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UPDATE (15 DEC): GALAXIANS NYE AT BELGRAVE MUSIC HALL + MORE

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TAKING THE PLUNGE INTO 2014

BELGRAVE MUSIC HALL, LEEDS

Galaxians will be playing alongside That Fucking Tank at Belgrave Music Hall and Canteen in Leeds on New Years’ Eve 2013.

Here’s more about That Fucking Tank:

‘A two-man barrage of drums and guitar that sounds like war … contains the most righteous sound ever committed to tape. Lightning Bolt and Death From Above 1979 might have been rocking the bro beats’n’strings dynamic a few years back while That Fucking Tank were still largely unknown, but it’s our boys from Leeds who look set to be victors in the longer campaign.’

– NME

Entry is £0, i.e., free.  FREE PARTY!

Everything will probably be kicking from around 9ish, as a complete guess.  However we’ll be updating via our Facebook page as soon as we get any info.  Keep an eye on our Twitter too @GLXNS.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

UPDATE 15 DECEMBER

The mighty Sky Larkin have been added to the lineup!

We played with them earlier this year at the Brudenell Social Club and also had the pleasure of seeing them in the sunshine at Beacons Festival in August.  In for a treat.

 

 

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UPCOMING SHOWS UPDATE, INC. SUPPORTING HAR MAR SUPERSTAR

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Hey, it’s been a while! Here’s an update of some Galaxians shows coming up that are confirmed.  There are also a few more coming up real soon that we’re itching to tell you about but we’re just waiting for them to be confirmed.  Watch this space!

11.11.13 LEEDS Leeds University Union, Stylus (w. Public Service Broadcasting and Vessels)

Adv. price £13.50 (buy here)

Doors 7.30pm (Galaxians on first!)

Combining music, spoken word, and visuals, London-based duo Public Service Broadcasting were formed in 2010 when multi-instrumentalist and songwriter known as J. Willgoose, Esq. recruited equally regally named drummer Wrigglesworth, following a string of eclectic but, ultimately, unfruitful musical outings that had been going on and off since the late ’90s. Inspired by listening to archive material from BBC Radio 4, Willgoose began to delve deeper, searching for both audio clips and film footage from throughout the 20th century that he could possibly complement with indie/electronic music and vice-versa. Public Service Broadcasting’s first release, EP One, appeared in August 2010 and was the perfect introduction to the pair’s concept, featuring “New Dimensions in Sound,” which sampled an infomercial for a record player alongside vibrant indie rock that built into a crescendo of distorted guitar. PSB began to make a name for themselves on the live circuit with an unmistakable set that featured an old walnut-veneered 1960s television which they lovingly described as the band’s “frontman.”

A year after EP One, the duo released the single “Roygbiv” and then The War Room, another EP, this time focusing on World War II and, in particular, The Blitz. Sampling propaganda films, sirens, and a film about the invention of the Spitfire on a track of the same name, the EP created further buzz and radio play for Public Service Broadcasting as they prepared their debut album Inform – Educate – Entertain, which was released in May 2013 on their own label, Test Card. By now the guitar, banjo, and electronics of J. Willgoose, Esq. and intricate drumming from the jazz-trained Wrigglesworth was developing into a well-rounded, well-oiled machine. One of the album’s highlights, “Everest” was based around The Conquest of Everest, a 1953 film documenting Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s first successful ascent of the mountain, including the fitting line “two very small men/cutting steps in the roof of the world.” Public Service Broadcasting went on to tour the album and play a host of festivals in the summer of 2013, as well as secure a support slot with the Rolling Stones in London’s Hyde Park.

(info taken from the event listing)

16.11.13 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club (w. Har Mar Superstar)

Price: £12 advance (+stbf) (Buy)

Doors: 19:30

“I’d travel to the edge of the earth to hear that man sing.” —SF Weekly

“He’s a singular performer who struts with enviable assurance; his confident swagger fills the room.” —Metro

Bye Bye 17, the new album from acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer Har Mar Superstar (aka Sean Tillmann), is currently out on Cult Records. Already receiving widespread critical praise, BULLETT calls the album, “impossibly groovy and infectious,” while KCRW asserts, “I’d call the album a guilty pleasure but I don’t feel guilty at all. It’s just packed full of hooks.” Additionally, of the album’s first single, “Lady, You Shot Me,” Death + Taxes declares, “Har Mar Superstar returns with the song of his career,” while MTV Buzzworthy calls it a “Buzzworthy Obsession.”

Of asking him to join the label, Cult Records founder Julian Casablancas notes, “First time I saw Sean was at the Mercury Lounge years back, and I was blown away by his voice, his confidence and his showmanship. When he recently played me his new record, I felt it was something we could help make truly great. He’s the man with the golden voice, and we’re excited to try and turn people on to that fact… Like the dude himself, the record’s just tough, sad, hilarious and rad.”

Written in New York City, the 10-song album was recorded at co-producer Jim Eno‘s (Spoon) Austin studio with a full live band. Focusing this time more on his voice, Tillmann says, “I was listening to a lot of Otis Redding and Sam Cooke at the time, and I’ve always been obsessed with those guys… ‘Restless Leg,’ ‘We Don’t Sleep,’ ‘Prisoner’ and ‘Rhythm Bruises’ came out of people playing together. But the rest were just like me in a room, gettin’ weird, by myself.” See below for full track-listing.

Tillmann named his flamboyant alter-ego after the Har Mar mall in suburban St. Paul, MN where he spent his youth watching movies and writing songs about passers-by in the food court. Tillman explains, “Har Mar Superstar used to be a different person. It used to be my excuse to get away with the more fantastic things in life… It was easier to get onstage as this other guy and be outrageous and have it be glorified. I guess the confidence I got from being Har Mar Superstar translated into my real life, so now we’re one and the same.”

(info from the Brudenell website)

11.01.14 OLDHAM Constant Friction club night, Jacksons Pit

More details TBC nearer the time, but this sounds like it’ll be ace if you’re in the Manchester area!

19.01.14 LEEDS Hi-Fi Club

Again, more details TBC.  It’s a Sunday though!  Don’t let that stop you, like…

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GALAXIANS TO SUPPORT ITAL (100% PURE SILK) AT NEWLY-OPENED BELGRAVE MUSIC HALL, LEEDS

photoWe are very pleased to announce that along with our pal Game_Program (aka Jon Nash of Hookworms / Nope / Cowtown) we have been confirmed as support for 100% Pure Silk recording artist and former Mi Ami member Daniel Martin-McCormick, otherwise known as Ital, in Leeds on 10th October. From FACT magazine:

“You may already know Daniel Martin-McCormick from his work as one half of Thrill Jockey duo Mi Ami, or his solo endeavors as Sex Worker.

Lately though, he’s been releasing some of the most vital-sounding house music around, under the name Ital. ‘Ital’s Theme’, released this year on Amanda “L.A. Vampires” Brown’s Not Not Fun sub-label, 100% Silk, was a raw, acid-eroded gem in itself, but nothing could have prepared us for ‘Culture Clubs’, a sunblind epic of rough percussion, luscious chords and elements that work against each other as effectively as they work with each other. He’s also collaborated with Brown on the recent Streetwise release, and most recently, released a sterling edit of Candi Staton.

Ital is at the forefront of something more interesting than just great tracks though – along with D’eon, Laurel Halo and the 100% Silk label in general, he represents a generation of Americans taking outsider aesthetics and unpredictable song structures, and applying these to classic house and techno. This approach doesn’t always hit, but when it does, it’s an irresistible antidote to the precision-tooled Beatport house that modern dance music is so often weighed down by”.

Full interview with Ital here: http://www.factmag.com/2011/07/22/new-talent-ital/

In addition to this we are very excited to have been invited to play at the new Belgrave Music Hall and Canteen, soon to be opening it’s doors in Leeds. This new and exciting venue is hosting some fantastic acts and DJs over the next few months and is the brainchild of the Super Friends promotional team whose other projects include Beacons festival, The Iron Wagon and more.

Tickets for the event are available online and from Crash Records in Leeds.

 

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UPCOMING SHOWS UPDATE

 

Hey there!  Here’s an update of some upcoming shows we have lined up at the moment.  Thanks to Aaron Jones for the ace pic above.  (We’ve more shows coming up with details yet to be confirmed under ‘Shows’ above)

15.09.13 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club (with Zombie Zombie)

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Back in 2010, French musician Etienne Jaumet released a deliciously creepy album in the form of Night Music. Now, he’s teamed up with fellow Frenchmen Herman Dune as Zombie Zombie, and the group will release an album, Rituels d’un Nouveau Monde, on November 19 via Versatile. The loopy, hypnotic synth work contained within “Illuminations” represents the second single from the LP.

On this year when all the prophecies are to be fulfilled, Zombie Zombie releases a new album on Versatile Records, entitled “Rituels d’un Nouveau Monde” (“Rituals of a New World”) – with its French title a desire to affirm their “French Touch”!

Behind this mysterious title, the band offers a vast program, no frills, but the urge to take a new direction in their instrumental music after their masterful 2010 effort at horror movies music (“Zombie Zombie plays John Carpenter”).

At the helm, Etienne Jaumet (synthesizers, analog modular drum machines, effects, vox) and Cosmic Neman (drums, percussion, vox, rototoms, bongos, maracas, tambourine…) and the French electro-wizard Joakim behind the controls in his own alaogic studio “Labyrinth” in Paris. A dream studio where analogue synths rub shoulders with top notch hardware. The engineering talents of Joakim plus his knowledge of music served to the best the compositions of the band.

The album was recorded last spring between Etienne and Neman tours with their other projects: solo for Etienne (“Night Music” album, produced by Carl Craig!), Herman Dune for Cosmic Neman.

Although the album title should not be too seriously, it evokes the idea of talking about the spiritual language of music and its magic: the trance achieved through the sound and rhythm, as found primarily in African and Caribbean traditions, where the “ritual” is the procedure to get in touch with a supernatural state – the “New World”, the world-beyond that Zombie Zombie seek to achieve through their hypnotic music.

£7 advance.

 

23.09.13 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club (with Sky Larkin and Cowtown)

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Leeds College of Music SU, Leeds College of Art SU & Brudenell Social Club present:

Sky Larkin
Touring in support of their third album ‘Motto’ released on Wichita Recordings on 16/09/13.
Listen to ‘Loom’ taken from the new album here:
http://youtu.be/24yuszc7Ihk

plus Galaxians and

Cowtown
Local legends Cowtown have recently released (and sold out of!) their third album ‘Dudes Vs. Bad Dudes’. They will be providing the upbeat stomping tunes about Animals, Goths and Monotone faces.
http://cowtown.bandcamp.com/

£4 on the door.

 

02.10.13 LEEDS Oporto (with Klaus Johann Grobe)

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Swiss duo, Klaus Johann Grobe, play a kind of danceable Krautrock informed by early ’80’s New York punk funk pioneers such as ESG.

Driven by an organic yet metronomic beat aligned with synth, chant-like vocals and a monstrous funky bass, this is seriously bum waggling electro-freak goodness. The music does seem to aim towards a certain kind of hypnosis, particularly as the sleeping pill echo-heavy vocals cycle over the locked grooves the pair throw down.

This band are certainly aiming towards the more dance-orientated arena of Kraut music, aligning the metro pulse of Klaus Dinger and Kraftwerk’s calculators to more biological factors – kind of like moss growing on the mainframe.

The duo played selected UK dates in early 2013 in support of their vinyl only album release that gained a great Shindig review, Louder than War artist of the day and Norman Records Single of the Week.

£4 in.

 

19.10.13 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club (as part of Octernal Festival)

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Octernal is a brand new all day event carefully curated by a group of promoters whom all of which want to rock your socks off. We all have our favourite artists that we want to share with you and Octernal Festival is our serendipitous vessel that will make that happen.

Taking place on the 19th October, across 3 stages; Brudenell Social Main Room, Brudenell Games Room and Left Bank Church, there will be a menagerie of acts ranging from bazouki rock to caveman battle doom, from psych folk to slacker indie, from drone to post punk. Every earhole’s a goal!

Octernal features more than 26 acts including:

Veronica Falls
Islet
Bleached
Poltergeist
Conan
Big Joan
Cottonwoolf
The Family Elan
Fever Dream
Finnmark!
Get machine, Destroy!
Galaxians
Gurgles
Latitudes
Mother / Destroyer
RUNGS
The St. Pierre Snake Invasion
T.O.Y.S

+ many more tbc…

Tickets available from:
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TicketWeb
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Tickets £12