Boards
Mammoth Weekend, Leeds
[color=#804000]BW_50 MAMMOTH WEEKEND
[/color][url]http://www.last.fm/event/670897[/url]
British Wildlife proudly presents Mammoth Weekend. Set in the Small but charming Packhorse. Mammoth Weekend is a 'best of British Wildlife' festival celebrating the 50 British Wildlife gigs of times ago with all the favourites such as Mills & Boon & Dethscalator featuring alongside some new faces such as Pulled Apart by Horses & Leeds Legends Humanfly. We also join forces with Lonely Hearts on Saturday upstairs at the Library for extra special mind blowing extremity.
Line up so Far
Fri 3 Hosted by British Wildlife
[color=#BFBF40][size=24]HUMANFLY[/size][/color][url]http://www.myspace.com/humanfly[/url]
[size=8]Between post-metal, psychedelic post-rock and whatever other post-genre label that gets writers juiced, comes Leeds based hardcore turned prog merchants, Humanfly. Formed in the early part of the decade, the band offer epic, metallic journeys through huge NeurIsis style heaviness and Pink Floyd via Mogwai atmospherics. However, where those bands have lately abandoned the crushingly heavy riffs that made them so appealing, for Humanfly it remains the focus. Vocals are used sparingly, focusing primarily on building thematically through the music. Not yet well-known outside their native UK, the recent CD release of II by US label 20 Buck Spin will introduce Humanfly to a larger audience and push the band to the forefront of the post-post-rockmetal ‘genre’.[/size]
[color=#000080][size=24]CHICKENHAWK[/size][/color][url]http://www.myspace.com/chickenhawk[/url]
[size=8]"There's a lot of bands around these days playing riff-heavy instrumental music, but few of the best of 'em can come close to imitating Chickenhawk's Melvins-influenced brew of experimental time-changes, played with super-charged energy, inspiring a good old human pyramid to be formed at the front by the audience."[/size]
+3 tbc
Sat 4 Hosted By Lonely Hearts & British Wildlife
[size=24][color=#4080FF]ART OF BURNING WATER[/color][/size][url]http://www.myspace.com/aobw[/url]
[size=8]Super tight and technical hardcore riffery all the way from the 'big-smoke'. As far as hardcore goes in the UK, these guys (who have been on a breather for too long) put 90% to shame. They blend riffs from obvious influences like Converge and Mastadon, but with lesser known giants like Noxagt and Ed Gein. Shredding and twisting and turning your mind inside out, but in an absolutely, positively amazing way. Their first split release with Foe and American Heritage set the bar for what was to follow, their debut album on Super-Fi Records (with the longest and most ridiculous title ever) THE VOYAGE OF THE PESSIMISTIC PHILOSOPH: AN ODE TO THE BELIEVERS OF THE PREVAILING LAW OF SOD. Now on the brink of their second album - HEAD OF THE TEMPEST soon to be released on the mighty Rise Above Records (Electric Wizard, Orange Goblin, Sleep!), these guys will not be ignored. Hail the return of AOBW! http://www.artofburningwater.co.uk[/size]
[color=#FF8000][size=24]CLECKHUDDERSFAX[/size][/color][url]http://www.myspace.com/cleckhuddersfax[/url]
[size=8]Currently, the band that EVERYONE is chicken about:
"Saw some God loving band called CLECKHUDDERSFAX at Harrods re-opening night. Both the opening and the band were shambolic in every way, which I think the organisers actually encourage in a vain attempt to appear anarchic and well, 'Knightsbridge'. Most of their set sounded like Ottowan's take outs (look, Ottowan have one friend and weirdly, or perhaps not so not weirdly, no cool beverages) and their singer was rude to my boss and had the cheek to do it while wearing a stupid orange Prada vest thing.[/size]
[size=24][color=#FF0000]STRANGER SON OF WB[/color][/size][url]http://www.myspace.com/strangersonofwb[/url]
[size=8]As fervent believers in music as progressive art form The Stranger Son of WB formed after doom post-rockers The Sonar Yen and equally dark post-punk combo Thee Virus House went imploded. Bassist Chris Haslam was already having musical problems with the Yen and he and Gareth got together in a flat in Chorlton over a love of classic avant-garde like Captain Beefheart, The Fall, Sonic Youth, Can, The Velvet Underground and various other “interesting developing bands”. Soon The Sonar Yen was history and Tim Horrocks swapped his drumkit for a knackered, old Hofner guitar and come on board. Paddy of space-rock set Sundowner soon moved in barely after The Stranger Son of WB had set foot on a stage.With shrewd social observation and satire. They cut like a sharpened Bowie knife but one can’t help but appreciate the mordant humour of “wanky bands with plastic scarves/pull your finger out/cut their fingers off”, “attack your neighbours they earn more than you” and “put out your flags the queen’s coming!” Furthermore, unlike many of their punk predecessors, there’s a positive undercurrent.[/size]
[color=#400040][size=24]OMERTA[/size][/color][url]http://www.myspace.com/omertarock[/url]
[size=8]Omerta are back, and with a new singer too! Having been out of action for the past 6 months, you may have seen them previous supporting the likes of Converge, Rise & Fall, Hot Cross and November Coming Fire. As you may have guessed then - brutal hardcore punk with huge riffage and the odd beatdown (you love it').[/size]
[color=#8080BF][size=24]MILLS & BOON[/size][/color][url]http://www.myspace.com/deadmeatboutique[/url]
[size=8]Mills and Boon are a spaz folk 4-piece from Birmingham. They meat every Thursday and Sunday for meat. Especially on Sunday. The next recording will be meat to be released on British Wildlife Records. The last recording was Jesus, which was put out by Bearos Records. you can purchase it with meat.[/size]
[color=#BF80BF][size=24]PULLED APART BY HORSES[/size][/color][url]http://www.myspace.com/pulledapartbyhorses[/url]
[size=8]Could be a sick torture method or the name of a new rock consortium from Leeds of west riding. PABH consist of Ex-members of musical rock type bands Mother Vulpine, Concentration Champ & It Takes Bridges. This combination has provided each member with a satisfyingly large need for volume, movement, guitar disturbing and ear drum punishment whilst and underlying value for popular song writing remains still ever so slightly true. Influences remain scarce but from the outlook of the set up of this 4-piece it could be suggested that you’ll be in for a disco rock hammering with a large dose of hard riffing and yelping vocalities. [/size]
[color=#0000FF][size=24]MUCKY SAILOR[/size][/color][url]http://www.myspace.com/muckysailor[/url]
[size=8]The unlikely and perhaps unfortunate musical partnership of a 56-year old man and his 13-year old son. A complete nightmare on paper and only marginally better in the flesh. Nevertheless, an endearing example of music therapy for dysfunctional families almost working out.[/size]
[size=24][color=#804080]RAMPANT RABBIT[/color][/size][url]http://www.myspace.com/rampantrabbitsafe[/url]
[size=8]Welcome aboard the doom-laden funkadelic showboat. Consisting of Luke James Webb, Henry John Myers & Adam Patrick Nodwell, three resident stiggers from the south of England ready to add their DNA into the bloodline of champions. If you havn't seem Rampant Rabbit yet it may be hard to explain, alas an extremely horrible jangling bass duet for the most part fronting monolithic rampaging drums that hit harder than Amy Winehouse.[/size]
+2 tbc
Sun 5 Hosted by British Wildlife
[color=#008000][size=24]HEY COLOSSUS[/size][/color][url]http://www.myspace.com/heycolossus[/url]
[size=8]With a mission of creating “subterranean rumblings of sludgy rock using three guitars” rarely has a band been more appropriately-named than HEY COLOSSUS. Comprising of former members of STANTON, I’M BEING GOOD and YEAST along with a current member of ECONOLINE, HEY COLOSSUS has concocted an utterly crushing sound based on he inspiration of the MELVINS, BLACK FLAG and BLACK SABBATH, and other influences including bands like CAN, BEEFHEART, ISIS and NEUROSIS into what sounds like a truckload of distortion pedals falling down a cliff onto a mountain of anvils, just to see how much noise it’ll make.[/size]
[color=#BFFF40][size=24]DETHSCALATOR[/size][/color][url]http://www.myspace.com/dethscalator[/url]
[size=8]DETHSCALATOR are from Stoke Newington in London and formed in the deep winter of 2007 after Stu, Matthew and Ben were kicked out of the cast of Cats the musical. After months of scouring personal ads Ben came across Dan's profile. His interest in Black Sabbath and ZZ Top piqued his interest, not to mention his hot, hot physique. Dan joined the band from his previous band Hunting Lodge as singer and Percy soon followed, possibly tempted by greed, because everyone knows noise-rock bands make lots and lots of cash.
Fast forward six months and DETHSCALATOR are renowned throughout London masters of tempo. They have songs ranging from 88 bpm all the way up to 93 bpm. This has landed them on bills with the likes of Whitehouse, Pissed Jeans, Acid Mothers Temple and Clockcleaner. Comparisons with the likes of early Sabbath or Electric Wizard are not quite correct. DETHSCALATOR deliver heavy dinosaur balls but with the spastic inflection of bands like Scratch Acid, Butthole Surfers or US Maple. You should definitely go to their concerts and buy ALL their merchandise.[/size]
+4 tbc
Watch this space as the bill slowly reveals itself over the next few weeks, we've got some nice surprises line up for this!
+All your favourite Distro, Disco, Tea Ladies Craft Wonderland, Packhorse Sunday Roast
Oh Yeah!