Boards
Partyline + Spider and the Webs CARDIFF
PARTYLINE
+ SPIDER AND THE WEBS
+ THE PHYSICISTS
Thursday 10th November
CLWB IFOR BACH
16+ (Please bring ID if you wish to buy alcohol)
£6 / £5 (Conc)
http://www.peppermintpatti.co.uk
Out of the ashes of the Washington, D.C. suburban dude music scene crash the three ladies of Partyline! Armed with politics, punk and a penchant for partying (and sharing phone lines), they party on vigilantly against boredom, the Bush regime and body control! Girls with glasses, they’ll squash you like a bug!
Partyline consists of the usual suspects: singer Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, riot grrrl, Ladyfest, etc.), guitarist Angela Melkisethian (Savage Boys & Girls Club, Crucial Defect, Hott Beat, etc.), and drummer Crystal Bradley (The Applicators, Atlanta, etc.). Fusing partying and politics to perfection, Partyline songs nail such hot topics as Ralph Nader (“Unsafe at Any Speed”), brainy broads (“Girls with Glasses”), female trouble (“No Romantic”), and feeling trapped like a bug (“Cicada Summer”).
Partyline has rocked steady with the likable likes of the Wrangler Brutes, the Casual Dots, Hello Cuca, the Rah Bras, the Coolies, Hnatiw, Die! Die! Die!, French Toast, Direct from Hollywood Cemetery, Horses, La Mi Vida Violenta, Tuffie, the Pocliticals, Young Sexy Assassins, Big Digits, Amateur Party, American Business Machines, Ho-ag, Hunchback, Anthro Rex, and more more more. Look for them on the road as much as possible, a U.S. tour in August, and at some of the awesome upcoming Ladyfests [www.ladyfest.org] in Napoli, Olympia, Denver, Brighton, Malmo and Madrid. Cool!
SPIDER & THE WEBS are NOW meets WOW". Formed in the summer of 2004 by Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill,Frumpies),Chris Sutton (Dub Narcotic) and James Maeda (Serum Greys) their sound, the result of many disparate factors is always minimal, peircing and melodic.
SPIDER AND THE WEBS, CHRIS & JAMES
Photo credit: Mabel Damunt www.rompepistas.com
Re-inspired to play guitar by nu post-punk groups like ERASE ERRATA, MELTDOWN and QUIX*O*TIC, Tobi's songwriting harken's back to her most musically innovative group, THE GO TEAM. Preferring the RAINCOATS, YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS and THE TELEVISION PERSONALITIES to the GANG OF FOUR, Tobi uses simplicity and starkness as punctuation, creating space for notes to be felt and rhythms heard. Her guitar playing is deliberately spare yet meticulous where James' is wild and eccentric, with a 1981 northwest punk/1966 psychedlic flavour - like RICKY ERICKSON meets GREG SAGE in a FIELD OF FLOWERS. All the while, Chris keeps the rhythms solid and driving yet simple, in a MODERN LOVERS/TRONICS kind of way, inciting dancers to chant and yell "SPIDER MAGIC!" until they fall on the floor, exhausted. The singing is classic Tobi Vail style, varying between SCREAMY SCREAMS and WHISPER-CORE. When they switch instruments it is clear their biggest influence is growing up in OLYMPIA, listening to the first BLACK FLAG single while looking at pictures of MARY WEIS.
The Physicists - excellent Cardiff riot Grrl band, gaining a large grrl and boy following.
+ SPIDER AND THE WEBS
+ THE PHYSICISTS
Thursday 10th November
CLWB IFOR BACH
16+ (Please bring ID if you wish to buy alcohol)
£6 / £5 (Conc)
http://www.peppermintpatti.co.uk
Out of the ashes of the Washington, D.C. suburban dude music scene crash the three ladies of Partyline! Armed with politics, punk and a penchant for partying (and sharing phone lines), they party on vigilantly against boredom, the Bush regime and body control! Girls with glasses, they’ll squash you like a bug!
Partyline consists of the usual suspects: singer Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, riot grrrl, Ladyfest, etc.), guitarist Angela Melkisethian (Savage Boys & Girls Club, Crucial Defect, Hott Beat, etc.), and drummer Crystal Bradley (The Applicators, Atlanta, etc.). Fusing partying and politics to perfection, Partyline songs nail such hot topics as Ralph Nader (“Unsafe at Any Speed”), brainy broads (“Girls with Glasses”), female trouble (“No Romantic”), and feeling trapped like a bug (“Cicada Summer”).
Partyline has rocked steady with the likable likes of the Wrangler Brutes, the Casual Dots, Hello Cuca, the Rah Bras, the Coolies, Hnatiw, Die! Die! Die!, French Toast, Direct from Hollywood Cemetery, Horses, La Mi Vida Violenta, Tuffie, the Pocliticals, Young Sexy Assassins, Big Digits, Amateur Party, American Business Machines, Ho-ag, Hunchback, Anthro Rex, and more more more. Look for them on the road as much as possible, a U.S. tour in August, and at some of the awesome upcoming Ladyfests [www.ladyfest.org] in Napoli, Olympia, Denver, Brighton, Malmo and Madrid. Cool!
SPIDER & THE WEBS are NOW meets WOW". Formed in the summer of 2004 by Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill,Frumpies),Chris Sutton (Dub Narcotic) and James Maeda (Serum Greys) their sound, the result of many disparate factors is always minimal, peircing and melodic.
SPIDER AND THE WEBS, CHRIS & JAMES
Photo credit: Mabel Damunt www.rompepistas.com
Re-inspired to play guitar by nu post-punk groups like ERASE ERRATA, MELTDOWN and QUIX*O*TIC, Tobi's songwriting harken's back to her most musically innovative group, THE GO TEAM. Preferring the RAINCOATS, YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS and THE TELEVISION PERSONALITIES to the GANG OF FOUR, Tobi uses simplicity and starkness as punctuation, creating space for notes to be felt and rhythms heard. Her guitar playing is deliberately spare yet meticulous where James' is wild and eccentric, with a 1981 northwest punk/1966 psychedlic flavour - like RICKY ERICKSON meets GREG SAGE in a FIELD OF FLOWERS. All the while, Chris keeps the rhythms solid and driving yet simple, in a MODERN LOVERS/TRONICS kind of way, inciting dancers to chant and yell "SPIDER MAGIC!" until they fall on the floor, exhausted. The singing is classic Tobi Vail style, varying between SCREAMY SCREAMS and WHISPER-CORE. When they switch instruments it is clear their biggest influence is growing up in OLYMPIA, listening to the first BLACK FLAG single while looking at pictures of MARY WEIS.
The Physicists - excellent Cardiff riot Grrl band, gaining a large grrl and boy following.