“Drone pop cosmonauts” Fuss make songs to climb inside. Having already mesmerized and tied up in knots the eyes and ears of the Liverpool (UK) music scene they are set to spellbind a wider audience.
Formed in 2016 through a chance meeting of strangers in the dusk, Fuss have spent the year shaping “heaving beasts that come to life when Fuss play live”. 2016 has seen gigs with Psychic Ills, Ulrika Spacek and ‘head mates’ The Vryll Society. The band are have just released their debut EP.
Try to imagine the very best bands, combined with a decadent Victoriana carnival, with a heavy dose of outrageous sideshows, and you’ll begin to get a picture of what HOPE & GLORY festival is.
This brand new festival for Liverpool, taking place on 5th & 6th August, is set against the stunning Victorian backdrop of the World Museum, City Library and St. George’s Hall and Gardens.
With weekend tickets priced at just £89 (inclusive of booking fee), you can expect a glorious mix of incredible music, comedy and fun – all within a few hundred yards of Lime Street station.
The main stage music for the weekend will be on The Great Exhibition stage. The second stage will deliver different delights across the weekend and will be called The Wonders Of The Age stage on the Saturday and The Wonders of the Age stage on Sunday.
North West independent record label Loner Noise are proud to present WRONG Festival – A Festival For The Freakscene; a one day happening on the 22nd April 2017 at the newly formed creative hub of the Liverpool Docklands.
Aiming to create something truly unique and very special for the first time in Liverpool, organisers are proud to announce that Japanese psych legends Bo Ningen will be topping a bill which brings together the disparate scenes from the heavier and stranger corners of rock music. It will be a bill of rock music on a freaked-out ride, from punk to noise to psychedelia and everywhere in between.
The event takes place across three venues: The Kazimier team’s much lauded new venture Invisible Wind Factory, the latest after-party hotspot The North Shore Troubadour, and local DIY venue stalwarts Drop the Dumbulls. The event will play host to 30 bands across these venues running from afternoon until late at night, and further continuing the party into the wee small hours.
Recently supporting the mighty Primal Scream and originally hailing from Japan but now based in London, Bo Ningen have a ferocious reputation for exhilarating live insanity. The band have released three critically acclaimed albums to date and have collaborated with Savages, earning widespread acclaim from the likes of The Quietus, DIY, Line of Best Fit and The New York Times. They will be joined by a host of underground heroes in the form of Brighton’s finest surf-doom outfit The Wytches, extreme noise mob Heck whose raucous live shows are the stuff of legend, dark-humoured noise rock quartet Blacklisters, Glasgow’ s foremost psychonauts The Cosmic Dead, near-legendary UK underground heroes Part Chimp, the immediate, cutting mutant-pop of Cowtown, and many more. The festival will also introduce bands from the fledgling Loner Noise label roster including Elevant, SPQR, Gravves, Kapil Seshasayee, Federales, and Pocket Apocalypse.
A city not necessarily known for its heavier underground rock scene, but one that’s utterly steeped in rich musical heritage, WRONG intends to be the first festival in the city to tie together Liverpool’s extremely talented (if sometimes overlooked) ever-growing pool of visceral and exciting heavy bands, as well as bringing high profile leaders and legends of the Freakscene to the city for rare live outings in the region.
WRONG Festival 2017 lineup:
BO NINGEN / THE WYTCHES / HECK / PART CHIMP / THE COSMIC DEAD / BLACKLISTERS / ELEVANT / COWTOWN / SKINNY GIRL DIET / FALSE ADVERTISING / HOUSEWIVES / USA NAILS / THE HYENA KILL / BONNACONS OF DOOM / MUMS / JAZZHANDS / SPQR / EVIL BLIZZARD / INDIAN QUEENS / CATTLE / GRAVVES / SUPER LUXURY / BERNACCIA / RONGORONGO / POCKET APOCALYPSE / INDIGO MOON / KAPIL SESHASAYEE / SALT THE SNAIL / DRORE / WILD FRUIT ART COLLECTIVE / FEDERALES / BASIC DICKS / NO WAVE DJs / BEAR GROWLS DJ
Date: Saturday 22nd April 2017
Doors: 1:00pm – 6:00am
Venues: Invisible Wind Factory / The North Shore Troubadour / Drop The Dumbulls
Age restrictions: 18+
Ticket price: £20 general admission, £15 discounted advance ticket (EXCL FEES)
Tickets: wrongfestival.com
First saw All We Are supporting Public Service Broadcasting. The Liverpool-based trio announced they’d be playing new tracks and then move forward to now (well, a couple of weeks back to be fair) and Guro, Luis and Richard have shared something new online.
“Burn It All Out” feels like it could well act as a bridge from the laid back, psychedelic grooves of their eponymous debut album to the harder edged, more thunderous sounds that were trailed live. The opening guitar lines are gentle and swirly like a kaleidoscopic rainbow, then the beat and bass join in and that wonderfully familiar All We Are vibe begins to permeate your soul. Your shoulders move, your feet tap and your head bops as the compulsion to move and boogie along becomes overwhelming. The vocal floats like an intoxicating and heady aroma, hypnotising all who hear it before suddenly, the guitar has become harder, the rhythm more frantic and the bass heavier. Without you even realising, everything around you has been lain to waste and as you stand, amongst the rubble and ruin, you can only applaud and cry out for more.
A follow up album is on the way, so that more we crave so much will hopefully be with us soon.
Hope & Glory is a riotous celebration of live music in the immediate shadow of one of Liverpool’s most renowned landmarks, St George’s Hall.
James, Ocean Colour Scene, Razorlight and local heroes The Lightning Seeds all perform at the inaugural edition of the festival, alongside a very special Hacienda Classical performance from Shaun Ryder and Bez of Happy Mondays.
The music line up accompanies a Victorian carnival complete with a litany of sideshow attractions for an exotic, family friendly show that will be stylish yet subversive – think Charles Darwin meets Tim Burton.
Football legends playing darts for charity, Charlotte Church with a late night pop dungeon and a spoken word arena set in opulent gardens are just a few of the standout attractions.
The event takes place on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th August, with Hope & Glory tickets
One of the most acclaimed British rockers from the 1980’s, this legendary band formed in Liverpool in 1978 and were forefathers of the neo-psychedelic movement. Their line up consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant, bass player Les Pattinson and drummer Pete de Freitas, eventually replacing the original drum machine. The band’s cult status eventually waned with mainstream success in 1983 after they scored a UK top 10 hit with “The Cutter” and attendant album “Porcupine” which hit second spot in the UK. 1984’s classic album “Ocean Rain” is considered a landmark post-punk release, featuring the lead single “Killing Moon.” The band split in 1988 but regrouped in 1997, releasing an album in 2014 . The band’s popularity never quite made the same impact in the US as it did in Europe so they are ripe for rediscovery for anyone interested in bands such as Suede, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Blur, Interpol and Oasis.
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This band’s confidence comes with an abundance of talent, a prowess for drawing a line expertly along the borders of free-flowing psychedelic mayhem and sun-kissed pop perfection.’ After a pretty barnstorming 2016, Liverpool band The Vryll Society have set off this year by unleashing their latest single ‘Sacred Flight.’ and its just so good.
With a swirl of catchy and cosmic guitar licks with a driving percussion topped off with a sing-along, anthemic chorus, ‘Sacred Flight’ gives the perfect glimpse into the band’s swaggering, contemporary take on classic psych-rock. Speaking of the track, frontman Mke Ellis said: “‘Sacred Flight’ is a motoric journey into cosmic space jolting atoms of sound from one galaxy to another before finally exploding into a jewel box of guitar frenzied litany!”
Well when it comes to the new video for the track, we couldn’t have put it better ourselves really. The clip itself is a cosmic explosion of kaleidoscopic images, as the band perform within a vortex of fractals, buildings and shapes. They seem pretty calm about their voyage considering they’re hurtling through what’s probably the fourth dimension at the speed of light.
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