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Lone Lady is a solo performer from Manchester. For gigs she now works with a drummer but she creates and records the music by herself on a four track recorder. Cult Cargo caught up with her in Manchester. Listen to hear her music on her Myspace page and you can go to her label, www.filthyhomerecordings.co.uk for further information.
Can you tell us a bit about your songs, the driving emotions behind them?
Understanding who the Acid Mothers Temple are takes a little bit of research. They are not a band in the normal sense. They are a collective of musicians from Japan who form into different projects, such as Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno, Acid Mothers Gong and Acid Mothers SWR. They have released many records on almost as many different record labels around the world. Each collaboration plays it's own version of space rock cum ambient and each has the talents of AMT leader Kawabata Makoto within it. The incarnation on tour at present, Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. , played the Cult Cargo Launch Party very recently, and along with DJ Roger Hill From radio Merseyside I spoke to kawabata about all things Acid Mothers. Fortunately for us translator Minako Ueda was also there to help the interview along.
Mugstar have been of the most incendiary devices Liverpool has produced for a couple of years now and like a car bomb in Tuebrook there is no telling when they might explode. A devoted group of fans has recognised their frenetic, smouldering and sussed rock fury as the most exhilarating noise the city can make and with their live performances starting to get ecstatic responses and a John Peel session about to hit our brains a change in their profile seems to be coming sooner than they expected.
It seems quite appropriate that Bill Drummond has proposed a day of no music. He ceased his considerably active participation in music in the late 1990's to concentrate on less high profile and artistic projects. His management of Echo and the Bunnymen had helped them to become one of post-punk's more intriguing and atmospheric bands, and with KLF he helped spread revolutionary mayhem in the world of pop for a good few years. Always one for a provocative idea, Mr Drummond proposed the No music day, which he set for 21st of November. The concept came from his ever increasing discontent with how music works and is presented in our society. In 1994 he invented for himself a way of listening to music in a different way. He created a lottery system, which was basically putting the letters of the alphabet in a bag and picking one out for each year. In that year he would only be able to listen to musicians and bands beginning with the letter picked out. And once the year is over he can't consciously listen to anything beginning with that letter again until after he has gone through the whole of the alphabet. This year he is on the letter G. I spoke to Bill on the phone to find out what he was really trying get at.
"I stumbled into the world of music despite myself"
Half Man Half Bicuit's Nigel has for twenty years filled in the gaps between the miserable romantics and the cocky wannabe scallies in North West's rich pop legacy. Presenting the band as a throwaway novelty act he has got away with some of the wittiest and sharpest documentations of British culture and lack of, that has been set to a beat. What we really want to know is how much of his unique vision is down to the band's background in Birkenhead, a very different cultural existence from the city close by as Nigel explains.
Neptune are a three piece band from Massachusetts U.S.A. They make their own instruments and electronics, very strange looking guitars, basses and percussive oddities that make the band a true sight to behold. Maybe what a post nuclear war band may look like. And the sounds that emit from the instruments are just as surprising. You sort of recognise them as conventional sounds, but ones that have decided to communicate with brothers and sisters in different dimensions. Cult cargo met up with founder member Jason to chat about his unique band.
‘I’m just that lazy, no-good-for-nothin’, long haired, four-eyed son who wrecks it all,’ is how former Tramp Attack front man Matt Barton describes himself in his song ‘Short back and sides’.
I meet him in the Lago bar early on a Saturday afternoon, he chose here because ‘you get a cheap pint’. This is a fact not lost on the various drunken men already holding confused conversations around the bar, despite it being only 1.30.
With Liverpool’s musical landscape now colonised by drainpipe wearing fashionistas, Barton cuts a humble figure in his lived-in parka coat and blue jeans.
“Is it all finished for the band now? Yeah, pretty much. I wanted to do one last gig but none of the others wanted to do it,” says Matt.
There is a pretty good chance that you haven't heard of Tattie Toes. They don't have a record label at the moment and have done about a dozen gigs around the country so far. And, horror of horrors, they don't have a Myspace page. They are a four-piece based in Glasgow. Drummer Shane originates from the city, while vocalist Nerea is from the Basque country, bassist Howie is from Bolton and violinist Rafe is a Welsh lad. Their music is an awe inspiring mix of each members distinct musical sensibility and dexterity. Howie and Shane's rhythms swing, twang, rattle and shift in all manner of directions in an avant garde spirit, but they are essentially about hooking the listener. Rafe's violin is a mixture of melody and effects from different ethnic and folk tradtions, and Nerea brings Basque wildness, beauty and stiring dance and performance. Cult Cargo invited them to play at their Christmas party and so we hooked up with them for a chat.
After sitting on their latest recordings for the best part of 2010, Liverpool acoustic outfit Misery Guts are finally ready to release their new EP, More Human Than Human, on Electric Sheep Records.
Not that that's a bad thing
Deaf School have just announced another gig after the sell out success of the Everyman gigs and their farewell to Hope Street Feast concert only a couple of weeks ago. The gig coming up this December will see them returning to the 02 Academy, where they played to a packed house last year.
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The Mighty Diamonds, Jamaica’s Reggae Legends - 31st May - The Picket
Written by bob
The Mighty Diamonds
Donald “Tabby” Shaw, Fitzroy ”Bunny” Simpson and Lloyd “ Judge” Ferguson formed in 1969 in the Trenchtown area of Kingston, Jamaica and have been entertaining the world with their sweet harmonies and conscious lyrics. They quickly became known as the young group with the Motown sound with their soulful harmonies and polished performances. They first hit singles “ Country Living” and “ Hey Girl” were recorded on the Channel One label.
Defcon Christmas party - 15 December - the Grey, Winsor Street
Written by Defnet MediaCome along to the Defcon Crimbo party - a Tribute to Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra Venue: The Grey, Windsor Street, Toxteth Time: Starts late-ish goes on til later that same nite Door Tax: Free - but please donate as proceeds go to St John Hospice.
Free entry so pass on a flyer defconcrimboparty.jpg
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MUGSTAR
www.myspace.com/mugstar
ORCHESTRE TOUT PUISSANT MARCEL DUCHAMP (from Geneva)
www.myspace.com/orchestretoutpuissantmarcelduchamp
BILTONE
www.myspace.com/biltone
@THE CALEDONIA, CATHERINE STREET, LIVERPOOL
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