Live music listings: February 2006
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Sat 25th
Organ Grinder Records presents...
...an alternative to what?!
THE MULES
+ Fireworks Night
+ Johnny Flynn
Doors 8.00
£3 on the door
Organ Grinder are a young label and this is our first club night. We aim to make it as much fun as humanly possible.
The Mules mix country, punk, electro and even some klezmer into a sound that is coherent and distinctly their own. They call it electrobilly and it?s made up of surf guitar and barrelhouse piano, soaring fiddle and fuzz bass, with vocals whispered and hollered over frantic drums.
Hear now, citizens, what the press say:
"Neither quite post-punk, rockabilly nor skiffle, but wholly excellent.? [Time Out]
?This is perfect dance music? electro, polka, rockabilly, country, waltz, synth pop and math rock are expertly woven around a backbone of death-tinged songs.? [Artrocker]
?The Oxford five-piece twist and turn recognisable sounds and melodies into something that screams, ?This is the Future!? [Gigwise.com]
?Incendiary live shows?? [Dazed & Confused]
Fireworks Night are equally enamoured of good old folk music, more contemporary noise bands and many of the spaces in between. Essentially they play simple, lyrical songs that are expanded by sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal layers of guitars and keyboards and highly imaginative drumming. Violins, saws and ukuleles also join the fray to make a sound that can be as tender at times as it can be visceral at others. They can be funny and they can be deadly serious and while some songs may drone like early Low, others stomp in a fashion reminiscent of Weill. Hear again, citizens, what the press say, only this time about Fireworks Night:
"Something truly special.? [The Fly)
"Country tinged, devastated torch-singing territory? heartbreakingly soulful.? [Brain Love]
"Simple, powerful songs and brooding presence, with a deathly resonance that Will Oldham would be proud of. There is real beauty here." [Resonance FM]
Johnny Flynn plays folk songs that are as simple and beautiful as they should be. His stories are clever and funny and his voice is his own. We watched with rapt attention the last time he played at The Luminaire and are delighted to have him play the first Organ Grinder night.
DJing betwixt and between all these bands will be Dan from the 13th Floor Club.
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