Having just released their debut album on Gringo Records/Art for Blind, Leeds' punks Broken Arm share the new murderous video for album title track, 'Life Is Short'. Shot in twelve hours, the video was inspired by the French film Man Bites Dog/It Happened in Your Neighborhood, general low budget horror and grim kitchen sink dramas. Watch it below...
Broken Arm's debut full length is an exercise in grooving noise rock, filth and disillusionment. Broken Arm have the perfect knack for writing a catchy post punk tune and smearing a healthy amount of dirt all over it.
Broken Arm formed in Leeds in the late 2000’s from the ashes of noise punk outfits Sailors, Woman, Like a Kind of Matador and more recently Mob Rules. Their debut release “Shields Mystical” was a short and punchy CD EP released in 2008. After a lengthy absence the band eventually followed up with their first outing on vinyl, the 7” EP “Negative” released in 2011 by Gringo Records.
Once described by the band themselves as agro-party punk, Broken Arm’s sound is frequently compared to that of various US hardcore punk bands, primarily from the rosters of AMRep, Touch and Go and SST Records. Their debut album Life is Short sees them flit effortlessly between their two distinct musical personalities, the catchy and scrappy noise rock band and their more reflective and at times dirge ridden side, sometimes within the confines of a single song.
The album is split release between Gringo Records (Nottingham) and Art For Blind (Cork, nee Leeds) and will be released on Vinyl and digital download only. The album was recorded in Leeds by Matt J (Hookworms, Joanna Gruesome & Mazes) at Suburban Home.
Meet Belgian band Pilod. Hibernate is the last track from the debut album Sunny Forecast
Directed by Yves Peeters from www.tricoteuse.be
Amazing shoegaze to discover!
CONCERTS
08/10 Cabron/Antwerpen
30/10 Slow/Barcelona (ESP) met 9M Lied
31/10 Ultra-local Records/Barcelona (ESP)
31/10/2014 Secret (Indie) show/Barcelona (ESP)
01/11 Festival/Solsona (ESP) met Black Islands
22/11 Sojo/Leuven met Soldier Six en Swingers
29/11 Festival Culture Bar-Bars/Lille (FR) met Fall of Messiah
06/12 Roadhouse/Lier met Wasted Fridays
30/01 JH Splinter/Oud-Turnhout
From 29th October you can see the newest movie by Cédric KAHN ('Les regrets', 'Une vie meilleure'), based upon the story from Xavier Fortin and his two sons Okwari and Shahi'Yena
Witht Mathieu KASSOVITZ ('La haine', 'Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain'), Céline SALLETTE ('De rouille et d'os'), David GASTOU, Sofiane NEVEU, Romain DEPRET
DUTCH VERSION
Een film van Cédric KAHN ('Les regrets', 'Une vie meilleure'), gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal van Xavier Fortin en zijn twee zonen Okwari en Shahi'Yena
Een vrije adaptatie van het boek Hors système, onze ans sous l'étoile de la liberté van Okwari, Shahi'Yena en Xavier Fortin, geschreven met Laurence Vidal
Met Mathieu KASSOVITZ ('La haine', 'Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain'), Céline SALLETTE ('De rouille et d'os'), David GASTOU, Sofiane NEVEU, Romain DEPRET
Een productie van Les Films du Lendemain in een co-productie met Les Films du Fleuve
VIE SAUVAGE vertelt het waargebeurde verhaal van Philippe Fournier, alias Paco, en zijn twee zonen Okyesa en Tsali Fournier. Paco slaat alle afspraken omtrent de voogdij in de wind en beslist zijn zonen van zes en zeven jaar niet naar hun moeder terug te brengen. Hij wil hen voortaan zelf opvoeden in communes op ver afgelegen plekken, één met de natuur. Ze beleven niet alleen de angsten en gevaren van het vrije leven maar ook de de hechte vriendschappen en de geneugten ervan.
De zoektocht naar de verdwenen jongens duurde 11 jaar en hield heel Frankrijk in de ban.
Release in België op 29 oktober 2014
CARRIE FISHER a.k.a. PRINCESS LEIA comes to Ghent during FACTS
She’s also known for her roles in The Blues brothers, When Harry Met Sally, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Scream 3, The Big Bang Theory and many more.
For more info about FACTS, click here.
Having recently announced their debut LP as Dream Police, Mark Perro and Nick Chiericozzi (best known as the founding members of The Men) are sharing the title track from Hypnotized with us today.
"Hypnotized" finds the duo utilizing a Roland 707 drum machine and Juno 106 synthesizer to compliment the psychedelic, and fuzzed out guitars that the two are best known for. Mark Perro's monotone vocals lay even with the instrumentation in the mix so that the entire track washes over you.
Back in the summer of 2013, The Men had just come home from five straight months of touring. For Perro and Chiericozzi, the desire to create was still strong, so they did what they used to do when they first started the band — they started jamming.
Although the production began using the most conservative rock n’ roll devices, Chiericozzi suggested adding the drum machine to the song “Pouring Rain,” and everything changed. Over the next six months, the two Men and their collaborator Kyle Keays-Hagerman spent countless hours reshaping every song, constructing them from nothing. They obsessed over every tone, every part. They’d spend an entire day on one snare crack.
The album slowly plumed into a cloud of future primitive psychedelia bursting with glimmering electronics and cinematic, vibrato storytelling. The result of that process is Hypnotized: something borne from The Men, but free of it. It was mixed the weekend after Tomorrow's Hits was released, and then Perro and Chiericozzi were off again.
*Dream Police is not a side project, rather a new realization for the original brains behind The Men's psychedelic & sonically stimulating vision.*
The band recently spoke to Noisey about their new record, and also have a batch of U.S. tour dates coming up, check all of that out, including the title track from Hypnotized, below.
