Summercamp - Ghost Train ― Tuesday 9, 2010
New hot act on Moshi Moshi, lovely.
Stopmakingme - OWTIC 001 ― Monday 8, 2010
Here’s a regular little feature I’ll be contributing to the ace Out With The In Crowd website. A mix of brand new music making my life better right now. It’s more a collection of records rather than a DJ mix but the idea is that it should be listened to in this order. A mixtape, if you will. It’s always a really enjoyable exercise to do such projects. It gives me the opportunity to bring out some different tracks I wouldn’t normally play in clubs. Put it on your iPod and have a listen whilst walking around in the cold. Hope y’all like it!
Stopmakingme - OWTIC 001 (February 2010) by stopmakingme
- Bot’Ox - Blue Steel
- CFCF - Raining Patterns
- Darwin Deez - DNA
- Sonny & The Sunsets - Heart Of Sadness
- Wetdog - Lower Leg
- Teenagersintokyo - Peter Pan (The Horrors Remix)
- Active Child - Voice Of An Old Friend
- Liars - Scarecrows On A Killer Slant
- Pantha Du Prince - A Nomads Retreat
- Gui Boratto - Azurra (Not The Same Version)
- Mount Kimbie - Maybes
HUDSON MOHAWKE @ Nation of Shopkeepers 23rd April 2010 ― Monday 15, 2010
Scottish Hip Hop producer/DJ Ross Birchard aka Hudson Mohawke released his first full length LP ‘Butter’ last October on Warp much to the appreciation of music lovers and critics everywhere. After Hudson returns from his stint at SXSW in March, he will embark on a short run of live shows in the UK. As yet these dates haven’t been announced but he will be playing Leeds at Nation of Shopkeepers on Friday 23rd April.
Tickets on sale now from Jumbo Records - Click here!
www.myspace.com/hudsonmo hudsonmohawke.com/butterstargalactica/
New Shy Child video ‘Disconnected’ ― Wednesday 3, 2010
Shy Child are playing Nation of Shopkeepers on Wednesday 3rd March, tickets are selling quickly so buy them while their available, then settle down in your favourite chair with a cup of milky luke warm weak tea and watch their new video ‘Disconnected’.
Washed Out - Feel it all around ― Thursday 28, 2010
As its a sunny and kind of warm day today I thought I’d post this tune by Washed Out called Fell it all around, its beautiful and the video isn’t bad, although its not the official one, it sort of fits nicely. Roll on July!!
No Bones presents - EGYPTIAN HIP HOP // IS TROPICAL // YUCK - Sat 6th Feb ― Wednesday 27, 2010
Two underground and blog hyped acts and one relatively new band that will be doing some great stuff this year. London trio Is Tropical wear masks. They are the kind of dudes who enlist a Mystery Jet to help them bash out a rampaging Fela Kuti cover. They also steal boats. After the jump they talk cocktails, Jim Morrison and sonic booms. Manchester youngsters Egyptian Hop Hop were Guardians new band of the day in October 2009 they sound like erm, well not Hip Hop or Egyptian, maybe a bit like Quando Quango or Klaxons on methadrone, download their track ‘Rad Pitt’ its pretty er…Rad? Yuck is the new off shoot from members of CAJUN DANCE PARTY
Doors 9pm / £3 on the door
www.myspace.com/istropical www.myspace.com/egyptianhiphop www.myspace.com/yuckband
REAL ESTATE / Friday 29th January 2010 ― Wednesday 23, 2009
Everyone at Nation is super hyped up about seeing these guys. They’ve been one of the most talked about bands on the US blog scene and hopefully the british kids will latch on by the time they swing by. Check out this live performance from the Pitchfork curated gig in Brooklyn last month.
Doors 7.30pm / Free Entry (£1 donation to stare into singers fringe)
SKY LARKIN and PULLED APART BY HORSES confirmed for New Years Eve party to end all parties! ― Wednesday 9, 2009
Nation of Shopkeepers in association with SAILOR JERRY RUM & SHUT Magazine present
NO BONES NEW YEARS EVE PARTY
with special guests
PULLED APART BY HORSES
SKY LARKIN
WONDERSWAN
SPECTRALS
No Bones DJ’s
Moustache DJ’s
Denim Venom DJ’s
Easily the hottest ticket in Leeds for people who love Nation of Shopkeepers(ha ha duh) or and more importantly people who love great live music and ace DJs playing ace music, both even.
‘Pulled Apart by Horses’ could be a sick torture method or the name of a new rock consortium from Leeds of west riding. ‘Momentum has been building steadily over the past year for PABH and the band have quickly grabbed attention from the likes of Radio 1’s Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq, the NME, Artrocker, Scottish rising-stars Dananananaykroyd and the inquisitive minds of some of Britain’s most recognizable indie labels. The band only began in Feb 2008 and things have moved more than quickly for them so far. Their sometimes angular but mostly aggressive, amp-melting blend of rock riffs and contemporary alt-noise has seen them climb to the top of Leeds’ musical pile and establish themselves as one of the most essential new acts in Britain. They also blew crowds away at this years Leeds & Reading festival after being asked by Radio 1. Influences remain scarce but from the outlook of the set up of this 4-piece it could be suggested that you’ll be in for a disco rock hammering with a large dose of hard riffing and yelping vocalities. 2010 may well be the year of the horse!
Sky Larkin
Refusing to be musically pigeonholed or viewed as a provincial concern, there’s a timeless, international scope to their music, echoing the likes of The Breeders, Violent Femmes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more. To compare Sky Larkin directly to any singular band or record however, would be doing the trio a grave injustice.
Wonderswan and Spectrals are both relatively new to the UK music scene, both having put out releases on diy labels and both having a very lofi and unpretentious stage manor and approach to gigs.
All bands will be playing their normal sets with a twist, which is they’ll be throwing some covers in there, which will be nice.
DJs will be No Bones residents, Moustache DJs and Denim Venom, rad!!
£7 adv from Jumbo, Crash, Nation of Shopkeepers and Seetickets.com
Ticket Hotlines
Jumbo - 0113 2455570
Crash - 0113 2436743
Doors - 8.30pm - 4.00am
Free Sailor Jerry Rum between 8.30 and 9.30
::: 100 free tickets available from Monday 7th December at 9am be emailing nationof@hotmail.com :::
::: If you are lucky enough to win a ticket you will receive an email before Friday 11th December with confirmation and terms and conditions :::
Over 18s Only
Local Natives coming over the sea in February 2010 ― Saturday 21, 2009
Probably the hottest band at SXSW earlier this year and easily the most deserved hype for any band at the festival that played. These guys are great and you should definately check them out at the Brudenell before they become mega big and go and play really boring large venues with no personality of character.
Tickets go on sale on Monday 23rd November through Jumbo Records, Crash and also Seetickets.
I imagine this will sell out faily quickly so get in there and grab a ticket while you can, before they end uo on T4 and your mum wants the album for christmas.
David Bazan aka Pedro the Lion appearring at Nation of Shopkeepers in February ― Thursday 19, 2009
Known for his work fronting the enigmatic rock band Pedro the Lion, David Bazan’s emotionally charged narratives, eye for telling detail, and mournful voice have more in common with J.D. Salinger’s “Nine Stories” or Flannery O’Connor’s “Wise Blood” than with the usual lyrical slant of popular music. Bazan is a gifted storyteller, weaving parables of spiritual conflict, suburban ennui, and personal surrender into magnetic, well-crafted songs.
His debut solo full-length album, Curse Your Branches, is a masterwork by a modern American poet at the height of his powers. Paste Magazine called him one of the “100 Best Living Songwriters”. This record is the deepest and most explicit exploration of his struggles with faith and a meditation on all things passed between the generations.
Don’t be scared…it’s just Castrovalva and their mates coming to destroy Leeds this Saturday! ― Wednesday 18, 2009
Word, Castrovalva and their boys Brontide (ex I Was A Cub scout) and friends from Finland Jaakko and Jay (currently on tour with The Bronx) will be spreading the love at No Bones this Saturday 21st November. Castrovalva will be celebrating their new single Thug Life which is mad packed with dopeness and gun toting street knowledge, recognise fool!
Doors open at 8pm, first band on at 8.30pm. Free entry till 10pm and then £3 and £2 afterwards.
Real Estate live @ Nation of Shopkeepers / Fri 29th Jan / Free entry ― Tuesday 17, 2009
Below is the Real Estate album review which received 8.5 on Pitchfork
Real Estate were born in the depths of one New Jersey summer. Frontman Martin Courtney had just returned home to his native Ridgewood from college in Washington State, a few fresh songs in his pockets. He’d been playing music with bassist Alex Bleeker and guitarist Matthew Mondanile since high school in various forms, even covering Weezer and the Strokes records from tip to tail. But during the summer of 2008, Real Estate didn’t get nostalgic for just their specific suburban nights, crushes, or favorite bands as teens—they fashioned a tin can-and-string to memories more universal. Their self-titled debut LP is a collection of those first underwater pop songs and onward, 7” cuts and mpfrees that have been backstroking their way across the Web and into lo-fi nerdpiles. Over the past year, many of these songs have soundtracked a time when it feels like every kid in or just out of college seems to be handcrafting/clamoring for music that shuttles us back to a time before career choices, adult responsibility, and this recession.
And while the Jersey Shore has clearly become the beating heart of their current aesthetic, Real Estate captures a rock band several lengths ahead of the fuzzy beach bums with which they pine. Real Estate share tones with North Jersey indie rock titans Yo La Tengo and the Feelies, pouring those influences through warm impressions of oldies radio. Riffs are cyclical and massaged, harmonies familiar. Each song is dunked in reverb and delay, though always with serious restraint. Most importantly, all boast architecture that still allows for swaths of jamming, the feeling that every measure’s unfolding as easily as life ought to.
“Atlantic City” is a fitting entrance point, an instrumental that lopes along on a humid bass line before Courtney and Mondanile (the mind behind the cassette adventures of Ducktails) begin gently braiding together strands of trebly surf guitar over Mexican güiro. Single “Beach Comber” keeps things light as Courtney looks for meaning in the sand while Mondanile pokes around with his Strat. The bedrock here (see “Fake Blues”) is almost krautrock-y in the way each layer repeats itself, a bent that might prove too drowsy for some. But as is the case for much of the experience, Mondanile adds classic rock sugars throughout, taking off on a solo at the three-minute mark that unbuttons everything really gracefully.
Elsewhere, “Black Lake” is a gorgeous waltz whose slide recalls Modest Mouse’s late-1990s take on the 1959 Santo & Jonny classic “Sleepwalk”. Because Courtney’s croon can be tough to make out at times, those watercolor frequencies lend that overwhelming sense of longing real grip, jam passages often more evocative than spaces that feature vocals. Nowhere on this debut is that better absorbed than on midpoint palate-cleanser “Let’s Rock the Beach” or the six-minute shimmer of “Suburban Beverage”.
With the exception of the limp “Pool Swimmers”, every part remains remarkably crisp. But what sets Real Estate apart from the rest of the herd is how evergreen its beauty can be. Despite the summery song titles and the beach balling associations that might follow these guys around, this music transcends the notion of seasons. Inside the overcast tenor of “Black Lake” and the airy upstrokes of “Green River”, there’s much more at play here than what goes on between the months of June through September. And impressionism aside, this is a band whose chemistry and technical gifts suggest there’s more coming down the pipeline: more good times to be soundtracked, and more songs and records and sounds to communicate exactly that.
Ladyhawk “You Ran” video (not the cringey pretentious australian one) ― Saturday 14, 2009
I love this band, simply because they are so overlooked by the idiots who are obsessed with buying into the latest bands. Ladyhawk are the real deal and its time that people sat up and took notice. This video is from the 2nd release which is an EP called “Fight for Anarchy”. They have two full length albums out on Jagjaguwar which you can and should order from HERE.
They have a new side project called SPORTS which there will be more information about their forthcoming release really soon.
Film Festival - Jumbo Night: I Need That Record! / Sun 15th Nov ― Thursday 12, 2009
The Film Festival and Jumbo Records present I Need That Record, a documentary for record lovers everywhere. Part celebration, part lament, the film faces the myriad threats against the indie record shop’s survival from corporate record labels to the digital revolution. Featuring Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Ian Mackaye of Fugazi, Noam Chomsky, Mike Watts of the Minutemen and more. Jumbo Records will provide a stall for the evening and DJs.
Sunday 15th Nov @ Nation of Shopkeepers
Doors at 7pm / Film at 8pm open till about 11.30 / Fun to be had all night!!!
Leeds International Film Festival
The Cave Singers / Woods & Espers tour hits Leeds on Monday ― Wednesday 11, 2009
As part of the Shred Yr Face tour organised by Witchita and Kruger magazine. The show will be at Brudenell from 7.30pm and the after party at Nation of Shopkeepers straight after for the Old romantic Killer Band soundtrack night.
www.myspace.com/woodsfamilyband www.myspace.com/thecavesingers www.myspace.com/espers
Four Tet come to Leeds plus new album details ― Thursday 5, 2009
The fabulous genre testing Keiren Hebden releases his fifth album under the Four Tet moniker, its also his first Four Tet album in four years. The album is released in January on Domino and Keiren is touring the album in March 2010. Here are the dates:
Friday 12th February: London – Dome (with Joy Orbison as support)
Thursday 11th March: Manchester - Club Academy
Friday 12th March: Leeds - TJs (buy tickets HERE!!)
Saturday 13th March: Edinburgh - Bongo Club
Thursday 17th March: Brighton - Concorde 2
Friday 19th March: Birmingham - Custard Factory
Saturday 20th March: Bristol Fiddlers
No Age ‘Live at The Smell’ DVD out now ― Thursday 5, 2009
One of my favourite bands from the past two years, No Age!! This DVD that captures 10 of the most vital bands in America performing at The Smell, downtown LA’s essential all-ages venue. Its about 2 hours long and has a ton of good footage on it including: The Mae Shi, Foot Village, Ponytail, Abe Vigoda, High Places, Gowns, Barr, No Age, Health, Captain Ahab. Sweet,
Leeds Film Festival presents: Todd P Goes to Austin / Thurs 5th Nov at 8pm / Free entry ― Wednesday 4, 2009
A cultural snapshot of America’s underground, DIY music scene with unforgettable performances by cult indie artists including Dan Deacon, Mika Miko, The Deathset and Matt and Kim. Todd P is a legendary DIY rock promoter from New York who goes on the road with his favourite bands and heads for Austin’s SXSW festival to put on a series of wild, free gigs that steal the spotlight from their commercial equivalents. Followed by weekly Americana night ER…KENTUCKY till 2am
Thurs 5th Nov at 8pm / Free entry
Johhny Foreigner - FREE GIG - Monday 14th December ― Tuesday 3, 2009
Birmingham’s Johnny Foreigner have blazed a trail through the UK’s dirtiest live venues over the past few years, and their debut album last year ‘Waited Up Til It Was Light’, earned splendid reviews upon its release and even an astonishingly amazing 10 out of 10 review on Drowned in Sound. This free show is a big thank you to all the fans who have followed the band and supported them this year, how nice of them!!
Doors are at 7.30pm. Only 200 people aloud in for the gig so arrive early to avoid disappointment. Over 18s only!!
Read their 10/10 album review on Drowned in Sound HERE!
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone to play No Bones Christmas Party! ― Tuesday 20, 2009
On Saturday 19th December 2009 Casiotone will play the NO BONES Christmas party. There’s only 150 tickets available for this Casiotone gig, the actual Christmas party will be after the gig. which will finish around 10.30pm.
Tickets are on sale now are are already selling pretty quickly CLICK HERE TO BUY SOME!