your new favourite band - north east edition
much maligned north eastern "cultural dispatch" Narc recently listened to readers views and decided to reach out to some fo the thriving genres of music in the region beyond the indie/"narc bands" clique it is occasionally criticised for focussing on:
some of these bands are fantastic
check them out!
http://www.kyeo.tv/2013/01/30/your-new-favourite-band-hardcore-punk-edition/
http://www.kyeo.tv/2013/01/28/your-new-favourite-band-metal-edition/
http://www.kyeo.tv/2013/01/29/your-new-favourite-band-hip-hop-edition/
(the one for dance/electronic music is presumably going to be uploaded later this week too)
I hope they do something about the local experimental and noise sounds next time they run this series because there is some terrific stuff that I've seen around newcastle but don't really know a lot about.
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disclosure - i'm totally friends with some of those punks
also
narc is getting better since it broadened its remit to fit in more 'culture' on top of just music
listen to my northern recommendations you london centric buzzband listening borehounds
the lme is gonna get this shit shut down
but these are good, i don't bother with narc now though. i didn't really know much about LOCAL METAL and stuff. a noisy type one would be dead good though.
yeah
of the metal bands in that list Wodensthrone are the only one I've really been aware of - they supported Wolves in the Throne Room at the Cluny during a thunder-snow storm
i was there!
i think i can vaguely remember thinking they were alright but not really knowing who they are. great story.
that was kind of my reaction
i was too hyped for WITTR and seeing my flatmate howling his way through one of his first Khuntt gigs
Love ONSIND
who doesn't!?
(narc didn't used to, it said there were like a shit blink 182 but i think that was from a reviewer who stayed upstairs at the head of steam for most of the night two floors away from the gig)
bit surprised that there's no Martha in any of those articles though
Surely they count as punk if ONSIND do?!
(Narc are funny/very very shit sometimes)
I think Lester just picked the most prominent bands for the first column
he knows his stuff and I'm guessing thought that if you had to pick between the two then ONSIND have been the more important band to the "scene"
Ahh OK, suppose that's fair enough
Do you remember Speeding Bee and that set of bands from many years ago?
yeah
it's still that whole crew doing the Discount Horse stuff out of Durham
Yeah!
I used to be in a band that was part of that whole crew, and we used to record with the Speeding Bee lot.
Really cool that they've all kept things going though, especially the Fishtank.
guys! it's a german hardcore band covering one of the bands featured above
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwxAOa0Mb80 raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
durham screamo
http://healingpowers.bandcamp.com/album/listing-your-problems-with-no-intent-to-solve-them
It's grim up north though
with such good music
Rivals
http://rivalsband.tumblr.com/Soundcloud
Beauty Pageant (no wave, noisy, saxophone, riffs)
http://beauty-pageant.bandcamp.com/
O'Messy Life (folk rock influences, saddle creek tinges, lots of different instruments)
http://omessylife.bandcamp.com/
Waskerley Way
http://waskerleyway.bandcamp.com/
Hipster Run-Off once said of a song on the first ep that if Ariel Pink had released it that it wuold be the track of the year
Martha (a pop band from Durham)
http://marthadiy.bandcamp.com/
I love Martha with all my heart
Cauls
http://cauls.bandcamp.com/album/ep-2-2
Let's Buy Happiness
http://letsbuyhappiness.com/
if you read DiS you will like them
howay DiS diven't ga missin oot ahn aah this pua class music like
Cool!
I like the North East, it's an alright place. Nice people.
The only band out of all of them I know is Tide of Iron, who are GRRRRRRRRREAT. So, I am definitely going to listen to the rest of them.
Dragnet
https://soundcloud.com/#dragnetband
Grace are a quality band. a tour incorporating the lower reaches of the UK would be cool
it is my duty to ask where DRUNK IN HELL is on this list but maybe if they did do a noise one they'd feature on that idk
I was wondering about Drunk in Hell's lack of inclusion, too.
But reasoned that they've actually been around for a while (since 2008, I think?), but have just been lazy about doing, well, most things bands tend to do. But I think Tide of Iron have been together for a while, too, and I don't know how new or old any of these other bands are, or if that's what the article intends to do.
Eh?
Drunk in Hell are the best band in the UK.
most of the bands that i know (so mainly the punks)
either only have a year or two under their belts like Tide of Iron or Grace (less in Wade's case) or they've been busy toiling under the radar like Graft or ONSIND
I guess someone like Drunk in Hell or Bong would be just that little bit above an introducing type column although I'm sure if they were allowed more space the writers would've put more in since they're all local promoters who were invited to contribute by the narc media indie elite that usually makes up the negative stereotype of the magazine.
the house and techno list has been put up
http://www.kyeo.tv/2013/01/31/your-new-favourite-band-house-techno-edition/
i know nothing about these artists