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Paradise Vendors
Chaps, grasp glands for London’s Male Bonding, three sorts getting fresh with that swamp-bass-super-sound and the teenage poltergeist scar-isms of a pink punk past. Descended from (early) Descendents, gay for Gray Matter, ‘Rehearsal Song’’s tuneful racket seems made B(y).S(aturdays).F(or).S(aturdays)., rising sober, miraculously enough, to turn up at your friend’s house with an amp and some plugs just as mother and father are heading out to John Lewis for salad and furnishings. Male Bonding are no flannel arrivistes, there back in the Smell-sent days, as the first lo-fi rumbles moving across the water were picked up by alien wave stations hunkered down somewhere in the undergrowth plunge of Epping Forest.
Male Bonding’s Paradise Vendors Inc label yesterday issued another slab of Eden in the form of a four-way split that grapples to gather a quartet NPIP favourites: Old Blood, Graffiti Island, Rapid Youth (the Murietta collective) and, of course, MB themselves. Get it here.
MP3: Male Bonding - Rehearsal Song
Swinging Jaw: Graffiti Island
How come most of your songs are about freaks and monsters?
I’m not sure… I’d like to write more love songs.
Read our intimate interview with Graffiti Island’s Pete Dee at the Vice Music ‘blog.
MP3: Graffiti Island - Demonic Cat
!!!No Shows Forever!!!
21/09/08
PENS, Graffiti Island, Banjo or Freakout, Gentle Friendly w/Ponytail
@ The Crown and Sceptre, London SE8
(!!!No Shows Forever!!!)
All photography by Louis Hartnoll.
Words and sound here.
New Totems, Rituals
Sunday night was a rare one. !!!No Shows Forever!!! inched tentatively into the tepid, sulky light of Deptford to make its debut play and won so emphatically. Around 160 copped legion bangs, broken glass and four of the city’s finest; PENS, who you should know about already, as you should Banjo or Freakout, Gentle Friendly, Ponytail and (imminently at least, at last) Graffiti Island. A review of sorts lurks after ‘the jump’.
MP3: Graffiti Island - Head Hunters
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