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S.C.U.M. + Eat Sugar + The Pack Ad

20th May - Buffalo Bar, Highbury Corner

> S.C.U.M. (London)
> EAT SUGAR (Cincinnati USA)
> THE PACK AD (British Columbia Canada)

> S.C.U.M. (London)
A new and darkly Gothic and threatening soundtrack for London. "The pure antithesis of all others, a purging force destroying convention, physically turning music inside out." SCUM are certainly on a mission and if they are the saviours of a 'new rock'n'roll' that's gone stale (anyone see the lame Ting Tings on TV ?) their arrival is timely. Vocals, Moog, Bass and Drums is not the usual collected rock formation but nor is their bass heavy groove. Tracks like 'Rituals' and 'Visions Arise' are a contemporary Edgar Allan Poe meets Bauhaus/PiL approach mixed by a psychotic On-U Soundsystem. Currently in the studio with Rory (ex Test Icicles) and Tomethy Furse of The Horrors working on new tracks for a debut release very soon.
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> EAT SUGAR (Cincinnati USA)
Four-piece from Cincinnati on their first visit to the UK really are something to get synth nuts excited. Bass, drums and synths make for a searing art-punk racket that you can (are you listening Crystal Castles) also dance to !! Buzzing fuzzed up analog synth and bass grooves rock like San Francisco's Numbers used to while Aidan Bogosian 'out front' yelps and squeals an anguished punk vocal. This is electro post-punk born from the sounds of 1979 and more recently dabbled with by The Rapture, DFA 1979, Presets, LCD Soundsystem. As Mute's Daniel Miller maintained, it's much more punk to try and create something by beating the hell out of a machine than a guitar, and Eat Sugar are proving that. Pacey, brittle and exhausting. Already featured on Artrocker Unsigned CD 3, and as a New Blood band in the Magazine, eat Sugar will be playing The Great Escape Festival while in UK.
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> THE PACK AD (British Columbia Canada)
Hailing from British Columbia in Canada, Becky Black (guitar/vocals) and Maya Miller (drums) come from a grand tradition of blues outsiders. With influences ranging from Leadbelly, The Sonics, Janis Joplin and The MC5 to the lighter but no less tortured fare of Jonathan Richman and (apparently) the mighty Harrison Ford, Becky and Maya prove that rocking out definitely isn¹t just for the boys and like the much over-looked Mr. Airplaneman a couple of years back a ferocious live force. Citing coffee as their chosen drug of addition, the show should be a hyper and angsty affair. Their debut album "Tintype" is out now on Mint Records and is as gutsy and raw an essential rock'n'roll sound as the Black Keys debut five years ago.

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