Cops and Robbers - October 2008

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COPS & ROBBERS OCTOBER 2008 DIY GIGS IN LEEDS



Welcome to Cops and Robbers for October.Please excuse our late arrival this month, and

our somewhat dour appearance. We expect tobe livelier looking and on-time for November.

Coming late to the calendar is C&R’

s in-houseparty FUNDER STRIKES. Details are scant butwe think London’s noise-garde SPIN SPIN THEDOGS will be playing, along with TWO MINUTENOODLES’ exuberant ebullience and wine. Not

just that, but the Funder DJs too. This will be atthe Common Place, Wharf Street, on Saturday11th October from 9pm til 3 in the morning.

If you’re hungry and somewhere near BrudenellRoad, go to no. 92A and present this copy ofC&R at PEACH AND PEAR CAFE for 10% offvegetarian and vegan sandwiches, toasties, anew burger menu, and a delightful range of highquality teas and coffees. They also sell sweets.



Saturday 4th, 8pm at Royal Park Cellars; £5Holy Shit! Look who’s coming to our town:

Sic Alps San Fransisco two piece setting the bar for modern bands doingthe modern psych/folk/sloptastic JAMC sound. What sets SicAlps apart from the rest is their unique ability to mash the roughedge of the folk strum, cutting songs with razor sharp candor,and artfully landing somewhere between flowery optimism and

filthy regret. Stylistically, they’

re are all over the place too,incorporating jazzy freak outs, the sincere tinkering of pianokeys, and muddy, down-trodden rhythms. Not easily pinneddown into a specific sound or genre, Sic Alps reiterate theirfreedom of form with each successive release. With a musicalpedigree second to none, with both members doing time in suchoutfits as Coachwhips, Hospitals and Total Shutdown. Already

notorious for their exciting and energetic live performances,they’ve released music on Mt. St. Mtn, 777 was 666, AnimalDisguise, Woodsist and Skulltones and their new LP has justbeen released by Tom Lax’s legendary Siltbreeze label. So comeon down and experience the madness of Sic Alps.

With supports from Leeds’

deranged strum and bash trio TheUprights and Sheffield’s kings of manic retardo punk TheHipshakes (Die Slaughterhaus, Goner), this should be a nightyou won’t forget!



Tuesday 7th, 7pm at Stylus, University of Leeds; £14.50advRoom237 and the Brudenell present:

The Melvins - Buzz 'King Buzzo' Osborne and Dale Crover, withan interchangeable series of bassists, form the cult trio TheMelvins, whose slow, sludgy sounds have influenced some of themost important hard rock acts since the 1980s, including Nirvanaand Boris. The Melvins continue to create humorous, originalmusic and have a huge influence even 20 years on.

Plus Big Business and Porn and possibly, maybe, but probablynot Monster Killed By Laser.



Tuesday 7th, 7.30pm at Santiagos, Grand Arcade; £5/4

VODKA SOAP - Since they were 'discovered' by Matthew Bower

and Neil Campbell hiding in a dumpster in San Diego makingwaterfalls of tape gloop in a colour developing fluid induced hazethe Skaters have continued to astound and delight the world withtheir distinctively skewed sound, inspired it would seem by anobsession with Hawaiian islands and Slimer from Ghostbusters.They were great last time they came to Leeds, this time Spencer

is going it solo as the Tiki shamen lounge lizard building a castlein space. With parrots.

SINDRE BJERGA - Bjerga does improv as it should be, playfulwith a sense of humour, anarchic, engaging and... unpredictable.

HOH - On tour with Sindre, HOH is Helge Olav Øksendal,

composer, arranger and artist, living in Stavanger, on thewestcoast of Norway. Probably the most dancy and melodic actyou're likely to see at the Termite Club for a the forseeablefuture.

Johnny Scarr - "...a slightly creepy, yet touching series of

laminated twinklings with a hint of a perpetuating presence,posing irritation within a limited response horizon, whileattempting to inspect the outline of your aural prerequisites...."Johnny promotes gigs in Nottingham as MANTILE and hasreleases on labels du jour Slackest Rainbow.

Spoils and Relics vs Lanterns - First live collaboration of

Leeds/Glasgow drone unit Lanterns and homegrown tape-loop/ noise duo Spoils and Relics.



Saturday 11th, 7.30pm at The Packhorse; £4

More and More Tiger presents:

JUFFAGEOne man, loop based songwriting from Chicago, at any momentsounding somewhere between Battles, Fennesz or TheMicrophones/Mt Eerie.

INVISIBLE CITIES

Lush, viola led instrumental rock. Think Dirty Three, Do MakeSay Think.

A CENTURY OF TREES

Fuzzed up, psychedelic electronica with a mischievous edge.

PATTERN

Frantic, schizo guitar-pop joy.



Thursday 16th at Brudenell Social Club

Hawnay Troof

Yes thats right peeps the XBXRX noise band’s mainman andoriginal soilder of all things interesting based around the nowfamous “smell”/Oakland scene is gonna be back just after hesupports Peaches in Australia.

Hawnay Troof is the electronic pop solo project of Vice Cooler.Since forming in the late nineties the band has built a long list ofcollaborators including Soft Pink Truth, BARR, Mika Miko, AllisonWolfe, Gravy Train!!!!, and Stereo Total. The debut full length GetUp: Resolution: Love! (Retard Disco, 2003) put the band on asuccessful worldwide tour including its first shows in Iceland,Australia, and New Zealand.

“I have always admired people who are all the way into theirwork to the point where the separation between the art and theartist disappears. Most never even get close…” - Henry Rollins

Plus Cowtown, Beards, Chops and Vile Vile Creatures



Friday 17th, 8pm at The Fenton; £3.50

Lake Me (Newcastle)“They’ve managed to wring a hugely impressive clutch of songsfrom a musical palette made up of the bluesy end of rock andfolk and skillfully slide around an impressive range of moods andstyles from bone-jangling rock outs by way of hypnotic poundingsand acoustic fancies.”

Pale Man Made (Newcastle)

“Doffing their bowl cuts to the likes of Pavement or The Pastels,the likes of ‘Sea I Am’ and ‘Scratch’ make Pale Man Made’s

debut a thing to treasure” NMEGhost Fleet (The Sea)

They are guitar, bass and Lady Laptop. They washed up on theshores of Leeds and formed from the shipwrecks of two ill-fatedvoyages. They sound like red wine and gin but not in the same

glass. Or a stylus making merry across a .wav file…

Plus 1 more tbc, when it has bc’d



Sunday 26th at Brudenell Social ClubRoom 237 presents

Oxes - Anyone who has seen Oxes live ever will testify to thembeing one of the most explosive, hilarious and insane live bandsof the last decade. With two Peel sessions, on Moniter records(original home of Battles, Les Savy Fav) and with a history oftrouble that Tom Green would be proud of they are back for what

could be their final tour. Oxes is an instrumental rock band fromBaltimore, Maryland. Its music has been called math rock orpost-punk, though it does not subscribe to any genre.

Bilge Pump - second album ‘Rupert The Sky’ (Gringo Records)was one of the best things with a cat on it to come out of LS6 lastyear

Monster Killed By Laser - not just any geeks off the street, theyhave heavy riffs and masks and no need to tweak

Rampant Rabbit - an extremely horrible jangling bass duet



Saturday 1st November, 8pm at Holy Trinity Church £7adv/£8

This Is It Forever presents - following on from our Ólafur Arnaldsshow in July, another Erased Tapes artist comes to the church inLeeds…

The British Expeditionary Force

This is pop music, reframed and re-imagined as electronica.Justin Lockey and Aid Burrows (of Yourcodenameis:milo and MyArchitects fame respectively) create beautiful ambientsoundscapes, skewering beautiful harmonies through processedsoundwaves, and developing from the serrated edge of theformer’s noisy art punks into something more cinematic andethereal.

worriedaboutsatan

Launching their album ‘Arrivals’, their first recorded work since2007’s ‘EP02′, worriedaboutsatan make dark, atmosphericelectronic music with a beating heart and soul.

Her Name Is Calla

Subtle and restrained gives way to chaotic and immense in HerName Is Calla’s stunning spectrum of epic crescendos,staggering beauty and intense fury.

Also DJing on the night will be Richard Silk of Traffic Magazine.



Sunday 2nd November, at The Cardigan Arms

LORDS - geography is conspiring to make Lords a rarerlive proposition these days, which is only one of manyreasons why you shouldn’t miss them on this tour.“...heavy like Jimi Hendrix was heavy, or John Coltranewas heavy. Spiritually heavy, thrilling, righteous, ultimatelyuplifting and always unmistakably Lords.” Their secondalbum, ‘Everyone Is People’, should be available onGringo Records by the time you read this, and promises tomarry maths to blues and turn volume into somethinggrown-up.

BILGE PUMP - After touring with Oxes, Bilge Pumpshould be super-tight; intra-Gringo pride means they’ll betrying to outplay Lords. Do you see how the stars align?

PULLED APART BY HORSES - We understand they arequite loud.



Cops And Robbers is a free monthly guide to DIY gigs inLeeds; something which is hard to define but we tend toknow it when we see it. These events don’t exist to makea profit for anyone involved, they are organised for thesheer pleasure and enjoyment of playing, organising orattending a gig. Look for us every month in Jumbo, Crash,and other places around town, and at various gigs.

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