Sonic Shake Productions for October / November: ANTIPRODUCT, NEIL LEYTON + MORE!

[Afro Droid]

Sunday 29th Ocober at the Moorings

Plus supports TBC

AntiProduct is a rock 'n' roll band consisting of five people (three girls, two boys), born in four different countries, that cannot boast of sounding, being or looking like any other band... ever! Having released their second album, "MADE IN USA", they are garnering rave reviews from mags as diverse as Q, Spin, Big Cheese, and heavy metal heavyweight Kerrang!.

Combining elements of punk, arena rock, metal, and hyperbolic radio friendly pop played with a nihilistic contempt for everything safe and average, AntiProduct is fast becoming one of the most talked about bands in the rock 'n' roll underground worldwide. The near legendary AntiProduct live experience ("Britains Best Live Band", raves The Daily Mirror) has seen them tour the UK, Japan, USA, and most of Europe several times with Ozzfest, Twisted Sister, The Muderdolls, The Wildhearts, The Damned and Hanoi Rocks, and among others. They were called on by Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Marky Ramone himself to perform chaos inciting sets of AntiProduct versions of Ramones classics with Marky playing drums! Kerrang! Award Nominated AntiProduct performed for metal fans all over (starting a riot in Italy on live TV) with Ozzfest, receiving utter loathing or unadulterated adoration. "The first hint's in the name... AntiProduct," says frontman A. Product.

Their critically acclaimed debut album "Consume and Die... The Rest Is All Fun" and subsequent relentless DIY touring have built the band a devoted and rabid worldwide following, APRA (AntiProduct People's Rock Army) whose devotion is renowned to rival the band's itself!

Explaining their reputation for aberrant public behaviour and shameless manipulation of all things media as "ridiculing the same system you exploit" AntiProduct has, for "cheap, sensationalistic publicity stunts", blocked rush hour traffic in London by getting naked on top of a van driving through the streets; been bathed in urine and worn raw, festering meat in public as part of a fake American TV game show called "AntiProduct"; puked on England's most hated celebrity radio DJ/mogul Chris Evans and at a photo shoot for fashion trendsetter, The Face, eaten live worms to the delight and disgust of all. Their single, "The Better Than This Maxi-Single Box Set", was considered for inclusion in The Guinness Book of World Records as the longest single in history, clocking in at a weighty 55 minutes, featuring 16 tracks! And, as they infiltrate the mainstream through their doctrine of "Cheesecore", they promise even bigger insults to all things status quo.

The band's more instantly accessible songs ("some of the best choruses ever written" says Front Magazine) have found their way onto mainstream TV shows on both sides of the Atlantic, such as the WB series "Felicity", NBC Saturday morning teen show "All About Us" and the UK Channel 4 hit series "Teachers".

While you're at it, check out their award-winning website, antiproduct.com.

"Don't get me wrong, I long for death as much as the next guy," explains the singer, "but if this is the end, I intend to party with my people. Rome wasn't burnt in a day."

"B-52's meet Sweet beyond Thunderdome...This is bubblegum laced with spiders eggs " Spin

"The post drug era Beatles take a spaceship into the future and come back as AntiProduct...they are that good." Rolling Stone

"KKKKK Biggest riffs this side of Kiss!" Kerrang!

www.antiproduct.com

www.myspace.com/antiproduct

Thursaday 2nd November at The Moorings

NEIL LEYTON

Plus Hugh Bruise + more TBC

Lisbon-born producer, singer, songwriter, rock n'roll guitar player & indie label entrepreneur: Neil Leyton became familiar with the stage while living in Canada in the 1990's, where he fronted Toronto's glam godfathers The Conscience Pilate, after starting out on bass with psychedelic art-rockers Passion'd Flower.

He launched his solo career in 1998 with the release of the critically acclaimed "Secret Avenue" album, throwing himself simultaneously into his music as well as running Fading Ways Music, his Canadian indie label. His second album, "...from the brighter side of her Midnight Sun", was released in the UK via the ChangesOne label in 2003 and in Canada via Scratch Distribution, harnessing critical acclaim throughout all of Fading Ways Music's distributed territories.

In 2004 Leyton launched Fading Ways Music UK with business partner Ashlyn Eaton, embracing Creative Commons licenses, endorsing file-sharing and cultural freedom while most of the music industry launched reactionary lawsuits against so-called "pirates".

"Blacklight Skies", a compilation featuring tracks from both albums and several Leyton EPs, was released in 2005 by Fading Ways Music UK and the German label Supermusic, raising Leyton's profile in Germany considerably, with some excellent record reviews and radio airplay.

Meanwhile, in the UK, Leyton's Stagger Twin, Rich Jones, had introduced him to the Wildhearts' frontman, Ginger, and they re-record some older songs for the Dead Fashion Brigade EP.

The Betrayal of the Self, his third album, promises to be Leyton's most immediate, urgent, and politicized release this far.

Here is what people are saying:

"Leyton has it: the Songs, the tendency, the voice. A new filming of Velvet Goldmine should line up shortly, and Blacklight Skies would be the better soundtrack, with all its seventies influences from Roxy Music to the Rolling Stones, from David Bowie to the MC5." Steffen Greiner, Echoes Online, Germany

"Leyton's got a wonderful voice (channelling Nick Cave's sinister whisper on one track and Jeff Buckley's chilling warble on another), and his songwriting skills prove more than worthy of any delusions of grandeur." Sarah Liss, NOW Magazine

"This album changes color and mood every three minutes or so. No sooner does that mercurial pop song fade but Leyton has switched to a rootsy tearjerker; draws the last remaining punk fibers from his skinny frame; loses himself in a rant about capitalism; creates an asphyxiating atmosphere with soundscapes or has his entire circle of friends roaring along with him. Anyone who's human would yield in a moment and put his shopping list in order: water, bread and Neil Leyton.

- Helmut Boeijen, Oor Magazine, Netherlands

"This one had me playing air guitar within the first minute as it launched into action with the riffed out bluesy rock'n'roll and the "Rocks Off" energy the Stones used to open their landmark Exile on Main St. an ass kick of a way to get things going. Leyton's glam rock past as front man for Toronto's the Conscience Pilate injects an extra shot of attitude but he knows when to tone it down. This disc kept surprising me; one minute the Jagger esque "Angie" like ballad "To Jay 17," the next the bouncy "Newspaper Memories," but keeping the whole album together is a raunchy 1970's Rolling Stones brilliance and a sparkling clarity of songwriting genius. - Coreen Wolanski, Exclaim! Magazine, Canada

"I'm in love, and my significant other has that sarcastic jealousy thing going in response. "This album is so much fun," I told him. "I love this Neil kid!" To which he replied, with pre school surliness, "Why don't you marry him, then?" Personally, I think he was just threatened by Leyton's darkly enigmatic good looks and history in the notable glam/rock band The Conscience Pilate. In any case, his jealousy was a charade sustainable only until he heard From the Brighter Side of Her Midnight Sun. Now we're both in love. And this isn't just the early stages of puppy love, either; Neil and I are in it for the long haul.

- Melissa Amos, Splendid Magazine, USA.

"There are some tracks (on the Midnight Sun album) where Neil sounds like At The Drive-In (the politically fueled "The Fading Ways Manifesto"). He then, somehow, follows up that track with a latin piece called "Sangue Latino". He can easily go from an aggressive style to a sweet melody not only during the length of the album but sometimes within the course of a song. This introduction to the artist shows that he is extremely diverse in his musical endeavors. Not only is Neil an established musician, he has also started a label called Fading Ways. - Dennis Scanland, Music Emissions

"Part Rolling Stones, part Zeppelin but at all times cleverly mixing strong pop hooks with a thoughtful and slightly dark overhead. For an album with so many tracks, seventeen in total, it skips along at a fast pace thanks to several punchy radio ready tracks like 'Whispers', 'Once Upon a Yesterday' and 'Nine'. At times a thinking man's rock record and at others just a dirty bar rock and roll album." - Rob Lane, Trashpit Magazine UK

"To say that Neil Leyton represents the more subdued side of rock & roll would be an inaccuracy. Above all what strikes me is Leyton's brilliant control of dynamics. With an unusually expressive vocal quality, Leyton is able to shift mood almost seamlessly, as epitomised by opening track, 'Whispers'. Meanwhile, in '(I Miss the Times) When the Russians Were Coming', his voice ascends to a genuinely terrifying shriek at the end. Overall, this is more than just a collection of songs - by the time you reach final track and album highlight, 'Twilight of the Gods', you really feel that you have travelled somewhere. Comparisons with Jeff Buckley are perhaps inevitable, but on this record Leyton has undeniably placed the stamp of his own unique artistry." Drowned in Sound, UK

www.neilleyton.co.uk

http://www.myspace.com/neilleyton

http://www.fadingwaysmusic.com/

Saturday 21st at The Moorings

THE FLAMING EIGHTS, DONPHOBIA, DOWNFALL

The Flaming Eights

Formed in late 02 in Newcastle, England with the sole purpose to inject some energy, life and tunes to die for into the dying local scene, The Flamin Eights came to be born. All members wanted to make the type of music they want to hear and to be the band they would want to see ripping up the stages in their hometown. Mixing metal, punk and good old-fashioned rock n roll together to create a massive wall of distorted beautiful noise, the band soon created a massive fan base and sell out gigs in all of the local venues. The groups recordings soon made their way into the hands of the local music scene DJs and were heavily requested on rotation in the rock and metal bars around the city. Soon the band began to receive glowing reviews from the local press, due to their incendiary sold out live shows and balls out rock n roll stage presence. The fan base rapidly kept growing and within days of the groups last self financed release Keep It Evil hitting the shelves they were the quickest and best selling item for an unsigned band in local high profile music stores. Early 06 has seen the band record a new six track ep and start to expand there already strong fanbase in the UK as well as supports with Antiproduct, Tokyo Dragons, Rat Daddy, Broadzilla, Plan A, Radio Lucifer and Viking Skull. Check the local press for when the Flamin Eights hit your town.

[The Ghost Of Fudge]

neil leyton = good shit.

[Hardcore Mel]

neil leyton=very good shit.

[FezMonkey]

DONPHOBIA

Went to see these guys a couple of nights ago. Thoroughly good show, made even better by the frontman's onstage antics and banter. Musically very good as well. Their MySpace recordings don't do them justice at all. Really nice guys too.

"DoNpHoBiA describe themselves as Comic Book Hero Metal; a combination of classic rock/metal & elements of hip-hop finished with Operatic Theatrics and pure madness!"

http://www.myspace.com/donphobia