Sat 23rd June
British Wildlife Presents...
featuring...
Post War Glamour Girls
Juffage
T.O.Y.S
Yugoslavian Boys
Moody Gowns
The Otley Courthouse
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Leeds based Post War Glamour Girls, four screaming charmers formed in late 2010. Heavy hitting and dry witted, they create songs which swell up and boil over into brooding, thumping masterpieces reminiscent of Tom Waits, Grinderman and ‘Moon and Antarctica-era’ Modest Mouse. Wearing their hearts firmly on their sleeves, PWGG live shows are a gripping affair. The sets are laced with reckless abundance as songs tinker into a clatter and clatter into a roar before collapsing in a proud heap on top of the audience. Post War Glamour Girls are picking up pace fast and are most certainly one to watch.
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Juffage is Jeff T. Smith, a solo sound artist and multi-instrumentalist from Leeds, via Chicago, Illinois. He is often seen in bars, art galleries, and basements with a band’s worth of instruments.
Juffage is Jeff T. Smith, a solo sound artist and multi-instrumentalist from Leeds, via Chicago, Illinois. He is often seen in bars, art galleries, and basements with a band’s worth of instruments.
A recording enthusiast at heart, he has spent time in some of Chicago’s finest studios including Engine Studios (w/ Brian Deck), and Electrical Audio (w/ Steve Albini). Live shows see him coming up with inventive new ways of bringing his multi-layered recordings to the stage. Through the use of cassettes, drums, guitars, and assorted other loop-pedals and gadgets, Juffage creates complex, yet surprising catchy pop songs.
Juffage performances have been compared to a synthesis of Lightning Bolt’s rhythmic ferocity, Radiohead’s lush pop sensibility, King Tubby’s manipulative production, and Andrew Bird’s ability to make a good loop. The result has been described as a loud, frantic, and beautiful “hyperactive and technically accomplished display”.
He has also recently exhibited multichannel sonic art works for the University of Leeds and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, utilising ambisonics, live looping, portable cassette players, and Max/MSP.
In June 2011, his new album 'Semicircle' was released on 12″ vinyl and digital download by Function Records in the U.K.
T.O.Y.S
Listen to them on Soundcloud
T.O.Y.S are a band made up of Leeds residents Dave Frank, Eddy Lines and ex Leeds resident Adam John Miller. They play great catchy scratchy synth 'n' bass driven noise pop a bit like The Rapture or The Feint.
Yugoslavian Boys
Leeds' Yugoslavian Boys
are simply one of the most thrilling, fun, dumb, angry, plain odd live
acts around right now. Their
furious punk sound is made with organ, bass and two drums - no guitar -
a set-up which makes the usual rock 'n' roll tropes feel unusual in
their hands.
Totalling your
drum kit is just a sad rock-star indulgence when it's expected. The way
Yugoslavian Boys do it felt almost heroic while still being very silly.
Moody Gowns
Moody Gowns are a captivating rigmarole who create an eclectic mash of sounds both catchy and clever. Descending upon the Yorkshire moors each of the bands members were brought together by the dysfunctional directions of one Mr Nathan Moseley who sought out like minds to offer their own quirks and musical fancies to form the bands eclectic mash of sounds. As a result the band take influence from a variety of sources, ranging from Stanley Holloway's light hearted musical monologues depicting pre-WWII Britain, to the genre bashing musical melting pot perpetrated by Ian Dury and the Blockheads
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