Thing of the Day
ONE WEEK TO GO
April
13th 2011
Organ and LondonGigs.net
present another night of cross-pollination: bands and such who
regularly appear on the pages of The Organ, or via the Resonance FM
airwaves and our Sunday night shows, or indeed the recommendations of
London alternative gig guide LondonGigs…
Doors are at
7.30pm. Entry is £5, £4 with a flyer or on the cheap list. To get on
the list, get in touch and say you’re coming....
QUADRILLES are on at 8pm, COMMON DEFLECTION PROBLEMS at 8.45pm, Dead Days Beyond Help guitarist ALEX WARD plays a 20 minute solo set 9.30pm and the wonderful RUDE MECHANICALS
headline at just after 10pm. Bands are all over by 11pm being as this
is midweek, so easy for tubes etc, venue stays open with music,
chatting, drinking, dancing for a bit longer…
The bands:
RUDE MECHANICALS
are rather unique, rather special, and probably played more than any
other band on Organ radio shows, Miss Roberts and her mysterious world
where Zappa waltzing with cups of tea and strange alien mice who run
the tune system and big wigs and red dresses and violins and all very
English and I’m sure she must know the Consultant? " And we ma have sid
lots and lots about them over the last couple of year, but it isn’t
only us; “the strangely disturbed world of the Rude Mechanicals ...a
great deal like nothing you ever heard before... " Tom Robinson BBC 6
Radio. Best go explore some webpages if you don’t know,
there’s nowhere near enough space to start here.
ALEX WARD is the guitarist from DEAD DAYS BEYOND HELP
right now, he is or has been involved in many a fine fine
left-field avant flavoured outfit – Camp Blackfoot, Suitable Case For
Treatment, Nought, he worked with loads of interestingly creative
people, and for tonight he has “this solo piece that I wrote for
a performance last year, and which I've been hoping I'd get the chance
to play again at some point. It's a continuous twenty-minute
composition for guitar (which I'd play live) and pre-recorded backing,
in a sort of prog/sludge vein” Why not, we thought?
COMMON DEFLECTION PROBLEMS
are fidgity, ever shifting and gently quirky, they make rough-edged
avant jazz for people with short attention spans. The five tracks
on this very nicely put together EP wander all over the place, hanging
out in a cheezeball pick-up joint one moment, finding a sweet acoustic
pastoral patch to stretch out in, suddenly stumbling to their feet all
angsty and angular. They're a refreshing, positive move in the
all-too-blurry world of instrumental bands, trying to stretch those
post-boxes, to push at their own and other's boundaries. Their
latest EP is an easy on the ear yet nicely hardboiled set of jazzy
other rock-flavoured prog rock instrumental nuggets.. Read more here
- organthing126.html
QUADRILLES
are “a semi-instrumental triumvirate based in London. They mostly
squeeze math rock into three-minute nuggets”, they turn those nuggets
in to fine bits of delightful intelligent pieces of pop that are alive
with brightness and tunes and… Their latest very fine single came out
as a download thing in March, we highly recommend it. Read more here
- organthing089.html
Links:
RUDE MECHANICALS
http://www.rudemechanicals.co.uk/
ALEX WARD
http://www.copepod.co.uk/
COMMON DEFLECTION PROBLEMS
http://myspace.com/commondeflectionproblems
QUADRILLES
http://www.quadrillesmusic.co.uk
ORGAN
http://www.organart.com
LondonGigs
http://www.londongigs.net
