Shout Out Louds

Shout Out Louds, Good Shoes, Idle Lovers, Lupen Crook at London Brixton The Windmill, Sat 14 May

Review by Adie Nunn

DiS catches up with Sweden's best-kept-secret, and some London newcomers set to make waves in 2005. The post-Futureheads noise has begun...»

Brixton The Windmill

Capacity: 130

Nearest tube: Brixton

Directions: Walk up Brixton Hill (the one with the Fridge at the bottom of it) for about 10-15 minutes and turn onto Blenheim Gardens (there's a Co-op Funeral Services and a traffic light at the end of the street). Busses which go up Brixton Hill are 159, 109, 133, 59, 118.

DiS puts on regular nights here.

For some reason, this venue has two big dogs which roam about on the roof. It is certainly a venue with 'character'.

A fair mix of bands and styles, inc open mic nights, 'The People's Republic Of Disco' and the 'Twisted AM Lounge' on Sundays (mainly alt.country and off-kilter Pavement-y type rock bands). - Adie Nunn

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Shout Out Louds

Hello. We are four boys and one girl from Stockholm in Sweden and we play music together in a band. We used to call our band Luca Brasi but because of another band who also called themselves Luca Brasi, that name now sleeps with the fish. These days we call our band Shout Out Louds. That has nothing to do with Kiss although we do not mind Kiss under any circumstances. Now we are going to tell you about our band.

We started our band in 2001. Actually, Adam (the singer) and Ted (the bass man) started it and after only a few seconds Carl (the guitar player) joined them. They had all been friends since they were rather small and they loved the same records so there was really no point in not starting a band. Then Eric (the drummer) and finally Bebban (the keyboards etc. player) came along. They were two more friends from a rather early stage in life. Eric played the drums like some kind of a creature while Bebban was getting awfully tired of walking around the city on her own waiting for people to come out of their garages, so there was really no point in not asking them to join the band.

Three songs were written, and we wanted to play them in front of an audience, so we did. We also wanted to record a demo of our three songs, so we did that too. After hearing our demo a man named Filip Wilén, who is our friend, wanted to sign us to Bud Fox Recordings which is the name of his record company, so he did. That made us very happy so we wrote more songs and played them over and over again.

Then it was time to record our very first ep and we did that with a producer called Ronald Bood. He is a very intimidating person who looks like a street fighting man. But he has a very good pair of ears and when our ep was released we were able to play and travel all over Sweden and some in the other countries of Scandinavia. Those were happy times. We also released a full length album that year, hurrah, and after that we were able to play some more. We even got to travel to London to play and we had a glorious time indeed.

Not long after that we got to go all the way to America. We found out that New York is a very good city to play in so we went there again. And then one more time. The next thing that happened was that someone said: "Welcome to Los Angeles.", so we went there of course. And that was where a big record company found us. Then they fed us pizza, flavoured vitamin water, violet candy and chicken with parmesan which we all liked alot except for our singer who is not very fond of cheese so he only liked it a little. Then they let us play for a bit on Mr Nat King Cole's piano and then they signed us. That made us very happy so we drove to the beach and went for a swim. Then we went back to Sweden.

Since then many things have happened. Ted has cooked food for us which we ate directly from the table but on newspapers, Eric burned his hand on a strange thing which made it grow probably two sizes but it got smaller again soon enough, Carl moved from the knife-south, Bebban decided to never speak again but failed, and Adam went to a wedding dressed like a king. We have also played in our rehearsal space and found out that we have alot more songs on the way than we could have imagined. We hope we will record them one day. We are also going to play in many different cities this year and we are all oh so happy about it. We hope to see you there. We hope so very much.

Love,
Shout Out Louds
Stockholm 2005

Biog From Their Website

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Good Shoes

Good Shoes are a band. They consist of 4 members: Joel Cox, Rhys Jones, Steve Leach and Tom Jones. They play danceable, shed-rehearsed guitar music. They like to dance, drink, draw, pretend to be on a mobile phone whilst they are not, write songs, and dance. They are based in Morden.»

Idle Lovers

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Lupen Crook

He's not an entertainer, he's a self-absorbed prick who wants to confuse people. His words, not ours. Acoustic singer-song writer Lupen Crook sings, or rather crows, songs about rape, skeletons and gang warfare. Think a demon zombie Devendra Branhart minus the cloying hippy nonsense. »