spooked stallions surging ever onward, snorting, snarling and tearing apart everything in their path.”
Support in WORM – Pill en TV Wonder
Brooklyn’s Pill are known for their committed take on alternative rock’s rich and sometimes gnostic past. Most of all though their music and attitude brings the febrile, “we-versus-them” vibe of the late Seventies to mind. The listener can pick up the feisty sounds of punks like X-Ray Spex, or the existentialist sleaze of Roxy Music. Or flashes of New Wave and NoWave legends like Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, or Sonic Youth. However, Pill are able to whip their influences into shape to address a raft of pressing C21st concerns.
TV Wonder
This Dutch fourpiecee’s debut EP Bird Sounds (co-released with Faux Discx) introduces a shrewd brand of discordant guitar pop in the spirit of Goo-era Sonic Youth, taking in influences from the likes of Parquet Courts and Women along the way. Jagged guitar-lines slice and shimmer, occasionally bursting into fuzz, all the while held down by sparse, shuffling grooves as ghostly vocal apparitions dart about.
Support in Cul de Sac – Abdomen
In your face, direct as fuck, drie man sterk uit Leeuwarden. Abdomen verwerkt intense teksten in agressieve songs met dreigende gitaren, begeleid door een stevige basis van bas en drum. Gebracht met urgentie, enthousiasme en een berg aan energie.
LIVEDATA 16/05 WORM, Rotterdam (w/ Pill & TV Wonder) 17/05 Cul de Sac, Tilburg (w/ Abdomen)