Cops And Robbers - June 2009

JOAN OF ARC, LOVE OF EVERYTHING, THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS Tuesday 2nd June, 7.30pm, Brudenell Social Club £5.50 adv / £7 door JOAN OF ARC (USA - Polyvinyl Records) The experimental indie rock gods from Chicago, Illinois. They began in 1995, following the break up of a former band, Capʼn Jazz. Members of Joan of Arc have been in many other bands including American Football, Owls, Ghosts and Vodka, Everyoned, and most recently Make Believe and Sharks and Seals. LOVE OF EVERYTHING (USA - touch and go / flameshovel) Beautifully crafted indie-folk from Bobby Burg, renowned for his unforgettable live shows, looping instruments and creating epic full band songs from simple instruments. THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS (UK - Big Scary Monsters) Intricate indie rock and catchy riffs, inspired by the increasingly influential Chicago scene and some of itʼs occupants (past and present) such as Owls, Don Caballero, and Maps and Atlases. Stunning latest album ʻAnimalsʼ was recently released on Big Scary Monsters to critical acclaim.

Manifesta presents: Tuesday 2nd June 2009, 8pm at The Packhorse, £4 Lovely Eggs http://www.myspace.com/thelovelyeggs Hotpants Romance http://www.hotpantsromance.com/ http://www.myspace.com/hotpantsromance Amazon Molly http://www.myspace.com/amazonmollymusic

Thursday 4th June, 8pm at The Packhorse, Leeds £3 waged, £2 unwaged Join us for a glorious 5-band mixed bill extravaganza of charming twee indie, electro-surf, crushing stoner rock and shredding skate-punk. BEASTS, a rockinʼ ensemble of melodic thrashy skatepunk played by 5 of the nicest men in Leeds. Trapdoor MInotaur, a former Bonsai Kitten and a current Seven Inch continuing their punishing World Tour Of The Packhorse with their unique blend of melodic garagey surf-punk and octopeds falling out of trees. Monsters Killed By Laser, the well-known Prog stalwarts returning to The Packhorse unapologetically causing a ruckus, with added electronica! This Many Boyfriends (tbc) this gig sees the return of endearing indie cherubs TMB to the packhorse, who last month rocked it with a selection of charming, tuneful tweepop. Not to be missed! Orgone Accumulators - new surf-pop project from an exmember of Unicorn Love. As seen in The Guardian! And the most satisfied winner of all… YOU, the AUDIENCE.

CHINCHILLAFEST7 Oh hell yeah! We have booked The Brudenell Social Club (as usual!) for the 7th annual extravaganza of joyous stupidity, laughter, and fucked up super ace party time musics that is known globally as the wonderous, brilliant, fantasmical CHINCHILLAFEST! When we started up Chinchillafest back in 2003, there were considerably fewer small, independent festivals going on, and now thereʼs probably fucking hundreds on your doorstep (though many of the so-called independent festivals are awash with advertising and sponsorship… none of that here, thank you very much). So, why do we continue? Well, perhaps you could call us egotistical buckos, but we reckon weʼll give you more bang for your buck, more smile per mile, over a ton of fun, and, most importantly, we think we manage to cram in the absolute cream of the UKʼs bestest, most musically adventurous bands from all sorts of ilks, normally with a few of our European and American friends to keep it nice and spicy! WEEKEND TICKETS £10 ADVANCE/£12.00 ON THE DOOR // AVAILABLE FROM SEE TICKETS, BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB AND PROBABLY JUMBO // PLEASE CHECK C&R FORUM FOR NEWS/ TIMINGS

Friday 5th June at 7.30pm, £4 MONSTER KILLED BY LASER - emit a certain presence and sex appeal in the live situation, with an underlying aroma of mystique PRINTED CIRCUIT - bright, melodic and carefully-crafted electronic pop... tessellate simple melodies into far more complex compositions TWO MINUTE NOODLES - Casually swinging drums duo with a large organ, joyfully crafting memorable disco lounge pop EXECUTIVE LEGS - members of bands such as Polaris, Pifco, D'Astro, etc.

Saturday 6th June at 2.30pm, £7 A.P.A.T.T - are not to be described CLECKHUDDERSFAX - Life-affirming progressive pop hooks and unassuming grandiose stadium rock anthems of 5 string bass, tasteful synth fanfares, and far-out sing-alongs COWTOWN - plenty of riffs, tunes, klangs and exclamations HANDS ON HEADS - Their nervous, trebly, dizzy racket is the sound of a balding middle manager regressing to playschool state BALLOONS - erratic, infectious hysteria pop BROKEN ARM - killer frantic bozo riff and vocal spit garage punk POLTERGROOM - scratchy and shrouded with mist and mysticism with moulding twangs of Beefheartian-country and prangs of frazzled rock THE JELAS - Infectious hard-boiled lo-fi conundrum puzzle-crush pop and vocal harmony TIGERS! - exotic, inverted & wildly effected guitar, techchep beats and synth smatterings with ferocious low growl and aggrevated yelps CHICKENHAWK - Crunching riffs swing themselves between battering rhythms and off-kilter tempo changes HIRED MUSCLE - Dirt infused abacus blocks of flexing fun funk skronk rock

Sunday 7th June at 5pm, £7 MAHJONGG - Prime number polyrhythm Warning Orbs of boundless and indefineable spectacle! Dabbling with beatbox punk, world harmony, intermittent dance beats, and playful pop sensibilities on Calvin Johnson's K Records TALIBAM - part the sea by not sticking to genre, aesthetic predisposition or the usual norms of what being a 'band' is A MIDDLE SEX - a fantastic double helix of decaying noise, guitars and vocals CHOPS - the egalitarian fun-house pleasure of disorientation THE LONG LONESOME GO - Sparse migrations of blissed out minimalist synth haze, flitting percussion and subtle beats with a fluid, gooey centre of low end throbbing. NOPE - Repeato drone rock trio of hard hit drums, baritone guitar and synth

Wednesday 17th June, 7.30pm at Brudenell Social Club £6.50 advance / motd ACOUSTIC LADYLAND Enthusiastically adventuring amongst sensitive and mesmeric free jazz, kneading their knuckles into a spacey and understated dough which is baked in a series of seamless rapid-fire explosions of raucous instrumental exuberance, avant-garde new/no wave post punk and, indefinably but unmistakably, joyous hope and over-riding optimism! Just as Acoustic Ladyland throw out the rule books, itʼs probably best for you to forget about all these words, and forget about listening, assessing and appreciating; itʼs far more elemental than that, so stand up and enjoy the ride! QUACK QUACK On the surface, Leeds favourite trio Quack Quack seem to exist in some animated part-prog, part-post-rock indie hinterland, but closer inspection reveals a tight-knit instrumental trio who, in absorbing and acknowledging everything from dub, jazz, funk, and electronic music, subvert all tidy enclosures of prog-this or post-that. TWO MINUTE NOODLES Deceptively simple in their make up (two people, one organ, one synth, one drum kit), Two Minute Noodles produce huge swathes of euphoric noise, constantly building rhythms and incredibly passionate playing. Moz and Goose make a krautpop noise in the style of AAVIKKO or maybe even ZOMBIE ZOMBIE.

Thursday 18th June, 7.30-11pm at 1in12 Club, Albion St, Bradford; £7/£6 members with card/£5 unemployed LIMP WRIST - Queer Hardcore - USA. Only Northern gig! War All The Time - Scandi Thrashers Active Minds - Legendary two-piece punk Valhalla Pacifists - NYHC Thrash Surrender - USA

Friday 19th June, 8pm at 1in12 Club, Albion St, Bradford £5 (£4 members); finish in time for last trains THOU crawling out of the festering New Orleans swamps Thou serve up some crusty sludge riddled doom. Noothgrush, Burning Witch and yeah, Eyehategod. theyʼve been steadily churning out sick slabs on a variety of kvlt diy labels like Feast Of Tentacles. Rimbaud, Halo Of Flies and Level Plane. Their Tyrant album is soon to be reissued by Southern Lord. GRUEL “destructive storms and evil winds are they an evil blast, herald of the baneful storm an evil blast, forerunner of the baneful storm they are mighty children, ancient ones heralds of pestilence throne bearers they are the flood that rusheth through the land” a one off ritual to summon up Gruelʼs double LP on Feast Of Tentacles into physical form. goats will be sacrificed. heads will be crushed. MOLOCH sick. brutal. sludge. riffs. pulverising. named after a man is the bastard song. occasionally bust out a rorschach cover. ex-members of various diy hardcore bands. they dig shit like dystopia and corrupted. filthy.

Saturday 20th June, at The Fenton, Leeds £4/£3 Cooperʼs Market Presents: LE SINGE BLANC - According to Luxembourgs underground music ezine---> 'The strong bass orientation is influenced by Primus, but the choir parts and the strange song titles show parallels to Magma, maybe the most intriguing band ever to come from France.' (Le Singe Blanc - Strak!) “for anyone who likes that kind of thing; the drummer is a turps-off-of-bilge-pump-doppleganger in both looks and very closely in drummering posture and (slightly less) style. not that you'd get that from the 'official' band picture.” - Andy Abbott SPIN SPIN THE DOGS “...take the bare bones of whatʼs commonly known as the ʻpost-punkʼ sound and immediately swing off course into uncharted waters, constructing an inherently surreal and energetic pile of mess that almost resembles the Trout Mask-era Magic Band playing Prayers on Fire-era Birthday Party, with a big (probably unintentional) nod towards underrated troublemakers Prolapse. And the singer is something else, charging around wild-eyed, spewing out head-spinning reams of dadaist beat blather like his life depends on keeping his mouth moving quicker than his brain can implement coherence. ” Stereo Sanctity PLEASE 3 piece which contains Keeby from Cleckhuddersfax, all manner of mystery nonesense is to be expected.

Saturday 20th June, 7.30pm at The Library, Leeds £5 Brew Presents: Tired Irie Signed to Try Harder records the original homes of Foals and Blood Red Shoes, Tired Irie, a Leicester-based four piece, formed in late 2004. ʻLike. Gentle. Men.ʼ was their debut single back in November 2005. A band with a bleak and unnerving intensity playing songs made up of twinkling blankets of crystalline guitars, effortlessly accurate vocal interplay and triumphant melodies of uplifting and intangible quality. Somehow theyʼre a party band too. Wintermute - “…punchy and pop-infected, akin to The Futureheads poising notes at sharper angles. Ditch the doubts at the door: expect to be impressed.” - Rock Sound Itch - Occupying ground somewhere between The Cure and yourcodenameis:milo, and fronted by a man who inexplicably wears an army helmet onstage, Itch deliver an enthralling and exciting performance. Signed to Big Scary Monsters, new album is out this year. Yonderboy - Appealing, capricious and quintessentially British indie material executed with great flair, brilliantly down-to-earth Northern quips and some elastic instrumental noodling.

Saturday 4th July, 8pm at The Royal Park Cellars, Leeds. Forest of Sound and Gizeh Records present: Svarte Greiner is Erik K. Skodvin, half of the Norwegian duo Deaf Center. Through his Svarte Greiner alias, Erik produces a hugely evocative and haunting ambience, never bludgeoning the listener with walls of sound, but instead relying on the dark emotion and subtlety of his music. His approach is incredibly effective and brilliant minimalist. The Sight Below - Hailing from Seattle, USA, The Sight Below melds the kind of warm hearted organic ambience that would make Tim Hecker, Fennesz or Stars of the Lid jealous with a true understanding of the 4/4 of minimal techno. This is truely awe inspiring stuff, techno music for a dark winterʼs night or for a hazy summerʼs evening. So much so, heʼs even shown up on Thom Yorkeʼs radar in making the Radioheadʼs lynchpinʼs top ten playlist. Simon Scott - His debut album Navigare soon to feature on Erik Skodvinʼs (aka Deaf Center / Svarte Greiner) Miasmah label, Simon Scott is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer who puts out international experimental music with integrity on his label KESH Recordings. Through Simonʼs dimly-lit soundscapes, we encounter shimmering melodies that gather and disperse through apocalyptic rhythms, surrounded by layers of harmony that hover over found-sounds.

Friday 3rd July, at The Packhorse, Leeds. £5 A+J Present: Finally Punk Hailing from Austin, Texas, Finally Punk swap instruments and play inspired abstract garage/ art punk (for want of a better description.) Think Kleenex, The Raincoats, Ludus meets Mika Miko, The Frumpies. The Sticks (Brighton) Primitive 60's garage inspired swamped-out soundz. The Sceptres Incredible fast paced melodic punk akin to that of X, SadoNation and X-ray Spex. plus more tbc, possibly Wet Dog and Chaps

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