Dizzy Storm Posted March 12, 2008 Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 DiZZY SToRM is very pleased to be bringing to aberdeen, as part of Triptych Festival.....SKELETONS & THE KINGS OF ALL CITIESBrooklyns top-monikered tropical pop lords, Skeletons & the Kings of All Cities anteriorly Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys have engendered comparisons to Can, Grandaddy, Sonic Youth, Prince even the sans pareil Boyz II Men. Initially spawned as a solo act whose cornerstones were collaboration, experimentation and unpredictability founder member (and Shinkoyo records chieftan) Matt Mehlan enlisted an eclectic cast of conspirators to gussy up his autonomous art: classical trombonists, punk-rock drummers and junkyard choirboys to name a few. Now brandishing a full-time band, whose not inconsiderable number boasts horn-blowers, multiple guitarists and double drummers and having recently issued an excellent debut, Lucas on indie enterprise Ghostly (Dabrye, Matthew Dear) Skeletons... have slayed audiences alongside the likes of TV on the Radio, Animal Collective and Jackie O Motherfucker. You have been warned. MySpace.com - Skeletons & the Kings of all Cities - QUEENS, New York - Pop - www.myspace.com/skeletonsandthegirlfacedboysFOUND"Like King Creosote holed up in a studio with Brian Eno", raved Word magazine viz Edinburgh pop dissectors Found: a shimmering five-piece whose beach-combing romp across breaks, beats, acid-folk, hip-hop and electronica reflects Beck, Four Tet, The Beta Band. The gilded abstraction of Ziggy Campbell (lead vocals, guitar), Tommy Perman (bass guitar, synths), Kev Sim (sampler, melodica), Gav Sutherland (keys, backing vocals) and Alan Stockdale (drums, percussion, live visual projection), Found arose in 2005, and have since approached pop as one might a laboratory: their amalgamated dance-folk, their twisting key signatures, their helter-skelter electronica and their meticulous, chromatic rock makes for a heavenly inquisition. Recently signed to The Fence Collective, Found released their second album, 'This Mess We Keep Reshaping', to great acclaim last year.MySpace.com - FOUND - Edinburgh, UK - Pop / Electronica / Experimental - www.myspace.com/foundthebandPLUS!! FOUND DJ'S TILL 3AM!!SAT 26TH APRILTUNNEL 2DOORS 11PM...TILL 3AM!!!5 ENTRY!!BARGAIN!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Stax Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Kev, on the left, is the only one actually putting on a weird face! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Storm Posted March 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 aaaaanyway, nuff bout the awesome Monotonix for the mo....THIS IS THE NEXT DiZZY SToRM SHOW...yee haa....cant wait to see those skeletons....i know a few folk gonna be heading to glasgow for the mighty lineup that day but i'll think this will be quite a nice little affair in Tunnel 2...can only cram 150 folk in there...but that'll do nicely well looking forward to it(ooh that image below is supposed to be clearer and flash like a strobe...ah well...i'll replace it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Storm Posted April 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 another awesome poster design...thanks chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Storm Posted April 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2008 soooo.....is everyone gonna be in glasgow for the mighty triptych line up or out seeing Hot Club de Paris on this night?!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Storm Posted April 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 couple of nice album/live reviews on the forthcoming SKELETONS On our last excursion to Good Records, our friend C.J. convinced us to buy Skeletons and The Kings Of All Cities' Lucas by describing it as "Albert Ayler meets Prince." The Skeletons collective (who released Git in 2005) have also drawn comparisons to Can, Sonic Youth, and Boyz II Men (seriously). The LP cover is about the ugliest thing I've ever seen, and it comes pressed on a hideous gray vinyl. All that aside, we've listened to this, the disjointed, beautiful album opener, maybe 100 times over the last couple of days (give or take). It sort of meanders aimlessly along for the first 2 minutes, but all of those seemingly ridiculous comparisons begin to make sense after that. gorillavsbear...i saw Skeletons for the first time a few weeks ago. Big smiles, big hair, big glasses, big songs. When they began playing, it sounded nothing like the record. Live, Skeletons (4 of them) are the hero of Bonaroo, and then a tropicalia version of the Locust, and then Sun Ra and Orthrelm and Phish and Animal Collective and Tzadik and Ipecac all at once...indyweeklyblogs.com"Lucas" is a concept album of sorts about a phantasmagorical land ruled by a king who fixes the crooked smiles of his subjects but that's not important right now. What you need to know is that Brooklyn-based Skeletons leader Matt Mehlan and his co-conspirators the Kings of All Cities have assembled a very fine orchestrated left-field technicolour pop album. Instead of losing the run of itself in such an ambitious pursuit (like the sometimes claustrophobically cloying arrangements of Sufjan Stevens) "Lucas" is founded on the infectious Valhallic voodoo grooves of Moondog with traces of Sun Ra's skronk action and captures both the joyous communal campfire vibe of Animal Collective and the kaleidoscopic junkyard aesthetic of Neutral Milk Hotel. The albums centerpiece "Fake Tits" is a widescreen production with wild eyed polyrhythms and features the agreeable sentiments "It's not that hard to disappear, flush your phone down the toilet, find your way out the window, throw your wallet in the river." This album was conceived on a long drive through Midwestern America and upon surrendering to its woozy charms you'll realize that you're definitely not in Kansas anymore junkmedia.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Storm Posted April 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 well the week is upon us, once again.....is ANYONE gonna turn up?! heheim informed there's a drum n bass night on in room 1, after Candy Staton o_O ...so at least if any random indie types that turn up not knowing whats on, they might be tempted to stay and attend Room 2! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Storm Posted April 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 tomorrow!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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