Badgers Of Death!

No, not another apallingly named Italian noise band, but the secret weapon some believe the British have been employing in Iraq. Dont' believe me? Well, perhaps you may be more inclined to believe the BBC...

The Effects Of Playing Extreme Psychedelia - No.1 In An Occasional Series

The US Navy tried for years to perfect a method for rendering ships invisible, unsurprisingly they failed (although not necessarily in the way you might expect). Instead of pissing around with enormously powerful electromagnetic fields, all they really needed was two analogue synthesizers, one guitar, twenty fx pedals and two specialist field operatives trained in their deployment. As you can see from the photograph below, Morgen's head has already become translucent due to the massive levels of phaseshift and filterfuck emanating from the speakers...

Photo by Mark Pilkington

Kneel, Puny Earthlings!

And as it was foretold in the forbidden Book of Ylem:

Out of the ageless chaos came a large shimmering ship powered by a vast solar sail. On board, three beings, whether gods, men, heroes or monsters, none can say. But what are known are the names and delights of each...

Read on, and know thy fate...

If You're Really Bored

Why not peruse the fantastically enormous and insane spam comment some random fuck-up posted in response to the post "Bored Of Crap Films?", it really is quite something...

What Sundays Are For

TWO SHOWS! ONE DAY! TEN BANDS!

Both happening on Sunday July 22nd.

HUSH ARBORS
Keith Wood aka Hush Arbors is straight outta Virginia, US and a long-time member of Sunburned Hand of the Man alongside his solo psych-folk explorations. Also regularly collaborates with Wooden Wand, Six Organs of Admittance and Current 93.

SHARRON KRAUS
Sometime Oxford, sometime Philadelphia resident Sharron Kraus gives us her incredible dark folk that draws comparisons with Shirley Collins and Anne Briggs, two artists who, like Sharron, have been released on the Bo Weavil label.

ALEX NEILSON
Alex Neilson gives us his unaccompanied solo vocal set of traditional and old-time songs. Neilson’s committed passion for British folk music as well as his deep involvement in the world of free music gives heavy weight to these classic songs.

JOANNE ROBERTSON
Visual artist / musician Joanne Robertson has collaborated with David Cunningham and has a forthcoming album out on Textile Records. Currently showing at the Nog Gallery on Brick Lane is her co-curated exhibition (with Byron Coley) Hot For Teacher. It’s great.

TOM JAMES SCOTT
Tom James Scott is a solo guitarist and sometime member of weirdo-improv rock duo Clunes. His own style is very much centred in minimalist solo acoustic guitar and there is a forthcoming CD album on Bo Weavil in the works.

Pleasure Unit, Bethnal Green Road, London
2.30pm, four pounds
tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/19601

then later (a ten minute walk away)…

SUNROOF!
Sunroof! is the one of the latest manifestations of sonic beauty and oblivion from guitarist Matthew Bower, longtime champion of the UK experimental noise scene, best known as Skullflower’s guiding light and for his work with Total, Ramleh, Hototogisu and Sunlayer.

DIRECTING HAND
Directing Hand is the project of Glasgow-based Alex Neilson, member of Taurpis Tula, Scatter and Tight Meat Trio. Neilson is firmly at the core of free music in the UK and beyond, playing and recording with Jandek, Will Oldham, MV/EE, Richard Youngs and plenty more besides. This particular show will be a drum/vox duo of Alex and vocalist Vinnie Blackwall.

CHORA
Chora have recently relocated from Nottingham to London and deliver glorious psych-drones/vocal whitewash. Impending releases on Chocolate Monk, Gold Soundz, Curor and Utech.

MORGEN UND NITE
High-end oscillations low-end interference nothing in the middle holy fucking extremes one guitar two synths twenty pedals telepathy divided by C sharp equals bastard radiophonic blues offspring of Richard Pinhas and Eliane Radigue equals Morgen Und Nite equals INFINITY.

PARTING THE WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES
PTWHMOBS is Pascal Nichols of Stuckometer and Kelly Jones of Cooper-Jones, who promise flute/drum/vocal meltdown.

Old Blue Last, London
8pm, six pounds
tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/19602

Diversión De la Noche De Viernes

Come to this, the last one was really good. I'm DJing, but don't worry, I promise I won't play any Southern Rock tracks...

...Unless you ask very, very nicely.

Google Attempts To Upload Planet!

No, I'm not referring to the awesome (and slightly creepy) Google Earth, but to one of their experimental sites, Google Mars, where you can explore the terrain of our close celestial neighbour in beautiful hi-res satellite imagery. Unlike Google Earth, there's no markers for places to eat, stay or gawp at, but one day, who knows...

Bored Of Crap Films?

Then I wholeheartedly recommend you check out the website of my good mate and fellow traveller of the spaceways, Gary Parsons, where you can view a few of his rather fine pieces of proper surrealist/magickal film making, where he achieves the extremely difficult act of not disappering up his own arse whilst making genuinely experimental films, a feat fewer and fewer directors/writers/whatever seem to be capable of these days.

Go here, and enjoy.

As Jeff Beck Once Said, Perfect Music To Play The Vicar When He Comes Round For Tea

Michael Flower - Returning To Knowing Nothing (Qbico)
Boredoms - Super Roots 9 (Warner Japan)
Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thunderbolt (VHF)
Ufomammut & Lento - Supernaturals Record One (Supernatural Cat)
Suishou No Fune - I Throw A Stone Into The Endless Depths (Slooow Tapes)
V/A - Pebbles Vol.5: Various Morons (A.I.P.)
Whitehouse - Racket (Susan Lawly)
Ramleh/Skullflower - Adieu, All You Judges (Broken Flag)
Sunroof! - Spitting Golden Zebras (Bottrop Boy)
Daniel Higgs - Plays The Mirror Of The Apocalypse (Slooow Tapes)
Lesbian - Power Hor (Holy Mountain)
Sandy Bull - Inventions (Vanguard)
Michio Kurihara - Sunset Notes (Pedal)
Arbete Och Fritid - Hall Anden (MNW)
Mammatus - Explode The Coast (Holy Mountain)
Richard Youngs & Alexander Nielson - Electric Lotus/Lotus Edition (VHF)
Astral Social Club - Vols 8, 11 & 12 (CD-R)
Ray Russell - Secret Asylum (Black Lion)
Boris - Vein 1 & 2 (Important)
Marble Sheep & The Run Down Sun's Children - Old From New Heads (Captain Trip)