LOSING TODAY
Mississippi Witch ‘Rot Foot’ (Colony 2). We’re rightly miffed at having missed out this duo’s debut full length ‘Black Gamble’ - by all accounts a bit of a corker though somehow slipping our net - ho hum. Alas those of you with long memories may well recall us fondly raving at length about their debut 7 inch ‘just for Roosevelt’ a killer swamp grooved twin set if I recall rightly (see missive 100). Both these bone rattling beauties - ‘rot root’ and its accompanying flip cut ‘van nuys’ are prized from that aforementioned set, the former shaking its arse in fine style and sounding for the best part like a seriously wired and agitated lo-fi Godfathers dishing out spiked slabs of twisted and festering blues that literally leave scorch marks where grooves used to be. That said it’s the far superior primal sound of ’Van Nuys’ which has been found spanking our hi-fi to within an inch of its life each and every time we’ve turned our back, a swamp risen bastard slice of blistered blues boogie that for all the world sounds like its been ripped from Satan’s arse pocket, a grizzled portion of smoked dust ridden dragster styled rumbling hoochie coochie that comes packing its own mojo bag while bolted to its under carriage you’ll find mooching some sterling snake winding riffs of a RL Burnside calibre albeit as though impishly sabotaged by the Ministry. Utterly cool - beats me how you can live without it.


LOOSE RECORD
I hope by now, dear friends, that you trust my judgment somewhat. So when I tell you (again) how much I love that rapscallion pair of ex-Pat Yanks who now call the UK home known as Mississippi Witch, I would hope you would spare a moment (or several) to check them out. The boys of the Witch are a roustabout duo, up to no good in the best possible way. The music they make is utterly divine, saturated with the rhythms of the Deep South and the space oddities of the deserts of the Wild West. How they make such a sweet, terrifying, sensational racket with only two of them is a marvel indeed.

UK MUSIC SEARCH
TRACKLISTING
Rot Foot
Van Nuys

Its The White Stripes comparisons that hit you the first, Mississippi Witch, as they are a two piece guitar and drum duo playing ragged and raw lo-fi blues.  Its however the Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa influence that permeates this band the strongest.

Lifted from their BLACK GAMBLE long player, latest single ROT FOOT finds Mississippi Witch on typically deep down and dirty form.  Frontman Oli Walker's primal howl and riotous guitar work return on ROT FOOT, a song that's all distorted riffing and violent drums beats

A dirty delta blues jam by way of Black Flag and AC/DC, this is the kind of thing to make you fall in love with noisy guitars and big riffs all over again.

The kind of single to have you proclaiming the likes of "next big thing" wildly; with ROT FOOT Mississippi Witch are a band who leave you hungry and desperate for more.

Subba Cultcha
MISSISSIPPI WITCH - ROT FOOT - COLONY2 & RED COB RECORDINGS

Like the horrors on a sedative, with the cramps laying the boot in after…

THE WITCH GET THE NOD FROM THE NICE CHAPS IN ELBOW....

TIME OUT MAGAZINE....

"there's a London band, Mississippi Witch who are fucking outrageously cool, with a terrific drummer. Check out "Just For Roosevelt". It'll blow your 'ead off.'"

CHEERS......

JUST FOR ROOSEVELT WAS IN THE TOP 100 SINGLES OF THE YEAR VOTED FOR BY UK RADIO!

Just for Roosevelt is played on XFM by Guy Garvey/John Kennedy, other stations/ STONE EDGE RADIO 90.9FM FRANCE, KDVS 90.3FM CALIFORNIA USA, the rest are listed below..




May/June WWW.RADIONOWHERE.ORG

Aug 6th XFM MANCHESTER 97.7FM

Aug 16th XFM 104.9

Aug 20th XFM MANCHESTER 97.7FM

Aug playlist RESONANCE FM 104.4

Aug playlist STONE EDGE RADIO 90.9FM FRANCE

Aug 25thJUICE 107.2FM, BRIGHTON

Aug 25th 107.6 JUICE FM, LIVERPOOL

Aug 27th BFBS RADIO 1 WWW.BFBS.COM

Aug/Sept BOB & JAY RADIO 90.3 & 88.7FM SYDNEY, AUS

Sept WRCT 88.3 FM, PITTSBURGH, USA

Sept 1st 107.6 JUICE FM, LIVERPOOL

Sept 2nd KMSU 89.7FM, MANKATO / KMSK 91.3FM, AUSTIN, USA

Sept 10th XFM MANCHESTER 97.7FM

Sept 14th & playlist RADIO 2XS, FLORIDA, USA / ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA / KOSOVO

Sept 15th STONE EDGE RADIO 90.9FM FRANCE

Sept 15th RADIO WAVE 100.7FM PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

Sept 22nd THE SELECTOR RADIO, WORLDWIDE

Sept 24th XFM MANCHESTER 97.7FM

Oct 2nd THE SELECTOR RADIO, WORLDWIDE

Oct 2nd & playlist RADIO 2XS, FLORIDA, USA / ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA / KOSOVO

Oct 12th SURGE 1287AM, SOUTHAMPTON

Oct 15th XFM MANCHESTER 97.7FM

Nov 8th SURGE 1287AM, SOUTHAMPTON

Nov 9th THE SELECTOR RADIO, WORLDWIDE

Nov 10th STONE EDGE RADIO 90.9FM FRANCE

Nov/Dec KDVS 90.3FM CALIFORNIA USA

Dec 2nd KDVS 90.3FM CALIFORNIA USA

Dec 30th KDVS 90.3FM CALIFORNIA USA

Dec 31st XFM MANCHESTER 97.7FM

2007

Jan 14th XFM MANCHESTER 97.7FM

Jan 14th XFM SCOTLAND 105.7-106.1

Jan 14th XFM 104.9

Jan 16th STONE EDGE RADIO 90.9FM FRANCE

Feb 7th KDVS 90.3FM CALIFORNIA USA

Feb 19th KDVS 90.3FM CALIFORNIA USA

Mar 30th STONE EDGE RADIO 90.9FM FRANCE

May 19th KMSU 89.7FM, MANKATO / KMSK 91.3FM, AUSTIN, USA

May 31st RADIO ONE

Black Gamble, out 11TH FEBUARY 2008, here's the tracklisting....

just for roosevelt

albuquerque new mexico

alligator mechanics

black gamble

lampio

starving of the bee

rot foot

van nuys

white eye

lung full of river mud

calipah

buckshot cornflower