Silver Rocket 100

Silver Rocket 100 at London Imperial College Union, Sat 13 Oct

Review by Mike Diver

Back slaps and hand claps: widespread at ICU on the day of those kicks. Last time I was here – or the time before, or the time before that – I found myself in a ‘situation’ with a rugger bugger. Today, no such mistakes, and subsequently no fists to duck; instead, there’s merriment and plastic cups ‘pon lips, cheap booze and barbecue, all in the name of celebration. One hundred up, more to come: congratulations Silver Rocket...»

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3hostwomexicans andatinofspanners

"Twat rock" say Artrocker.

Fast, brilliantly stupidly clever punk rock music from Bristol. Debut album Pegasus Bridge features such wonderful titles as 'God Bless The 1980s' and 'Coked-Up Supermodels Licking Shit Off A Blind Vicar's Cock'. Savoury...

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There's not really a space in their name, y'know, but we need to add one cos of the site design... sorry

Future Corpses

London-based post-rockers

Buy records here

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Picture by Adrian Nettleship

Underground Railroad

Underground Railroad provide a live show that sends you spinning. Politely devastating, they produce a storm of energy and anger, which demolishes everything in its way. The band cite their influences as The Velvet Underground, Radiohead, and The Cure, to name but a few, however these guys have carved out an emotionally unique sound.

Joeyfat

Biography taken from the Unlabel website.

The thing known as Joeyfat began just over ten years ago in a place called Tunbridge Wells, in the darkest recesses of Southern England.

The band spent the early '90s releasing music with a number of independent labels including the well-respected Fierce Panda and Love Train and toured sporadically with a variety of bands including Ligament, China Drum, Green Day and Scarfo, leaving a name for themselves wherever they went.

All in all, only a tiny amount of their work was ever held down to vinyl before they went their separate ways in 1996 to pursue other projects, which included the Club Giants, Unhome and Cove.

Four years later along came 'The Unwilling Astronaut', a 16 track collection of studio, live and session work from Joeyfat spanning the years 1991-'96.

The band reformed and played a handful of live shows to promote the album in the summer of 2000 and have since remained together.

Their new 13 track album entitled 'You Can Change People's Lives with your Mouth' was released in July 2003.»

Lords

Crazy blues-fuelled riffage!

Take some Beefheart, liberally splash some contemporary DC punk spunk about the place and voila: Lords. Kinda. Suffice to say this band is both odd and very rocking.

Charlottefield

Adam Hansford: guitar
Ashley Marlowe: drum kit
Chris Butler: bass
Thomas House: vocals/guitar

A fantastic live act, Charlottefield are informed by the work of the Fall and DC hardcore, but have a sound all of their own.

They have released 7"s on several labels, including Fat Cat, and a mini-album, through Jonson Family Records, is available now (review below - click link).

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Cove

Tunbridge Wells' finest three-piece post-rockin' louder than a war between GODS outfit. They wanna hear you scream (so they know to play louder and drown you the f*ck out).»

Meet Me In St. Louis

Paul - drums
Benny - guitar
Toby - vocals
Oli - guitar
Lewis - bass

Meet Me In St Louis - featuring former members of Escanna and Strobe 45 - play indie which is both beautiful AND schizophrenic, don't you know. Think Minus The Bear, American Football, Blood Brothers...

They've an EP out (released May 2006) through Function records - And with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

A debut album, Variations On Swing, was released through Big Scary Monsters in September 2007. It was produced by Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, The Pattern, Icarus Line, The Locust). The band broke up in early 2008.

MySpace my face!

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