State Icons

Monday 28 May 2012

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/

Wednesday 25 January 2012

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

Tuesday 24 January 2012

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

Sunday 1 January 2012

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/

Saturday 10 December 2011

1 in 12 Benefit Download Compilation

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

All bands on this compilation own the copyright to their work and have given their consent for it to be used.

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Here's a benefit download compilation of some of the finest diy hardcore/punk bands in the UK. Raging d beat, grind, doom, metal, thrash, power violence, crust, emo & just about any other style of making loud noises with guitars is represented. A lot of the stuff is exclusive to this compilation and never released before. The other stuff is solid gold hits. There's 27 bands in total so it's well worth your time.

Here's what you get:-

ENDLESS GRINNING SKULLS
the title track of their LP which has been praised to the heavens by the likes of MRR and seems to be appearing on everyone's 'top ten of 2011' list. Raging d-beat. ex-Heresy etc

DRAINLAND
an unreleased song. if Swans did a 7" on Bovine it might sound like this.

MOLOCH
a killer Crossed Out cover that's only just been recorded.

PINE BARRENS
Experimental crust/black metal-influenced hardcore guaranteed to melt your face off

THE AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN
power violence/grindcore. fast bits & slow bits.

MOB RULES
they used to be fast but now they're not. late Black Flag/Unsane.

VOLITION
unreleased song from their session in the 1in12 studios. crushing sludge/doom

BURNT CROSS
prolific Brighton anarcho punks with an unreleased Crass cover

DEAD IN THE WOODS
His Hero Is Hawkwind. heavy riffs. unreleased.

TIDE OF IRON
ugly noise rock riffs

CLOSURE
a demo of their forthcoming 7". fast hardcore/power violence.

REGIMES
heavy d beats with a dose of metal in there

GRACE
metallic hardcore stuff in the vein of Unbroken/Coalesce/Deadguy

APATT
sorry but this lot are impossible to describe. bunch of weirdos.

BULLETRIDDEN
crust as hell. bullet belts and mohawks.

REDRIGHTHAND
incredibly slow, interminably heavy and possessing an atmosphere of complete and utter despair

THE PROCESS
Holy Terror-ists and Illuminati afficionados. previously unreleased.

LICH
ex-Battle Of Wolf 359 folk in emo-violence overload

CRACKED COP SKULLS
90s d beat crust punk stalwarts. this is an exclusive from a reform session a few years ago.

ARMY OF FLYING ROBOTS
unreleased track from one of the best UK bands of the last decade.

THE DAY MAN LOST
another unreleased track from a session recorded at the 1in12 studios. we're in ultra fast hardcore/power violence territory here

UNQUIET GRAVE
political 90s style mosh metal hardcore. chugs and rants.

JINN
unreleased song from a very under rated band. fast and grindy/power violence but not played straight

QUEER COVEN
one man drum machine queer black metal

FIELD BOSS
worshipping at the alter of Amphetamine Reptile and Unsane

WAR PARTY
tearing it up like an 80s Poison Idea 7". punk rock.

STATE ICONS
more of that 90s political metallic hardcore punk thing

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