STRAP ON YOUR KNEE PADS
It's almost Christmas party season. There's no good gigs to be attend until 2008, right? WRONG. David Yow and his new troops have the proof next week, Friday 14 December to be exact.
Qui are a trio from Los Angeles, California who have been festering away since 2000, foisting stripped ’n’ damaged noise-punk on a small but appreciative audience. Until last year they were a duo, whereupon something magical happened: David Yow, man of legend thanks to his time in the bands Scratch Acid and The Jesus Lizard, joined as frontman and made them a trio. This is, in noisy rock terms, somewhere approaching Zinedine Zidane joining your Sunday league team, and got Qui a host of attention, much like ZZ would. Recently released on Ipecac, the second Qui album ‘Love’s Miracle’ is an ugly molesting of the blues that harks back to TJL in the best way. Don’t miss this like a clown. Get busy for tunes and a blog that tells it like it is.
Space In The 50s are two-thirds of The Martini Henry Rifles with a fella called Marv hitting some drums, soon to be recognised as greater than the sum of their past experiences. They're still a wholly rocking and messy affair, with the influence of 5,000 noisy punk combos from the last 25 years making themselves apparent. Audio for y'all.
Heck have formerly done time in Sammo Hung, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Shooting At Unarmed Men and some others along the way. Having been teething since the start of the year they're now a big bouncing baby, not a tiny purple ratty one. They have the angular tuffness of Wire or Mission Of Burma, mixed with the new wave popness of Blondie. Evidence right about here.
The vital nitty gritty: it's an early show, so get down to Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby Street, Cardiff from 7.30pm (we were a little optimistic about timings when the poster was conceived) and expect things to be fairly brisk in running; Qui should be on around 8.45pm we think. Tickets, which are a bargain-tastic £7 in advance, can be snaffled this way. Rocking.
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