xNOOSEx - STATE ICONS - MOAT - THE HARD WAY - Brighton, Saturday 16th June

Steve O'Brien's Dream presents

COREFEST II: GO BARVE/STUPID OR GO HOME

Saturday 16th June. Green Door Store, Brighton. 

featuring,

xNoosex (Chicago, IL)

From the React Records website,

"Noose exists to give hardcore its proper execution. The Militant Vegan Straight Edge. Join or choke. Acquiesce or get the rope."


The demo by this band was raging. Reminded me of the Loud'n'Clear LP a lot but with a lot fuzzier guitar tone (hope that was intentional).

Lyrically, the above quote says it all. Vegan Straight-Edge and they stand by their culture.

Check out the demo here: http://noosexchicago.blogspot.co.uk/
Live vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x9aVuhDb5Q
Like them here: https://www.facebook.com/NOOSExCHICAGO

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State Icons (Brighton)

There few hardcore bands in the town at the moment. The best of the bunch for me is State Icons. They have the mid-paced, heaviness down to a tee. Then you've got Ralf up front. The man is a driven by his values and doesn't hold back on the mic. Always makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.

Tunes here: http://stateicons.bandcamp.com/
Like them here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/State-Icons/117546204958572

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Moat (London)

I'm a 90's Damnation A.D. kind of guy and the stuff that Moat comes out with floats absolutely takes that bleak, discordant riffing vibe and runs with it. If you like Damnation, Deadguy, Botch, Turmoil or anything therabouts, you'll most probably dig this as much as I do.

Tunes be here: http://soundcloud.com/moat-3

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The Hard Way (Brighton)

Dusting off the cobwebs, NYHC-style.

Tunes be here: http://thehardway.bandcamp.com/

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plus 15 more bands to confirm from across the US and Europe.

Doors at 8pm and will be finished by 11pm. Should probably cost about £15 each but we're only going to charge you a fiver a head.

No dogs (except Luke Adkins' dogs).


http://www.facebook.com/events/414478501904100/

Update on the 1in12 Benefit Download Compilation

Well, it's been about a month since the 1 in 12 Benefit Comp went up and it's been far more succesful than I ever thought it was going to be. £300 got transferred to the 1in12's coffers recently with about another £100 to go next month. I was expecting about £50 tops for selling a compilation of mp3s. So thanks to everyone that bought it and especially those who wer super generous and bought multiple copies.

Most thanks, of course, goes to the people that did all the physical work of fixing stuff at the 1in12. Looks like the fire inspection has been passed so it's good news there.

You should definitely check out "Our Spaces Vol 1 : A Benefit for the 1 in 12" - http://whatpricewonderland.bandcamp.com/album/our-spaces-vol-1-a-benefit-for-the-1-in-12-club - it's a similar idea but with an emo/post-hardcore bent musically.

Just thought I'd mention a few ideas and thoughts I had about the compilation.

- The idea of doing a benefit download compilation seems to work. People will buy it. About 200 people bought it and that was without any advertising or much of a push to get people to hear about it beyond a few facebook posts. Using the nerdy data on last.fm I can even see that people have actually been listening to it as well. So feel free to use the idea for other good causes

- It seems to be fairly cost-effective way of doing a benefit album. The only 'cost' was the google checkout fees (see below for idea on that). Usually with records/CDs most of the money goes on the making the physical product and sending it to people in the post.

- One idea I'd like to throw out there is the possibility of an independent 'ethical' online payments company. There are a few other companies out there competing with paypal andgoogle checkout but there's none that I'm aware of going for the ethical angle. With a bit of technical nouse (and an admitadly sizeable chunk of money) iot would be possible to create a paypal-esxque online payments service focused on charities & small businesses (& of course, small DIY record labels). It could take a far smaller cut & that money could be used for operating costs (including wages) rather than just making a huge profit. Obviously a load of legal hassles with getting it FSA approved etc but why should paypal/google have a monopoly on online payments and take a significant cut of each transaction?

Of course, you can still buy it if you haven't done so already :-)




1in12 Benefit Compilation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Boredom + Pettybone + State Icons - Brighton, Fri 24th Feb

BØREDØM (Austria)
Rocked out d-beat hardcore from Graz, Austria. Think His Hero Is Gone, Sabbath, Pisschrist and the Holy Mountain.
Ex- Fall of Efrafa, Plague Mass & more.
http://boredom.bandcamp.com/
http://boredomoverall.blogsport.de/

PETTYBONE (UK)
Raw, angry, intense political hardcore punk from London. Revolutionary all-girl hardcore with a tinge of riot grrrl; one of the best up-and-coming British bands of the minute.
Ex/current Hello Bastards, Hang the Bastard, Invasion & more.
http://pettybone.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pettybone/132271843495214

STATE ICONS (UK)
Noisy, political as fuck, Brighton-based hardcore.
http://stateicons.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/State-Icons/117546204958572

Plus PUNKROCK DISCO until 2am.

All a benefit for Brighton Antifascists. ( http://brightonantifascists.wordpress.com/ )

7.30pm

£4 Cowley Club Members // £5 Guests (please bring your membership card!)

(to become a member please ask for a registration form behind the bar; membership to the 12 London Road Social Club costs £1)

http://www.cowleyclub.org.uk/

http://www.facebook.com/cowleyclub

Pettybone/Trieste/State Icons - London, Fri 6th Jan

Friday 6th Jan

@ Shacklewell Arms, Dalston

PETTYBONE

These ladies blew us away when we put them on w/ OFF! a few months back...

Now they have a record out! 

Ya don't want to miss this!

'Punk as fuck Londoners kickstarting a new musical revolution!' - Kerrang! 2011

‘Bands this exciting come along once every blue moon’– Terrorizer July 2011

'These lasses are the ones to watch' - Metal Hammer 2011

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pettybone/132271843495214

TRIESTE

Trieste is K A Williams (Fabric/Capricorns/Alabaster Suns), James Sherry (Done Lying Down/K-Line),Giles J Davis (Eagle Boys/Tough Troubles) and Rob Jarvis (Holy State). ....Between them they know more about the musical history of the D.C. punk scene than you do.

For fans of Lungazi!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Trieste/177665612296163

STATE ICONS

brighton punks

http://stateicons.blogspot.com

PSYCHIC PUSSIES

LND noise merchants

+BLACK IMPULSE DJ's

£6

http://www.facebook.com/events/313016095389299/