DANANANANANAYKROYD brudenell social 30th october.

Tonight i went to a pretty awesome gig, and what better way for a nerd to spend the dwindling hours of the day than to rush home and share his experiences with the rest of the internets...

Dutch Uncles

This band really annoyed me the last time i saw them. I think it was the front mans (seemingly) pretentious jerking movements and annoying attempt at being some kind of freaky geek.

This time round though (less impaired by alchohol) i really enjoyed the band, the front man actually has a real charm about him, his "pretense" actually seems like he's just a weird misfit doing his own thing.
Whats more important is the music, they're a mathpop/ indie five piece... 2 guitars, one vox, one bass, one drums, some keys.

The high pitch vocals are really strong, wouldn't give away they were a mancunian band...Songs are well written with poppy, fiddly, indie guitar lines with a bit of a a math feel to them.

The songs aren't fast paced races of time sig changes though, pop melodies and addictive rythms. They had an awkeward stage presense which kind of fitted their sound, inbetween vocal parts the front man writhes and jerks, twitching seemingly in a world of his own. The rest of the band aren't hyper energetic, focussing on what theyre doing heads down, occasionally swapping instruments almost nervously yet enjoying playing.

It all fits together to make a really nice band who are really good live (and i can imagine being alright on record) I recommend.

7/10

Stage Blood

Instead of the pretty amazing dinosaur pile-up (originally billed) we got rubbish post-hardcore/post-rock or something. Not that i don't like those genres, it was just the band who sucked.
The whole thing sounded lazy and boring, the vocals were particulaly unbearable. Slow droning songs, unimaginative hooks, poor lyrics, dull rhythm. Yeah really not good live.

2/10

Danananananananaykroyd

In walk the most important band of the evening, the 5 glaswegian rock heros (and that fill in bassist whos a bit boring) take to the stage with their normal theatrics even before the music begins. They are probably the funniest band around (seriously i'd pay to see cal and john jr do stand up). But even without their witty charm and lovely smiles you know as soon as they race into first song "totally bone" this is a fun, energetic and fucking brilliant.



Dananaananakyroyd are one of the few bands I've seen lots of times WHO NEVER DISAPPOINT. Their own brand of incredible unpretencious pop rock is basically the best thing since jesus christ superstar (or something). Fuzzy warm guitar lines with math elements, blistering rhythm and brilliant shouty vocals. The songs are fast and catchy, pop elements in their structure, elements of hardcore in their delivery.



The venue isnt as packed as other times I've seen the band, its a big room and lots of people were standing near the back (losers), I was right up front with the kids going mental, sweaty guys jumping about... although the crowd started off a bit static after the predictable wall of cuddles (like a wall of death but with cuddles) it livened up.



Jumping off the stage cal and john run manically into the crowd, shouting into their mikes. The stage presence of this band could be compared to any immense american hardcore band thanks to cal and johns antics and enthusiasm. Imagine converge but much much happier and from scotland... crazy. They played a long blistering set (pretty much all their best stuff and a couple of new ones to boot... was like an hour long) but never for one moment lost their impact; the energy that makes this band amazing.



The set was brilliant, highlights for me being pink sabbath and 1993. Even after 3 years of listening to "greater than symbol and the hash" it still sounds fresh and vibrant. 'Ending' on the storming "hey giles" and the new part "sissy hits" with a chant of "turn your hissy fits... INTO SISSY HITS".

Encores are compulsary these days, and dananana weren't about to break that rule, coming back to rip through the recent b side "", pop hit "black wax" complete with handclaps and the upbeat "hey james" to shake down to. Literally in the last 20 seconds i split my lip on someones head as crowd surfers came crashing down around us.

I got my monies worth, and like the consumerist, alan sugar-like swine i am thats all i care about. Pretty much full marks.

9.5/10 (the band got 10, -0.5 because it wasnt the greatest crowd ever)

I'm pretty tired now so off to bed with me... Brainwash tomorrow, sweeeet.

all i want for xmas is...

Battles and Flying Lotus!!!

indietrash - guilty till proven innocent

Indietrash are probably the most interesting thing I've heard in a while, and probably the second most unheard (and therefore underrated) band you'll find on this blog. They are no longer recording together or anything which is a real shame


look at how wonderfully geeky they are

Two Norwegian boys who produce eerie surreal music. The whole album flows in a disjointed way; its impossible to tell where one song ends and the next begins. The end result is it sounding like a nightmare turned into music, with twists and turns everywhere. Some of it is definitely hardcore emo, but more disjointed and distant sounding, with the bass being raped all the time to create a harrowing diy noise feel. Interspersed through the album are piano parts, various pedal effects, loops and samples. The vocals tend to be scarce and when they are audible very distorted. If they were still around now with bands like Health and Fuck Buttons doing so well and saying that the quality of "guilty..." is easily comparable with either of the aforementioned's new albums

LEGAL DOWNLOAD

Le Swing (and Pictures)

Le Swing are a band I'm really excited about...
REALLY EXCITED. Not just because their bassist is also in one of my favourite bands around (brontide). Not just because they are one of the most recent signings by awesome label Holy Roar. (anti climatic...) but because Le Swing are a reincarnation of a band who passed into obscurity last year after releasing one of the best 7" ive ever heard; PICTURES. With a replacement drummer and the singer dropped though can they live up to the hype (that i just created... whoops)


I guess you probably havent heard pictures due to their serious lack of exposure. CORRECT THIS NOW (they are dysfunctional so no ones losing out when you steal their music now)


(sorry for the shit picture of le swing... i stole it off nathans facebook because they have no real pics on myspace and shizz, ignore the girl... pretend its a boy)

Anyway i should discuss Le Swing really. Someone told me their name was made from combining Le Shok and Swing Kids... kind of a appropriate when you listen to them. Similarly to pictures they are a DIY punky mathcore band... Only two songs have been recorded, both fantastic; ear ripping walls of shouty hardcore punk (bordering on screamo), with meticulous shredding guitar hanging onto blitzing drums in ridiculous time sigs. It all reminds me of Blood brothers crossed with dillinger or trencher. Its an amazing song! Perhaps this band lacks the brilliant vocals of pictures but i still think they sound amazingly promising.

They shared a roly hoar split a few months back with easy hips (who incredibly surprisingly they share a member with), run,WALK! and dreamboats

BUY IT HERE (do its really good and only £4 w/ downloads)

Findo Gask

Another NEW BAND (kind of) Don't know why I haven't heard of these before but stumbled across them today, obviously i'm out of touch (hell even the guardian knew about them before me)...



Findo Gask are brilliant indie electro/twee (electwee or tweelectro?) pop. Formed 4 years ago, the scottish quartet have a pop aesthetic; guitar riffs intersperced perfectly and drenched with layers of synths and casiotones providing a very 80s sound. Songs like One eight zero are simply amazing slices of perfect electro-pop... it shows la roux up for the talentless piece of shit she is (i just like insulting her at any given time). Whereas metronymic sounds more folkish.

One of the best elements of the band is their "twee-ish" and admittedly pop vocals (reminding me of grammatics) high pitched and scottish... Use of gang vocals is also quite well done, Its like if you cut grammatics vocals, mystery jets choruses, great eskimo hoax's song writing, some 80s synth samples and stuck some danananakyroyd riffs over the top... but better.

I'm not in the habit of claiming links as my own: download here

HOLD YOUR HORSE IS

SO i wrote about these guys a while back on last.fm... in return they sent me some of their songs (actually all of them i think). And because i'm a complete media slut i decided to give them exsposure (but not really because only like 20 people read this blog)



Hold Your Horse Is are a thee piece indie/post hardcore band from the uk
They have some math-y elements and some of their songs remind me of Shapes and Mutiny on the bounty (no wonder kev from BSM likes them)

Their name is pretty cool, taken from the name of a Hella album. They aren't incredibly similar to hella though, less experimental and noise-y, perhaps a bit more accesible and in line with the current uk scene.

They're a bit different from the other mathsy bands in the uk at the moment. I'm not sure how to describe their sound really though, its definately got post hardcore elements with dark, pacing and roaring, disjointed guitar lines and a frantic rhythm... The vocals however are quite subdued compared to the music, sounding almost spoken over at points, (reminiscent of 90s indie bands like pavement), works quite well though in my opinion. This is "the shit" in the best possible way

Buy there music and "merch" here

HALOLOLOLOWEEN

I'm thinking of dressing as either the misfits or KISS (like these crazy kids) but my hair might not be good enough to pull of either



Going to Brainwash festival in the day...Lineup is actually amazing, £9s alot for one day but its at the brudenell too. Can't pass on that.

Who i plan to see

Shoeface - 2.00-2.30
Talons - 2.40-3.10
Wonderswan - 3.40-4.10
Holy State - 4.10-4.40
Monster Killed By Laser - 4.40-5.10
Bear Driver - 5.40-6.10
Tubelord - 6.40-7.10
This Town Needs Guns - 7.40-8.10
We Vs. Death - 8.10-8.40
Taint - 8.40-9.20
Blakfish - 9.20-9.50
(maybe:
Hot Club De Paris - 9.50-10.30
Pulled Apart By Horses - 11.00-11.40
but leaving early...)

TO GO PARTY AT IDIOTEQUE

It' ll be craxy

Small Brown Bike

I just heard a pretty cool post hardcore band who i got into a few months back are getting back together with their original lineup in tact planning on playing some shows and writing new shit. Thats awesome.


Small Brown Bike split in '04, which was a real shame because their last album "Nail Yourself To The Ground" was probably their best work. They remind me alot of Polar Bear Club and Hot Water Music: True post hardcore with a touch of emo, gritty shouty vocals over roaring guitar lines ect.ect.

Have a listen and decide for yourself if they're good. And thanks to the amazing blog achilous you can find all their music herrrrre.

haircut

and i look like a rapist

FANG ISLAND

the crowd has more energy than at any gig i've been to in a while... wish i was like 5 again

CRASH OF RHINOS

So for some reason, despite becoming insomniac (i ve been up all night watching various bill o'reilly videos) and having less work/ more free time than ummm... ever IM DOING SHIT WITH THE BLOG AND MUSIC IN GENERAL. mainly cos i was pretty bummed about my music dying when my hdd crashed (which i cant get fixed till xmas... suxz)

anyway i had big plans but i don't know if theyll happen, i got an offer to write for a local newspaper but forgot to send them the piece in the end. whoops.

CRASH OF RHINOS are a pretty awesome band from the midlands (uk) who i've been lucky to catch live a couple of times. Last.fm says they're "formed in 2008 from the ashes of The Jesus Years and The Little Explorer.". Well the jesus years and little explorer are also ace bands you should check out. Anyway crash of rhinos are awesome multilayered post hardcore, punky, mathy riotous rock thats frenetic and pounding. They don't have songs on myspace but when they do you ll be like "WOW THAT BLOG WAS RIGHT AND I TOTALLY AGREE"

GET RAD, BE RAD, STAY RAD

trying to describe what music you really dig is hard, luckily record labels make awesome compilations so you don't have to describe it. you just recommend it to all your friends (using twitter or something else that people pay attention to... i dunno) and then abandon it when your flatmates start being like "whats this, its pretty good" BECAUSE YOU DONT WANNA BE UNCOOL LIKE THEM RIGHT? right.



this one is particularly awesome, like waking up to a sunday roast or owning a mac on 9/11 or something. YEAAAAh

relating to the above: CHECK THIS OUT \/ likeso \/

LIFES A CHORE

pictures that sum up student living?

THE ROOM (2003) your new favourite movie

just found this picture from the summer... DONT TAKE DRUGS KIDS

- ill atm
- can't sleep
- my harddrive crashed
- that means all my music and playlists are gone
- all my pictures are gone
- im on track to fail my course

OTHER THAN THAT LIFES GOOD. heres some pictures of how good it is from a house party on saturday HOW HIP?

ASS WOUNDS:


CHILLIN WITH THE KIDS


BEVVING


FALLING IN HEDGES


STANDING AROUND


THIS


SMOKING

PENS

just cos theyre so fit