april 2008 • totally free imperial vipers british standard + a history lesson from Electric Prunes + rutherfords inferno lesles savysavy favfav wishlist we bite too. 2008 sees the return from “It’s gonna be good though, rock, even mainstream a brief hibernation of loads of people have said direction. I grew up listening everyone’s favourite they’re coming, press, to the Pistols, The Clash and crawling king snakes, promoters, publicity people The Ruts and stuff, so when I Imperial Vipers. and all that. Even a bloke write songs, those are the The Bedfordshire based from the News of the World sounds that I want to come glam/punk ass-kickers are who’s taken a liking to us. through. The new stuff that’s back with vengeance on Better hope he’s not been coming out is more like I their mind. This time they looking for any scandalous intended us to sound. Hard mean business, you can be dirt to dig up though!” yes, but punkier ‘cos that’s absolutely certain with the music I love, along with “Ha! He’d get everything he these boys, their bite is far the rockier influences too, like needs to fill his paper for worse than their bark. AC/DC and Led Zep”. weeks if he has” smirked So what’ve they been up to vocalist Ash, sporting a new The Ruts are finally getting a for the past year or so? raven black barnet.”F**k, bit more recognition and their Following a punishing we’ve done some stuff in our place in punk history has nationwide gig schedule in time that even he’d be grown in status since Gallows support of their debut album worried about putting in”. re-worked ‘Staring At The ‘Searching:Falling: Silence’, Rudeboys’. “I’m glad about Naturally, Imperial Vipers the boys have taken a that,” says Wevs. “The Ruts haven’t spent a whole year sabbatical to write new version is so much better than partying and doing rock n roll material and re-appraise the Gallows, people should search stuff just to keep the News of band’s direction. for the original”. the Screws busy. Songs have The live cobwebs were been written and some have OK. We mentioned the new dusted off with a warm-up been recorded too, with a album is planned, when is it gig at Cheltenham’s 2 Pigs new album now in the coming out? Wevs laughed prior to a London showcase planning stage. The new into his beer. “It ain’t even at The Embassy. This was the tracks seem spikier and more recorded yet mate! We’ve got perfect opportunity to punkish in their feel. “We a new single which we did exchange beers and words weren’t really totally happy with Steve Powells out soon and get the story from the with the first album”, explains though, to get things going Vipers themselves. “Yeah, the Wevs. “But don’t all bands again, we’re really happy Embassy, how did that say that? Ha, ha. We always with it as well”! 2008 is the happen?” laughs dreadlocked felt we were led by the studio year of Viper, believe it. axeman Wevs. people in a more traditional www.myspace.com/imperialvipers fusewire www.myspace.com/fuseweb • [email protected] given away free to the lucky ‘Hesperus’, 5ive’s new full- The cabaret is hosted by Frank punters in attendance! so keep length LP, prods and provokes Percy OBE who got lost in Sunday 25th May free and the listener to ascend through Glasgow on a day trip from come join us in the Cavern a modulated mind muddle, Macclesfield and decided to start Club! some of you might be in attempts to exhume the the night off with his contacts in saying who’s si ‘jubb’ brimming melodic crest the ferret juggling world. carruthers... sounds like a P.G. slumbering beneath a cyclic Foul mouthed usherette Dierdre Wodehouse character or miasma of transformative will be on hand and you can get something, we’ll he's not, he’s a sound. your fortune told by the Govan rather splendid singer-songwriter Seer (a psychic from Govan); in the billy bragg/elvis costello mingle with Malcolm the sort of mould. and Manchester Orchestra thespian gorilla and Jazzbadger www.internationalpopoverthrow among others and will be performing at several showcases (a badger who plays jazz). at SXSW before heading out on Pink Hedgehog are also After the cabaret, Glasgow band the road again in 2008. welcoming a new signing – A Band Called Quinn play. indie-rockers Atomic – to the “To be bludgeoned to death by According to the Scotland On family and are getting ready to sound, by music, says Colour Sunday they might be launch their new album coming Revolt. We have you and are ‘Glasgow’s greatest band’. This Electrasy are having a huge Sunday, May 25, year sees the release of their gig in Beaminster, and you can The Cavern Pub up from the streets to the music not afraid.” fans of the UK. They have been album ‘Sun, Moon, Star’ which read all the particulars below! (Pink Hedgehog Records Ben Carr (Guitars) and Charlie doing great things over in www.myspace.com/colourrevolt is hotly tipped... Showcase 3:15-7:30pm) Harrold (Drums) after seven Saturday 29th March 2008, Europe, including support dates years of relative anonymity, have To round the night off DJ Town Hall, Beaminster, Dorset 3:15 Anton Barbeau Club Tromolo takes its brand with Babyshambles graced us again with both their Isambard Kingdom Brunel will 4:00 Freak Circus of wonky cabaret, music and Cost : £10 advance presence and a picture perfect spin some discs for people to 4:45 Si ‘Jubb’ Carruthers dancing on the road around (only 250 tickets!) Youthmovies at the ICA record, which serves as a frame Scotland. The List dubbed it dance to... 5:30 Electrasy Youthmovies + Lovvers + Foals worthy summation of the band's “The most original club night Electrasy headlining with support www.myspace.com/clubtromolo 6:15 Roger Tarry DJs + Pillow projections past impressions and conceptual in years”. from Spoof + DJ. There is a 7:00 Hamfatter 3 April: 8pm progression. 5ive, long-standing Wed 9th April licensed bar + huge big PA and A very special and potentially purveyor of the recently Classic Grand - Glasgow lights. This is gonna be a full on popularised metallic twosome, Sunday, May 25, extremely exciting end-of-tour, gig, not to be missed. All has, with ‘Hesperus’, generated Fri 11th April The Cavern Club album-launching party-gig (the proceeds (after costs) go to Harbour Arts Centre - Irvine album is called ‘Good Nature’ a centripetal force to be Beaminster Community Project Front Stage and it’s out now!). Described reckoned with. Sat 12th April (please don’t expect any free (Pink Hedgehog Records rather cunningly by Steve www.tortugarecordings.com The Loft - Lossiemouth tickets). Max capacity is 250 Showcase 8:00pm-12:15am) Lemacq as “a post-hardcore Tue 15th April people - book early for 8:00 Si ‘Jubb’ Carruthers Oxford, MS gloominaries brainstorming session on where Aros Centre - Skye guaranteed entry. Tickets Colour Revolt are extremely 8:45 Roger Tarry music should go next” and available £10 each from The Red excited about the release of Wed 16th April 9:30 Hamfatter rather despairingly by Kerrang! Lion, Beaminster: Phone 01308 their long-awaited full-length Lyth Arts Centre - Wick 10:15 Anton Barbeau as “sadistically unpredictable”, 862364 Looking forwards to a debut, ‘Plunder, Beg, and Witness amazing acts such as 11:00 Electrasy Youthmovies tonight bring us Thu 17th April fantastic night. MUSIC Curse’, the follow-up to their their mathy synthy rocky eccentric trombone-playing toff Gable End Theatre - Orkney WITHOUT INDUSTRY 11:45 Freak Circus self-titled debut EP released in Sir Clifton Sainsbury; Miss Leggy sounds, plus their friends Fri 18th April To mark the occasion, Pink October, 2006. P who charms her audience with Pink Hedgehog, the band’s UK Lovvers, while Foals will DJ and British Legion - Lerwick Hedgehog will be getting 100 easy listening classics and label, will be running a stall, Pillow projections will be taking Colour Revolt has toured with DVDs made featuring all their fashion circa 1933 and Cirque Thu 24th April selling lots of great music at charge of visuals. Dinosaur Jr., Brand New, Black artists who are performing at Du Twattes who perform static Eden Court - Inverness special prices and giving away International Pop Overthrow theatre (standing): £7.50 Lips, Okkervil River, Menomena, feats of derring-do. Fri 25th April Antobar - Mull stuff to boot! Liverpool 2008, which will be Explosions In the Sky, Malajube, fusewire Creature with the Atom Brian - I Am The Golden Gate Bridge Released March 31st. The creature, aka Aldo Struyf, was born when the 13th Floor Elevators were recording Bull Of The Woods, was still young when the Butthole Surfers wrote The Revenge Of Anus Following the release of Presley, can’t get enough of ‘Unonou’, Portland, Oregon’s Barkmarket's Gimmick and is cosmic rock cadets Danava are waiting for the new Ween to embark on their first ever album to come out. anan industrialindustrial strengthstrength UK and European tour While still best known as the alongside Witchcraft and guitar and keyboard player in Gentlemen’s Pistols. 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