Montreal garage-punk band The Gruesomes to reissue Gruesomania via Artoffact Records
Montreal-based garage-punk act The Gruesomes will reissue Gruesomania via Artoffact Records.
Formed 30 years ago in 1985, the Montreal-based garage-punk band The Gruesomes are one of Canada's enduring legacies. They took their name from the scary neighbors on TV’s The Flintstones and carefully crafted an image of matching black turtlenecks, Beatle boots and bowl haircuts, combining it all with a snotty punk musical style. Early shows relied more on the group’s energy and humor than actual musical ability, but despite this (or because of it) The Gruesomes became an instant club favorite.
Less than a year after picking up instruments for the first time, The Gruesomes recorded their debut LP for Og Records, Tyrants of Teen Trash. The album sold well in both Europe and North America and dominated the number one position on alternative playlists across the country.
But it wasn't until 1987's Gruesomania that the band really hit their stride as one of the world's best garage acts. And indeed Canada's rock encyclopedia, Have Not Been the Same has called Gruesomania The Gruesomes' "calling card," while Exclaim! Magazine referred to it as "the missing link between the Stooges, New York Dolls and Black Haloes."
Artoffact Records is honored to present a reissue of Gruesomania, one of the best and most iconic garage-punk albums of its era. The album combines horror-shtick with the best in garage, surf, and rock'n'roll, and anyone who wants a slice of Montreal-punk in its most outrageous form should consider this a must-have. The new vinyl reissue is a remastered, numbered edition of 500, with bonus poster. Black vinyl is available, as is a limited collector's edition on gruesome green.
Film Fest Gent released the entire programme of the 42nd Film Fest Gent today. From 13 until 24 October the festival will screen over 111 international and Belgium feature films. There's a focus on UK cinema, two film music concerts, panels and talks. Attending international guests include Colin Farrell, Hirokazu Koreeda, Pablo Larraín, Thomas Bidegain and Alan Silvestri.
Info and tickets at www.filmfestival.be
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
This year, thirteen films will compete in the Official Competition, which will be opened on Wednesday 14 October by 'The Lobster' in the presence of actor Colin Farell and director Yorgos Lanthimos. That same night, the festival also welcomes the Japanese grandmaster Hirokazu Koreeda ('Our Little Sister'). Furthermore directors Pablo Larraín ('El Club'), Thomas Bidegan ('Les Cowboys'), László Nemes ('Son of Saul') and John Maclean ('Slow West') will also present their films at the festival. The international jury members are Sir Alan Parker, Marjane Satrapi, Caroline Strubbe, Boyd Van Hoeij and Franco Lolli.
FOCUS ON UK CINEMA
After the focus on French cinema last year, the 42nd Film Fest Gent puts its spotlight on British films. The section UK Cinema includes a selection of 11 films that display the diversity of the current British cinema. Within this theme the classic 'Midnight Express' will be screened followed by a talk with director and jury president Sir Alan Parker. The concert Great British Film Music will be held on 22 October and will guide us through the rich heritage of British Cinema. Composers Craig Armstrong, Stephen Warbeck, Michael Nyman and Lifetime Achievement Award Winner George Fenton, will be attending.
BELGIAN CINEMA TODAY
Film Fest Gent presents the best and the strongest of Belgian cinema. The section includes the official opening film 'The Ardennes' by Robin Pront, 'Brak' by Laurent Van Lancker, the documentary 'Bobbejaan' by Benny Vandendriessche and Manu Riche's long-feature debut 'Problemski Hotel'. In the section Serial Madness, the last 4 episodes of the brand new series 'The Natives' (Bevergem) will be premiered at the festival. The second feature by Adil El Arbi en Bilall Fallah 'Black' is also included in the programma as well as two Belgian co-productions: 'Phantom Boy' and 'Les Cowboys' by Thomas Bidegain.
WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS
The festival will close on 24 October with the 15th World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert. Central guests are Alan Sivestri, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton. After the prestigious award ceremony, Brussels Philharmonic & Flemish Radio Choir, conducted by Dirk Brossé, will perform a selection of the oeuvre of these great composers.
The 42nd Film Fest Gent runs from 13 until 24 October at Kinepolis Gent, Studio Skoop, Sphinx, Vooruit, KASKcinema, Bijloke and Kuipke. Info and tickets at www.filmfestival.be.
The brand new clip is s extracted from the second album " Mirage post-horizon " which is out on Trinity Records on cd and vinyl...
BEAT:CANCER LIVE 2015 - ELECTRONIC / INDUSTRIAL / NOISE CONCERTS IN AID OF CANCER RESEARCH UK.
Featuring UK Exclusive headline shows from Modulate.
The Zoo, Manchester - Friday 13th November
Slimelight, London Saturday 14th November.
After releasing two successful fundraising CDs Beat:Cancer launched into their first charity gig last November, raising £1500 to help Cancer Research UK fund research into screening, treatment and cures for cancer.
This year Beat:Cancer LIVE not only returns to Slimelight in London on Saturday 14th Novemeber, but heads north for the first time to The Zoo in Manchester on Friday 13th November; boasting UK exclusive headline shows from Modulate, supported by 5 bands each night; ranging across the alternative electronic spectrum from rousing Synthpop duo 'Advance' to brutal Noise project 'Tapewyrm'. Both nights will be followed up by after parties with some of the scene's best DJ's.
Beat:Cancer started life in 2012 as the founder Mark Haigh's reaction to the loss of a friend and colleague to lymphoma. Word spread and artists were quickly pledging their support and their music. Initially envisioned as a 7 track digital EP, it became a double disc compilation of tracks featuring artists from around the world, released at the renowned festival 'Resistanz' in Sheffield, Easter 2013. Beat:Cancer v1 went on to almost sell out in it's first weekend, going on to raising over £1000 and listing as Brutal Resonance's 14th best album of 2013.
The first of this year's events takes place in The Zoo, one of Manchester's finest underground clubbing venues, followed by Slimelight, the world's longest running alternative/dark-scene nightclub (28 years this October).
Beat:Cancer LIVE 2015 draws from not just acts loved worldwide, but supports up and coming artists, with Biomechanimal making their Manchester debut on the Friday night. With crowd favourite acts such as Be My Enemy (featuring Phil Barry of Cubanate) and Dreams Divide, stunning visuals and the generous support of AnalogueTrash Records both nights promise to raise the roof, and hopefully substantial amount their vital cause, Cancer Research UK. Not forgetting the after parties featuring 3 guest DJ's; AD3K (Resistanz and AnalogueTrash), Kohl (Sinistry and Resistanz) & Zombie Chris (Infest and Club Recall).
Full details, line-ups and advance tickets are available on the official Beat:Cancer website at www.beatcancer.info
For further information please contact: Mark Haigh
e: contact@beatcancer.info
t: 07852 967343
Snowthorn is the long awaited debut album from Mike Connelly (Wolf Eyes / Hair Police) and his wife, Tara, recording together as Clay Rendering.
Perhaps the most compelling of all the many projects started by one-time members of Wolf Eyes, Clay Rendering came to life in 2013 and have since released a trio of singles for Hospital Productions that have gained them the admiration of followers spanning both electronic and metal communities.
Their material occupies unique terrain, recalling The Cure’s widescreen Disintegration-era instrumentals, cut through with a Black Metal palette and an appreciation of electronic music that imbues their production (notably assisted by Dominick Fernow) with an end-of-world quality that’s impossible to pin down. Evoking Nine Inch Nails one moment, you find yourself in a smoke-filled, strobe-lit Road House the next; bleary-eyed, head spinning, coming down.
Guitar, Accordion, Piano and electronics underpin these songs, opening with the whirling death march of ‘Maps on The Floor’ and the funereal trudge of “Swallow The Century” before the grinding fuzz of “Sight From Up There” changes pace with the addition of a forlorn piano melody and Becka Diamond’s distant vocal zooming in on half-remembered songs, rendered here with hazy definition.
“Fall Of The Bed” and “Memory Loses Momentum” find Clay Rendering at their most visceral and catchy; a reminder that they are first and foremost a band that write incredible songs, often submerged in fuzz and atmosphere, but here left exposed, bare, on display.
And yet the title track “Snowthorn”, “River Without” and the incredible album closer “Night To Perish” edge the album from the bleak and into the sublime, turning away from the snowy landscapes their music so often evokes, instead pulling you deep into night...
• Additional production by Dominick Fernow, additional vocals by Becka Diamond
• Mastered by Paul Corley, cut at D&M, Berlin
• A delicate yet uncompromising set of songs drifting somewhere between Gothic, Ambient, Black Metal and Dream Pop.
