Pigface online listening party - new album almost complete!

Hey! Join me Sunday, December 21 at 7:00pm CST for an online Pigface listening party. I'll be chatting online with Martin Atkins and other special guests while listening to the new songs.

This album has been a long time coming. Pigface started recording (and filming) at the very end of the Free For All tour - some 3.5 years in the making and five years since the last album. You'd better get your head on straight and listen to some of the new songs before the tour is announced!

To participate in the listening party, log in to the Invisible Community, create an account (if you don't already have one) then go to the following link:

http://invisiblerecords.com/community/chat.php. Click the speaker icon next to Martin's avatar to hear audio.

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May 23rd

8pm till late AM

Picturedrome Northampton

 

Eater, Fallen Leaves, Deadly Long Legs

The Parliament Club

15^th September 2007

8pm – 2am

Thorpe Close

Notting Hill

London W1

http://www.myspace.com/theparliamentclub

  

Eater

Emerging from back bedroom bands of Barnet and Croydon, Eater were the original get lucky kids, grabbing at their fix of fun and fame while other 15 year olds could only tune to 'Top of the Pops' and ponder if Mickey Finn was Marc Bolan's bongo bitch.

The treble was always up to 10 on stolen guitars, shambolic, inept and painfully naive; they were all that late 1970's were about. Thirty years on, the reception at their 100 club reunion in 2006 proved that Eater still occupy a very special place in the generations collective psyche. The songs have also spanned the decades with several current and past luminaries of rock declaring themselves as fans, Eater are perhaps more seriously regarded now than then by their less generous or contemplative contemporaries. Since the 100 Club party they have played Rome, Madrid, Bilbao to packed houses, and again in London, on this occasion with The Buzzcocks, who supported at Eater's very first gig back in 1976, when the telly was boring and all our current politicians were at university smoking the weed.

As the youngest original punk band they still have a few years left on the clock; so who knows when it'll end this time round. They say they'll stay doing it while it's fun and at the moment it is; so catch them while you can.

http://www.myspace.com/deegenerate

 

The Fallen Leaves

Their best songs sound like they were written in a time machine travelling between the late 60's, 1978 and yesterday. Passionate and humorous tales of thwarted love and premeditated revenge and innovative, metallic chord structures overlay the tightest of rhythm sections.

The nucleus of the band is provided by Rob Symons of the original Subway Sect whose guitar is as distinctive as the bands stage attire which is decidedly dapper.

As hosts of the Parliament Club they already have several prestigious promotions under their belts including Vic Godard, Johns Children, Billy Childish, The Masonics, The Priscillas, Downliners Sect and The Nightingales.

http://www.thefallenleaves.net/

 

Deadly Long Legs

Deadly Long Legs induce the kind of dancing last seen at a UFO Club freak out with angular chords and twanging guitar licks, sonic depth charge bass and maniacal drums that clatter across a backdrop of fuzzy British eccentricity. Mexican wrestling masks, manly moustaches and deer stalker hats add essential fashion detailing.

http://www.myspace.com/deadlylonglegs

NOIZE ANNOYS - 30 YEARS OF CONSTANT HEADACHES

BUZZCOCKS, EATER, DON LETTS & KRIS NEEDS @ THE FORUM, KENTISH TOWN - 02/12/06

trakMARX did it once – with Rat Scabies, Brian James, Casey Chaos & Mani - @ the 100 Club, that London. They played Damned Damned Damned in its entirety - & the crowd went wild.

trakMARX did it twice – with Eater, TV Smith & Don Letts - @ the 100 Club, that London. There was a lot of LOVE in the house – plus cameras from MTV & the BBC:

NOW: trakMARX does it again! This time @ The Forum, Kentish Town – with Buzzcocks, Eater, Don Letts & Kris Needs - Saturday 2nd December 2006 - Doors 7pm - £15 advance:

Brit punk legends Buzzcocks headline The Forum as part of the 30th Anniversary of Punk tour with original Roxy punkers Eater, Roxy DJ Don Letts & living leg end Kris Needs in tow. The show will also feature a retrospective photography/art exhibition with artwork by Malcolm Garrett and photos by Chris Gabrin and Kevin Cummins.

Book Early:

http://www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=207742&userid=120628232&filler1=see

http://www.meanfiddler.com/displayPage.asp?ArticleID=1380&URLID=24

Buzzcocks Blurb:

Amongst the very first to get what the Sex Pistols were actually banging on about back in 1976 were two strapping young lads from Manchester: Howard Trafford & Peter McNeish. Together - as Devoto & Shelley respectively - they wasted absolutely no time whatsoever in becoming Buzzcocks. This kind of rapid reactionary behavior quickly won them their place in history as one of the very first UK Punk Rock groups not to come from London. Buzzcocks soon doubled their money by becoming the first Punk Rock group not from London to release their own record on their own label without any help from EMI, A&M or Virgin. This kind of behavior was very Punk Rock - & rapidly set the benchmark for what we know & love today as the DIY spirit. Devoto - on meeting his hero Iggy Pop - handed him a copy of the aforementioned "Spiral Scratch EP" and said, "I've got all your records - now you've got all of mine."

Despite recording what would eventually become the second best British Punk Rock LP ever - in the guise of the bootleg "Times Up" - Devoto soon quit the group just as people were beginning to like them. Oh bollocks! A thing like that can really get you down, but luckily Buzzcocks were made of sterner stuff. Shelley took over the mic - Diggle shifted from bass to gtr - Garth & Mayher completed the jigsaw - Buzzcocks were reborn as the kings of the three minute Punk Pop song. Almost immediately a string of enormous hit singles wormed their way out of Manchester & took over the airwaves of the whole damn country: "Orgasm Addict", "What Do I Get", "I Don't Mind", "Love You More", "Ever Fallen In Love", "Promises" - the hits - as they say - just wouldn't stop. Supported by generationally significant long players such as "Another Music In Another Kitchen" & "Love Bites" - Buzzcocks covered lapels & bedroom walls the length & breadth of the nation. With their snappy sleeve designs, impressive attention to detail & their bubblegum bandsaw melodies - Buzzcocks were the original Art Punks gone Pop.

Fast forward to 2006: the wheels may have fallen off a few times over the years, but Buzzcocks reliable old VW Camper van shows no sign of going round the clock as we head towards the 30th anniversary of Ye Olde Punk Rock. Recent quality LPs "Buzzcocks" (2003) & "Flat Pack Philosophy" (2006) are ample proof that the old Shelley/Diggle one-two can still fox the odd seasoned defender to create panic in the box & ecstasy on the terraces. Manchester may have a lot to answer for, but Buzzcocks aren't one of those crimes!

Eater Blurb:

Eater were arguably thee archetypal first wave punkers: a bunch of school kids ignited into anarchic action by the appalling influence of the utterly irresponsible Sex Pistols. School kids by day, Punk Rock luminaries by night. Just a quick glance at Eater's choice of cover versions tells you everything you need to know about Punk Rock's Darwinian Evolution By Natural Selection.

Eater were always going to be an iffy one. Even in their moment in the spotlight they were young lads learning how to walk in public. So all these years later with much more experience under their belts, how were they going to translate the songs from then to the present? I was hoping that they weren't going to "improve" on the material. We've all seen it. A band takes an old tune and because they are bored playing it, or feel it's a naive reminder of their previously limited skills they add some nice widdly guitar wankery over it. In the process they just f***in' ruin it for all the punters that want to hear the original with all it's teenage fire. So I was very pleased that the band simply plugged in and suspended time for the length of the set. It was fast, it was electric and I am very pleased to say that right at the moment that they blistered through their set. I wouldn't have wished to be anywhere else. This wasn't a nostalgia trip. It wasn't a cashing in on the anniversary celebrations, and it wasn't to push a repackaging of a back catalogue. It was just rock and roll played the way it's supposed to be, and that's something that is more difficult than many of us appreciate. Hopefully this will not be the last time that Eater grace a stage. I'd certainly make the effort to see them again, and how many bands from 77 could I say the same about? I'll leave that to you to work out, but really, only one hand is necessary.

Cheers el Diablo