Hackney WickEd

Five hundred? Never mind, on with it all, have some remixed Swans while we fire up the coffee and deal with this flood. The original version of ‘Oxygen’ is taken from the new Swans album ‘To Be Kind’.  ‘Oxygen’ (Daniel miller Mix) will be released as part of a four track single on November 24th on Mute. I don’t know we still come here and share these things with you, still, who else is going to shout about Guerilla Toss over here? We still care a lot about gorillas and swans and the garbage pale kids that no one loves and whatever they”re doing at Three One G today? What are they doing today anyway?

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Thing is, what is the thing? What kind of people name their band Guerilla Toss anyway? Who are these people! Why are they so damn good!? yes! This why we do it, we need to move to Boston, that’s Massachusetts, not Lincolnshire, well if anyone has an empty space in Lincolnshire….

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here’s some more, could have said here’s some more toss just then, they’re clearly not toss though, and if you haven’t heard their Bat yet then you do need to, we won’t post that again today, here’s more of what they do for a day job when their not covering the the might Meat…

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And here’s a blast from 2006, why? Because we can have a blast from 2006 that’s why!

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SOME GIRLS “I Need Drugs” from the album “The DNA Will Have Its Say” CD/EP available from Three One G….

And something infectiously poppy from right now right here.   The Kut released a new single yesterday, ‘I Want You Maniac’ came out on Criminal Records on Monday 20th October

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And while we’re here avoiding the wind and the man and doing what we really should be doing, something maybe not quite so poppy and a little more droney Memnon Sa, “Out from the mists of London emerges Memnon Sa with the debut release ‘Citadel’. Memnon Sa is the new instrumental psych-folk/doom brainchild of the talented Misha Hering (Among the Bones, Holy Mountain Studios). ‘Citadel’ is a masterfully bleak collection of compositions, which combine the crushing suspense of the doom genre aligned against almost Boredoms-esque passages of texture and psychedelic and folk overtones”.

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and Cleft, Cleft are off on tour…. “We’re going on tour again!  Hooray!  This time we’re going with our best mates Alpha Male Tea Party and it’s going to be a lot of fun. Here’s the dates, it’d be great to see you.  The links are to Facebook events, but there’s also ticket links and information in those that are publicly available if you don’t have an account. 23rd Oct – London (Brixton Windmill), 24th Oct – Brighton (Bleach), 25th Oct – Bristol (Stag & Hounds), 26th Oct – Birmingham (The Flapper), 28th Oct – Leeds (Wharf Chambers), 31st Oct – Manchester/Salford (The Kings Arms). Then in December we’re off to Scotland: 10th Dec – Glasgow (Bar Bloc), 11th Dec – Dundee (Buskers), 12th Dec – Edinburgh (Sneaky Pete’s)

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And that really is enough for the day, things to do, paint to throw, a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it…

VANYA BALOGH at Cultivate

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