TIPPEX ROSTER 2008 - 2009
ALL THE BANDS ARE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
AND FOR FESTIVALS
IN ORANGE = WEÕRE NOW BOOKING
AGASKODO TELIVEREK
BIZARRE ELECTRO PUNK BOP (LONDON / UK / ADAADAT) – UK
& EUROPE TOUR IN NOVEMBER
Agaskodo
Teliverek (which means "the rearing
stallions" in Hungarian) are a London based Japano-Hungarian
quartet. Sounding like a motorway pileup involving Deerhoof,
Gogol Bordello and Captain Beefheart, Agaskodo produce a unique mashed-up style of guitar based
music which combines heavy guitar & keytar riffage with manic beats and schizoid vocals.Over
the last two years Agaskodo Teliverek
have extensively toured the UK & Europe playing alongside acts like Les
Georges Leningrad, Trencher, DAT Politics, J.G. Thirlwell,
Max Tundra and Lightning Bolt. "A sophisticated
performance that's simultaneously funny, absurd, beautiful and musically
brilliant" (Artrocker). www.myspace.com/agaskodoteliverek
Booking :
Laetitia (UK) flash (a) julietippex.com, Marie-Pierre
(Europe) marie (a) julietippex.com, Pascal (Europe) pascal (a) discobabel.com
ALLEZ-ALLEZ
ELECTRONIC RULE BREAKERS (LONDON / UK / KOMPAKT)
Allez-Allez
are Sam Willis and Steve Nolan. They are rapidly
gaining a reputation as London's hottest up-and coming DJs. They promote Kompakt's London parties at Plastic People, which have seen
them play alongside the likes of Michael Mayer, Superpitcher,
Gui Borrato,
Justus Kohncke, Thomas Fehlmann,
The Field and DJ Koze. They have hosted and
played alongside the likes of Nathan Fake, LCD's James Murphy, Optimo, Four Tet, Shackleton, Hercules & Love Affair and Clark amongst
others They have also played twice at James Holden's
legendary Border Community parties at The End. Their blog
/ podcast series (located at www.allez- allez.co.uk)
features exclusive weekly mixes from Allez-Allez,
plus guest mixes from the likes of Nathan Fake, Hot Chip, Studio, Andrew Weatherall Lindstrom, Tobias Thomas, Optimo,
Ewan Pearson, Joakim and
Four Tet. Most recently Sam has remixed up and coming
band High Places, turning it into a blissed out,
euphoric dancefloor work out, and a kraut/freak beat rerub for Glasgow's Sons & Daughters
Their DJ sets are a party mixture of all things weird, wonderful and
danceable - think krautrock / minimal / industrial /
house.
DJ Magazine "Electronic rule breakers
Allez-Allez are set to rule 2008"
The Guardian Guide - "Allez-Allez have an undoubtable
rein on 2008's nightlife"
Time Out - "their consistently
excellent podcast series knocks Resident Advisor off
their itunes throne, walking the line between rock,
rave and everything in between"
Kultureflash -
"two of London's most inventive and in demand DJs"
PLAN B - "Allez-Allez
are developing a space-disco aesthetic that bypasses the sleaze and heads for
the stratospheres"`
www.allez-allez.co.uk
/ www.myspace.com/allezallez /
www.myspace.com/allezallezmusic
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (Europe) marie (a) julietippex.com
BLURT
FREE
JAZZ SAX MEETS ART-ROCK MEETS PUNK (LONDON / UK)
Blurt goes way back to 1980 and was kind of
England's answer to New York's No-Wave. The band survived more than 20 years of
touring and almost as many records. After all this time, Blurt remains the same
wild and unpredictable live act. "This is the most extreme,
danceable music this side of the good Captain (Beefheart),
this side of ESG, of the past three decades" (Plan B). www.myspace.com/tedmiltonblurt /
www.tedmilton.com
Booking :
Pascal (France) pascal (a) discobabel.com,
Marie-Pierre (UK) marie (a) julietippex.com
BUSH
TETRAS
POST-PUNK
GIRLS ACTION (NEW YORK / US / ROIR) – EUROPE MINITOUR OCTOBER 2008
"Post new wave funk/punk early '80s stars
of the New York club scene, the Bush Tetras were one of the most popular and
exciting groups of the era. If there's any one song the Bush Tetras are known
for, it's 1980's "Too Many Creeps" -- the band's most representative
song and also the catchiest, made by the kind of jagged rhythms, slicing
guitars, and sniping vocals. Romeo Void guitarist Peter Woods matter-of-factly
confessed to being inspired by the sound of Pat Place's guitar." -
allmusic.com "...15 years later, this stuff still sounds like the
future." (CMJ). www.myspace.com/bushtetras
Booking :
Pascal (Europe) pascal (a) discobabel.com
JAMES
CHANCE & LES CONTORSIONS
NO
WAVE LEGEND / SAX MANIAC (NY) – AVAILABLE FOR FESTIVALS
"The free form playing of Ornette Coleman with the solid funk rythm
of James Brown, though filtered through a punk rock lens." After a 15
shows European tour in April/May 2007, James Chance is back with a UK tour with
Les Contorsions, French musician who have been his
backing band for two years now. "He's the funk punk brother number
one!" (Melody Maker UK). His Europe backing band
is from Rennes, France. http://www.myspace.com/jameschanceeuropetour
Booking :
Pascal (Europe) pascal (a) discobabel.com
THE
CHAP
DADAIST
KRAUT-POP (LONDON / UK / LO RECORDINGS) – EUROPE TOUR IN NOVEMBER
Dada-garage-disco band from London is back for
a UK tour with several new songs and new dances. Imagine David Byrne shaking
the hand of a soul diva : that's the power of The
Chap. They exactly know to make you dance with a cello. Kids at gigs have said
the Chap "really rock" and "are really out there" and
"look like teachers". Recently, Beck and Bloc Party asked them for
some remixes. All of them can't be wrong. Third album to be
release spring 2008. www.myspace.com/thechap
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (UK, Ireland) marie
(a) julietippex.com, Pascal (France) pascal (a)
discobabel.com
CHEVEU
WERD-PUNK
/ SHITGAZE (PARIS / FRANCE / SS RECORDS)
Formed four years ago around a cheap Casio synth with oldschool prerecorded
rhythms, Cheveu (Ç ha•r È)
can be affiliated to the emerging werd-punk/shitgaze
scene with Times new Viking, Pink Reason, Tyvek and
Psychedelic Horseshit. Their rocknroll, electro punk
and psychedelic sound mixed with a tortured deep voice seduced audiences in US
and Europe where they playes with bands such as
Animal Collective, Awesome Colors, King Khan, Large Numbe
and The Rebel. Byron Coley said about them in the Wire magazine
; "France's Cheveu have an excellent
grasp on a very French post-punk dynamism, devolved in a lopsided way from
progenitors such as Metal Urbain, Warum
Joe and Berurier Noir. But whatever their model,
these guys produce a superior guitar raunch with
great memble mystery moves (...). The primitivism here is lush enough to make you fall over." Labels ; SS records (Sacramento), Rob's House (Atlanta),
Born Bad records (Paris) and Royal/Sdz (Paris). www.myspace.com/cheveu. English press : http://cheveunet.free.fr/presse-eng.htm
Booking
: ClŽmence (UK) clemence (a) julietippex.com
THE
COUNTRY TEASERS
COUNTRY
OUTTA LIMITS (LONDON / UK)
www.therebel.co.uk
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (world) marie (a) julietippex.com
FAUST
KRAUTROCK
LEGENDS (HAMBURG / GERMANY) – AVAILABLE FOR FESTIVALS
The inventors of Krautrock
and legendary german art-terrorists
; these radical gigs will be performed by founder members Zappi Diermaier and JH Peron,
with guests. "Inventors of 'Kraut Rock', iconoclasts extraordinaire, Faust
are key figures in 20th Century music. In the early 70's, along with Can and Kraftwerk, they re-invented pop music as a specifically
European art-form. Virtually imprisoned by Polydor in their own studio for two years, they were able
to revolutionize the whole process of musical production; they improvised with
Industrial noise, generated bizarre hypnotic grooves, indulged in shockingly wilful studio-based collages, and dabbled with every
conceivable musical genre, sometimes simultaneously! Every now and then they
found time for a burst of satirical pop, or occasional waves of delicate
ambience. Amongst those Faust have strongly influenced we must count Brian Eno, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Test Department, Neubauten, My Bloody Valentine, Julian Cope and a host of
Industrial and Techno bands" Chris Cutler. "There is no group more
mythical than Faust" (Julian Cope)
www.myspace.com/faustpages
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (Europe) marie (a) julietippex.com / Pascal (Europe) pascal (a) discobabel.com
GABLE
FRUITY
PSYCHOBILLY (PARIS / FRANCE / LOAF RECORDINGS)
French pop heritage is littered with smooth and
creamy icons: Gainsbourg, Keren
Ann, Adamo and Francoise Hardy. Gable, however, are a completely different kettle de poisson.
Wearing their influences on their sleeves: Moldy Peaches, Meat Puppets and
early Sonic Youth, they stick a lovely big lump of absolutely bonkers, stinky
musical cheese in the face of their suave ancestry. On their second album,
"Seven Guitars with a Cloud of Milk", the subjects of the 18 songs
are as diverse as group suicide, the state of urban music, self-realisation, cats and drunk foxes all clocking in just
under fourty minutes, in the best DIY tradition of
bands such as The Vaselines, Violent Femmes and Beat
Happening. www.myspace.com/gableacute
Booking
: ClŽmence (UK) clemence (a) julietippex.com
CHRIS
GARNEAU
SONGWRITING
(BROOKLYN / USA / FARGO) – UK TOUR IN OCTOBER
Chris Garneau's voice
lies somewhere between liquid and matter on the scale of all that is and ever
was. He is certainly a rare bird. Delicate mix of Regina Spektor,
Antony, and even Elliot Smith, Garneau utilizes 88
keys to craft his music, and pairing this with his voice and the occasional
strings of a cello, Chris Garneau generates
heart-wrenching, fragil melodies. Every note is
perfectly in place, every string delicately caressed and each haunting lyric
riddled with enough ambiguity to keep any intelligent listener addicted. Probably the most stunning artist that's come our way this year.
www.myspace.com/chrisgarneau
Booking
: ClŽmence (UK,
Ireland) clemence (a) julietippex.com
GAY
AGAINST YOU
CRAZY
NOISE / POP / MIDICORE (GLASGOW / UK / ADADAAT)
Gay Against You is consisting of Joe Howe aka Germlin and Lachlann Rattray aka Yoko Oh No ! They are
enthusiastic, messy and very, very friendly duo who
inhabit the middle ground between Cyndi Lauper and
The Locust. In the two years since they formed, they have toured extensively in
the UK, performing with acts such as Lightning bolt, Help she can't swim, DJ
Scotch Egg, Shitdisco amongst others. Phew!
"Gay Against You are part of a fine
mentalist tradition that spans Atari Teenage Riot, Denim and Diamonds, Les Savy Fav, Devo
and, er, Dweeb and are a breath of fresh air in the
often po-faced pretentious Glasgow noise/improv
scene." Diskant. "Two subterranean
creatures dressed in primary school P.E. kits, complete with charcoal-stained
eyes and badly-concealed erections, howl unintelligibly over spaz-core electronics." Fused Magazine.
http://www.myspace.com/gayagainstyou
A live video : click
here http://www.medicinefilms.com/fullscreen.php?clip_id=189053
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (Europe) marie
(a) julietippex.com
GRIMO
EXPLODED
BLUES (CHARTRES / FRANCE)
A self-taught musician and
multi-instrumentalist, Dominique Grimaud expresses
himself on guitar, moog synths... or even 78rpm
discs. He began in 1970 with cult band Camizole
(happenings, impro...). In 1978, he created with
Monique Alba Video Aventures (released by Chris
Cutler on ReR), now viewed as a precursor to the
sound of Stereolab. In the 90s, he played some
far-out bles with Peach Cobbler, along Rick Brown and
Sue Garner. Grimo, who worked with Pascal Comelade and Pierre Bastien, who
is a closed friend of Colleen, is a discreet but major figure in French improvisation
scene. (File under : John Fahey)
http://perso.orange.fr/grimo/
Booking
: Pascal (Europe) pascal
(a) discobabel.com
DAVID GRUBBS
AMERICAN IDOL (NY / USA) – UK TOUR IN JANUARY
Louisville, Kentucky-born
recording artist and writer. David Grubbs was a
founding member of the group Gastr del Sol. He currently plays in the Wingdale
Community Singers and, periodically, with the Red Krayola. He also directs the Blue Chopsticks
label, which has released new and archival recordings by Luc Ferrari, Derek Bailey
and No‘l AkchotŽ, Workshop, Circle X, and many
others. With Jim OÕRourke, Grubbs
co-directed DexterÕs Cigar, an acclaimed label that reissued out-of-print
recordings by, among others, Arnold Dreyblatt, Henry
Kaiser, and Merzbow. In previous lives, David was
guitarist and primary songwriter in the widely influential mid-Õ80s punk group
Squirrel Bait; he was reincarnated into the same position in Bastro, which released two albums and barnstormed Europe at
the Õ80s/Õ90s cusp. David Grubbs has recently completed his tenth solo album,
An Optimist Notes the Dusk, which will be released in October 2008. His other long-term project that is
nearing completion is his five-channel soundtrack to Leaving, a film installation
by Anthony McCall. GrubbsÕs most recent releases include Souls of the Labadie
Tract and Thiefth (Blue Chopsticks), two
collaborations with poet Susan Howe; Two Soundtracks for Angela Bulloch (Semishigure); and A Guess at the Riddle (Drag City/FatCat). In
2000, his album The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named ÒAlbum of the YearÓ
in the London Sunday Times. HeÕs
back in Europe this winter for a few solo shows. www.myspace.com/davidgrubbsbluechopsticks
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (Europe) marie (a) julietippex.com
CHARLES
HAYWARD
DRUMS
SOLO ACT BY THIS HEAT'S FOUNDER (LONDON / UK)
Charles Hayward, drummer and singer with a
status to worship. Set the tone with This Heat, almost fifteen years before
date, for almost everything that is now labelled as postrock. If you're asking where Gastr
Del Sol got it's inspiration, put on This Heat and
Deceit. Hayward can very well be put next to those giants like Bill Laswell and Fred Frith, to put
down a piece of Power-impro nowhere else to be seen.
Links :
www.myspace.com/charleshayward /
www.charleshayward.org
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (UK) marie
(a) julietippex.com, Pascal (France) pascal (a)
discobabel.com
JEREMY
JAY
DOO-WOP
POP (CALIFORNIA / USA / K RECORDS)
From the label that brought you Beck, Bikini
Kill and The Microphones comes one of the coolest new signings to K
Records in a very long time, get ready for the uber-fabulous
chanteuse Jeremy Jay! The very young, very handsome Swiss/American, 6'3
JEREMY JAY is ready to bust his moves in Europe. Jeremy Jay's self titled debut
album will be released on May 20th worldwide through K. Was produced by the indie heavyweight Calvin Johnson, with the single 'Airwalker' already taking off in the U.S. college charts
hitting # 1 is several cities like New York and San Francisco. Like Buddy
Holly, Peter Pan and the John Hughes movies rolled into one. He's pure
Storybook. "A lot of our dreams lately have been sound tracked by Jeremy
Jay and his ghostly pop. " Fader. "Jay's debut on Calvin
Johnson's K Records showcases his dual passions for '50s doo-wop and French
chansons, which coalesce into lo-fi, reverb-saturated
pop" XLR8R. "Jeremy Jay appears to be a man out of
time." Pitchfork
Booking :
ClŽmence (UK) clemence (a)
julietippex.com
FELIX
KUBIN
KORGOTRONIC
FUTURISM (HAMBURG / GERMANY / GAGARIN – A-MUSIK) – AVAILABLE FOR
FESTIVALS
The "whirlwind of the manual" is
simply one of the best live acts to get on the electronic music circuit. people who didn't catch him on one of the countless shows he
played between Porto, Tallinn and Arezzo over the last few years don't know
what they're missing: dadaistic 80s-influenced
electro pop, korgotronic futurism and pure organ
wizardry.
www.myspace.com/fkubin
/ www.felixkubin.de
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (UK) marie
(a) julietippex.com in partnership with Planet Rock
LAWRENCE
WASSER
NO
WAVE DISCO (PARIS / FRANCE / LE VILAIN CHIEN)
Lawrence Wasser is a
band featuring various members around brain-master Laurent since August 2004.
Breast-fed with industrial and no wave music, furiously disco and highly
danceable, dressed as the bunnie-girls from the
suburbs of Hell, Lawrence Wasser set fire to many
European stages. They already performed with : ESG,
Georges Leningrad, Alan Vega, The Chap, Blurt, Kania Tieffer, Honey for Petzi, Jad Fair, Ariel PinkÉ. " You will hear a strange
eclectic sound with elements of new wave, post-punk, rockabilly, surf, lo-fi indie pop and indeed no
wave." (funprox)
www.myspace.com/lawrencewasser
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (UK) marie
(a) julietippex.com, Pascal (France) pascal (a)
discobabel.com
LE
CLUB DES CHATS
WEIRD
POP FOR CATS (PARIS / FRANCE / LE VILAIN CHIEN)
Le Club des Chats is a duet (Ma•a, guitar and the otherwise famous for recording a
single with 79 songs Chevalier de Rinchy on drums).
Their songs tell of the strange adventures of some weird cat-men - all in a
very personal English and an even more personal treatment of pop usual format.
File under : Residents, Red Krayola,
Raincoats
http://www.myspace.com/leclubdeschats
http://www.leclubdeschats.com
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (UK) marie
(a) julietippex.com, Pascal (France) pascal (a)
discobabel.com
MAHJONGG
SICK GROOVE (CHICAGO / USA / K
RECORDS) – EUROPE TOUR OCTOBER-NOVEMBER
Post punk, afro-beat, sick groove, file under A
Certain Ratio, Konono no1, Can...
"Chicago-based collective Mahjongg are one of those musical anomalies that will induce bursts
of head-scratching and itchy feet simultaneously. Non-specific in terms of
genre, Kontpab of Mahjongg feels like a collision of
numerous musical aspersions from the last four decades, where abstract dance
rhythms become dissolved in array of Can-like repetition, and free-form jazz
rubs shoulders with atmospheric funk and math-driven lo-fi
to create an alluring if occasionally confusing concoction of styles."
Drowned in Sound
www.myspace.com/machinegong
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (EUR) marie (a) julietippex.com
MAN
FROM URANUS
ONE-MAN
ELECTRONIC UNIT (CAMBRIDGE / UK)
Man From Uranus is a one man Electronic Noise
unit who uses Organs, Tapes, and Synthesis to mix together the sounds of 60s
Garage, Kosmische Krautrock,
Knightrider Disco, Sun Ra Space-Jazz and vintage
avant-garde into an infectiously surreal groove.
www.myspace.com/mfumyspaceprobe
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (UK) marie
(a) julietippex.com, Pascal (France, Belgium) pascal
(a) discobabel.com
MARVIN
POWER
TRIO (MONTPELLIER / FRANCE)
Marvin are Emilie, Fred and Greg, a
guitar-drums-keyboards three piece from Montpellier, France. Marvin like to have fun, and want you to have some too. Eschewing
the pretence and po-facedness that so often seems to
come as part of the territory of DIY music, Marvin make
blistering, noisy and truly joyful pop. Pounding drums and walloping riffs are
offset by quirky, catchy analogue synth melodies, the
result being something akin to a heavier Devo, the poppiest moments of Lightning Bolt or the tight, proggy silliness of Oxes or Trans
Am. Vocals come in the form of simple refrains, chants and yelps, which seem
somehow like the appropriate response to the primitive energy and joy generated
by three musicians bouncing playful melodies and rhythms off each other. Throw
in a bit of The Boredoms a and Pere
Ubu, and youÕll start to understand the fun youÕll
have here. Put simply, this is part MUSIC FOR DANCING TO – and whatÕs
wrong with that ?
Booking :
Laetitia (UK, with Clique Clack) flash (a)
julietippex.com
MINUSCULE HEY
FRENCH FREAKY POP (BORDEAUX / FRANCE) – FRANCE & UK
TOUR WINTER 2008
File under : Lewis Caroll, Kinks, Young Marble Giants, Monochrome Set, Miniscule
Hey from Bordeaux (France) are a young and hugely talented boy-girl duo whose
surreal Lynchian rock veers sharply from Kinks-y
melodies to Deerhoof-like savagery and back again.
With an entertaining minimalist rock approach where sixties influences from the
Beatles to The Velvet Underground meet contemporary rock. The band inhabit an
"off your trolley" world comprising minuscule songs that demand you
listen to them, absolutely!
/www.myspace.com/minusculehey
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (UK) marie
(a) julietippex.com, Pascal (France, Belgium) pascal
(a) discobabel.com
MENDELSON
SOLO
ACT WITH VIDEOS (PARIS / FRANCE)
www.myspace.com/mendelsonlegroupe
Booking
: Pascal (Europe) pascal
(a) discobabel.com
POLLYESTER
DRINK ! YELL ! DANCE !
MUNICH DADA DISCO (MUNICH / GERMANY) – UK TOUR IN OCTOBER
Starting in 2007 POLLY ESTER (voc, bass) and
YOSSARIAN (drums,voc)
created a new sound by not surrounding themselves with tons of equipment but
being a real jack-in-the-box band, surprising and hysterical. Polly«s lyrics tell stories about dandies, chewing gums,
legendary lovers and paranormal phenomena of all kinds POLLYESTER known from Zombocombo, Kamerakino,
Convertible, Tiki Tiki
Bamboos and theatre works for Kammerspiele Munich
http://www.myspace.com/loveincm
http://www.myspace.com/pollyesterskoshka
http://www.myspace.com/djmooner
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (UK & MORE) marie (a)
julietippex.com
PRAM
PARALLEL
POP (BIRMINGHAM / UK / DOMINO) – AVAILABLE FOR FESTIVALS (INSTRUMENTAL
ONLY)
Influenced by the kraut-rock as by childhood
universe, Pram has been back last autumn with a new album to be released on
Domino records. Formed since the early nineties, they worked with musicians
such as Stereolab, Mouse on Mars and Aphex Twin. Their performances mix weird instruments, pop
schemes and some video images for a unique act.
www.myspace.com/pushthepram
Booking
; Marie-Pierre (Europe) marie
(a) julietippex.com, Pascal (Europe) pascal (a)
discobabel.com
RAY
BARTOK
ELECTRO
ROCK DUO (PARIS, FRANCE)
A new and exciting electro rock duet from
Paris, France: keyboards and drums: a great live act!
www.myspace.com/raybartok
Booking
: Pascal (Europe) pascal
(a) discobabel.com
THE
REBEL
COUNTRY
NOT COUNTRY (LONDON / UK)
The Rebel is 3 things: 1.a composer/producer, beavering away in his studio making albums, alone, and 2.a
live band comprising 2, 3 or 4 persons 3. 28 albums released in just a few
years. Playing live, the Rebel is now accompanied by Sophie Politowicz
on drums, who joined him in 2004. She plays bass for
Country Teasers. Robert McNeill, Country Teasers' keyboards-and-guitarist since
1999, joined the Rebel in 2005, but lives in New York. Alastair Mackinven, Country Teasers' guitarist since 1996, joined
the Rebel on bass in 2007. The group is now a 3 piece when it plays in Europe
and a 4 piece when it plays in America. It differs from Country Teasers in its
freeness, not being tied down to the same rules which govern
that other group, such as machismo, Country, a hat, simplicity and
attack. It is a more complicated realisation of the
human brain's psychedelic geography, yo! www.therebel.co.uk
www.myspace.com/pleasebanmusic
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (Europe) marie
(a) julietippex.com
S.C.U.M.
POST-PUNK TECHNO TWIST (LONDON / UK/ LOOG) - UK TOUR SEPTEMBER
Electronic shrieks and synthesised
thunderstorm effect, thumping drums, growling synths
and overdriven guitar, S.C.U.M 's sound had
elements of heavy metal with a techno twist. S.C.U.M. are a five piece band from London who currently in the studio with
Rory (ex Test Icicles) and Tomethy Furse of The Horrors working on new tracks for a debut
release very soon. Their single launch on the sept.11th at Shoredith
church is also the beginning of their september tour . Available from the 12th to the 23rd
across UK.
"Tracks like 'Rituals' and 'Visions Arise'
are a contemporary Edgar Allan Poe meets Bauhaus/PiL
approach mixed by a psychotic On-U Soundsystem" Artrocker
Booking :
Laetitia (UK) flash (a) julietippex.com
SERAFINA
STEER
HARP
/ VOICE / KEYBOARDS SOLO ACT (LONDON / UK / STATIC CARAVAN)
Serafina
Steer, who plays the harp and keyboards, has recently been commissioned along
with Buck 65 by Tunng to be part of a special
creation for Les Transmusicales festival in France.
On her side, this young musician from London has played a few rare and
beautiful shows over UK, France and Switzerland supporting a one-off show of
Young Marble Giants on the continent, and the London gig of Pram. We hope to
see her around more and more often, as least as often as we listen to the first
album ("Cheap demo, bad science" on Static Caravan) of this brilliant
composer who has been compared to Brian Eno, Ivor Cutler, Joanna Newsom and Laurie Anderson. www.myspace.com/drumstreetsefa
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (Europe) marie (a) julietippex.com,
Pascal (Europe) pascal (a) discobabel.com
SKELETONS
& THE KINGS OF ALL CITIES
DEVIANT
FOLK (NEW YORK / US / TOMLAB)
Brooklyn-based freaky folk
(file under Tortoise, Thee More Shallow, Animal Collective or Xiu Xiu).
As a co-founding member of Shinkoyo records,
Ohio-bred/Brooklyn-based Matt Mehlan retains that
label's core ideals of collaboration, experimentation, and unpredictability
with his Skeletons project. Beginning in Oberlin, Ohio as a solo act with help
from an eclectic cast of collaborators (classically-trained trombonists, punk
rock drummers, a junkyard boy's choir), Skeletons has now settled comfortably
into its adult body, having established a full-time band [The Kings of All
Cities], earning comparisons to acts as diverse as Can, Prince, Sonic Youth and
Boyz II Men. www.myspace.com/skeletonsandthegirlfacedboys
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (Europe) marie (a) julietippex.com
SO-SO
MODERN
CRAZY
PUZZLE POP (WELLINGTON / NEW ZEALAND / TRANSGRESSIVE)
They are four, they are strong and they are
from New-Zealand : after a six months tour all over UK
and Europe, So So Modern will be back in Europe this
summer to play clubs & festivals. The energy of Liars, the groove of Daft
Punk, the crazyness of Polysics
and the vibe of Foals : catch them before they become
really big ! www.sosomodern.com / www.myspace.com/sosomodern.
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (UK / IRL) / Pascal (France) in
partnership with Proton (EUR)
THEY CAME FROM THE STARS I SAW THEM
PSYCHEDELIC AVANT-POP (LONDON / UK / THIS IS NOT AN EXIT)
– EUROPE & UK TOUR WINTER 08
The last 8 years have seen they came from the
stars i saw them mutute
from a totally indescribable avant-pop racket,
through prog and free jazz, playschool big band cult
pop to the current set of out and out psychedelic disco pop. Along the way they
have variously been compared to The Flaming Lips, Animal Collective, Sun Ra,
Silver Apples, Funkadelic , Hot Chip, Can , The Beta Band, James Chance, Faust,
Boredoms, Devo...But frankly it's a bit of a blank
canvas...they sound most like they came from the stars, i
saw them! Book them to see them play one of their unforgettable
live shows and see who YOU would compare them to.. www.myspace.com/theycamefromthestarsisawthem
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (Europe) marie (a) julietippex.com
WEVIE
STONDER
CACK
MUSIC (GERMANY-UK / N/A)
Since 1993, Wevie Stonder from
Brighton have continued to delight audiences from Geneva to Glastonbury
and Sonar with their 4/5/6-piece absurdist electro show. They started armed
with an Amstrad 3 track 'studio 100', 'Johnny Guitar' and a Casio pt82 and have
done, then, a failed cover version of Stevie Wonder..s "I just called to say I love you", and
marked the birth of Wevie Stonder.
In 1999 Wevie Stonder
joined SKAM Records - an event described by some as the biggest setback ever to
have hit the label, and then Sonig. Wevie Stonder will release their
new album in spring and are set to take their theatrical Cack
music thang to the road. Be ready to face, on stage
many things other than the music: onstage fighting, films, competitions,
audience participation, and a number of wigs. www.myspace.com/weviestonderr
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (Europe) marie (a) julietippex.com,
Pascal (Europe) pascal (a) discobabel.com
YOUNG
MARBLE GIANTS
POP
GIANTS (CARDIFF / UK / DOMINO) – OPEN TO BEAUTIFUL OFFERS
Young Marble Giants were a Cardiff post-punk
musical trio formed in 1978. Their style featured minimal, but unmistakable
instrumentation provided by brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham,
which supported the cool, plaintive voice of Alison Statton.
Stuarts songs were always insistently simple seeming, and the YMG's classic work was centered around a weird mix of
Phil's steel-hawser bass, Stuart's haunting, rhythmic organ lines and punchy
rhythm guitar (played on a rare John Lennon style blonde Rickenbacker), with
Alison's slightly flat, plaintive vocals tentatively hanging in the space
above. Very early in their existence, a fourth member of the YMGs was the cousin of Phil and Stuart, Peter Joyce, an
electronics whizz, who had made his own synthesiser
from a kit. This was a small touch-sensitive keyboard with an attache case-like box of circuitry, with several knobs and
dials. It made sounds a lot like Eno's synths in the early Roxy Music, and Kraftwerk
employed similar 'low-tech/high-tech' electronics. The YMGs
used the synthesised rhythm machines available at the
time (thet late 1970's) since they had no drummer.
They were also interested in (by todays standards
primitive) state of the art effects devices such as ring modulators and reverb
units, and the emphasis was always on simplicity. While signed to UK
independent record label, Rough Trade the YMGs
released two EPs,Final Day
and Testcard, and one acclaimed and very influential
album, Colossal Youth (a reference to the Early Greek 'Kouroi'
marble statues, from which the YMGs took the
inspiration for their name.) The band toured and played in the US, Japan and
Europe, and played in San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, Berlin. Touring
companions included the band Cabaret Voltaire. Musical influences included Eno, Kraftwerk, Neil Young, Lou
Reed, The Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Can and others. The band
were acquainted with Scritti Politti,
the band of Cardiff native Green Gartside, and ended
up signed to the same label, Rough Trade records. It was revealed in the 2003
book Journals that the band were, along with
Scotland's The Vaselines, Kurt Cobain's favourite band. Courtney Love's band Hole covered the Young
Marble Giants track "Credit In The Straight World". After a couple of
splendid shows in UK and France in 2007, Young Marble Giants are back for a few
rare shows around the world. www.myspace.com/youngmarblegiants
Booking
: Marie-Pierre (World) marie
(a) julietippex.com, Pascal (World) pascal (a)
discobabel.com
ZOMBIE
ZOMBIE
KRAUT
ROCK DANCING DUO (PARIS / FRANCE / VERSATILE) – UK TOUR IN SEPTEMBER
Vintage & Analogic Electro-Kraut : Zombie Zombie is Etienne Jaumet, sax and
a collector of vintage synthesisers and Neman,
drummer of Herman DŸne. A couple of lines on
monophonic synths plus some mean krautrock
drums is their game. Album to be release on Versatile
(Joakim, I:Cube)
early 2008. "Can meets Suicide meets Cosmodrome meets LFO meets John Carpenter meets
Sonic Boom. Scary" (Chronic'Art). "I
really enjoyed them! Fine example of how rock and dance can be tasteful,
energetic without break down the walls distorted synths
or guitars. Bravo !" (Nick Chacona),
"'Driving This Road' could be a lost Can anthem !
4,5/5" DJ Mag. www.myspace.com/therealzombiezombie
Booking :
Marie-Pierre (World) marie (a) julietippex.com,
Pascal (World) pascal (a) discobabel.com