I'm the Hiccup in your Tea Cup

by Lee Puddefoot on Fri, 2009/04/17 - 4:08pm Post to Twitter

Ah, it’s that time of year, the sun comes out and we bathe ourselves in its cancerous rays like its going out of fashion. Lavishing it all over our pasty excuse for a complexion. Between the punctured holes in the cloud it pieces through blinding and burning without a second thought. Sun its overrated, it makes you sweat and in turn you smell and the result is you into; a meandering dripping graceless lump.

But, for some reason it makes people happy, is brightens up the most ardent dullard such as myself. So, it’s quite apt that this SUNday, that monthly club Chamber returns with something to help shield you from those darting, burning shards of light.

For those taking the time to watch the poor excuse for a ‘competition’ in Sundays FA Cup semi final clash between Manchester United and Everton, you can regal what’s sure to be total demolition of Everton for an afternoon drink over at the Legion in Old Street.

Hide in a dark corner and let a collection of dark and searing bands strip you of those sunburn strips for Chamber have teamed up with a bunch very much like us Artrockers in the shape of God Is In The TV Zine. Fingers on the pulse of new music? Oh yes they are.

So for those that went to last months show and saw the enormous pixie like sight of Patrick Wolf watching the near-naked anti-poet No Bra should know where The Legion Is.

Get yourself to The Legion 348 Old Street, London, EC1V 9NQ at 7pm sharp and get out that little collection of coins or a note and pay the paltry five pounds to see five bands. A credit crunching feast of salivating musical delights. 

For as the furry one known as DJ King Chinchilla will playing anything from Kasms to Ministry and then Untitled Musical Project up to Dick Dale and Lord Auch and who knows where afterwards.

Demented new wave trio Demontre will be spitting out bile through the Beelzebub hooks and Television esque melodies. And as our very own Stu Plimsols arrives for some ridiculous Artrock classics, experimental pop mongers Akira will be taking things a little further, playing tracks off of their recent ‘Japanese Frequencies EP’. The boundary wrestling three piece are really dazzling to watch, just mind out for the effects pedals.

The careering samba surf six piece Deathray Trebuchay will be changing the momentum as their blend of gypsy punk and buccaneering madness will attack you in all of its fiddle bleeding glory.

Bradford’s Jon Jones & The Beatniks Movement are simply just fucking powerful. Stooges, Ramones, Queens of the Stone Age and Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster all mangles into one dirty ball that we my friends call ROCK.

And talking of Eighties Matchbox, Andy Huxley and Co will be finishing the proceedings with his demented bunch of jerking junk funkers Vile Imbeciles. Watch as the nimble footed front man contorts and twists whilst the guitarist spins his beastly axe around his head getting down and dirty like Captain Beetheart buggering Sly Stone in the Titty Twister all soaked in tequila.

Sundays are there to be used. Don’t waste them in the name of ‘resting yourself’.

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Myspace: www.myspace.com/thisischamber

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=58811034880

Don’t believe me? Well this is what those so called experts have to say:

Vile Imbeciles: Brighton

www.myspace.com/vileimbeciles

“Decidedly uneasy listening perhaps, but curiously triumphant” Uncut

“Wilfully avant-garde trio admirably attempt to disassemble rock n roll (KKKK)” Kerrang

“sounds like captain beefheart if he were 50ft tall, possessed by the devil himself and plugged directly into the national grid” The Word

‘Sick Hands’ Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9xJNBqc2U

‘Bad Ideas’ Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuyF3h01Ms&feature=related

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Jon Jones & the Beatniks Movement: Bradford

www.myspace.com/jonjonesandthebeatniksmovement 

“This is fucking primal stuff!” MONO

“a piece of punk escapism, a nightmare on your street, a bad trip on a flight home, a psycho-babble orgy - whatever you fear most, this is it - enjoy, enjoy, enjoy - do it now!! Absolutely electrifying!" Toxic Pete

“Afterwards I spoke to the rock oracle; she looks at me from underneath her smeared eyeliner and said ‘Yes.” The Moose Factory

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Deathray Trebuchay: London

www.myspace.com/deathrayband  

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“Ace punk meets samba meets surf"  Time Out

"Death Ray Trebuchey have blended the genres of surf rock, samba, ska, and punk to create a scary other world of dancing skeleton Mexicans who parade about carrying heads on pikes"  spoonfed.co.uk

Live at Shunt:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw7vMC2wr80

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Akira: London

www.myspace.com/akiraband  

"Car-crash music shouldn’t sound so sexy… discordant pop gold." 4/5 God Is In The TV

"The one overriding factor that they have going for them is the sheer scope of their vision. They’re one of the few bands who you can really say are completely doing their own thing with no regard to what the outside world thinks it should be hearing." Drowned In Sound

‘Tickertape’ Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvakvlHQGzQ

‘End’ Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQmBsKAWLAQ&feature=related

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Demontré: London

www.myspace.com/thisisdemontre  

“Three piece combining demonised pop and lurching and contorted thundering rhythms” Actually, I said this.

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GOD IS IN THE TV ZINE: Worldwide

www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk

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For more info:

Email: thisischamber@yahoo.co.uk