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Four very different brands of tamed/untamed noise, all rooted in the highly respectible genre of [size=24]maxifun[/size]!

[b]Sunday 11 Nov[/b] - London, Gramaphone (Knom) - [b]Talibam!, CHOPS[/b]

[b]Monday 12 Nov[/b] - Brighton, Greenhouse Effect - [b]Talibam!, CHOPS[/b]

[b]Tuesday 13 Nov[/b] - Milton Keynes, Kiln Farm Social Club - [b]Talibam!, CHOPS, Action Beat[/b]

[b]Wednesday 14 Nov[/b] - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club - [b]Talibam!, Tigers!, CHOPS[/b]

[b]Thursday 15 Nov[/b] - Liverpool, Next To Nowhere - [b]Talibam!, CHOPS, Stig Noise[/b]

[b]Friday 16 Nov[/b] - Lincoln, Bar Fusion - [b]Talibam!, CHOPS, Puttin On The Ritz, The Mark 9s[/b]

[b]Saturday 17 Nov[/b] - Newcastle, Star & Shadow Cinema (New York Underground Film Festival) - [b]Talibam!, CHOPS, Puttin On The Ritz[/b]

[b]Sunday 18 Nov - Cargo, London[/b] (Upset The Rhythm Presents The Wire 25) - [b]Puttin On The Ritz, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Vard Ov Ard's Exquisite Corpse, Axolotl, The Polly Shang Kuan Band, Birds Of Delay, Pumajaw, Weyes Bluhd [/b]

[b]Monday 19 Nov - London[/b] (Puttin' On The Ritz still trying to confirm, maybe day off, maybe show with Hiroshima Rocks Around) (help?)

[b]Tuesday 20 Nov - 13th Note, Glasgow[/b] (Nuts and Seeds) - [b]Cowtown, CHOPS, Puttin On The Ritz[/b]

[b]Wednesday 21 Nov - The Fish Market, Northamton[/b] (FishMarket Music) - [b]Puttin On The Ritz, CHOPS, Cowtown[/b]

[b]Thursday 22 Nov - The Social, Nottingham[/b] (High Society) - [b]Cowtown, Puttin On The Ritz, CHOPS, I LOVE SARAH[/b]

[b]Friday 23 Nov - Le Pub, Newport[/b] (Lesson Number One) - [b]Cowtown, CHOPS[/b]

[b]Friday 23 Nov[/b] - Puttin On The Ritz need gig in Belfast

[b]Saturday 24 Nov - Westhill Centre, Brighton[/b] (OOOSHFest) - [b]Cowtown, CHOPS, Bilge Pump, Sailors, Trencher, Charlottefield, etc[/b]

[b]Saturday 24 Nov - Rí-Rá, Dublin[/b] - [b]Puttin On The Ritz[/b]

[b]Sunday 25 Nov - The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch, London[/b] (Upset! The Rhythm) - [b]Puttin' On The Ritz, CHOPS, Cowtown, Buttonhead[/b]

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[color=brown][url]http://www.trashfactory.net/talibam[/url]
[url]http://www.myspace.com/talibam[/url]

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HxHYN7Nm28[/url] black & white gallery, NY
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHkeWCJ1rYQ[/url] bordeaux
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBQhn6D0Dss[/url] geneva

TALIBAM! is Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea from New York, workhorses totalling 6 different albums released this year ([i]Azul Discografica, Pendu Sound Recordings, Blackest Rainbow, Gaffer Records, MT5 TAPES!, No=Fi Recordings, as well as previous stuff on Kitty Play and Ecstatic Peace[/i])!

[i]"...Talibam! have created an eclectic, muscular rock/noise-inflected Improv all their own." "...things fall apart wonderfully...out of sheer exuberance and pure adrenalin pushing the musicians and the music up to and over the edge." "The energy level is worthy of Borbetomagus, but it spills out in all directions, from demented free noise polka to post-Prog funk chorale...The cumulative effect of it all is pretty mindblowing...Talibam! could well be the most exciting improv outfit you'll hear all year...this is more a point of no return than a point of departure...the view from the cliff top is magnificent." [/i]-- Dan Warburton, The Wire, October 2007

[i]Ornette Coleman playing on Soft Machine's Fourth in hell... Talibam!'s brand of shitstorm skronk is grounded in more intelligent thought and dynamic group exchange than many of the more hyped transmissions from the contemporary American 'noise' underground[/i]. - Tiny Mix Tapes

[i]The music matches the mania of the packaging perfectly as the duo let loose a …blast of sonic sludge that gleefully destroys everything in it's path, as if on a mission. [/i]- Edwin Pouncey, The Wire

[i]Agro-improv troupe Talibam! will surely harsh your mellow. A cross between noise-rock, free-jazz and unabashad fuckeduppedness, Talibam! is audio terrorism at its most playful[/i] - Chris Weingarten, Village Voice

Matt Mottel has been dropping electric mind bombs with his synthesizer in New York clubs for several years, involved with the likes of [i]Awesome Color[/i], [i]Deerhunter[/i], [i]Akron/Family[/i], [i]Kenny Wollesen[/i], [i]Chris Corsano[/i], [i]Ras Moshe[/i], [i]Cooper-Moore[/i], [i]Sean Meehan[/i], and his new band [i]Shadow Maps[/i].

Kevin Shea's drumming and stage gymnastics have been gazed at with wide wonder through his membership in bands like [i]Storm & Stress[/i] (Touch & Go), [i]Coptic Light[/i] (No Quarter), [i]People[/i] (I and Ear), [i]Peter Evans Quartet[/i] (Firehouse 12), [i]Sexy Thoughts[/i] (rcarchives.com), [i]Mostly Other People Do The Killing[/i] (Hot Cup), etc. [/color]

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[color=olive][url]http://www.chinchillaweb.co.uk/chops[/url]
[url]http://www.myspace.com/mightychops[/url]

Freewheeling dysfunctional big beat drums! Cosmic keys! Mind controlling tone generators! Limb shaking guitars! Shifted sax! Jazz lounge with uncomfortable sofas! Broken R'n'B! Calypso played naked in the fridge-freezer! Euphoric knees-up! Psychedelic forays into wonk pop! Fresh faced fortune tellers! Tear jerkers! Motivational speakers! One Love Revivalists!

"[i]Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! alas, poor ape, how thou sweatest! Come, let me wipe thy face; come on, you whoreson chops: ah, rogue! i'faith, I love thee: thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy, worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better than the Nine Worthies[/i]" (King Henry IV, part II: II, iv Shakespeare).

Forthcoming releases include a split 12" on [i]Upset! The Rhythm[/i] with someone as yet unknown, and a split DVD with Talibam! on [i]Chinchilla-Tone[/i]. Their faces are also seen in popular beat combos such as [i]Quack Quack[/i], [i]I Had An Inkling[/i] ([i]EYE HAI[/i]), [i]Sense Or This?[/i], [i]Massive Heron[/i], etc.[/color]

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[color=blue][url]http://www.chinchillaweb.co.uk/cowtown[/url]
[url]http://www.myspace.com/cowtownsuperstars[/url]

With a practically sold out 7" on [i]Golden Lab Records[/i], and a totally sold out split 7" on [i]Bloodloss[/i], Cowtown are about to release an album on [i]Chinchilla-Tone [/i](CD), [i]Golden Lab [/i](Vinyl), [i]Catmobile [/i](extra distribution) and [i]On The Bone [/i](downloads).

Delectable chunks of angular no/new-wave noisy pop played by people who clearly know what they're on about (their other bands include [i]Tigers![/i], [i]Brown Owl[/i], [i]Beards[/i], [i]G-Fang[/i], [i]The Dragon Rapide[/i], [i]Monster Killed By Laser[/i], etc). When people talk about Cowtown songs, they always go 'I like the one with the Hard Days Night chord at the start, and the one that goes, '[i]Deneh! Deneh! Deneh-duh-duh! Deneh! Deneh-duh duh![/i]'. A sound that touches upon Devo, The Beatles, Deerhoof and Link Wray, this is the juiciest piece of summer fruit you'll taste all year, even if they have been frozen ready for consumption in late November... but it'll come topped with the cream of newly added bonus vocals, from Ste ([i]Pifco[/i]).[/color]

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[url]http://www.myspace.com/puttinontheritz[/url]

Perhaps future generations will be able to unearth more evidence, but that remains to be seen. What is known is that Puttin' On The Ritz consists of two human beings, both male and above the age of consent. They have been known to imbibe large quantities of alcohol before, during, and after their performances; for some reason this is their preference. Occasionally this obsession with intoxication produces disastrous results; other times they are merely threatened with violence. The problem is not that they are unaware of the answer, but that they forgot what the question was. Time will tell, weather permitting. Kevin Shea (yeah, he plays in Talibam! too) and BJ play off-the-wall cabaret style musics. Entertainment guaranteed.

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