The deXter Bentley hello goodBye show (Resonance 104.4FM) proudly presents...
PUB POP
With:
The Mules
The Rayographs
Charly Morris
Saturday 27th September 2008
@ The Miller (020 7407 2690)
96 Snowsfields Rd, London Bridge / Borough, SE1 3SS
DJ: MFP
Doors: 8.30pm
Cost: £5 (FREE before 9pm)
THE MULES
London based quintet The Mules began in a basement underneath a chapel
in Oxford, where Tim and Ed bashed out songs by the Band and the Flying
Burrito Brothers on piano and drums. They wanted to be in a country band,
and first attempts to make one created a sprawling eight-piece orchestra of
trumpets, mandolins, double bass and other odd things. Early recordings
sound like a really angry Salvation Army band, and no-one ever really knew
what was going on. Time passed, eight slimmed to five and the Mules got
punkier and funkier, trying to kick up Oxford heels with the sound they call
electrobilly. It's made of wood and glass and plastic, and it's made to make
you dance – electrobilly understands that country music is sick at heart, and
that it dances and drinks to escape itself because it's no good at concealing its
feelings. People in Mules songs are often trapped.
Since releasing the highly acclaimed 'Save Your Face' album last year, the
band have been busy touring the UK and playing some of the summers biggest
festivals including Glastonbury, The Big Chill and Bestival. Although they've
had a slight personnel restructure, the dynamic of the band remains the same
with the frantic rhythms and vocals performed by singing drummer and front
man, Ed Seed.
Now on the books of Domino Publishing, the band will record the follow up to
Save Your Face with top producer Anthony Whiting (M.I.A, Eugene McGuinness,
Animal Collective) which is due for release early next year.
www.myspace.com/itsthemulesTHE RAYOGRAPHS
Hailing from London, The Rayographs have over the past year slowly but
surely been taking anyone that's had the pleasure of seeing and more
importantly hearing them, by storm with their awesome mix of garage/blues
and post punk rhythms. Think a mixture of Patti Smith/Stooges/Bauhaus
with a little bit of The Ronettes thrown in and you're still no where close to
how good these guys sound. 1960s-esque garage riffs underpinned by
angular rhythmic krautrock style drums and warm driving, yet harmonic bass
surrounded by dark atmospherics make for one of the most killer bands
around at the moment.
On this their debut 7" for Everyone We Know Records they at once sound
beautiful and fragile whilst remaining sharp, taut and sonically immense.
They're a band that are not fearful of treading where others have gone
before but whilst doing so make sure their shoe prints flatten the ground into
something new and unrecognisable but unmistakably them.
Consisting of Astrud Steehouder - Guitar and Vocals, Jessamine Tierney -
Bass and Vocals and Amy Hurst - Drums and Occasional vocals, these three
ladies have been gaining considerably interest over the last 12 months and
to be honest are probably one of the most interesting and arresting bands
you could hear right now!
Vinyl comes in hand printed sleeve and is limited to 500 copies!
www.myspace.com/therayographsCHARLY MORRIS
Charly Morris is perhaps best known as the ebullient bass player from the
scintillatingly powerful punk/pop trio Le Tetsuo, when performing as a
'front-person' however, she prefers to put down her bass guitar in favour of
a slightly more sedate - and arguably more spellbinding - set of songs accompanied
by solely with acoustic guitar, cello and violin.
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