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hello all,
some of the bands have already posted but i thought i'd post the press release here.
Hope to see some of you there
Cheers
abof.
A Badge of Friendship
Presents
One Unique Signal
Paper Cuts
Hands on Heads
A badge of friendship would like to invite you to an evening of stealth rock. On third Tuesday of every month, from 16th August 2005, the finest in underground rock music will grace the stage at the Vibe Bar on London’s Brick Lane.
August sees 3 of London town’s finest. A relative feast of creative, dynamic, and pure rock underground talent reserved for anyone willing and open to diverse new rock music. And all this for free!
No elitism and no discrimination. Just a free, chilled evening that we invite everyone to come and have a good time.
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One Unique Signal
James Beal – Bass
Ed Harding – Guitars / Vox
Lee Barber – Drums / Vox
Nick Keech – Guitars
Bookings: info@oneuniquesignal.com
www.oneuniquesignal.com
Pounding Repetition worked into classic song structures. Too loud to be Indie, too controlled to be Hardcore/Post Rock, OUS derive inspiration from the Krautrock approach to rhythms & flows and couple this with (on most occasions) more conventional verse chorus arrangements. Formed proper in London 2001 from the fallout of various band splits, OUS teamed up with Genepool Records in 2003 to release debut single 'LOWRY'. On the live front they have played alongside the likes of Girls Against Boys, Guapo, Cat on Form and the pAperchase. The debut album 'TRIBE CASTLE and NATION' is scheduled for release at the tail end of summer 2005 again through Genepool.
“The guitar hooks are pounding and persistent and the band's ascending/descending vocals are something to behold. As debut singles recorded on a budget go, this is pure gold” – Drowned in Sound
www.genepoolrecords.com
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Paper Cuts
ROSS CUMMINS
SINGING, JUMPING, KEYBOARDS
BEN THORNTON
GUITAR, EFFECTS PEDALS, NOISE
AREC KOUNDARJIAN
BASS GUITAR, SCREAMING, DISTORTION
TOBY BARBER
DRUMS, WOMEN, WHISKY
It started in the Summer of 2002 . A bass player and a pianist decided that life’s to short without rock and roll. So one picked up a guitar, one a bass, they booked themselves into a dark damp rehearsal room in North Acton and turned their instruments up. They started making riff heavy, distorted blasts of hardcore which may one day become songs. Soon another friend joined them, a singer who got shouldered with the duty of ?playing? drums. They went to gigs thinking ?I can do that?. Well it became obvious soon enough that the singers talents were wasted behind a kit so they got a guitarist who played drums. The band was complete, almost.
Fast forward to January 2003. The band all take a week of work for five days of non-stop rehearsal. This week means a lot, it could be spent on holiday, with girlfriends, but instead they’re in a dark damp rehearsal room in North Acton. The first day doesn’t go to well, on the second the drummer quits. The rest of the band head up to Artrocker and celebrate with a few too many whiskey sours . The next day they’re back in the rehearsal room sans drummer and write their first proper song, Business Suit Disease, a mismatch of surf guitar, screaming hardcore and straight 4-beat rock held together by misheard lyrics thrown from one person to the next. Pretty soon they find a bassist who can drum and the band is once again complete.
New songs are written, old songs are ditched and a quiet little gig takes place at the Half Moon Putney in May 2003 calling themselves When Gravity Fails. Ok, they think, played pretty well but we could give a little more. June 2003 and they play Bedford Esquires under the name Sepcu. They think they’re on first but end up headlining, just as well as the few friends they have coming broke down on the way up. The first band on, The Men Of Unitus, rock in a most cavalier fashion and a friendship is formed. Sepcu then get on stage, guitar and bass are turned up, and play. The stage is chaos, leads are unplugged, amps are scaled, feedback abounds. On stage it appears as if there’s a full force hurricane going on. A pattern is set for things to come.
A demo is recorded miles from home in the early hours of Friday morning somewhere in a barn near Brighton by some extra special friends and things start to pick up with gigs being organised left right and centre. Then things once again are delayed. The guitarist has a little altercation with a bus shelter , the drummer with a bottle of whisky. The singer gets married and the bassist finds a job. But soon they’re back on track organising gigs. A support slot with 90 Day Men is confirmed only for the band to cancel their tour. A support slot with Sense Field is arranged only for the booking agent to mess it up and book someone else, never-the-less guitarist and bassist take Sense Field out after the gig and paint the town red. Eventually Paper Cuts , as they are now known, start appearing in venues around London and things start to move forward. To play, to rehearse, to perform is no longer a choice but a necessity. Let no one stand in their way.
www.papercutsmusic.com
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Hands on Heads
www.handsonheads.com
Hands on Heads formed when three friends discovered a feral child in their tree house on 13th February 2005. They provided sanctuary for the wild boy and taught him a crude language based on mouthed sounds and stick tapping. This form of communication organically grew into the songs Hands on Heads perform today, the boy taking up a position behind the drums, his friends playing guitars, keyboards and singing - a mixture of regression therapy and now pop. Through performance, the friends hope to acclimatise the boy to society at large in a bid for his independence, they also endeavour to communicate the desire and despair held in each little animal's chest. Hands on Heads are not so much a band as they are an experiment in bridging kinship. They also love to bring the party!
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A badge of friendship
@ the Vibe Bar
The old truman brewery
91 brick lane
London, e1 6ql
Tuesday August 16th 2005
Admission - free!
some of the bands have already posted but i thought i'd post the press release here.
Hope to see some of you there
Cheers
abof.
A Badge of Friendship
Presents
One Unique Signal
Paper Cuts
Hands on Heads
A badge of friendship would like to invite you to an evening of stealth rock. On third Tuesday of every month, from 16th August 2005, the finest in underground rock music will grace the stage at the Vibe Bar on London’s Brick Lane.
August sees 3 of London town’s finest. A relative feast of creative, dynamic, and pure rock underground talent reserved for anyone willing and open to diverse new rock music. And all this for free!
No elitism and no discrimination. Just a free, chilled evening that we invite everyone to come and have a good time.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
One Unique Signal
James Beal – Bass
Ed Harding – Guitars / Vox
Lee Barber – Drums / Vox
Nick Keech – Guitars
Bookings: info@oneuniquesignal.com
www.oneuniquesignal.com
Pounding Repetition worked into classic song structures. Too loud to be Indie, too controlled to be Hardcore/Post Rock, OUS derive inspiration from the Krautrock approach to rhythms & flows and couple this with (on most occasions) more conventional verse chorus arrangements. Formed proper in London 2001 from the fallout of various band splits, OUS teamed up with Genepool Records in 2003 to release debut single 'LOWRY'. On the live front they have played alongside the likes of Girls Against Boys, Guapo, Cat on Form and the pAperchase. The debut album 'TRIBE CASTLE and NATION' is scheduled for release at the tail end of summer 2005 again through Genepool.
“The guitar hooks are pounding and persistent and the band's ascending/descending vocals are something to behold. As debut singles recorded on a budget go, this is pure gold” – Drowned in Sound
www.genepoolrecords.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paper Cuts
ROSS CUMMINS
SINGING, JUMPING, KEYBOARDS
BEN THORNTON
GUITAR, EFFECTS PEDALS, NOISE
AREC KOUNDARJIAN
BASS GUITAR, SCREAMING, DISTORTION
TOBY BARBER
DRUMS, WOMEN, WHISKY
It started in the Summer of 2002 . A bass player and a pianist decided that life’s to short without rock and roll. So one picked up a guitar, one a bass, they booked themselves into a dark damp rehearsal room in North Acton and turned their instruments up. They started making riff heavy, distorted blasts of hardcore which may one day become songs. Soon another friend joined them, a singer who got shouldered with the duty of ?playing? drums. They went to gigs thinking ?I can do that?. Well it became obvious soon enough that the singers talents were wasted behind a kit so they got a guitarist who played drums. The band was complete, almost.
Fast forward to January 2003. The band all take a week of work for five days of non-stop rehearsal. This week means a lot, it could be spent on holiday, with girlfriends, but instead they’re in a dark damp rehearsal room in North Acton. The first day doesn’t go to well, on the second the drummer quits. The rest of the band head up to Artrocker and celebrate with a few too many whiskey sours . The next day they’re back in the rehearsal room sans drummer and write their first proper song, Business Suit Disease, a mismatch of surf guitar, screaming hardcore and straight 4-beat rock held together by misheard lyrics thrown from one person to the next. Pretty soon they find a bassist who can drum and the band is once again complete.
New songs are written, old songs are ditched and a quiet little gig takes place at the Half Moon Putney in May 2003 calling themselves When Gravity Fails. Ok, they think, played pretty well but we could give a little more. June 2003 and they play Bedford Esquires under the name Sepcu. They think they’re on first but end up headlining, just as well as the few friends they have coming broke down on the way up. The first band on, The Men Of Unitus, rock in a most cavalier fashion and a friendship is formed. Sepcu then get on stage, guitar and bass are turned up, and play. The stage is chaos, leads are unplugged, amps are scaled, feedback abounds. On stage it appears as if there’s a full force hurricane going on. A pattern is set for things to come.
A demo is recorded miles from home in the early hours of Friday morning somewhere in a barn near Brighton by some extra special friends and things start to pick up with gigs being organised left right and centre. Then things once again are delayed. The guitarist has a little altercation with a bus shelter , the drummer with a bottle of whisky. The singer gets married and the bassist finds a job. But soon they’re back on track organising gigs. A support slot with 90 Day Men is confirmed only for the band to cancel their tour. A support slot with Sense Field is arranged only for the booking agent to mess it up and book someone else, never-the-less guitarist and bassist take Sense Field out after the gig and paint the town red. Eventually Paper Cuts , as they are now known, start appearing in venues around London and things start to move forward. To play, to rehearse, to perform is no longer a choice but a necessity. Let no one stand in their way.
www.papercutsmusic.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hands on Heads
www.handsonheads.com
Hands on Heads formed when three friends discovered a feral child in their tree house on 13th February 2005. They provided sanctuary for the wild boy and taught him a crude language based on mouthed sounds and stick tapping. This form of communication organically grew into the songs Hands on Heads perform today, the boy taking up a position behind the drums, his friends playing guitars, keyboards and singing - a mixture of regression therapy and now pop. Through performance, the friends hope to acclimatise the boy to society at large in a bid for his independence, they also endeavour to communicate the desire and despair held in each little animal's chest. Hands on Heads are not so much a band as they are an experiment in bridging kinship. They also love to bring the party!
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A badge of friendship
@ the Vibe Bar
The old truman brewery
91 brick lane
London, e1 6ql
Tuesday August 16th 2005
Admission - free!