BRITISH MIDLANDS MUSIC – MIDEM 2009
Offer closes 28th November;

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This year we have a special price to help you offset the credit crunch. The
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alliance members, means a saving over the next least expensive option for
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WARRIOR INTERVIEWS GIGER FOR ZERO TOLERANCE MAGAZINE

In a rare interview, Tom Gabriel Warrior, once of Celtic Frost and now heading up Triptykon, speaks to Swiss surrealist visual artist HR Giger for issue 026 of the UK’s Zero Tolerance Magazine. The interview, conducted by Warrior over two sessions at Giger’s Zurich home, is an intimate and revealing look at the artist’s life and work, which has included Oscar-winning designs for the film Alien, not to mention numerous paintings and sculptures, many of which have graced album covers such as Celtic Frost’s To Mega Therion and Heartwork by Carcass. During the interview, Giger reveals to Warrior just how he feels about the use of his art on album covers, and much more.

Warrior’s interview with Giger is the inaugural feature in the first of an all-encompassing two-part special on the relationship between extreme music and visual art. Among those sharing their thoughts on Giger and beyond are Jello Biafra, Cradle Of Filth, Darkthrone and Satyricon. The story continues in issue 027 when the murky world of censorship is laid bare.

Elsewhere, Jarboe tells us about the art of collaboration, her latest release Mahakali sees the coming together of such prolific artists as Phil Anselmo and Attila Csihar, while Six Feet Under, Psycroptic, Hammers Of Misfortune, Thyrfing, Agathocles and many others all join the action.

Issue 026 also marks the first of many contributions from Alan Averill (aka Primordial’s Nemtheanga). In his first View From The Bunker column, Alan’s feeling thoughtful about the rise to popularity of bands such as Nightwish: “When did metal become so fucking safe, so emasculated and so fucking dull and danger free? Where is the livewire energy, the danger, the rebellion, because this is one very small step from Eurovision. Even after two minutes of this I feel like I need to rinse my mouth out, it’s peeling the enamel off my teeth. I’m being force spooned treacle. This is the anti-metal, the antithesis of what shaped metal back in the late ’70s and ’80s and that a grown man can see himself in this and not hate it with every ounce of his soul confuses the hell out of me.”

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Since its inception in 2004, Zero Tolerance has set the agenda for extreme music, representing the sonically unacceptable without compromise, exposing the darkest, most obscure recesses of the musical imagination and celebrating its diversity. From black, death and folk metal through to industrial, noise, power electronics and neofolk, Zero Tolerance has consistently covered the music that other publications simply don’t even know about – and while they play catch-up, ZT remains several steps ahead.

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Clinic with animator Clemens Habicht + Threatmantics
Thursday 20 November
Factory Club, Digbeth
Tickets £10 in advance from www.ticketweb.co.uk; Swordfish, City Centre and Polar Bear, Kings Heath

Liverpool’s Clinic present a contemporary psychedelic happening in collaboration with renowned animator Clemens Habicht, famous for his work with Franz Ferdinand and many others.
The result is a modern hallucinatory collision between animation and live music – a sensory intervention featuring the raw and ripped fluidity of Clinic’s anonymous group performances, in counterpoint to equally far out visuals. Or put more simply: a hypnotic wig out.

Lauded for their terse, masked performances Clinic have a reputation for live intensity, Planetarium of the Soul steps the level up a gear by combining live animation with the flickering and happening Clinic sound.

http://www.myspace.com/clinicvoot
http://www.clemenshabicht.com/

The date coincides with the EP release of the same name on the 24th of November and is part of Domino’s 15 year celebrations.  Support from Cardiff’s THREATMANTICS rising Cardiff three piece with mind-blowing violins and electric strings.

Racebannon + Trencher + Dream Dreams The Dreamer
Sunday 23 November
Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham
Tickets £7 in advance from www.ticketweb.co.uk; Swordfish, City Centre and Polar Bear, Kings Heath

Racebannon started in 1996 with vocalist Anderson and guitarist James Bauman. They soon found the other members who would round out the line-up and they started recording and playing shows. After a string of releases on indie labels, the band signed with Bloomington-based Secretly Canadian in 2001. The label was known mostly for singer/songwriter indie bands, and having a noise/metal band among their ranks was challenging for the public to grasp. Their first release for the label, In The Grips Of The Light, was even recorded by Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes fame.

Their next album, Satan’s Kickin Yr Dick In, was a Rock Opera. It was released in 2002 to a fanbase hungry for the next offering; little did they know it would be so dense in noise obfuscation and content. It tells the tale of Rodney, who sells his soul to the devil and, in the course of seeking a better life, becomes lounge singer Rhonda Delight. This trans-gendered soul swap is conveyed through hazy blasts of distortion and the tortured vocals of Anderson (aka Delight.) Secretly Canadian then reissued an earlier release from Level Plane called First There Was The Emptiness in 2005. And after that there was silence.

At this point, a new album was brewing and the band were very careful about leaking the results. Acid or Blood veers away from the murky noise of earlier releases and spotlights the bone crushing riffs and manic vocals of Bauman and Anderson. While still retaining their nervous energy that hints at Melt Banana, the guitars have stamped out songs as memorable and hummable as anything from Melvins Houdini. Songs like Translucent Lifeforce and The Hard Way are incredible in their might while maintaining a feverish quality. Few bands can capture this kind of live ferocity in the studio. And Racebannon do it in spades.

http://www.myspace.com/racebannonrocks

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Jay Reatard (born Jay Lindsey on May 1, 1980) is a prolific garage punk musician from Memphis, Tennessee who is signed to Matador Records. He is best known for his current solo career as well as his work in The Reatards and Lost Sounds.

16 Nov 2008
Green Synergy Festival Dublin, Dublin

18 Nov 2008
ABC 2 Glasgow, Scotland

19 Nov 2008
Deaf Institute Manchester

20 Nov 2008
The Faversham Leeds

21 Nov 2008
Korova Liverpool

22 Nov 2008
Bodega Nottingham

23 Nov 2008
The Cooler Bristol

24 Nov 2008
Old Blue Last London

26 Nov 2008
The Lexington London

27 Nov 2008
New Slang in Kingston Kingston

27 Nov 2008
Banquet Records – Under 18s ONLY Kingston Upon Thames

28 Nov 2008
Engine Rooms Brighton

History

His recording career began at the age of 15, when a home-made demo tape he had sent in to Goner Records caught the ear of former-Oblivian and Goner Records’ owner, Eric Friedl. Lindsey’s introduction to Friedl and his Oblivians bandmates had come that same year when the Oblivians had returned home to Memphis as an opening act for Rocket from the Crypt. Upon seeing the act live, Lindsey became enamored with their sloppy, lo-fi music and set forth creating his own brand of heavily distorted garage rock music. Friedl was impressed by Lindsey’s demos and signed him to his label, later commenting, “I loved the racket so we did the record, and I’ve been a fan of everything he’s done since. He’s a pretty amazing kid.”

The Reatards

Lindsey named his first project the Reatards, which at the time included only himself as a member, and adopted an Oblivians-influenced surname, calling himself Jay Reatard. The Reatards’ first release on Goner was a 7” EP called “Get Real Stupid,” which featured Lindsey as a solo performer alternating between playing guitar, singing, and beating on a bucket to provide a percussive rhythm. For Lindsey’s second release he recruited a backing band, hiring bassist Steve Albundy and drummer Elvis Wong to accompany him. The Reatards’ first LP as a trio was 1998’s Teenage Hate. This was followed by a second LP, Grown Up Fucked Up, and a number of singles. The Reatards’ first European tour came in 1998, when Jay Lindsey was just 18.

The Lost Sounds

In 2001 Lindsey began recording with Alicja Trout and Rich Crook as the Lost Sounds, a side project which would ultimately usurp the Reatards as Lindsey’s primary musical venture. With alternating male and female vocals, as well as prominently-employed synthesizers, the Lost Sounds were a departure from the guitar-driven garage rock of the Reatards, and had a sound more akin to the early punk rock of The Screamers, a synthesizer-heavy punk band that Lindsey had been exposed to by Elvis Wong shortly after the recording of the Reatards’ first LP. Lindsey once claimed that his time in the Lost Sounds “was and is more fun than anything else I have ever done.” Yet despite Lindsey’s enthusiasm for the band, the Lost Sounds bitterly broke up in 2005.

Side projects

The Bad Times

Jay Lindsey is a prolific songwriter, often acting as a member and contributing compositions to two or more bands concurrently. One of Lindsey’s first side projects was the Bad Times, a one-off band which also included Eric Friedl and King Louie Bankston. The band recorded an album’s worth of material after only one practice session, releasing a self-titled LP in 2001. After one live performance the band disbanded, the members returning to their respective solo commitments.

The Final Solutions

While Lindsey was still a member of both the Reatards and the Lost Sounds he joined a side project called the Final Solutions. Lindsey’s association with the future members of the Final Solutions began while he was still a teenager. Fighting problems at home, Lindsey opted to take up residence with members of a local band called the Jackmonkeys. While he was rooming with the band he was conscripted to play drums for them at a battle of the bands which was being held at the school’s cafeteria. With Lindsey on drums (under the moniker ‘the High and Mightys’ the band performed a set of Oblivians covers, earning instant hate in the competition (FS bassist Tommy Trouble’s band, the Squirrels earned third place). After separating for a number of years the group reformed under the name the Final Solutions and began touring and releasing albums.

Shattered Records

In 2004 Jay Lindsey together with, his now ex-girlfriend, Alix Brown of Atlanta rock band the Lids, formed Shattered Records, an independent record label that released mainly limited edition vinyl. Shattered Records released records for a number of lo-fi punk and rock bands, including: Kajun SS, Jack Oblivian, Tokyo Electron, Reatards, Final Solutions, Terror Visions, Angry Angles, Carbonas, Rat Traps, Digital Leather and the Knaughty Knights.

In 2007 Lindsey said Shattered Records is on a definite hold while he promotes his current solo records.

Angry Angles

Out of this partnership came another musical endeavor for Lindsey, the Angry Angles. Together with Brown, and alternating between drummers Paul Artigues from Die Rotzz and Ryan Rousseau from Tokyo Electron, the band began touring the U.S. in the Fall of 2006. Before the band had even released its second single, Lindsey and Brown began a short European tour. The Angry Angles disbanded after releasing a number of vinyl singles.

Solo career

By 2005 both the Reatards and the Lost Sounds had broken up, and Lindsey focused his attention on a handful of side projects, working with and releasing material as Terror Visions and Destruction Unit. Though after he began focusing on his solo career in 2006, Lindsey said he has no desire no reform his previous bands. “I’d just feel like I was going backwards if I worked on anything else,” Lindsey said.

2006 saw the release of ‘Blood Visions’ (In the Red), Lindsey’s first solo album under the moniker Jay Reatard. After a lengthy tour supporting his solo album, in 2008 he signed a multi-album, exclusive deal with the New York based indie label Matador Records. He released six, limited, 7″ singles throughout 2008 with Matador. Soon after the release of the first single and write-ups in NME, Spin Magazine and Rolling Stone, Lindsey began playing larger shows and various music festivals all over the world.

In October 2008 Reatard’s ‘Matador Singles ’08’ LP compiled all six of the 2008 singles on one LP/CD. Lindsey again hit the road to support the album with a second, exstensive 2008 tour. Lindsey’s current records sound drastically different from his early punk records. He said writers often misinterpret his newer sound. “I just think its noisy pop music,” Lindsey said.

Lindsey’s next album, his first proper studio album with Matador, will likely be recorded by January 2009 and released shortly after that. He describes his new batch of songs as more melodic and twee-inspired. The upcoming album will feature “organ, some mandolins, a cello, a lot more back-ups and harmonies,” he said.

While his next record will be more mellow than his previous works, Lindsey said his live show will remain energetic. “I just want it to be like an assault live, and softer on records,” he said.

Partial discography

With The Reatards

Albums

* Teenage Hate LP/CD (1998; Goner)
* Grown Up, Fucked Up LP/CD (1999; Empty)
* Live LP (2004; Goner)
* Bedroom Disasters LP/CD (2004; Empty)
* Not Fucked Enough LP/CD/CD-R (2005; Empty/Shattered)

45s/EPs

* Get Real Stupid 7″ (1998; Goner)
* Get Out Of Our Way 7″ (1999; Blahll!)
* Your So Lewd 7″ (1999; Empty)
* Untitled 7″ (2002; SSLD)
* Monster Child 7″ (2004; Zaxxon)
* Plastic Surgery 7″ (2005; Shattered)
* Totally Shattered Euro Tour 7″ (2005; Split with Angry Angles and Tokyo Electron; Kenrock)
* I Lie Too 7″ (2006; Zaxxon Virile Action)

With The Lost Sounds

Albums

* Memphis Is Dead LP/CD (2001; Big Neck!)
* Black-Wave 2xLP/CD (2001; Empty)
* Rats Brains & Microchips LP/CD (2002; Empty)
* Lost Sounds LP/CD (2004; In the Red)

45s/EPs

* Plastic Skin 7″ (2000; Solid Sex Lovie Doll)
* 1 + 1 = Nothing 7″ (2001; Empty)
* Split 7″ with The Vanishing (2003; Cochon)
* Ice Age 7″ (2004; Holy Cobra Society)
* Future Touch 12″EP/CDEP (2004; In the Red)

Compilations

* Outtakes & Demos Vol. 1 CD-R (2001; Contaminated)
* Outtakes & Demos Vol. 1 LP (2002; Hate)
* Recent Transmissions: Demos & Outtakes Vol. 2 CD (2002; Contaminated)
* Demos II CD (2003; On/On Switch)
* Demos & Outtakes Vol. 2 3×7″ (2004; Rockin’ Bones)

With Bad Times

* Bad Times LP (2001; Goner/Therapeutic)
* Bad Times (Re-Release) CD (2002; Sympathy For The Record Industry)

With The Final Solutions

Albums

* Disco Eraser LP/CD (2003; Misprint)
* Songs by Solutions LP/CD (2007; Goner)

45s/EPs

* Eat Shit 7″ (2002; Therapeutic)
* Eye Don’t Like You 7″ (2005; Shit Sandwich)
* My Love Is Disappointing 7″ (2005; Shattered)
* Return To The Motherland 7″ (2006; Frick & Frack)
* FS/DF 7″ (2007; Jethrow)

With Nervous Patterns

Albums

* Nervous Patterns CD-R/CD/LP (2003/2004; Contaminated/Cochon)

45s/EPs

* You Can’t Change 7″ (2005; Zaxxon)

With Angry Angles

* Things Are Moving 7″ (2005; Shattered)
* Crowds 7″ (2005; P. Trash)
* Totally Shattered Euro Tour 7″ (2005; Split with Angry Angles and Tokyo Electron; Kenrock)
* Split 7″ (2006; Split with Digital Leather; Shattered)
* Apparent-Transparent 7″ (2006; Plastic Idol)

As Terror Visions

* World of Shit LP/CD (2007; FDH)
* Endless Tunnel EP
* Blood in America 7″ (Disordered)

With Destruction Unit

* Self-Destruction of a Man LP/CD (2004; Empty)
* Death to the Old Flesh LP/CD (2006; Empty)

As Jay Reatard

Albums

* Blood Visions LP/CD (2006; In the Red)

45s/EPs

* Hammer I Miss You 7″ (2006; Goner)
* Night of Broken Glass 12″ (2007; In the Red)
* Split with the Boston Chinks 7″ (2007; P. Trash)
* In the Dark 7″/6″ (2007; Squoodge)
* I Know a Place 7″ (2007; Goner)
* Blood Demo 7″ (2008; Stained Circles)
* See/Saw 7″ (2008; Matador)
* Painted Shut 7″ (2008; Matador)
* Always Wanting More 7″ (2008; Matador)
* Fluorescent Grey 7″ (2008; Matador)
* Trapped Here 7″ (2008; Matador)
* No Time 7″ (2008; Matador)

Compilations

* Singles 06-07 LP/CD/DVD (2008; In the Red)
* Matador Singles ’08 (2008; Matador)

Compilation Appearances

* We Heart The Blowtops – Tribute 7″ [Track: Venom Victims Wine] (2006; Big Neck)

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Sunday 16th November
at Sunflower lounge, 76 Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham
A Night of Punk Rock

No Fucker (New York, USA)
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Murder Suicide pact (Florida, USA)
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War System
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Ram-Man
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District 13

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