Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:21:32 -0800
We're here, we made it. After scraping through the last desperate months of 2009, The Audacious Art Experiment has finally blasted into it's second Gregorian earth decade. If i dared to sit down and think about where this all started, where it's taken us and changes we've all been through during, i'd probably have to take a week off work. However, to focus too much on the past is to not see the future hurtling towards you. After saying in the last post that the 'musical cows in our shed aren't really mooing at the moment', it seems that a massive swagger of a fox has just barrel arsed right in that barn and started whipping up a hell of a hoe down. We appear to have bands again and those bands seem to want to play gigs. Here's a bit if a run down of whats cooking in our kitchen and also a few things we're enjoying cooking too.CRASH OF RHINOSPutting the midlands back on our musical map is Crash Of Rhinos. For reference sake they feature nearly every member of The Little Explorer and The Jesus Years in some way or other, though it's a reference they'll soon be shaking off as they're very much a band in their own right. Genre freaks will pop em somewhere around driving melodic punk/emo still but there's something else brewing inside them i don't think even they've fully nailed down yet. The innocent, twidly, downy fluff of their past projects has been shed, giving way to a massive musky flowing mane. Manifested in the form of 2 guitar, 2 bass, 1 drummer and 5 toasty vocals, Crash are doing a small tour with Wooderson in February before slying off to Italy to record an album with the guys from Fine Before You Came. Fingers crossed it should be out by spring, until then you'll just have to catch em live if you wanna hear em.CrashFaceMyCrashELKElk are very much a new band, made out of a few tattered old hats. Over the last couple of years, each stitch of these poor boys creative lives had carefully and maticulously been unpicked, the various components (brim, ribbon, cardboard, wicker, whatever) were sent back to the factories in Luton and Stockport and largely forgotten about. That was until recently, when Glenn and Ritch (who the more astute of you might have noticed, played the characters of the same name in the bands Andy, Glenn and Ritch and The Green Acre) met up with their old friend Tom and decided to dig out the dusty craft box. For months on end they practiced their art in a secret location. Some say it was a disused pigment factory in Lincolnshire, once famed for it's ability to make the natural resource known as 'white'. Others hark at this and state they've merely been 'dossing' in a ramshackle unit off the A180, with only Super Nintendo and cans of Tennents for inspiration. Where they craft and how they do it, no one will ever know. What we do know is that they are about to emerge, all three of them, proudly wearing the largest, coolest and most exotic top hat you have ever fucking seen.One True ElkFaceElkElkSpaceWOODERSONLets face it. They're a bunch of idiots. Vanessa Feltz once wrote in the sectarian newspaper The Daily Mail "Wooderson are the evil that lurks on the shop fronts of every town in this country. They're the kids that trod on the back of your shoes as you walked home from school, pausing only to hear your plea for mercy before kicking your lunch box across the green like a '94 issue coca cola football". In parts i agree with Vannesa and generally wish they weren't my friends, but like the smell of your farts or the town on your birth certificate, they are what they are and they're never going to change. Wooderson have been grafting away now for what seems like a small lifetime and some of that effort seems like it might finally be starting to pay off. The EP they've been recording since autumn last year is finally about to surface on Sea Owl Recording and i can tell you it's gonna have been well worth the wait. They've got a shed load of gigs coming up including a short tour with Crash Of Rhinos in February, you can check them all out at the bottom. Hell knows they might even manage a new release for us by 2011! Check out their new song 'Clive Mendonca, Nigel Jemson' on the first of what hopefully will be a load of BRITISH WILDLIFE PODCASTS. Your mum.WooderBookMySonRYAN GIGGSAs much as we try to whip up a trifle on the internet, there's no substitute for getting things going in the form of bands playing live in your face and ears. Here's a list of whats going down in the next couple of months.Sat 16th Jan - The Constitution, London - Ox Scapula - Rip This Joint - MoreFri 22nd Jan - The Cremorne, Sheffield - Fast Point - Deal With It - Cold OnesSat 23rd Jan - The Stockroom, Sheffield - Bilge Pump - Coal Train - Crash Of Rhinos - ElkFri 5th Feb - The Stockroom, Sheffield - Wooderson w/ Rotary TenSat 13th Feb - The Fenton, Leeds - ElkSat 13th Feb - Venue TBC, Canterbury - Crash Of Rhinos - WoodersonSun 14th Feb - The Fighting Cocks, Kingston - Crash of Rhinos - Wooderson - Saturday's KidsMon 15th Feb - Tiger Lounge, Manchester - Crash Of Rhinos - WoodersonTues 16th Feb - Cardigan Arms, Leeds - Crash Of Rhinos - Wooderson - Saturday's KidsRight, this took far too long to write as it is so i'm gonna have to leave some other bits. Until then, lets all just get a little bit excited about the new Field Music Album and hope Grimsby Town muster a win this year.Field Music - Them That Do Nothing VideoWeee aaaare evil,Luke.*Header photo by Matt Baker**Wooderson photo by John Mohajer*
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:11:32 -0800
Now then,Been a while since we had anything to say but i'll pipe up for a bit if you don't mind. Things in the Audacious camp are kinda quiet at the moment, we've all been busy moaning about the cold and working jobs we don't like. A few things are popping up for this week though which should provide a bit of entertainment for all.Firstly Not Shy Of The DIY have got a gig at the Stockroom in Sheffield this Friday. Vanilla Pod are gonna provide point and laugh entertainment in the form of covering bad taste songs and sniffing poppers on stage. If that hasn't already won you over it's Cop Out's last ever Sheffield gig, at least it better be cos they've been banging on about splitting up for ages! Either way i feel a bit of knees up might be in the air, for one person in particular.Link for gig with full line up is here.
Last FMFacebookNot Shy have got gig in the pipeline for the 23rd of January but we'll shout about that when we've got it all stusht, should be a good'un.Next, if you're after summat a bit different Ben from Wooderson has upload a new album for download. He calls himself 'Solder Boy' and makes glitchy, console licking electronica with a hint of r'n'b and house. He crafts it in his bedroom whilst eating wheetos and looking for pictures of naked animals online. Kinda sounds a bit like walking in your front door and hearing R.Kelly and Shaun Ryder playing Kid Chameleon in the lounge, in only their underpants. Prejudices aside, it seems to be a good fuel for inspiration and his latest spasm is well worth a listen. Albums called 'How to Do It'.Link ist hereSolder Boy - How To Do ItErm what else. Dunno. The musical cows in our shed aren't really mooing at the moment, Wooderson played a smart gig with Joe Lally last week but haven't got any others lined up at the moment. Crash Of Rhinos are awaiting Beals return from his epic 'tour of restaurants' trip in India, so hopefully we'll see some hard action from them in the new year. Keep an eye out for Elk as well (not the thrash metal band from Sweden) and there could be fun times ahead. We should have a little RSS button up on this soon so you add it to your iGoogle and shit, if you're into that kinda thing.Until then, lets just all have a look at this for a short while.
Wow...In a bit,Luke.
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:33:59 -0700
Thats right, keep your eyes a peeled for a fair few changes to the site over the next month. We've finally got off our arses and started to do something about this little pocket of the internet that we own. Hopefully, in the near future this place will be jammed packed with videos, writings, rantings, pictures, paintings, tunes and pieces of toast. Mmm toast. If you think you have anything to contribute, give us a shout. The media section will hopefully operate as a place to collect together loads of ace shit people are making and put it all in one, advert free gallery. We're still wrapping our heads around what exactly we wanna do with the site, but we know we want it to be good and not just another window to sell shit from.
Catch ma drift? Check back in a bit.
Luke.
