Live music listings: February 2007

Doors 7.30
£7 via WeGotTickets
£8 door

Joe Lally is primarily known as the bass player [and occasional lyricist] in Fugazi.

He has worked with John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer on the album Automatic Writing as the group Ataxia.
In early 2002, Lally joined ex-Frodus members Shelby Cinca and Jason Hamacher on a project originally called The Black Sea, which would change its name to Decahedron and release an EP and an album before Lally left the band.

As of January 2006, Mr. Lally has gone solo, His new album on Dischord 'There To Here' The songs appear to be features Jerry Busher, Ian MacKaye, Amy Farina, Guy Picciotto, and many other luminaries of the DC music scene.

Main support comes from Zu, who've gained a solid reputation worldwide thanks to a hectic, never endinng schedule that's had them playing all over the world more than 700 times in the last six years.

With little or no media support and coverage - given their status of not-catagorizable punk-freejazz-headbangers-sunrafreaks - Zu has nevertheless been able to give birth to ten albums [two recorded by Steve Albini ('Igneo') and Bob Weston ('Radiale' on Atavistic ), a few singles and several compilations on labels such as Atavistic, Red Note, Frenetic, Wide and more.

Open to adventure and risk and musically insatiable, Zu has embraced new partners along the way and has collaborated with the likes of Mike Patton, The Melvins, The Ex, Dalek, Peter Brotzmann, Hamid Drake, Alvin Curran, Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Amy Denio, Damo Suzuki, Eugene Chadbourne, Nobokazu Takemura, Paal Nilssen-Love, Dj Olive , Han Bennink, Okapi, Fred Lonberg- Holm, Han Bennink, Mary Oliver, Walter Wierbos (ICP Orkest), and shared tours with The Melvins, Fantomas, Lightning Bolt, The Ex, The Ruins, Dalek, Nomeansno, Vandermark 5, Karate...

Massimo Zu also teamed for one year with dutch legends The Ex and plays in Original Silence with Thurston Moore, Jim O' Rourke, Mats Gustaffson, Terrie Ex, and Paal Nilssen-Love.

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