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FIGHT LIKE APES
MayKay (vocals, keyboards), Pockets (keyboards, backing vocals), Tom (bass, backing vocals) and Adrian (drums).
Fight Like Apes kick off 2009 with the release of their brand new single "Tie Me Up With Jackets", heralding their imminent debut album "Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion".
2008 was an extraordinary year for the Obnoxious Pop combo, with over 120 gigs played including all the key UK and Irish festivals, recording the album in Seattle with John Goodmanson (Los Campesinos, Bikini Kill, Sleater Kinney) and winning over new fans at BBC Radio 1, 6 Music and Xfm, to name but a few.
"Tie Me Up With Jackets" is FLApes at their most careworn and keening "you say Yo La Tengo like you're selling perfume"- and is coupled with two new tracks, the epic throb that is "Telephone The Real Ham Jackson" and live favourite "Canhead".
The single will be released on 7² pink vinyl in matching hand-stamped outer sleeve and download January 19th on Model Citizen Records.
The album will be released in the UK on January 26th 2009 on Model Citizen Records. It has already charted Top 10 in Ireland. FLApe fever continues to spread far and wide with the news that the band has been signed to Sony Music Japan for the album¹s far eastern release.
The album tracklisting is Something Global, Jake Summers, Tie Me Up With Jackets, Digif*cker, Lend Me Your Face, Battlestations, Do You Karate?, Megameanie, I'm Beginning To Think You Prefer Beverley Hills 90210 To Me, Lumpy Dough, Recyclable Ass and Snore Bore Whore. All the tracks are brand new recordings, produced by John Goodmanson in Seattle earlier this year.
Fight Like Apes singer MayKay says "It wouldn't have been right to leave those early songs off the album, but it wouldn't have been right to put the same recordings on. They were always rushed jobs before, but this time we had the chance to make them sound like we always thought they should". FLA cohort Pockets adds "We're the same band, just with a stronger, faster, more unstoppable sound". The album will be released on Digipak CD, heavyweight vinyl and download. The vinyl version will include a bonus track'You Are The Hat' which will not be released on any other format.
Influences: The holy Trinity of Jay Anthony Franke, Cynthia Rothrock and Corey Feldman. Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Mclusky, Spoon, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Patti Smith, The Apples in Stereo, Elf Power, Built to Spill, My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse, Devo, Sonic Youth, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Pipes you See, Pipes you don¹t, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Zombies, The Girl From Tomorrow, Kung Fu, B-movies, Orson Wells, Zelda, Ghouls and Ghosts, shit Tv, The Karate Kid, stickers, kebabs and icecream
"Hailing from Dublin Fight Like Apes combine the synth with the sword in their heroic tales of anger, jealousy, greed and goblins. With an emphasis on loutish vocals, brutish bass and digital distortion, Fight Like Apes are highly trained, armed and considered extremely dangerous. Influenced by kung-fu, bad television and wrestling, to name but a few interests, and describing their unique sound as 'karate-rock', Fight Like Apes hate guitars, love Jake Summers and have been known to do anything from playing pots and pans to having full-blown beer fights on stage. Their live show should under no circumstances be missed." - Rough Trade
Lend Me Your Face - Artrocker single review: "With this Ireland's Fight Like Apes deliver another storming shouty song that is heavy on the synths and has a bass line so pulsating it could topple even the sturdiest of buildings. All elements tightly squeezed into one enticing nugget and dished up in one short sharp dose, just the way we like it." - Artrocker
"FLA are nonchalant but nice, unhinged but well adjusted and nonsensical but logical.... They ride the influence of McLusky by socking us with a cover of 'Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues.'. With such highly memorable tunes and energetic vibe, FLA can't possibly fail." - The Fly
"A hyped-to-the-heavens Dublin scenester record that lives up to the buzz!" - Metro
Bristol's Turbowolf are currently picking up Radio 1 airplay from Rob Da Bank & Huw Stephens for their critically-acclaimed debut double A side single Bite Me Like A Dog/Power, but it¹s live you need to experience them, as their press confirms. In March they¹re playing SXSW 09 and Canadian Music Week, en route they will be visiting NYC. Right now they're making a video for Read & Write and recording their debut album.
"Digitronized hellŒn¹roll from the mouths of a thousand horses. We love ELO and want to be just like them." - Turbowolf.
"Like Gallows if they'd been brought up in a circus. Get involved with the Wolf." - Metal Hammer
"None of this pussy footing around electric beats, Turbowolf are electro-RAWK. Riotous, rock-tronic fun and solid tunes to boot." - NME
"Biscuit tin drums back a band with a sound somewhere between Survivor and Trio - exuberant disco metallers play 1980s kid's TV themes. The girl from Human League, a man with a shreddin' guitar and a mutant sim version of Freddie mercury bounds and rolls around singing. We exit grinning." - Artrocker
"I'm loving this at the moment, one of my top tips for 2009. I think they're gonna be massive!" - Rob Da Bank, Radio 1
"Motorhead with a disco a-bomb in their gut. Turbowolf have become our new favourite meaty, sweaty, skull-f*cking band." - Loud and Quiet magazine
"Gung-ho massive and leaving us with only half of our body parts remaining." - Gigwise.com
"As soon as the mighty Turbowolf set foot onstage, all seems right in the world." - Bizarre
"Electronic rock revelation." Metro
"It's a pulsating blend of influences, mainly electro and rock, which comes off convincingly. They're a refreshing prospect among UK rock bands. As you might expect, they flourish at live shows." Record Of The Week
"Freshly skinned and rolled in hot sand, jerking about with chaotic caterwauling, as soon as I think I've grasped what's so good about Turbowolf, they knock it out of my hands and start sh*gging it sideways." - Venue
"The songs sound not so much written in jail, as written in a jailbreak." - Decode
"If you only see one rock band this year make sure it's Turbowolf. A fully committed, raggedy metal troupe (equal parts glam, hyper-energy and sweat) laying waste to a disco." - Venue Magazine
www.myspace.com/turbowolfband
KASMS
Rachel Mary Callaghan - Vocals/Noises, Gemma Fleet - Bass/Vocals, Scott R Walker Guitar/Drums, Rory Brattwell - Guitar/Drums/Wasp
KASMS - "BONE YOU" SINGLE
RELEASED on TROUBLE RECORDS 23RD FEBRUARY ON DOWNLOAD AND 7" PICTURE DISC
"Likely to obliterate your eardrums and shatter your bones." NME
KASMs release their new single "Bone You" through Trouble Records on February 23rd. Available to download or on 7" picture disc, it's the first track to be taken from their forthcoming debut album (due out in April) and was mastered at Abbey Road Studios.
The single and album, like all of KASMs recordings thus far, was speedily recorded live on a reel-to-reel tape machine and mixed at their studio space by band member Rory Brattwell. The idea behind this freeform style of recording was to capture the live energy in which their snowballing reputation is rooted, creating an album that documents the exhilarating sound and attitude they have created during their short time together as a band.
KASMs are London-based Rachel Mary Callaghan, Gemma Fleet, Scott R. Walker and Rory Brattwell. Gemma and Rachel met in late October 2007 when Gemma spotted Rachel dancing to Nirvana and decided that she should be the singer in her new band, irrespective of whether she could sing or not. They then bumped into each other a week later at a Get Hustle show and met up with likeminded musicians Scott and Rory at the bar afterwards. All were inspired by what they had seen and decided to start a band together.
All four members have been in other bands: Rachel was the singer in spazzcore band Sin o the East, along with Rory on guitar; Gemma was in London based grunge-pop band Wolfie; Scott was in an ethnic/improv band called Aum Sahib and Rory was in quite a few bands, the most well known being short-lived NME favourites Test Icicles.
I guess you could say KASMS sound is Punk/Deathrock but they coined the genre "Shriekbeat" to describe their music, which pretty much encapsulates the essence of what KASMs are all about. Taking in varied influences starting with dark, pulsating, rhythmic bands such as Trial, Crash Worship, Live Skull and better known dark 80s stuff such as Bauhaus and Death in June, they cite their sound as being more heavily skewed by recent Alternative American punk bands such as Subtonix, Nation of Ulysses and Six Finger Satellite.
KASMs' dark, melodramatic tendencies are laced with energetic melody translating to their live shows, which start off intense and brutal and have been known to end up with mesmerizing front-woman Rachel making "assaults on photographers and members of the audience" (The Guardian, January 2009). In the short time they¹ve been together rumours of their unpredictable and intense performances have spread at an intense rate, stoking the fire and propelling them forward.
Over their first year together they have played in New York, Paris, Berlin, Milan and toured the UK with contemporaries Televised Crimewave. They signed to Trouble Records (birthplace of acts such as Crystal Castles) in April 2008 and their debut single "Taxidermy" sold out all 2000 copies, touching number 12 in the charts, and won them support from the likes of Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens, NME, Artrocker and acclaimed slots at Underage Festival and Offset Festival.
www.myspace.com/kasms
"London 4-piece Kasms have been described as 'new goth', but have far too pronounced a sense of fun to fit the mould. Their melodramatic music has the imperious sheen of Siouxsie & The Banshees, but singer Rachel Mary Callaghan is no ice maiden, preferring to hurl herself to the floor in the midst of a rag-doll dance or stage pretend assaults on photographers and members of the audience. They most closely recall the confrontational art-punk of X-Ray Spex, and Callaghan's antics should win plenty of fans at this summer's festivals." - The Guardian
"Clang! Shriek! Schlannnnng! Batter! KASMs make a pop noise like Sonic Youth and X-Ray Spex being squashed into a washing machine and thrown down a flight of stairs, and it's really rather brilliant." Nemisis To Go
"Kasms also have something of Siouxsie about them, but it's the rawer, more unrestrained (read: more interesting) side with the screeching histrionic vocals and gothy inflections howling around rolling drums and thin, trebly guitar." Norman Records
"Primal art-punk showing off an enthusiasm for the early days of Siouxsie Sioux." Time Out
"Kasms have a sound in which art-rock angularity unceremoniously collides with speedfreak energy. Their songs are meticulous tangles of barbed wire tension, guitars scrabbling with pointy fingernails over a dangerously swaying scaffolding of bass and drums. It's urban tribalism a-go-go, with a KASMs¹ singer Rachel Callaghan, all bobbed hair and bovver boots - shrieking over the top of the musical riot like someone's just dropped an ice cube down Siouxsie's neck. As with Televised Crimewave, KASMs nail their fractured wails to some reassuringly tight songwriting structures, so even when it all gets freaky things never go entirely out of control. The KASMs jalopy might be a hurtling, ramshackle beast, but someone's got at least one finger on the steering wheel and a firm grip of the gear stick." - Nemisis To Go
"Four Hoxton lay-abouts make a tribal dirge with vocals known to rip faces off, with a sound that reminds us of a girl-fronted version of Circus Lupus." Spoonfed
"Fans of Blood Red Shoes will love this frenetic, raw visceral punk sound that Kasms are dishing out. Siren Sister in particular has a bleeding intensity that feels like Kasms frontwoman Rachel could become a Siouxsie Sioux for this generation." Pure Groove
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FIGHT LIKE APES
MayKay (vocals, keyboards), Pockets (keyboards, backing vocals), Tom (bass, backing vocals) and Adrian (drums).
Fight Like Apes kick off 2009 with the release of their brand new single "Tie Me Up With Jackets", heralding their imminent debut album "Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion".
2008 was an extraordinary year for the Obnoxious Pop combo, with over 120 gigs played including all the key UK and Irish festivals, recording the album in Seattle with John Goodmanson (Los Campesinos, Bikini Kill, Sleater Kinney) and winning over new fans at BBC Radio 1, 6 Music and Xfm, to name but a few.
"Tie Me Up With Jackets" is FLApes at their most careworn and keening "you say Yo La Tengo like you're selling perfume"- and is coupled with two new tracks, the epic throb that is "Telephone The Real Ham Jackson" and live favourite "Canhead".
The single will be released on 7² pink vinyl in matching hand-stamped outer sleeve and download January 19th on Model Citizen Records.
The album will be released in the UK on January 26th 2009 on Model Citizen Records. It has already charted Top 10 in Ireland. FLApe fever continues to spread far and wide with the news that the band has been signed to Sony Music Japan for the album¹s far eastern release.
The album tracklisting is Something Global, Jake Summers, Tie Me Up With Jackets, Digif*cker, Lend Me Your Face, Battlestations, Do You Karate?, Megameanie, I'm Beginning To Think You Prefer Beverley Hills 90210 To Me, Lumpy Dough, Recyclable Ass and Snore Bore Whore. All the tracks are brand new recordings, produced by John Goodmanson in Seattle earlier this year.
Fight Like Apes singer MayKay says "It wouldn't have been right to leave those early songs off the album, but it wouldn't have been right to put the same recordings on. They were always rushed jobs before, but this time we had the chance to make them sound like we always thought they should". FLA cohort Pockets adds "We're the same band, just with a stronger, faster, more unstoppable sound". The album will be released on Digipak CD, heavyweight vinyl and download. The vinyl version will include a bonus track'You Are The Hat' which will not be released on any other format.
Influences: The holy Trinity of Jay Anthony Franke, Cynthia Rothrock and Corey Feldman. Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Mclusky, Spoon, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Patti Smith, The Apples in Stereo, Elf Power, Built to Spill, My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse, Devo, Sonic Youth, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Pipes you See, Pipes you don¹t, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Zombies, The
Girl From Tomorrow, Kung Fu, B-movies, Orson Wells, Zelda, Ghouls and Ghosts, shit Tv, The Karate Kid, stickers, kebabs and icecream
"Hailing from Dublin Fight Like Apes combine the synth with the sword in their heroic tales of anger, jealousy, greed and goblins. With an emphasis on loutish vocals, brutish bass and digital distortion, Fight Like Apes are highly trained, armed and considered extremely dangerous. Influenced by kung-fu, bad television and wrestling, to name but a few interests, and
describing their unique sound as 'karate-rock', Fight Like Apes hate guitars, love Jake Summers and have been known to do anything from playing pots and pans to having full-blown beer fights on stage. Their live show should under no circumstances be missed." - Rough Trade
Lend Me Your Face - Artrocker single review: "With this Ireland's Fight Like Apes deliver another storming shouty song that is heavy on the synths and has a bass line so pulsating it could topple even the sturdiest of buildings. All elements tightly squeezed into one enticing nugget and dished up in one short sharp dose, just the way we like it." - Artrocker
"FLA are nonchalant but nice, unhinged but well adjusted and nonsensical but logical.... They ride the influence of McLusky by socking us with a cover of 'Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues.'. With such highly memorable tunes and energetic vibe, FLA can't possibly fail." - The Fly
"A hyped-to-the-heavens Dublin scenester record that lives up to the buzz!" - Metro
www.myspace.com/fightlikeapesmusic
www.fightlikeapesmusic.com
TURBOWOLF
Bristol's Turbowolf are currently picking up Radio 1 airplay from Rob Da Bank & Huw Stephens for their critically-acclaimed debut double A side single Bite Me Like A Dog/Power, but it¹s live you need to experience them, as their press confirms. In March they¹re playing SXSW 09 and Canadian Music Week, en route they will be visiting NYC. Right now they're making a video for Read & Write and recording their debut album.
"Digitronized hellŒn¹roll from the mouths of a thousand horses. We love ELO and want to be just like them." - Turbowolf.
"Like Gallows if they'd been brought up in a circus. Get involved with the Wolf." - Metal Hammer
"None of this pussy footing around electric beats, Turbowolf are electro-RAWK. Riotous, rock-tronic fun and solid tunes to boot." - NME
"Biscuit tin drums back a band with a sound somewhere between Survivor and Trio - exuberant disco metallers play 1980s kid's TV themes. The girl from Human League, a man with a shreddin' guitar and a mutant sim version of Freddie mercury bounds and rolls around singing. We exit grinning." - Artrocker
"I'm loving this at the moment, one of my top tips for 2009. I think they're gonna be massive!" - Rob Da Bank, Radio 1
"Motorhead with a disco a-bomb in their gut. Turbowolf have become our new favourite meaty, sweaty, skull-f*cking band." - Loud and Quiet magazine
"Gung-ho massive and leaving us with only half of our body parts remaining." - Gigwise.com
"As soon as the mighty Turbowolf set foot onstage, all seems right in the world." - Bizarre
"Electronic rock revelation." Metro
"It's a pulsating blend of influences, mainly electro and rock, which comes off convincingly. They're a refreshing prospect among UK rock bands. As you might expect, they flourish at live shows." Record Of The Week
"Freshly skinned and rolled in hot sand, jerking about with chaotic caterwauling, as soon as I think I've grasped what's so good about Turbowolf, they knock it out of my hands and start sh*gging it sideways." - Venue
"The songs sound not so much written in jail, as written in a jailbreak." - Decode
"If you only see one rock band this year make sure it's Turbowolf. A fully committed, raggedy metal troupe (equal parts glam, hyper-energy and sweat) laying waste to a disco." - Venue Magazine
www.myspace.com/turbowolfband
KASMS
Rachel Mary Callaghan - Vocals/Noises, Gemma Fleet - Bass/Vocals, Scott R Walker Guitar/Drums, Rory Brattwell - Guitar/Drums/Wasp
KASMS - "BONE YOU" SINGLE
RELEASED on TROUBLE RECORDS 23RD FEBRUARY ON DOWNLOAD AND 7" PICTURE DISC
"Likely to obliterate your eardrums and shatter your bones." NME
KASMs release their new single "Bone You" through Trouble Records on February 23rd. Available to download or on 7" picture disc, it's the first track to be taken from their forthcoming debut album (due out in April) and was mastered at Abbey Road Studios.
The single and album, like all of KASMs recordings thus far, was speedily recorded live on a reel-to-reel tape machine and mixed at their studio space by band member Rory Brattwell. The idea behind this freeform style of recording was to capture the live energy in which their snowballing
reputation is rooted, creating an album that documents the exhilarating sound and attitude they have created during their short time together as a band.
KASMs are London-based Rachel Mary Callaghan, Gemma Fleet, Scott R. Walker and Rory Brattwell. Gemma and Rachel met in late October 2007 when Gemma spotted Rachel dancing to Nirvana and decided that she should be the singer in her new band, irrespective of whether she could sing or not. They then bumped into each other a week later at a Get Hustle show and met up with likeminded musicians Scott and Rory at the bar afterwards. All were inspired by what they had seen and decided to start a band together.
All four members have been in other bands: Rachel was the singer in spazzcore band Sin o the East, along with Rory on guitar; Gemma was in London based grunge-pop band Wolfie; Scott was in an ethnic/improv band called Aum Sahib and Rory was in quite a few bands, the most well known being short-lived NME favourites Test Icicles.
I guess you could say KASMS sound is Punk/Deathrock but they coined the genre "Shriekbeat" to describe their music, which pretty much encapsulates the essence of what KASMs are all about. Taking in varied influences starting with dark, pulsating, rhythmic bands such as Trial, Crash Worship, Live Skull and better known dark 80s stuff such as Bauhaus and Death in June, they cite their sound as being more heavily skewed by recent Alternative American punk bands such as Subtonix, Nation of Ulysses and Six Finger Satellite.
KASMs' dark, melodramatic tendencies are laced with energetic melody translating to their live shows, which start off intense and brutal and have been known to end up with mesmerizing front-woman Rachel making "assaults on photographers and members of the audience" (The Guardian, January 2009). In the short time they¹ve been together rumours of their unpredictable and intense performances have spread at an intense rate, stoking the fire and
propelling them forward.
Over their first year together they have played in New York, Paris, Berlin, Milan and toured the UK with contemporaries Televised Crimewave. They signed to Trouble Records (birthplace of acts such as Crystal Castles) in April 2008 and their debut single "Taxidermy" sold out all 2000 copies, touching number 12 in the charts, and won them support from the likes of Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens, NME, Artrocker and acclaimed slots at Underage Festival and Offset Festival.
www.myspace.com/kasms
"London 4-piece Kasms have been described as 'new goth', but have far too pronounced a sense of fun to fit the mould. Their melodramatic music has the imperious sheen of Siouxsie & The Banshees, but singer Rachel Mary Callaghan is no ice maiden, preferring to hurl herself to the floor in the midst of a rag-doll dance or stage pretend assaults on photographers and members of the audience. They most closely recall the confrontational art-punk of X-Ray Spex, and Callaghan's antics should win plenty of fans at this summer's festivals." - The Guardian
"Clang! Shriek! Schlannnnng! Batter! KASMs make a pop noise like Sonic Youth and X-Ray Spex being squashed into a washing machine and thrown down a flight of stairs, and it's really rather brilliant." Nemisis To Go
"Kasms also have something of Siouxsie about them, but it's the rawer, more unrestrained (read: more interesting) side with the screeching histrionic vocals and gothy inflections howling around rolling drums and thin, trebly guitar." Norman Records
"Primal art-punk showing off an enthusiasm for the early days of Siouxsie Sioux." Time Out
"Kasms have a sound in which art-rock angularity unceremoniously collides with speedfreak energy. Their songs are meticulous tangles of barbed wire tension, guitars scrabbling with pointy fingernails over a dangerously swaying scaffolding of bass and drums. It's urban tribalism a-go-go, with a KASMs¹ singer Rachel Callaghan, all bobbed hair and bovver boots - shrieking over the top of the musical riot like someone's just dropped an ice cube down Siouxsie's neck. As with Televised Crimewave, KASMs nail their fractured wails to some reassuringly tight songwriting structures, so even when it all gets freaky things never go entirely out of control. The KASMs
jalopy might be a hurtling, ramshackle beast, but someone's got at least one finger on the steering wheel and a firm grip of the gear stick." - Nemisis To Go
"Four Hoxton lay-abouts make a tribal dirge with vocals known to rip faces off, with a sound that reminds us of a girl-fronted version of Circus Lupus." Spoonfed
"Fans of Blood Red Shoes will love this frenetic, raw visceral punk sound that Kasms are dishing out. Siren Sister in particular has a bleeding intensity that feels like Kasms frontwoman Rachel could become a Siouxsie Sioux for this generation." Pure Groove