HANDS ON HEADS + Revenge of Shinobi + Eugene Machine

Fri 5th Sep 2008

Big City Redneck presents
HANDS ON HEADS
+ Revenge of Shinobi
+ Eugene Machine
+ DJs Bonanza [Resonance] and Tony Bones

Click here for a flyer for the show.

Doors 7.30
£5 via WeGotTickets
£6 door

Hands on Heads are a dysfunctional pop group from London. They write abrupt, non-repetitive songs about unrequited friendship, romantic potential, the supernatural everyday, righteous joy and expectation.

"Hands On Heads erase any erratum that dares the no wave is crashing, by successfully rewiring your brain to receive as pop, shards of short impenetrable noise." [Plan B]

Their songs rarely scale the dizzying heights of the two minute mark, relying on shock and awe song-writing tactics to get their message across. Hands on Heads don’t believe in reiteration, they make a point with emphasis, then move on to the next fractured song of double-speed dynamics and feral abandon.

The guitar lines jump from fret to fret like ten spiders on a web of chaotic noise, the organ (always pitched at a haunting seasick echo) is played like a stenograph, whilst the drums tumble and blast along with the savage bass, the songs forever pushed onwards by the fervent vocal attack.

"Hands On Heads erase any erratum that dares the no wave is crashing, by successfully rewiring your brain to receive as pop, shards of short impenetrable noise" Plan B

Main support is, Revenge of Shinobi a four-piece from Brighton.

“Aural stimulation for the limbs, guitars crashing together in angular thrusts, e-bow droning a constant hum of delirious background energy, syncopated bass stabbing into the drums and the whole things whirls into a chaotic finish. After the final song the band are physically forced back on stage for an encore. They ignore their broken strings and lunge into one last charge of beautiful floor filling noise and the front rows dance in formation until the last vocal loop is cut.” - Lobster Quadrille Magazine

Eugene Machine open the show.

"...Here we're talking a funk robotic electro thing and boy did they execute it well. The sound was double bass loud heavy, and dead funky phat with it... This lot are a class act, go and take a look next time they're in town…" - Paul Giovanni

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