Nothing like a Guapo gig to bring us back to life...
and it's tomorrow already...

mrw44 presents:

GUAPO + Alleschwindel + someyoungpedro + the Gods of Future Mythology
Tuesday 19th April at the Subway, 69 the Cowgate, Edinburgh
doors 7.30pm, £5 on the door / £4 for mailing-list members
this gig will go on slightly longer than the usual Subway gigs, with
Guapo onstage at 11pm.

Guapo's new album "Black Oni" is out on on Mike Patton's label IPECAC
RECORDS. With this, their sixth album, Guapo have conjured a
harrowingly complex and unflinchingly epic piece of work. Heady and
hypnotic, driving and relentless, tumultuous and visceral, sonic and
serene, the sheer odyssey that is Black Oni encompasses many
paradoxes in its massively dynamic scope. Picking up where they left
off from their previous Cuneiform Records release Five Suns, the band
continue to expand on their palette of dexterous chamber-rock
anomalies, modal transcendence, and apocalyptic death marches, and
like it's predecessor, Black Oni is one singular piece of music,
making it the second record in a trilogy of large-scale symphonic
forms. Incorporating elements of prog, avant-garde jazz, kraut-rock,
minimalism and a range of folk mediums from Britain to Indonesia,
Guapo take their queue from a disparate array of influences including
Magma, King Crimson, Boredoms, Goblin, Sun Ra, Charlemagne Palestine,
Univers Zero, This Heat, Olivier Messiaen and Popol Vuh. The assembly
of Dave Smith's explosive drum assaults, Matt Thompson's brazen and
prowling bass throb, and Daniel O'Sullivan's ethereal keyboard
reveries telepathically collide in an augury of rich and cinematic
musical ceremony.

Also a few more gigs coming up:

Mon 23rd May at the Subway:
CERBERUS SHOAL + more tbc

Sun 29th May upstairs at Studio 24 (please note change of venue):
MATT ELLIOT (Third Eye Foundation) + Many Fingers + Thee Standed
Horse + more tbc

Sun 5th June at the Glasgow Barfly:
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO
No Edinburgh date this time I'm afraid, BUT we have a limited number
of cheap tickets (£5 instead of £8/£9) for mailing-list members.
Priority will be given to people coming along to the Guapo gig -
please mention you're on the mailing-list when you come in and quote
the email address you used when subscribing so we can check; the Acid
Mothers Temple tickets are not printed yet, but we'll just reserve
one for you and you can then pay for it whenever convenient.
If you are not coming to the Guapo gig but would like a ticket
reserved, please email me at mrw44contact-members@... but I'll
warn you you'd better have some f**king good excuse for not being at
the Guapo gig ;)

I am also still taking bookings for the Subway (please get in touch
with me if you wish to play or promote a night there, all it costs is
£50 for the soundman), I'll just add the current listings here, some
of them might be of interest to you; more info will come with the
next mail-out... AXIS gigs are also promoted by myself, so you will
usually get a discount on these as well.

Up-to-date listings and additional info (more will be added shortly)
available at http://www.eyes-in-axis.co.uk

* Mon 18th April - Giant Tank presents: USURPER, WOUNDED KNEEE,
SHAREHOLDER & some monkey + BOX + NIMROD 33 (£3)
http://www.gianttank.com

* Tue 19th April - mrw44 presents: GUAPO + ALLESCHWINDEL +
SOMEYOUNGPEDRO + THE GODS OF FUTURE MYTHOLOGY
(£5 / £4 members) 7.30pm till midnight, Guapo onstage 11pm
Guapo: progressive avant-rock & noise akin to Magma, the Boredoms,
This Heat, Sun Ra... releases out on Mike Patton's IPECAC Records and
(soon) Neurot Recordings
Band biography and press: http://www.ipecac.com/bio.php?id=33
Band website: http://www.guapo.co.uk

* Wed 20th April - LAZAROU + KATY BAR THE DOOR + tbc (£4)
Chunky melodies and even chunkier riffs.

* Sat 23th April - TOE'D UP + IS NOT IS SO + NEVER AGAIN (£4/£3 with
flyer)
Rock and grunge line-up from Edinburgh and Fife.

* Sun 24th April - Giant Tank presents: DECAER PINGA + USURPER +
DADDO (£3)
http://www.gianttank.com

* Tue 26th April - Axis presents: MAJOR MATT MASON USA
+ PANTSUIT + DESC (acoustic set) + THE SUPER SH!TBOX (£5 / £4 members)
"Urban folk songs for the disenchanted and the enchantable. Major
Matt Mason and his guitar form a bond, and this is shared with
everyone who listens." "...witty social observation,
hangdog stare and no-frills production that sounds like gas bubbling
from leaky pipes."
"Pantsuit is a plucky, all-girl antifolk trio headed by Nan Turner of
Schwervon! [...] jangly, ecstatic songs that are as clever as they
are whimsical."
http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/majormattmasonusa.html
http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/pantsuit.html

* Thu 28th April - PROXY + TINY MONKEY + more tbc (£3)
Catchy pop-punk from Proxy and melodic rock from indie primates.

*Thu 5th May - CRY OVER BILLIONNAIRES + NERVOSA + one tbc (£tbc)
Post-melodic hard rock from COB plus funky jazz from Nervosa.

* Fri 6th May - Axis presents: UNNECESSARY SURGERY + METALTEK + DIRTY
HUSBAND (£3, open to over 14's)
Unnecessary Surgery: industrialjungletechnopunk. Think catchier than
Whitehouse yet heavier than the Beach Boys
Metaltek: the name says it all... half metal, half techno
Dirty Husband: Post-anal attention deficit hyperspasticity
performance noisewank special-needscore

* Sat 7th May - ISLE OF MAN + ZILLAH + more tbc (£tbc)

* Fri 20th May - DRAW + more tbc (£tbc)

* Mon 23rd May - mrw44 presents: CERBERUS SHOAL + more tbc (£tbc)

* Tue 24th May - Giant Tank presents: MY CAT IS AN ALIEN + USURPER +
more tbc

* Thu 26th May - Cold Dead Hands presents: THE NOW DENIAL + COCKROACH
+ FILTHPACT + one tbc (£5, open to over 14's)
The Now Denial (Germany): Ex-Hybris and Enfold. Full on raging
hardcore laces up the steel toe capped boots and tap dances on your
skull. Brooding dark and heavy, but not afraid to kick out the Jams
and rock.
Cockroach: (Netherlands): After nine years of frantic chaos, Dutch
thrash titans Cockroach decided to put in one last tour before
calling it quits.
Filthpact: "furious crusty hardcore… full of bouncy basslines,
shredded vocals and screechy guitar. They're unafraid to slip in the
odd metal lick with their full-on d-beat assault, as well as the odd
near grind-esque moments."- Kunal Collective-zine

* Sun 29th May - Axis / mrw44 presents: MATT ELLIOT (THIRD EYE
FOUNDATION) + MANY FINGERS + THEE, STANDED HORSE + more tbc (£6 / £5
members)
NOW MOVED TO STUDIO 24 (UPSTAIRS) doors 7pm
Artist website: http://www.thirdeyefoundation.com
Label website: http://www.icidailleurs.com/

* Wed 1st June - Axis presents: ALAMOS + LUXURY CAR + LE RENO AMP +
THE NEW ROSY JEWELS (+ THE EASTERN BLOCK TBC)

* Thu 2nd June - Cold Dead Hands presents: RAPIDER THAN HORSE POWER +
THE MAE SHI + more tbc

* Wed 22nd June - Radarr! presents: INSISION + SONS OF SLAUGHTER + XX
+ one tbc

* Thu 30th June - Axis presents: A HAWK AND A HACKSAW + more tbc

* Sat 9th July - Finsternis presents: RAISON D'ETRE + DES ESSEINTES
Raison d'Etre: a deep darkness of drones, haunting chorals and
industrial wasteland ambiences
Des Esseintes: an inferno of harsh, mechanised percussion barely
cushioned by a menacing ambience of cinematic electronics.