Psssst.. you’ll also get records spun by the amazing DJ Cupcake. A small sample above. She is the best and most beautiful DJ. Brilliant!
To summarise:
CAFE KINO Bristol, THIS FRIDAY 13TH MAY, 8PM
Slushy Guts - 8.30pm
Bellies! - 9.15pm
Roseanne Barrr - 10pm
Tweet it, like it, follow it Pied-Piper-style - you won’t regret it.
Slushy Guts is mainly Steve. His music sounds like the nineties interpreting your worst and best moments simultaneously. It sounds small, somehow both vulnerable and knowing. His minimal pluggings make a surprisingly watchable set, in fact all three acts at friday’s gig ooze a delicious charisma. He will set the party off with deep thoughts.
Steve makes the beautiful artwork for his releases..
Come along !
Roseanne Barrr are one of my favourite L O U D bands. They shout about sex and death and other taboos. They bang and crash and hate and love and laugh. Audio that’ll clip your sound system and distort your life. Their music is both horrible and fun. Watch the video above if you don’t believe me. They will be headlining on Friday.
That’s this friday the 13th May, 8pm at Cafe Kino, Bristol. Facebook event is here.
Bellies! like to make music, make dinner and make love. In their own words they are ‘wonky lesbo mathish pop’. The music has power through reigned and structured emotion. The lyrics are articulate and potent. Nat and Debbie come from the Jelas and Drunk Granny, bringing distinct notes from each band, and reinventing their sounds in a guttural new proclamation. Come! Behold!
The track above is called Second Born, from their tape that came out on Milk.
PLAYING THIS FRIDAY THE 13TH MAY. CAFE KINO. BRISTOL.
Something Good, incidental May-fest
Across the country, whispers begin…
Friday 13 May, 2011
Cafe Kino, Bristol
SLUSHY GUTS, BELLIES! and ROSEANNE BARRR
8pm, £4
Sunday 22 May, 2011
The Playhouse bar, Norwich
BASTARDGEIST and OCTAGON COURT
8pm, free
Two fantastic gigs, two excellent venues, two fine cities. Audio, descriptions and ‘what-to-expect’ posts to follow as soon as is humanly possible. For now you can click attending on the facebook events: Bristol event: here, Norwich event: here.
Well the puppet theatre gig was awesome. Something Good will continue in various forms. Mat and grudgingly Jim will probably run it, with interference from me, and I’ll try and get them to update on here. Maybe we could start a mailing list? If you want newsletter-style-contact from us please email writegracesomethinggood@gmail.com with the subject TELL ME GOOD THINGS. Thanks guys, you are great.
Transept are a hard band to pin down. I described them like this, not so long ago: ‘Transept are three telepathic omnichordologists, gently vengeful omnipresences, nonchalantly making music emanate as if it is a side-product of the intent interest they show in passing objects.’ But that isn’t quite hitting the nail on the head. Jason of Planet Beet infamy described them like this: ‘If you can imagine Robert Wyatt, struggling to tune in his wireless, during a robot thunderstorm, whilst trying to relay his newest piano song to his friends from Faust, via the power of thought..’ Pretty amazing, right? And they describe themselves as ‘Noise-ballad, disco-drone, shanty-prog’. Their new record is available from their website, and I’m sure they’ll have beautiful tangible copies at the gig. Don’t miss out! This Thursday 23/09/10 at The Norwich Puppet Theatre.
The Dead Rat Orchestra are unmissable. Accutely haunting and occassionally brutal. They sound old and beautiful. Part-improvised glitchy contact mic folk. Expansive and calm, then rousing or hectic by turns.
THIS THURSDAY at Norwich Puppet Theatre
Transept / Braindead Collective / Dead Rat Orchestra
Visuals by Cherry Styles and Mike Goddard
20.00 / £4 advance £5 door / booking
Hitting the Big Time
So here’s what Outline Magazine is saying about tonight’s gig:
‘The crypt at Take 5, which, in my less than humble opinion, is one of the best venues in the city, are celebrating the second birthday of the Something Good nights on the 5th, featuring - among others - the lyrical talents of Sparky Deathcap (of Los Campesinos infamy) and The Bumblebees, who sound proper young but I think I love them.’
That doesn’t sound like ‘poorly researched amateurish comedy shtick’ to us. It sounds like lovely, lovely words, and I hope they persuade some new faces to show themselves. But even if not we’ll have a fucking amazing time and rock the casbah for potentially the last time.
The bumblebees, unfortunately, have had to pull out. Two thirds of them are bed bound with illness. This is a shocking blow, and we are still reeling. BUT we will shoulder on.
Tristan Burfield has been experimenting with sound, and visual arts since 2003. His live sets can be abrasive or gentle. The track above, Sleep Seen Closely, is taken from his ambient/glitch body of work. Come and see! 8pm tonight at Take Five.
OK it’s getting late in the day, and I haven’t finished posting these little descriptions. Just to summarise. This guy is awesome. Watch the video. He will be performing TONIGHT in the crypt at take five! Be there or be rubbish.
The Bumblebees are chaotic yet controlled. They take their ideas about the world and how things work and put them into highly danceable and intricate songs. Ros, Ellis and Daniel make up this ethical beauty, and their maladroit yet refined performance is cute in a nonchalant way. Am I using too many contradictions? Yes. But, they will make you jerk and move around in unexpected ways. Again, it is this saturday. Come!!
