Cops And Robbers - October 2008

COPS & ROBBERS OCTOBER 2008 DIY GIGS IN LEEDS

Welcome to Cops and Robbers for October. Please excuse our late arrival this month, and our somewhat dour appearance. We expect to be livelier looking and on-time for November.

Coming late to the calendar is C&R’s in-house party FUNDER STRIKES. Details are scant but we think London’s noise-garde SPIN SPIN THE DOGS will be playing, along with TWO MINUTE NOODLES’ exuberant ebullience and wine. Not just that, but the Funder DJs too. This will be at the Common Place, Wharf Street, on Saturday 11th October from 9pm til 3 in the morning.

If you’re hungry and somewhere near Brudenell Road, go to no. 92A and present this copy of C&R at PEACH AND PEAR CAFE for 10% off vegetarian and vegan sandwiches, toasties, a new burger menu, and a delightful range of high quality teas and coffees. They also sell sweets.

Saturday 4th, 8pm at Royal Park Cellars; £5 Holy Shit! Look who’s coming to our town: Sic Alps San Fransisco two piece setting the bar for modern bands doing the modern psych/folk/sloptastic JAMC sound. What sets Sic Alps apart from the rest is their unique ability to mash the rough edge of the folk strum, cutting songs with razor sharp candor, and artfully landing somewhere between flowery optimism and filthy regret. Stylistically, they’re are all over the place too, incorporating jazzy freak outs, the sincere tinkering of piano keys, and muddy, down-trodden rhythms. Not easily pinned down into a specific sound or genre, Sic Alps reiterate their freedom of form with each successive release. With a musical pedigree second to none, with both members doing time in such outfits as Coachwhips, Hospitals and Total Shutdown. Already notorious for their exciting and energetic live performances, they’ve released music on Mt. St. Mtn, 777 was 666, Animal Disguise, Woodsist and Skulltones and their new LP has just been released by Tom Lax’s legendary Siltbreeze label. So come on down and experience the madness of Sic Alps. With supports from Leeds’ deranged strum and bash trio The Uprights and Sheffield’s kings of manic retardo punk The Hipshakes (Die Slaughterhaus, Goner), this should be a night you won’t forget!

Tuesday 7th, 7pm at Stylus, University of Leeds; £14.50adv Room237 and the Brudenell present: The Melvins - Buzz 'King Buzzo' Osborne and Dale Crover, with an interchangeable series of bassists, form the cult trio The Melvins, whose slow, sludgy sounds have influenced some of the most important hard rock acts since the 1980s, including Nirvana and Boris. The Melvins continue to create humorous, original music and have a huge influence even 20 years on. Plus Big Business and Porn and possibly, maybe, but probably not Monster Killed By Laser.

Tuesday 7th, 7.30pm at Santiagos, Grand Arcade; £5/4 VODKA SOAP - Since they were 'discovered' by Matthew Bower and Neil Campbell hiding in a dumpster in San Diego making waterfalls of tape gloop in a colour developing fluid induced haze the Skaters have continued to astound and delight the world with their distinctively skewed sound, inspired it would seem by an obsession with Hawaiian islands and Slimer from Ghostbusters. They were great last time they came to Leeds, this time Spencer is going it solo as the Tiki shamen lounge lizard building a castle in space. With parrots. SINDRE BJERGA - Bjerga does improv as it should be, playful with a sense of humour, anarchic, engaging and... unpredictable. HOH - On tour with Sindre, HOH is Helge Olav Øksendal, composer, arranger and artist, living in Stavanger, on the westcoast of Norway. Probably the most dancy and melodic act you're likely to see at the Termite Club for a the forseeable future. Johnny Scarr - "...a slightly creepy, yet touching series of laminated twinklings with a hint of a perpetuating presence, posing irritation within a limited response horizon, while attempting to inspect the outline of your aural prerequisites...." Johnny promotes gigs in Nottingham as MANTILE and has releases on labels du jour Slackest Rainbow. Spoils and Relics vs Lanterns - First live collaboration of Leeds/Glasgow drone unit Lanterns and homegrown tape-loop/ noise duo Spoils and Relics.

Saturday 11th, 7.30pm at The Packhorse; £4 More and More Tiger presents: JUFFAGE One man, loop based songwriting from Chicago, at any moment sounding somewhere between Battles, Fennesz or The Microphones/Mt Eerie. INVISIBLE CITIES Lush, viola led instrumental rock. Think Dirty Three, Do Make Say Think. A CENTURY OF TREES Fuzzed up, psychedelic electronica with a mischievous edge. PATTERN Frantic, schizo guitar-pop joy.

Thursday 16th at Brudenell Social Club Hawnay Troof Yes thats right peeps the XBXRX noise band’s mainman and original soilder of all things interesting based around the now famous “smell”/Oakland scene is gonna be back just after he supports Peaches in Australia. Hawnay Troof is the electronic pop solo project of Vice Cooler. Since forming in the late nineties the band has built a long list of collaborators including Soft Pink Truth, BARR, Mika Miko, Allison Wolfe, Gravy Train!!!!, and Stereo Total. The debut full length Get Up: Resolution: Love! (Retard Disco, 2003) put the band on a successful worldwide tour including its first shows in Iceland, Australia, and New Zealand. “I have always admired people who are all the way into their work to the point where the separation between the art and the artist disappears. Most never even get close…” - Henry Rollins Plus Cowtown, Beards, Chops and Vile Vile Creatures

Friday 17th, 8pm at The Fenton; £3.50 Lake Me (Newcastle) “They’ve managed to wring a hugely impressive clutch of songs from a musical palette made up of the bluesy end of rock and folk and skillfully slide around an impressive range of moods and styles from bone-jangling rock outs by way of hypnotic poundings and acoustic fancies.”

Pale Man Made (Newcastle) “Doffing their bowl cuts to the likes of Pavement or The Pastels, the likes of ‘Sea I Am’ and ‘Scratch’ make Pale Man Made’s debut a thing to treasure” NME Ghost Fleet (The Sea) They are guitar, bass and Lady Laptop. They washed up on the shores of Leeds and formed from the shipwrecks of two ill-fated voyages. They sound like red wine and gin but not in the same glass. Or a stylus making merry across a .wav file… Plus 1 more tbc, when it has bc’d

Sunday 26th at Brudenell Social Club Room 237 presents Oxes - Anyone who has seen Oxes live ever will testify to them being one of the most explosive, hilarious and insane live bands of the last decade. With two Peel sessions, on Moniter records (original home of Battles, Les Savy Fav) and with a history of trouble that Tom Green would be proud of they are back for what could be their final tour. Oxes is an instrumental rock band from Baltimore, Maryland. Its music has been called math rock or post-punk, though it does not subscribe to any genre. Bilge Pump - second album ‘Rupert The Sky’ (Gringo Records) was one of the best things with a cat on it to come out of LS6 last year Monster Killed By Laser - not just any geeks off the street, they have heavy riffs and masks and no need to tweak Rampant Rabbit - an extremely horrible jangling bass duet

Saturday 1st November, 8pm at Holy Trinity Church £7adv/£8 This Is It Forever presents - following on from our Ólafur Arnalds show in July, another Erased Tapes artist comes to the church in Leeds… The British Expeditionary Force This is pop music, reframed and re-imagined as electronica. Justin Lockey and Aid Burrows (of Yourcodenameis:milo and My Architects fame respectively) create beautiful ambient soundscapes, skewering beautiful harmonies through processed soundwaves, and developing from the serrated edge of the former’s noisy art punks into something more cinematic and ethereal. worriedaboutsatan Launching their album ‘Arrivals’, their first recorded work since 2007’s ‘EP02′, worriedaboutsatan make dark, atmospheric electronic music with a beating heart and soul. Her Name Is Calla Subtle and restrained gives way to chaotic and immense in Her Name Is Calla’s stunning spectrum of epic crescendos, staggering beauty and intense fury. Also DJing on the night will be Richard Silk of Traffic Magazine.

Sunday 2nd November, at The Cardigan Arms LORDS - geography is conspiring to make Lords a rarer live proposition these days, which is only one of many reasons why you shouldn’t miss them on this tour. “...heavy like Jimi Hendrix was heavy, or John Coltrane was heavy. Spiritually heavy, thrilling, righteous, ultimately uplifting and always unmistakably Lords.” Their second album, ‘Everyone Is People’, should be available on Gringo Records by the time you read this, and promises to marry maths to blues and turn volume into something grown-up. BILGE PUMP - After touring with Oxes, Bilge Pump should be super-tight; intra-Gringo pride means they’ll be trying to outplay Lords. Do you see how the stars align? PULLED APART BY HORSES - We understand they are quite loud.

Cops And Robbers is a free monthly guide to DIY gigs in Leeds; something which is hard to define but we tend to know it when we see it. These events don’t exist to make a profit for anyone involved, they are organised for the sheer pleasure and enjoyment of playing, organising or attending a gig. Look for us every month in Jumbo, Crash, and other places around town, and at various gigs. For updates, news, or to submit a gig for listing, go to www.copsandrobbers.net printed by Footprint Workers Co-Op 0113 2624408 www.footprinters.co.uk