Thursaday, September 4
PONYTAIL
COWTOWN
INDICA RITUAL
GENTLE FRIENDLY
Thursday 4 September
Barden's Boudoir
(38-44 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XJ)
8:00 | £6 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/32309
PONYTAIL is a quartet hailing from Baltimore. Created in January 2005 - strangers brought together and chosen at random by a local poet - they began their relationship as infants and their first years were musically chaotic, feeding on exhaustion and borderlining on retardation, yet ultimately relating to pop. Refining a sound that crosses the standard rock band aesthetic with the world of new age, ska, Afropop and concrete poetry, the four released their first full-length 'Kamehameha' on Creative Capitalism in 2006. Their sopohmore effort 'Ice Cream Spiritual' is hot of the press courtesy of label du jour, We Are Free, and sees the band's duelling guitars and Molly Siegel's shamanic vocal limbered into some of their most boisterous pop-punk jams to date.
www.myspace.com/jreamteam |
www.nowwearefree.com
COWTOWN play short, hi-octane, thrill pop - a brash, sleazy keyboard / drums / guitar trio, squawking out the most catchily yelped bubblegum noise west of Yorkshire. Their first album 'Pinecone Express' is out now on Chinchilla-Tone and follows two 7" via Golden Lab and On The Bone Records.
www.myspace.com/cowtownsuperstars
INDICA RITUAL is five super-slick dudes from Liverpool who play awesome pop songs, dead fast and in technicolour. Add prog-rock party fun, the skronk of Devo, undulating guitar and synth riffs, and the result will make your feet move and your brain itch. Equally at home throwing out motorik shapes at Italian techno nights, or shakin' alongside the noisiest avant rock acts, they've shared stages with everyone from Dirty Projectors to Hadouken of late!
www.myspace.com/indicaritual
GENTLE FRIENDLY is a duo from London, whose music resembles the mighty gallop of the fabled Scandinavian Wild Hunt - hurling itself forward across woods crystallised with snow, not to terrorise and maim the pale peasants staring wide-eyed from the side of the road, but searching for a gleaming reservoir of power which lies hidden in the depths of the wilderness. With a pop glint in their eye that would have made the Unicorns or Yo la Tengo proud, they grab you in the slipstream of their exalted assault, accelerating towards a place you might have visited before by the hand of like-minded explorers such as Animal Collective, Silver Apples or Dan Deacon.
www.myspace.com/gentlefriendly