08/01/2012 - goodbye old logo!
-WEIRDO GUISE #16.5-
Not really a WG gig but a Cops and Robbers Yule gig money raker:
Friday 16th December:
Poster by ouse and Stroidy
at The Cardigan Arms, 8pm, £4.00
This is a Cops and Robbers benefit, all proceeds go towards printing costs and keeping the website up.
-WEIRDO GUISE #16-
Hard Stare & Weirdo Guise present…
Friday 2nd December:
Drunk in Hell
Overwhelmingly misanthropic sludge crawl from Middlesborough. The more their metallic noise punk hurts, the more you want it.
Broken Arm
Locals presently in the fourth year of a transitionary period that began when they started sounding too heavy to be called 'garage rock'
The Piss Superstition
Julian Bradley released the fine 'A Themepark for Whatever Happened Before' LP earlier this year and is now duo'd with Mob Rules' Paul Steere.
at The Fox and Newt, 8pm, £4.00
Black Mamba Beat are no longer playing because we forgot that the train tickets we booked for them, when the gig was originally booked for Wharf Chambers, meant they were due into Leeds at 10pm... We'll be getting them up early next year, no sweat.
-WEIRDO GUISE #15-
Saturday 26th November:
8.30pm £4.00 in the bowl
@ a LS4 basement, email weirdoguise@gmail.com for address.
Thanks to Liam, Andy, Sam and Rick? for providing the basement.
-WEIRDO GUISE #14-
Saturday 12th November at The Packhorse:
Wake Up Dead
Back after their off-the-hook, unannounced set earlier this year at The Common Place, which had audience members throwing beer over their heads in utter fucking rapture. WUD have at least a set's worth of the strongest songs going, undeniable wish-I-knew-the-words-to-sing-along bangers. A first rate punk featuring members of Black Mamba Beat and Black Time.
http://www.myspace.com/wakeupdead00
Feel Right
Guitar / drums duo from Manchester making their Leeds debut, one a Former Bully and the other a Waiter. Expect solid songs about dead friends, not having a job and not knowing what to do with girls, all played in a slacker Beach Boys meets Pifco style. http://feelrightliveright.tumblr.com/
BRUCE AND CARL - late addition to the bill.
Carl's heart was broken by a clueless lass towards the end of his teenage years, and its that shattered heart which fuels his emotive howl as he sings songs about heavy stuff like Bakewell and cricket. According to his father, Bruce was conceived in and born from his mother's anus. Such an entry into this world has enabled Bruce to get ahead in life from day one. Bruce's triumphs in life include passing his chainsaw license second time, drumming in the Hipshakes and leaving every condom he's ever worn untied on a lounge floor that was neither his nor his companions.
The Piss Superstition
Either the PS will completely bum you out or will take you to a whole new plain as you begin thinning your blood for the night ahead. The Julian Bradley experience currently features Mob Rules's bassist, whose deep groans may cause your bowels a rude awakening.
http://thepisssuperstition.blogspot.com/
Saturday 12thNovember. 8PM
At The Packhorse, £4.00
-WEIRDO GUISE #13-
Ramleh
Gary Mundy, owner of legendary noise label Broken Flag records formed Ramleh in 1982. Initially a power electronics project, Ramleh has existed in many incarnations. Whether playing dark psychedelia, industrial noise rock or Neu!-like bliss out sets, it's always stamped with their very unique identity. This will be a rare rock set from the group, who will play as a trio.
Early Hominids
You know Neil Campbell from Astral Social Club. You know Paul Walsh from Smell and Quim. Together, you know them as Early Hominids. It's like that movie Altered States. Man takes psychedelics brewed by an indigenous tribe, climbs into an isolation tank, turns into a primate and experiences a non-physical form of proto-consciousness.
Mob Rules
Last year Mob Rules' album The Donor was release on Zandor Records on this side of the pond and Sorry State Records on the other. Sorry State also released the last two albums by US group Double Negative. What does this tell you? It tells you that Sorry State Records have released records by two of the very best, most visceral hardcore groups going.
Voltigeurs
Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies.
Doors 7PM
Doors are at 7pm, music will start soon afterwards. Music will be over by midnight. Wharf Chambers is a 7-8 minute walk from Leeds Station.
Fancy dress
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Sabbra Kebabra
A Black Sabbath tribute group featuring faces you will know from Bilge Pump, No Guts, Broken Arm, Gruel, Monster Killed By Laser and Uprights.
All at Wharf Chambers (in the building formerly known as The Common Place)
£5.00
-WEIRDO GUISE #12-
Monday 24th October in our living room
Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary Film about a Band Called KARP
The year is 1998. The group Karp from Tumwater, Washington have broken up. You are disappointed. You don't envision a film will ever be made about the group, although you would be very interested to watch it if it was. Fast forward to 2011. A film about the group Karp has been made, its maker is on tour with it and he's coming to your city. You are very interested to watch it.
The trio dealt in an awesomely bombastic style of Big Rock, releasing music on K Records and Kill Rock Stars. Taking divine inspiration from The Melvins (who afro'd frontman Jared Warren would go on to join), they wrote memorable songs in a powerful, heavy style. Documentarian Bill Badgley calls his film a "biography of friendship". It follows the three from their school days to their time as big movers on the Olympia scene.
A love of Karp (an acronym for Kill All Redneck Pricks… the name of a newsletter they published in High School) will encourage your desire to see the film. If you do not have one, then hit up youtube and listen to their song 'Bacon Industry'. Jared Warren was joined by Chris Smith, and Scott Jernigan - who, sadly, passed away in 2003. The film features appearances by The Whip, Big Business, Melvins, Unwound, Kathleen Hanna and Joe Preston, and original music by Kimya Dawson.
Two showings at 8:30pm and 10:30pm. Q&A sessions with the filmaker.
-WEIRDO GUISE #11-
Saturday 3rd September 2011 at The Fox and Newt:
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Friday 19th August 2011 at The Fox and Newt:
The Hipshakes
On any night there could be 2, 3 or 4 of them on the stage. What's guaranteed from start to finish are the most solid 2 minute punk nuggets this country has to offer and with it being in Leeds at a Weirdo Guise gig, they'll be playing them infront of a wasted crowd dancing their heart out. The Hipshakes have been at it for almost a decade and are still only in their mid 20s, got nine 7"s and two albums out and have some cracking new songs to play for you.
Wim Wams
Debut performance from this much talked about Leeds group. The few that have heard them have thrown around comments like 'Free fronted by Jad Fair' and 'son, all those years of blasting the Stones and Quo at you has finally paid off'. But really, it's like this: Sabbath --> Maiden --> Wim Wams. Be there as heavy British rock takes it's next step.
Ian Cockburn
Has over 50 songs and can never remember how to play a single one of them. Absolutely guaranteed to put a smile on your face, whether you're thinking he's the shittest thing ever or the absolute real deal. We think he's the absolute shit.
Black Hand
Another debut live performance. Expect classic UK indie rock ala Dinosaur Jr and Guided By Voices.
8:00PM £3 in.
-WEIRDO GUISE #9-
Saturday 13th August 2011 at The Fox And Newt:
SPIN SPIN THE DOGS
Some people say that Spin Spin The Dogs are one of the worst groups they've ever seen. But why don't you decide for yourself, by giving their inimitable, surreal, manically energetic and poppy post-punk a go. Their album 'Leave Me In Leicester', released in 2010 on Gringo Records, has musical content to match the brilliance of its title and is audible here…
http://www.gringorecords.com/releases.p … de=WAAT038
BEARDS
Beards are another side of the many sided post-punk coin to Spin Spin The Dogs. Attacking with skew-whiff funk basslines, low boredom threshold drums and jagged flints of guitar noise, they put the "ill" into No Frills.
EARLY MAN
Are Early Man taking the piss out of themselves, or out of the whole of Rock Music? Their recordings sound like Thrones fantasising about Steppenwolf.
MORAL HOLIDAY
Phil "Ashtray Navigations" Todd's solo project, in which he plays electronic garage rock.
7:00PM £4
-WEIRDO GUISE #8-
Thursday 17th March 2011 @ The Fenton:
TYVEK Outright rocking group sort of from Detroit rock city. Their 2nd album released in November of last year ended up in just about every 'best of 2010' list worth looking at. No longer the artsy, Swell Maps like hitmakers that we've come to adore over the last 4-5 years, the latest LP catches them swinging a far meatier, more forcefully punk sound. Not many bands are capable pulling off such shift, and goes to making this band seem ever more magnificent. Literally countless releases on In The Red, Siltbreeze, Sup Pop, S-S, What's Your Rupture, Fag Tapes, Night People and many more. First UK trip, one of only 4 UK gigs!
THE PHEROMOANS From Brighton, UK. After years of much dicking about, The Pheromoans started writing the occasional vaguely hummable song, whilst maintaining a solid affection for dicking about. This development saw them win the hearts of bedroom record label dorks the world over. After 5 consistently solid 7" EPs and singles, some CDRs and a superb tape on Night People, all released over the last two years, The Pheromoans are hands down one of the very best and most prolific groups from these shores. Their first album proper is out in February 2011 (with their second already finished and coming later in the year) and their first UK 'tour' proper is these four March dates with their mates Tyvek. As interviewed in Niche Homo 4.
BROKEN ARM Not for the faint hearted. Usually, music like this can only ever be made by men with really big balls, but these great deceivers obviously have peanuts in their sacks so you got to close your eyes and pretend. They're like a mirage that you can hear.
£5.00, 8pm. Plus very cheap booze.
-WEIRDO GUISE #7-
Friday 11th March 2011 @ The Fox and Newt:
THE HIPSHAKES - The Bakewell boys play garage rock with wild, wild abandon. They've toured the world over and now they're coming to stick it to Leeds one more time.
NO GUTS - Heavy noise-punk. You might have seen them play in Monster Killed By Laser, Uprights, Broken Arm and Vibracathedral Orchestra, but you're more likely to recognise them as having acted as draft excluders at every party you've ever been to. First gig.
GARETH S BROWN - He got one of us arrested, but no grudge held.
The Fox and Newt, Burley Road. Friday 11th March 2011.
8pm, £3 entry. Awesome selection of booze on tap. GET IN.
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Saturday 5th March 2011 @ The Common Place: 'Soft Skeleton #15.5 Clubnight'
10PM - Late.
Entry £3.00
With late night sets from:
BLACK MAMBA BEAT - Cruddy London based DIY, 100% South African rock trio. Debut Leeds gig.
GOOD THROB - Members of Shitty Limits and Sceptres jamming something harsh and tuneless. Debut Leeds gig.
Plus there was a secret set from:
Then a crushing disco from Soft Skeleton DJs Anna P., Daniel R., Nick B. and Nick J.
-WEIRDO GUISE #5-
Monday 6th September 2010 @ The Packhorse
Weirdo Guise and Own Noise presented...
THE worst, most rushed poster ever.
Blood Crips Leeds is a well rocking place. This is one of the most rocking bands Leeds has to offer - of the good time, not aggro variety. Members play in / have played in The Uprights / Broken Arm / Real Losers / Sailors. Banging garage punk with the occasional Meat Puppetsy twist.
The Love Triangle The Shitty Limits are pretty much the best punk / garage / hardcore / rock'n'roll group this country has had to offer in recent years. The Love Triangle are a trio and 2 of them are Shitty Limiters, meaning this group'll knock your head off. Rocking a more Power Pop sound to the Shitty Limits.
Twisted BROKE UP BEFORE THE GIG A whole set of solid songs and ever building momentum, this'll prick yer ears up from the get go. There's four of them backing the overly agitated frontman now and with them being just fresh off tour, these boys will be in the fucking zone. Third vinyl record out imminently on Art For Blind. These youngsters are definitely getting something right.
-WEIRDO GUISE #4-
Friday 27th August 2010 @ The Fenton:
SO COW So Cow on record is Brian Kelly, a podgy young man from Tuam Ireland. Live, SC and his band in full swing are by all accounts serious next level shit - with more sweat, potency and talent than 99% of any of the other rock bands you think are worth paying money to see. And now, finally, they are visting Leeds - we had them due to play here in April, but that volcano messed things up. In the last 4 years, SC has released a handful of killer singles, 3 albums, a sort of best of, completed 4 huge US tourIn the last 4 years, SC has released a handful of killer singles, 3 albums, a sort of best of, completed 4 huge US tours (most recent with v. decent Tyvek) but not once toured the UK. Musically, you'll hear hints of Orange Juice and The Nerves - and i'd say on hearing SC for the 1st time I was struck with the same 'hell yeah' feeling as when i first heard Television Personalities. - basically, you're going to have a total revelation and a new favourite band by the end of the night. Get excited, this is unmissable. One of only 4 UK dates.s (most recent with v. decent Tyvek) but not once toured the UK. Musically, you'll hear hints of Orange Juice and The Nerves - and i'd say on hearing SC for the 1st time I was struck with the same 'hell yeah' feeling as when i first heard Television Personalities. - basically, you're going to have a total revelation and a new favourite band by the end of the night. Get excited, this is unmissable. One of only 4 UK dates.
BEARDS Utterly jagged punk trio from Leeds. Scratched-out guitar, fruity bass, hard hitted drums and screaming synths. Full of spunk, these kids have got a certain something that'll have you queuing up to purchase their new LP.
IAN COCKBURN Ian Cockburn has been writing great songs for sometime now and he really has an impressive collection of brilliant little tunes. His anomalous way of seeing the world coupled with an extreme creativeness, makes for a far more interesting character than just about anyone else you or I will ever know and this is the vital ingredient that makes a song and performance by Ian so enjoyable and captivating . A fanatical Jonathan Richman fan, Ian will certainly enthrall those who share his love.
-WERIDO GUISE #3-
Saturday 17th July at The Common Place
SOFT SKELETON #12.5 - A crucially rocking club night with late night sets from:
The Uprights - A rare live show from the best art-faggy, psycho-grunge-punk band you might ever see. Fronted by the same genius douche who fronts Blood Crips.
The Hipshakes - These characters have more hits than sense. Playing lightning speed, garage trash that few can match. Two albums and three US tours in, The Hipshakes have records out on Goner, Die Slaughterhouse, Slovenly, Rob's House, Tic Tac Totally and many others.
With Soft Skeleton DJs spinning their favourite sweet-vibing discs that'll have you thinking this night has the best music you've ever got your jive on to:
Bo Diddley, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, The Fall, Gories, Creedence, Eddy Current, Electric Eels, Pere Ubu, Brainbombs, Wipers, Suicide, Zeppelin, Ramones, X, The Clean, Flesh Eaters, Simply Saucer, 13th Floor Elevators, Gizmos, Royal Trus, The Who, Monks, Neil Young, Modern Lovers, Slayer, Chrome, Black Flag, Sic Alps, Alice Cooper, Homosexuals, Dead Moon, Swamp Rats, Spacemen 3, Saints, Oh Sees, Stooges, Swell Maps, Carcass, Icky Boyfriends, So Cow, Velvet Underground etc.
Doors open at 10pm. Licensed until 5am... £3.00 for members, £4.00 for non-members.
DJS: Anna P. / Conor R. / Nick B. / Shaun A.
The CommonPlace is a members club. Guests must be introduced by a member at the door. Joining The CommonPlace costs just £2 per year, you can do it in a number of ways (but you can't join at the door on the night), see our website for details. http://www.thecommonplace.org.uk/membership.html
-WEIRDO GUISE #2-
Thursday 29th April 2010 @ the Fenton
SO GUTTED. SO COW HAVE HAD TO CANCEL THEIR TOUR AS THAT GREAT BOOB OF A VOLCANO HAS LED TO A FESTIVAL SC WAS DUE TO PLAY IN EUROPE CURATED BY DEERHOOF BEING CANCELLED. IT WAS DUE TO PAY PRETTY SWEETLY AND FUND SC'S UK TOUR... FORTUNATELY FORMER BULLIES STEPPED IN TO SAVE THE SHOW.
MAZES My ears are still fucked after watching these kids headline the first WG night back in February at a rammed Packhorse. One of few UK bands you could never possibly get enough of, so I'm more than chuffed to have them back again. Mazes rock fast, fuzzy pop hits, with catchiness on a par with the Vaselines, Times New Viking's best stuff and even the motherfucking MAC. They're gonna shred your smuggy-ass face clean off!
FORMER BULLIES Solid, potent psych pop from Manc. Since receiving an excellent tape from these three a while back, then seeing them support Box Elders late last year, I've been wanting to get Former Bullies back to Leeds for all to see as next to no one saw them last time; you'll dig, trust.
TWISTED If you're thinking Twisted who? and you like your guitar music undeniably rocking, then get chuffed; after catching these lads, you'll almost certainly have a new group to add to your list of local favourites. I care nothing for most of the records ever put out by Dischord, but tragically, these cats do. However, despite this face-scrunching flaw, I still think Twisted still have a killer sound - probably because I can hear they have an ear open to some decent garage rock (I saw a Dead Moon record in their studio the other day) and they also manage to sound like they could only have come from Britain (under that DM CD was a Kinks anthology). Also, the singer really 'gets it out' and it's definitely worth seeing, whether you're a boy or a girl. Dudes are so for real it's stunning.
-WEIRDO GUISE #1.5-
(Put on with/by the Brudenell)
18th April 2010 @ The Brudenell:
WOODEN SHJIPS
UPRIGHTS
HOOKWORMS (first gig)
-WEIRDO GUISE #1-
Friday 19th February 2010 @ The Packhorse
MAZES - There's no doubt to my ears that this groups songs stand head and shoulders above all the shit 'lo-fi / DIY' hipster bands around in droves right now in UK or otherwise. If they continue to release records to the quality of last years debut, the 'Bowie Knives' 7", then maybe in years to come you'll hear their name dropped in the same sentence as The Vaselines or The Clean.
SPECTRALS - Heavy vibing, reverb drenched songs about chicks by a fresh-faced twenty-something and his band. Debut LP out sometime this year on Blank Dog's Brooklyn based label 'Captured Tracks' - this bands star sure is on the rise.
BLOOD CRIPS - The most rocking party band in Leeds by a long shot; they haven't been around for long but already people have been grabbing the mic and singing along in mental basement parties in LS4 - the new LS6. An Upright, with a Broken Arm; one Real Loser.
BHURGEIST - Brand New band outta Sheffield, featuring a Spectral. Have one play through the songs on their myspace and you'll hear that these dudes definitely ain't shit and I'm certainly excited about seeing them play - if you are too, then I suggest you get down early as this hot bill is Hermione Granger tight.
Twisted bailed because one of them is had their impacted wisdom teeth removed on the thursday and felt they would not be able to give it their usual 100%, if only all bands were so commited - to giving it a 100% for every set, that is.