Tuesday, December 19, 2006  2:09 pm 

Nascent!

Ok so this post is a big high five to James Nascent aka King of Dude who, from a few years back has been animating Brighton’s cultural life with all sorts of exciting endeavours: Nascent Nights club (together with Genuine Guy and Ben Caton, word), Nascent gigs (The Locust, Coughs, Magik Markers, Yeborobo, Shimmy Rivers and and Canal, Castanets, Death Sentence: Panda!, Les Georges Leningrad and many many more), Where to Now post-punk at the Penthouse, the Do with the bunch of motherfuckers formerly known as themselves including your humble serfs we, and perhaps this BRAP thing with the Real Ultimate Power Crew (temporary name) next spring of BLUD, ah, and also Nascent Sounds, we’ll keep you posted about that. And let’s not forget Dude W.A.R. and Pheromoans…

But let James write now, say hi and hi 5!

*hi 5*

ANTIFAMILY adopt me please.

Ok so I’m not used to this, in fact i’ve never reviewed anything before, not in writing anyway and certainly not for anyone else to read; especially not the savvy likes of you lot. Writing I feel is not a particularly taught string on my bow but I thought it was about time I wrote about the bands that I was digging instead of leaving it to someone else…and taking the credit for whatever. I ain’t gonna lie and you shouldn’t lie to yourself…we all like to take credit for something sometimes. No matter how trivial.

Anyway to the band in hand. WOAHHHH where the hell did this band come from? If you look on gigposters.com there are no posters for shows for this band. They only had a myspace up since last week. Very little info exists on this band even on their website. The name sounds vaguely familiar but any good name should I guess. Basically out of nowhere Antifamily come along and plonk one of the most satisfying, complete and pleasant albums I’ve heard in a long time. Every track earns its place here and right from the first note I knew it was a winner (actually I had an inkling it would be good when I saw the artwork). It’s hard for me to describe the album as a whole as it covers a lot of ground so I’ll do the lazy thing and just throw some reference points down and see if it makes sense….so its Post Punk Pop, The Knife bubbles up inbetween ESG breaks and Raincoats spasms, Lora Logic crops up wailing over some Mutant Disco, Avant Folk gets down with DFA. I reckon that could be the one ‘Avant Folk gets down with DFA’ yeah why not. You’ll probably disagree. If you don’t like that description don’t let it put you off. If you like anything you’ll like Antifamily. If you don’t like it you are weird in a bad way and i don’t like you and I will spread nasty rumours about you.

Antifamily- Law of the Plainsmen

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Tomorrow night, Wednesday, James will be putting AIDS Wolf, Pre and Flesh Failure live at the Hope, regretfully I am going to be in Spain by then, but if you’re around Brighton you’d be a total fool to miss it.

AIDS Wolf have just released a joint album with meat cyborg Arab on Radar related Athletic Automaton, on Skin Graft; it is a black mess of diabolical psychic warfare that smacks by the name of ‘Clash Of The Life Force Warriors’. It totally took me by surprise when I went to Edgeworld last week, you know how December tends to be a comatose month, nothing out yada yada yada, well, this blood-thirsty kitty jumped on me, the rest was whirlwind, heat and flash, I woke up in a corner, I saw my arm still twitching 10 metres away. Ashley was holding the kitten behind the counter, he asked, ‘what do you think?’, I said, yeah, I’ll take it.

AIDS Wolf- Letter to Al Johnson

Anyway, just go to the gig tomorrow at 8 for a cathartic blast of alienated insectoid headbanging washing machine no wave drones such as this, Leter to Al Johnson taken from the aforementioned album (cheers to Jake LPU and Mark Skin Graft for the track). Say hi to James from us.

(If you’re on London catch them tonight at Barden’s)

Off to bed now, will be flying to Spain tomorrow so don’t expect to hear much from me kids, we’ll try to put together some sort of best of the year before xmas day so you can buy your significant other or otherette or whatevs the lovely records your 20JFG caring bears like to throw at each other during their ravenous seasonal tantrums.

Big love to all the people who have made this year bearable, you know who you are.

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