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Saturday, 12 December 2009
Sunday, 6 December 2009
The Moi Non Plus Tipped For 2010
Influential Dutch music site ROAR E-Zine have included The Moi Non Plus in their ROAR Sound Of 2010 tip list.
This of course inspired by the famous BBC longlist, a list that gives a preview of the coming music year. Because our website is writing about new and fresh music, we also challenged ourselves to make a similar longlist. One of our expectancy is the band The Moi Non Plus. Twan Scheffers
This of course inspired by the famous BBC longlist, a list that gives a preview of the coming music year. Because our website is writing about new and fresh music, we also challenged ourselves to make a similar longlist. One of our expectancy is the band The Moi Non Plus. Twan Scheffers
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
The Moi Non Plus Video - In Conversation & Live Track
Snippets of The Moi Non Plus chatting backstage to STA documentary maker Aaron before their set at the Lexington plus a chance to see their Yuri Landman custom made guitar in action during the set itself.
Album on sale now!
Album on sale now!
Friday, 23 October 2009
The Moi Non Plus: Rockfeedback feature
What's the deal?
Ever heard that nuts Mclusky song which sounded like 34 beastly men beating the unloving heck out of each other for just under two minutes? You know, that one about lightsabers and fellatio. No? Well, you probably should, as I’m not sure there are many other ways I can easily describe this band.
Constituently formed of two Dutch men playing guitar and drums, The Moi Non Plus
play sparse, angular and aggressive Liars-esque (circa They Were Wrong so We Drowned) post-punk; ferocious, syncopated dance-beats and ripped-speaker guitar lines that squeal like particularly melodic stuck-pigs. Their bare soundscape is occasionally penetrated by gruffly humming synth lines that almost manage to bend their off-kilter songs into something vaguely catchy, but more often the tunefully shouted vocals keep The Moi Non Plus treading the almost-pop yellow brick road Mclusky so gracefully walked.
The Dutch duo are very much cut of the DIY cloth, they also run an online magazine called Subba-Cultcha which, in their words, they ‘started doing because [they] felt the alternative music scene in the Netherlands was pretty much non existent’. Which is probably true. However, rather than sobbing quietly into their coffee and waffles, the band began collaborating with other artists, creating a ‘scene’ where absence had been before. They recently asked 20 visual artists to take the Moi Non Plus logo and use it as a starting point for an image, the results of which were compiled both put into print and run as an exposition in Amsterdam.
General seeds of information about this band are fairly sparse upon the digital soil, in actuality their MySpace page simply states:
THE MOI NON PLUS IS A LOUD DRUM GUITAR SAMPLE DUO FROM AMSTERDAM. THEIR DEBUT ALBUM IS WILL BE RELEASED IN THE UK ON OCTOBER 12TH BUY IT
Which I think is one of the most concise, informative and true slices of promotional pie I’ve ever been force fed.
When can I see them live?: Unfortunately the band are only stopped off their tour for a quick pee break in the UK recently, before heading over to New York to promote their magazine Subba-Cultcha. As soon as they’re back, we’ll let you know.
What can I listen to them?: Well, first of firsts direct your clicker onto their MySpace and listen to the track ‘HA HA HA’, then drag that moving bar thing on the right hand side of the screen down till you get to a little box that says ‘buy album here’, at which point the interweb will re-direct you to this site from which you will buy said C.D. and listen to it, gratefully.
We all know music peaked in 1994, so give me a sound-bite about how we could compare them to some kind of obscure band from the Britpop era: Here’s my attempt at NME-journalism… The Moi Non Plus are like Slint. But on ACID. FAST ACID. REALLY FAST GUITAR ACID.
Ever heard that nuts Mclusky song which sounded like 34 beastly men beating the unloving heck out of each other for just under two minutes? You know, that one about lightsabers and fellatio. No? Well, you probably should, as I’m not sure there are many other ways I can easily describe this band.
Constituently formed of two Dutch men playing guitar and drums, The Moi Non Plus
play sparse, angular and aggressive Liars-esque (circa They Were Wrong so We Drowned) post-punk; ferocious, syncopated dance-beats and ripped-speaker guitar lines that squeal like particularly melodic stuck-pigs. Their bare soundscape is occasionally penetrated by gruffly humming synth lines that almost manage to bend their off-kilter songs into something vaguely catchy, but more often the tunefully shouted vocals keep The Moi Non Plus treading the almost-pop yellow brick road Mclusky so gracefully walked.
The Dutch duo are very much cut of the DIY cloth, they also run an online magazine called Subba-Cultcha which, in their words, they ‘started doing because [they] felt the alternative music scene in the Netherlands was pretty much non existent’. Which is probably true. However, rather than sobbing quietly into their coffee and waffles, the band began collaborating with other artists, creating a ‘scene’ where absence had been before. They recently asked 20 visual artists to take the Moi Non Plus logo and use it as a starting point for an image, the results of which were compiled both put into print and run as an exposition in Amsterdam.
General seeds of information about this band are fairly sparse upon the digital soil, in actuality their MySpace page simply states:
THE MOI NON PLUS IS A LOUD DRUM GUITAR SAMPLE DUO FROM AMSTERDAM. THEIR DEBUT ALBUM IS WILL BE RELEASED IN THE UK ON OCTOBER 12TH BUY IT
Which I think is one of the most concise, informative and true slices of promotional pie I’ve ever been force fed.
When can I see them live?: Unfortunately the band are only stopped off their tour for a quick pee break in the UK recently, before heading over to New York to promote their magazine Subba-Cultcha. As soon as they’re back, we’ll let you know.
What can I listen to them?: Well, first of firsts direct your clicker onto their MySpace and listen to the track ‘HA HA HA’, then drag that moving bar thing on the right hand side of the screen down till you get to a little box that says ‘buy album here’, at which point the interweb will re-direct you to this site from which you will buy said C.D. and listen to it, gratefully.
We all know music peaked in 1994, so give me a sound-bite about how we could compare them to some kind of obscure band from the Britpop era: Here’s my attempt at NME-journalism… The Moi Non Plus are like Slint. But on ACID. FAST ACID. REALLY FAST GUITAR ACID.
Samuel Smith, Rockfeedback
Friday, 16 October 2009
The 405 Interview The Moi Non Plus
The Moi Non Plus get a grilling from The 405 - read it here as preparation for seeing them live tonight in London or Sunday at In The City.
Monday, 12 October 2009
The Moi Non Plus London Show This Friday
This week sees the UK release of The Moi Non Plus album - available from us now with a gorgeous artbook and remix album set for just £8 - with iTunes and record shops to follow in the coming days.
Leon and Bas will be returning to these British Isles to play London on Friday and In The City on Sunday with our compadres at Big Scary Monsters at TV21 before jetting off to scene of previous MNP triumphs - CMJ New York.
The cooler corners of the interweb will be awash with coverage over the next couple of weeks, in the meantime here's the need-to-know for Friday night.
Friday, October 16
White Light presents Die! Die! Die!, The Moi Non Plus, Dead Wolf Club
8pm-4am,£5, free after 11pm
Tickets on sale now
The New Zealand band play uber-energeic artful noise for fans of Black Flag, The Pixies, The Wipers, Wire and Bailterspace with a legendarily chaos meets carnage stage show. Support from Moi Non Plus: Think DFA1979 on a doom-trip or Liars on ecstasy. Then White Light takes over and Ollie, Matty and Jamie play danceable tunes from pre-1984.
Leon and Bas will be returning to these British Isles to play London on Friday and In The City on Sunday with our compadres at Big Scary Monsters at TV21 before jetting off to scene of previous MNP triumphs - CMJ New York.
The cooler corners of the interweb will be awash with coverage over the next couple of weeks, in the meantime here's the need-to-know for Friday night.
Friday, October 16
White Light presents Die! Die! Die!, The Moi Non Plus, Dead Wolf Club
8pm-4am,£5, free after 11pm
Tickets on sale now
The New Zealand band play uber-energeic artful noise for fans of Black Flag, The Pixies, The Wipers, Wire and Bailterspace with a legendarily chaos meets carnage stage show. Support from Moi Non Plus: Think DFA1979 on a doom-trip or Liars on ecstasy. Then White Light takes over and Ollie, Matty and Jamie play danceable tunes from pre-1984.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Muso’s Guide Introduces… The Moi Non Plus
Muso's Guide are running a feature on and penned by Leon and Bas MNP - don't forget to pre-order the album from us to get a free Remix album and book set.
And here we present to you The Moi Non Plus, a most excellent band that we’ve talked into writing a little piece about themselves. It’s the latest in our simply awesome series which has so far brough you Anya Marina, Camera Club, Youthless, Sugar and Gold, There Will Be Fireworks and so very many more. It’s the kind of A&R that money can’t buy. And here are our latest favourites for you, with a sample mp3 at the bottom…
We are The Moi Non Plus, we are a drum guitar & sample duo from Amsterdam. Besides playing in the band we run Subbacultcha!; an aternative music platform from Amsterdam. We promote shows, run a label a website and a magazine. We also organise showcases for Dutch bands abroad and we do occasional art projects.
October and November are crazy months for both the bands as well as the platform. The Moi Non Plus’ record is coming out in the UK on October 12th and as a result we’re doing shows in London and Manchester. We’re also organising a Subbacultcha! showcase at the CMJ festival in New York featuring Dutch bands as well as international acts. Then in November we celebrate Subbacultcha!’s 5th year anniversary with a whole bunch of great shows as well as a festival, an exposition and a film marathon. Then we’re publishing a 100 page art book featuring some of our favourite Dutch artists. (photographers, designers, visual artists) which is coming out on November 14th. And in between all that, we put together our monthly magazine.
Safe to say we are insanely busy. But we do what we like, so that’s a good thing. We started doing this cause we felt the alternative music scene in the netherlands was pretty much non existent. There were loads of good bands, but no places for them to play, no music magazines or radio stations picking them up and as a result, no audience hearing them. This obviously affected us as musicians, as well as human beings, And so we decided to start Subbacultcha! This is now five years ago, and looking back we are excited about the way things are going. We have a dedicated community behind us. Lots of people coming to the shows, reading the magazine, checking the website and also contributing and helping out as volunteers.
The band as well as the platform are obviously closely related. Putting up shows for bands like HEALTH, These Are Powers, High Places, Marnie Stern and Women has really inspired us as musicians. In promoting the shows and making the magazine, we constantly hear new music and meet like minded people. This has a huge effect on the music that we play.
Also doing the art projects is great. Last year we asked 20 cutting edge visual artists to take The Moi Non Plus logo and to use it as the starting point for an image (foto’s paintings, illustrations, etc) The result was compiled in a book and we had a very succesfull exposition in Amsterdam where all the works were on display. This really opened up a new audience for Subbacultcha! and The Moi Non Plus and also brought Dutch musicians and artists together .
We want to keep this up. We are always in search of creative energy and exciting art & music. Therefore we surround ourselves with people that inspire us. We use this inpiration for our music, our magazine and everything else that we are involved in.
And here we present to you The Moi Non Plus, a most excellent band that we’ve talked into writing a little piece about themselves. It’s the latest in our simply awesome series which has so far brough you Anya Marina, Camera Club, Youthless, Sugar and Gold, There Will Be Fireworks and so very many more. It’s the kind of A&R that money can’t buy. And here are our latest favourites for you, with a sample mp3 at the bottom…
We are The Moi Non Plus, we are a drum guitar & sample duo from Amsterdam. Besides playing in the band we run Subbacultcha!; an aternative music platform from Amsterdam. We promote shows, run a label a website and a magazine. We also organise showcases for Dutch bands abroad and we do occasional art projects.
October and November are crazy months for both the bands as well as the platform. The Moi Non Plus’ record is coming out in the UK on October 12th and as a result we’re doing shows in London and Manchester. We’re also organising a Subbacultcha! showcase at the CMJ festival in New York featuring Dutch bands as well as international acts. Then in November we celebrate Subbacultcha!’s 5th year anniversary with a whole bunch of great shows as well as a festival, an exposition and a film marathon. Then we’re publishing a 100 page art book featuring some of our favourite Dutch artists. (photographers, designers, visual artists) which is coming out on November 14th. And in between all that, we put together our monthly magazine.
Safe to say we are insanely busy. But we do what we like, so that’s a good thing. We started doing this cause we felt the alternative music scene in the netherlands was pretty much non existent. There were loads of good bands, but no places for them to play, no music magazines or radio stations picking them up and as a result, no audience hearing them. This obviously affected us as musicians, as well as human beings, And so we decided to start Subbacultcha! This is now five years ago, and looking back we are excited about the way things are going. We have a dedicated community behind us. Lots of people coming to the shows, reading the magazine, checking the website and also contributing and helping out as volunteers.
The band as well as the platform are obviously closely related. Putting up shows for bands like HEALTH, These Are Powers, High Places, Marnie Stern and Women has really inspired us as musicians. In promoting the shows and making the magazine, we constantly hear new music and meet like minded people. This has a huge effect on the music that we play.
Also doing the art projects is great. Last year we asked 20 cutting edge visual artists to take The Moi Non Plus logo and to use it as the starting point for an image (foto’s paintings, illustrations, etc) The result was compiled in a book and we had a very succesfull exposition in Amsterdam where all the works were on display. This really opened up a new audience for Subbacultcha! and The Moi Non Plus and also brought Dutch musicians and artists together .
We want to keep this up. We are always in search of creative energy and exciting art & music. Therefore we surround ourselves with people that inspire us. We use this inpiration for our music, our magazine and everything else that we are involved in.
Saturday, 3 October 2009
Soundtrack Of Moi Non Plus' Lives
This Is Fake DIY are running a great feature with Dutch twosome The Moi Non Plus with Leon and Bas providing commentary about some of the records that have shaped their approach to music and it's an impressive soundtrack ranging from Dylan to Jetplane Landing favourites The Lapse. Follow the link above to hear the songs on Spotify, in the meantime, here's what L and B had to say -
Bob Dylan - It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Leon: I grew up with my father's records. When I was a kid, there was always music playing in the house. Stuff like Neil Young, The Beatles & Dylan. And even though I went through a rebellious phase, listening to trashy top 40 pop music in the early 90s, I soon discovered that this is where it's at. Dylan is like a force of nature. Especially his early records.
Chavez - Lions
Bas: This song completely changed my idea about song structures. Chavez had an amazing drummer whose ferocious beating did not allow any normal song structure to take shape. All their songs, but especially this one, have no choruses or refrains or any repeating parts. They simply start at one point and end at another, and still sound very natural and logic.
Dinosaur JR - Out There
Leon: I discovered Dinosaur JR when I was about 15. I borrowed 'Where You Been' off a friend of mine, and it blew me away. I never heard anything like it. I was listening to a lot of grunge bands at the time, but after hearing Dinosaur I was cured. I soon discover Sonic Youth too and those bands really influenced me as a musician. I went to see Dinosaur in Amsterdam the same year that 'Where You Been' came out and they opened with 'Out There', something I'll never forget.
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone
Bas: I put it on again, and I still love it. This amazing song still sounds so relevant. The album it is on is from 2002 but It is almost prophetic for the music that is made at this moment. The fast beat combined with the lucid melancholy synths and vocals make it very Brooklyn 2009... 2010 may be. And great kick drum sound!
Liars - We Fenced Other Gardens With The Bones Of Our Own
Leon: Another key band for me are Liars. When I first heard 'They Were Wrong So We Drowned', it sounded like complete revolution. That record was way ahead of it's time. Arguably 'Drums Not Dead' is the better record, but this was the first step toward a whole new concept of music. If those records came out today they'd still be super relevant.
The Lapse - Infinite Me
Bas: This band gave singing a new definition. Sort of a high pitched Mark E Smith ranting. And somehow secretly this obscure band turned out to be very influential—at least in my surrounding. I remember being in a building where a lot of bands practiced and at one point it seemed that from every room came The Lapse (Chris Leo) type vocals.
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
Leon: I hear Gang Gang Dance are a cursed band. A lot of people have told me they always have bad things happen to them, which is really odd for a band that sounds so positive. And that's exactly what I like about them. The last record is just bursting with positive energy, which is really inspiring. I've been into dark, angry bands for so long that this is really what I want to hear right now.
My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said
Bas: What I like best about this band is the way they developed an über cool enigma - a mystic cult status - that derives from only one very distinct, very unique and very uncompromised album. I think this song really shows how important it is to make very clear choices and turn the knob to eleven.
Bob Dylan - It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Leon: I grew up with my father's records. When I was a kid, there was always music playing in the house. Stuff like Neil Young, The Beatles & Dylan. And even though I went through a rebellious phase, listening to trashy top 40 pop music in the early 90s, I soon discovered that this is where it's at. Dylan is like a force of nature. Especially his early records.
Chavez - Lions
Bas: This song completely changed my idea about song structures. Chavez had an amazing drummer whose ferocious beating did not allow any normal song structure to take shape. All their songs, but especially this one, have no choruses or refrains or any repeating parts. They simply start at one point and end at another, and still sound very natural and logic.
Dinosaur JR - Out There
Leon: I discovered Dinosaur JR when I was about 15. I borrowed 'Where You Been' off a friend of mine, and it blew me away. I never heard anything like it. I was listening to a lot of grunge bands at the time, but after hearing Dinosaur I was cured. I soon discover Sonic Youth too and those bands really influenced me as a musician. I went to see Dinosaur in Amsterdam the same year that 'Where You Been' came out and they opened with 'Out There', something I'll never forget.
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone
Bas: I put it on again, and I still love it. This amazing song still sounds so relevant. The album it is on is from 2002 but It is almost prophetic for the music that is made at this moment. The fast beat combined with the lucid melancholy synths and vocals make it very Brooklyn 2009... 2010 may be. And great kick drum sound!
Liars - We Fenced Other Gardens With The Bones Of Our Own
Leon: Another key band for me are Liars. When I first heard 'They Were Wrong So We Drowned', it sounded like complete revolution. That record was way ahead of it's time. Arguably 'Drums Not Dead' is the better record, but this was the first step toward a whole new concept of music. If those records came out today they'd still be super relevant.
The Lapse - Infinite Me
Bas: This band gave singing a new definition. Sort of a high pitched Mark E Smith ranting. And somehow secretly this obscure band turned out to be very influential—at least in my surrounding. I remember being in a building where a lot of bands practiced and at one point it seemed that from every room came The Lapse (Chris Leo) type vocals.
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
Leon: I hear Gang Gang Dance are a cursed band. A lot of people have told me they always have bad things happen to them, which is really odd for a band that sounds so positive. And that's exactly what I like about them. The last record is just bursting with positive energy, which is really inspiring. I've been into dark, angry bands for so long that this is really what I want to hear right now.
My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said
Bas: What I like best about this band is the way they developed an über cool enigma - a mystic cult status - that derives from only one very distinct, very unique and very uncompromised album. I think this song really shows how important it is to make very clear choices and turn the knob to eleven.
Thursday, 24 September 2009
STA Newsletter - September 2009
I type from a very hot store cupboard where STA Autumn/Winter CD Samplers are being burnt and printed crisply ahead of tonight's (24th Sep) Club: STA launch in Belfast, you want news… we got news! >>
1. [LIVE] And So I Watch You From Afar, 4 Or 5 Magicians, Calories, The Moi Non Plus, Club:STA (Belfast & London) and City Of Song Festival (Derry)
2. [ONLINE] STA On Spotify
3. [ORDER] Let Our Enemies Beware – ‘Against Karate’ – Debut Album Launch Gig Special Offer!
4. [GOSSIP] ASIWYFA New EP and STA Speaks @ In The City…
(This month's photograph: ASIWYFA @ AU Party, Belfast – Courtesy AU Mag)
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1. [LIVE] And So I Watch You From Afar, 4 Or 5 Magicians, Calories, The Moi Non Plus, Club:STA (Belfast) and City Of Song Festival (Derry)
ASIWYFA back on the road this month ahead of their support tour with This Will Destroy You in October ----- 4 Or 5 Magicians are gearing up for their debut album tour with Times New Viking, Japandroids and Johnny Foreigner support slots ----- fresh from the studio Calories announce a Youves co-headline run of shows ----- new STA signings The Moi Non Plus hit the UK to take on In The City amongst others ----- Winnebago Deal come to our side of the water to launch Club:STA in Belfast ----- Club:STA in London hosts Shapes and Ice Sea Dead People @ The Good Ship ----- STA’s City Of Song Festival kicks off this weekend in Derry >>
SEPTEMBER 2009
24 And So I Watch You From Afar - Cardiff , Barfly
24 4 Or 5 Magicians – Brighton, The Freebutt
24 (CLUB:STA) Winnebago Deal & LaFaro – The Menagerie, Belfast
(FIRST FIFTY IN GET FREE STA 10 TRACK EXCLUSIVE SAMPLER)
25 And So I Watch You From Afar - Liverpool, The Masque
26 And So I Watch You From Afar – Birmingham, The Flapper
26 Let Our Enemies Beware – Lewisham, Fox & Firkin
26 Ice, Sea, Dead People - Brighton, The Hobgoblin
27 And So I Watch You From Afar – Sheffield, The Corporation
28 And So I Watch You From Afar – York, Fibbers
29 And So I Watch You From Afar – Manchester, Moho Live
30 And So I Watch You From Afar – Dundee, Fat Sams
OCTOBER 2009
01 And So I Watch You From Afar – Aberdeen, Tunnels
02 And So I Watch You From Afar – Glasgow, The Twisted Wheel
03 And So I Watch You From Afar – Edinburgh, GRV
03 (CLUB:STA) Shapes, Ice Sea Dead People, Instruments & Illness - London, The Good Ship
03 Ice, Sea, Dead People – London, The Good Ship
07 And So I Watch You From Afar – Preston, The Mad Ferrit
08 And So I Watch You From Afar – Newcastle, WHQ
09 Ice, Sea, Dead People London - Unit 3XXX
10 4 Or 5 Magicians – London, The Garage
11 And So I Watch You From Afar – Dublin, Whelans
12 4 Or 5 Magicians, Brighton - Hectors House
16 And So I Watch You From Afar – Plymouth, White Rabbit
16 The Moi Non Plus – London, White Heat @ the Lexington
17 And So I Watch You From Afar - Milton Keynes, Pitz Club
18 And So I Watch You From Afar - Brighton, Audio
18 The Moi Non Plus - Manchester, In The City
19 And So I Watch You From Afar - Birmingham, Academy
19 4 Or 5 Magicians - Brighton, Oxjam @ Hanbury Club
20 And So I Watch You From Afar - Leicester, Firebug
20 The Moi Non Plus - New York , Cakeshop / Subbacultcha! CMJ Showcase
20 Ice, Sea, Dead People - London Tom Robinson's, 'Fresh On The Net' Festival @ Riverside Studios
21 And So I Watch You From Afar - London, Camden Underworld
21 The Moi Non Plus - New York, Piano's CMJ Dayparty
22 And So I Watch You From Afar - Nottingham, Rock City
23 And So I Watch You From Afar - Glasgow, Ivory Blacks
23 Illness - Southampton, The Hobbit
24 And So I Watch You From Afar - Leeds, Damnation Festival @ University Of Leeds
26 The Moi Non Plus - New York, WFMU Radio / Beastin' The Airwaves CMJ Showcase
27 4 Or 5 Magicians - London, White Heat @ Madame JoJos
27 Calories - London, Scala
28 Calories - Brighton, Audio
29 Illness - Brighton, Caroline Of Brunswick
31 4 Or 5 Magicians - Barnstaple, Inn On The Square
City Of Song Festival 24-26 September – Various Venues, Derry
Lineup includes: Valerie Francis, Pocket Promise, Clown Parlour, Daveit Ferris, Gentry Morris, Jackson Cage, Johanna Fagan, John Shelly & The Creatures, Johnny Black, Kitty & The Can Openers, Matt McGinn, Mel Wiggins, Pixie Saytar, Rachel Austin, Ray Dunn, Shauna Tohill & Tom McShane
Myself and Stephen McCauley (Radio Ulster – Electric Mainline) will be spinning discs at the launch night at The Bound For Boston – Thursday, 24th September - Visuals by F21. Holy Shit Batman! That’s tonight!
All events are FREE – programme details can be found on the official City Of Song Website – hosted by our festival partners Music 55-7.
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2. [ONLINE] STA On Spotify
You can now stream a large portion of the STA catalogue via Spotify – as well as releases from our peers, friends and influences (Holy Roar, Big Scary Monsters, Ecstatic Peace!, Woodsist, Paw Tracks, Monotreme, Anticon…). A good day indeed for independent listening.
Elsewhere on the interweb this month>>
- [PICS] ASIWYFA secret show shut down by the cops – in pictures…
- [AUDIO] Moi Non Plus/Subbacultcha’s STA Blogcast Takeover
- [FREE DOWNLOAD] 4 Or 5 Magicians’ oxymoronic ‘Nice Little Earner’ free digital download & video
- [VIDEO] STA Presents: The Terrordactyls
- [WORDS] Alan MX on the importance of reading books
- [PICS] Fighting With Wire Album 2 News
- [VIDEO] Dan Ormsby on Scott Walker
3. [ORDER] Let Our Enemies Beware – ‘Against Karate’ – Debut Album Launch Details
Awesome, spine-tingling math-darkcore by Medway quartet LOEB, several years in gestation – the album is finally unleashed on an unsuspecting public. You need this record in your life – it is absolutely fantastic, trust us.
THE ALBUM LAUNCH is tomorrow (Saturday 26th September) at The Fox’n’Firkin in Lewisham. You should be there. If travel is a problem there will be a coach from Medway. Contact STA for the deets:
Album Tracklisting:
1. I Am Lono
2. Pow! Right In The Kisser!
3. Personal Space Invaders
4. Fools! Philistines! Heretics And Whores!
5. Between Us And The Sun
6. Noise Equals Death
7. I'm Not Laughing I'm Choking
8. Inhale: Sleep
9. Momento Mori
All album orders for the next seven days (until October 1st inclusive) will get a free copy of Daniel’s lovingly handmade, ‘Pow! Right In The Kisser!’ single.
And So I Watch You From Afar have finished mixing their next release – entitled ‘The Letters EP’ – you will not be disappointed ----- Fighting With Wire have decamped to Nashville to begin work on second album, song titles include ‘Erase’, ‘Graduate’ and ‘Fire Away’ ----- Alan MX has been working with New Yorker Brad Walsh on some new collaborative material ----- Ice, Sea Dead People's debut album is back from Chicago and sounds INCREDIBLE ----- LaFaro are putting finishing touches to their debut album in Bangor, Northern Ireland ----- Calories have recorded a second bunch of songs to conclude their ‘Habitations’ set, according to Tom Calories "it's amazing" ---- Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, you can hear me talk about running a record label at Oh Yeah – Belfast (25/09/09), Hot Press Music Show – Dublin (04/10/09), BarCamp – Derry (10/10/09) and In The City – Manchester (20/10/09) – please come and say hi!
Thanks for reading,
Andrew, Ash, Daniel, Brian & Charlene
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The Moi Non Plus Remixed - Free Download
Influential club music blog Discobelle is giving away an mp3 of the Brenmar (These Are Powers drummer) remix of Sudden Impact by The Moi Non Plus. Click on the image to the right to download.
Said remix along with other re-workings by the likes of About and The No can be found on The Moi Non Plus Remixed. How do you get it? You pre-order the Moi Non Plus album!
Said remix along with other re-workings by the likes of About and The No can be found on The Moi Non Plus Remixed. How do you get it? You pre-order the Moi Non Plus album!
Sunday, 20 September 2009
The Moi Non Plus - Free Download
The good people at Neu Magazine and The 405, fine musical outlets both, are offering a free mp3 of Ha Ha Ha, one of the 12 tracks on the Moi Non Plus album out Oct 12th from well, us.
Neu Magazine
The Moi Non Plus are having a right laugh with this track from their new album. Rolling their R's and havin' a good belly laugh over typically staggering rumble-riffs, we're punch drunk for Ha Ha Ha
The 405
These guys are damn good
Neu Magazine
The Moi Non Plus are having a right laugh with this track from their new album. Rolling their R's and havin' a good belly laugh over typically staggering rumble-riffs, we're punch drunk for Ha Ha Ha
The 405
These guys are damn good
Public Service Blogcast Episode 53
Recorded in the office of their Subbacultcha! magazine, Leon and Bas aka Dutch underground beat-skronkers The Moi Non Plus present tracks from their self-titled debut album - out October 12th on STA - the accompanying remix album that quick-fingered STA customers will be rewarded with for pre-ordering the album from us over the next couple of weeks, as well as songs from quite possibly the best new bands to have emerged over the last couple of years such as Women and Fuck Buttons.
The Moi Non Plus play a White Heat night at the Lexington in London on October 16th and Manchester In The City two days later on October 18th before jetting off to New York for the annual CMJ event between October 19th - 25th. There'll then be a 2 week MNP UK tour in November.
Public Service Blogcast Episode 53
34 minutes 59 seconds
Recorded 18/07/09
Tracklisting
00.20 Gang Gang Dance - First Communion (from Saint Dymphna album - Warp Records)
03.25 Women - Lawncare (from self-titled album - Jagjaguwar)
08.26 The Moi Non Plus - I Lie (from self-titled album - Smalltown America)
11.26 Holy Fuck - Milkshake (from LP album - Young Turks)
15.58 The Moi Non Plus - Sudden Impact (Brenmar Remix) (from The Moi Non Plus Remixed album - Smalltown America)
20.50 Fuck Buttons - Ribs Out (from Street Horrrsing album - ATP Recordings)
24.48 The Moi Non Plus - Jill Sander Makes Your Eyes Black (from self titled album - Smalltown America)
28.48 Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song For Karen) (from Goo album - Geffen)
If you have any suggestions for future takeovers or want to submit your demo for our forthcoming Public Service Podcast series, get in touch - email blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk
The Moi Non Plus play a White Heat night at the Lexington in London on October 16th and Manchester In The City two days later on October 18th before jetting off to New York for the annual CMJ event between October 19th - 25th. There'll then be a 2 week MNP UK tour in November.
Public Service Blogcast Episode 53
34 minutes 59 seconds
Recorded 18/07/09
Tracklisting
00.20 Gang Gang Dance - First Communion (from Saint Dymphna album - Warp Records)
03.25 Women - Lawncare (from self-titled album - Jagjaguwar)
08.26 The Moi Non Plus - I Lie (from self-titled album - Smalltown America)
11.26 Holy Fuck - Milkshake (from LP album - Young Turks)
15.58 The Moi Non Plus - Sudden Impact (Brenmar Remix) (from The Moi Non Plus Remixed album - Smalltown America)
20.50 Fuck Buttons - Ribs Out (from Street Horrrsing album - ATP Recordings)
24.48 The Moi Non Plus - Jill Sander Makes Your Eyes Black (from self titled album - Smalltown America)
28.48 Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song For Karen) (from Goo album - Geffen)
If you have any suggestions for future takeovers or want to submit your demo for our forthcoming Public Service Podcast series, get in touch - email blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Looking Back At The Great Escape
Last week saw The Great Escape take over more than 30 establishments in Brighton for three fun days of seaside venue pinball.
Calories kicked TGE off with a packed early evening show on the Thursday - a typically tight set boosted by the sing-along front row. This was followed by some hot footing down Pavilion Parade to catch And So I Watch You From Afar play probably their only gig this year in a drum and bass club next to a Sealife centre. Aquarium-rattling ensued. Thanks to all at both Hector's House and Volks for hosting these sets.
Nods also to yes-it-is-Dan-from-Redjetson scary guitar n drum duo Friendship, on-stage cottage pie flingers 4 Or 5 Magicians, very scary Dutch guitar n drum duo The Moi Non Plus, Andy Duckett's fantastic new project Tin Can Telephone (like early Seafood but fun!) as well as It Hugs Back, Pulled Apart By Horses, Marnie Stern, Dinosaur Pile-up, The Joy Formidable and the afternoon Artrocker shows at the Hope.
Tuts go out to Mr TGE for forgetting to display the venue that hot-ticket-for-the-over-30s The Leisure Society were playing on the map in the programme but remembering to list the venue's address...except the address was completely wrong and Day 2's frankly unecessary gale force winds. That said you'd be hard pressed to find a better festival - TGE represents excellent value for money (a 3 day wristband clocks in at around £40 I believe) and is always well-executed by the main organisers and the various venues. The city embraces the festival with open arms but there's none of the price-hiking exploitation associated with camping-based festivals. Inevitably with so many venues plus factoring in the short walking distances involved there are plenty of clashes but such a rich line-up means that while you might not get to see everything you wanted to, you'll come away having seen loads of great bands.
Tickets for TGE 2010 will go on sale soon at a discounted early bird rate.
Calories kicked TGE off with a packed early evening show on the Thursday - a typically tight set boosted by the sing-along front row. This was followed by some hot footing down Pavilion Parade to catch And So I Watch You From Afar play probably their only gig this year in a drum and bass club next to a Sealife centre. Aquarium-rattling ensued. Thanks to all at both Hector's House and Volks for hosting these sets.
Nods also to yes-it-is-Dan-from-Redjetson scary guitar n drum duo Friendship, on-stage cottage pie flingers 4 Or 5 Magicians, very scary Dutch guitar n drum duo The Moi Non Plus, Andy Duckett's fantastic new project Tin Can Telephone (like early Seafood but fun!) as well as It Hugs Back, Pulled Apart By Horses, Marnie Stern, Dinosaur Pile-up, The Joy Formidable and the afternoon Artrocker shows at the Hope.
Tuts go out to Mr TGE for forgetting to display the venue that hot-ticket-for-the-over-30s The Leisure Society were playing on the map in the programme but remembering to list the venue's address...except the address was completely wrong and Day 2's frankly unecessary gale force winds. That said you'd be hard pressed to find a better festival - TGE represents excellent value for money (a 3 day wristband clocks in at around £40 I believe) and is always well-executed by the main organisers and the various venues. The city embraces the festival with open arms but there's none of the price-hiking exploitation associated with camping-based festivals. Inevitably with so many venues plus factoring in the short walking distances involved there are plenty of clashes but such a rich line-up means that while you might not get to see everything you wanted to, you'll come away having seen loads of great bands.
Tickets for TGE 2010 will go on sale soon at a discounted early bird rate.
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Public Service Blogcast Episode 30
This week: the clock is ticking for you to grab the exclusive And So I Watch You From Afar bonus disc of live recordings and rarities - available when you purchase their album from the STA store ahead of release date. You now only have how ever long is left between you reading this and April 13th! Also - Dananan: best band in the UK. Discuss.
Public Service Blogcast Episode 30
33 minutes 24 seconds
Recorded 30/03/09
Tracklisting
00.29 Dananananaykroyd - Chrome Rainbow (from Hey Everyone album - Best Before)
03.49 The Moi Non Plus - Ha Ha Ha (from self-titled album - SUBBACULTCHA)
06.38 Disappears - Old Friend (from Old Friend single - self-released)
08.43 Load.Click.Shoot! - Young Pretenders (from Young Pretenders single - Vacuous Pop)
12.13 We The Faceless - Firefly
15.27 Skeletons - Pack the Suitcase
19.44 The Stetz - Alibi
22.22 How Dare You - Cases And Carriers (from Comfort Road album - Fail Safe)
25.43 Harrison Hope - If We're All Stars (from home produced 10 track EP)
29.58 Panama Kings - Golden Recruit (from forthcoming Golden Recruit single - Broken Sound Records)
If you have any feedback or want to get a track played, get in touch - email blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk.
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