Friday, December 14, 2007  12:07 am 

Where to Now?

Where to Now?, run by our pals James Hines (Nascent zine/Black Banana/13 Monsters), James Tranmer (Go Faster/The Sticks) and Matt offers you a constant smorgasbord of obscure & tasty nuggets from that fertile period at the end of the 70s and beginning of the 80s, the punk rock monster had finished scaring the shit off the good society and the surviving mammals where feasting on the rotting bodies of conventions, genre boundaries and opera rock, new styles were born, cross-bred with each other and with other art-forms in an unhinged orgy of creativity which gave us some of the most exciting music ever made, its repercussions last to this day (as the existence and success of Where to Now, or the name of this little zine itself demonstrate).

But let them explain what goes on…

Where to Now? is everything post-punk/no-wave/minimal synth/mutantdisco/DIY…it’s three guys, all aspiring nerds, two nights (Where To Now? @ the Penthouse & Idiot Strength @ Fitzherberts) with special guest nerds, a blog coming soon, free compilations & a radio show on www.totallyradio.com

We wanted somehwere to ‘nerd out’ and talk about our latest finds from the carboot sales or charity shops as well as those triumphant bidding wars on e-bay, and we needed a good reason to carry on doing just that. So the easiest thing to do was get a night at The Penthouse (and it was easy). People came and enjoyed, James ‘Sticks’ liked it so much he signed up and is now a fully fledged member of the team. Now we have a radio show lined up and more pressure to find new exciting things within the post-punk sphere, which is huge and is constantly growing. Its a voyage of discovery, cos we’re not buffs, we’re excited, hungry, ravenous.

You may say we have a fake nostalgia for an era none of us can remember but we say we’re hearing it with fresh ears, from a different perspective, in a different context.

At our nights and with the compilations and when we DJ elsewhere we play purely music from the late ’70’s & early 80’s. With the radio show we’ll be playing the same as well as new music that falls into the new wave of DIY/No-wave/post-punk etc., the very stuff this site champions so often so we know you’re going to dig it.

Keep your ears to the ground.

With a wave.

James, Matt & James

2.3-Where to Now

2.3’s anthem, after which the whole endeavour is named is another beautiful and fierce artefact arrived from a bygone era whose spirit beats strong in the caring hearts of today’s heroes. It is featured on mixtape II, available from their myspace page, go get ‘em tiger!

As a bonus, 20JFG would like to drop a couple of post-punk style things, just because we love Where To Now?, and you too, don’t get jealous.

Say the magically mischievous proto-riot grrrrl Love & Rockets style suburban spells of SF’s own The Inflatable Boy Clams’ in ‘I’m Sorry’.

Inflatable Boy Clams-I’m Sorry

20JFG has only ever had to apologise for the kidnapping of cute kittens from caring homes, they were always returned safe after a few hours of playing with makeshift fishing rods from whence fluffy representations of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep hanged slightly humilliated.

Say the melodic fist cast in iron tension of legendary Athenians Pylon snapping & popping with their taut metronomic beat, a mighty ghost haunts the skeleton of Gyrate Plus as reissued by always ace and excitingly expanding DFA records, you can see how the spirit of which WTN are heirs burns strong in the hearts of a legion of wild eyed believers, real youth culture attacking the present to create the future, with an awareness of its roots yet never still, always lunging forward, on and on hungry and furious like a shark in a feeding frenzy. Post-Punk lives to this day, don’t doubt it.

Pylon- Driving School

Tonight

20JFG nite shall also be happening in the Penthouse if you are in Brighton, pop in and say hi! 8-1A, kraut rock, murder disco, spazzed out noise and happy smiles.

labels >> Where to Now?, post-punk