Black Lips

Black Lips, zZz, Cuckoo's Nest at London Madame Jo Jo's, Tue 04 Sep

Review by Kev Kharas

Cole Alexander doesn't care about this at the moment, at all. As the set clatters closed he’s busy unzipping his jeans, guitar neck in the way 'til his trousers and boxers drop enough to let him fall out and...»

Madame Jo Jo's

Train: Charing Cross (10 mins)

Tube: Leicester Square (4 mins) Picadilly Circus (5 mins) Tottenham Court Rd (5 mins)

Funk, breakbeats, nujazz......and the legendary transvestite cabaret show.»

Black Lips

Retro-blues lo-fi outfit made up of Cole, Jared, Ian and Joe... and King Khan(?). They call it 'flower punk' (or rather they've been called 'flower punk'). It's fairly swell whatever the hook you hang it on. For fans of The Germs, The Hunches, The Stooges, et cetera.

Black Lips formed when, as teenagers, after-school friends Cole Alexander (guitar / vocals) and Jared Swilley (bass / vocals) signed up their friends Joe Bradley (drums / vocals) and Ben Eberbaugh (guitar). They swiftly becoming one of the Atlanta underground's most talked about bands, they were banned from numerous venues for their wild live shows and released albums and seven-inches on different underground garage labels like Bomp and In The Red. Tragically, Eberbaugh was killed in a freak traffic accident but the band carried on with New Orleans-born Ian St Pe. These events would go on to influence the song 'How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Has Died', a standout track on album four, Good Bad, Not Evil.

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zZz

zZz are two slightly scary yet very cool Dutchmen who currently straddle the worlds of dance and rock, spinning in an eccentric orbit similar – yet wildly different – to the likes of LCD Soundsystem and The Rapture.

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Cuckoo's Nest

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