OUT NOW!
SHRIMP - BRINE SHRIMP
A year after last year’s Shrimpin’, the recordings emerge! Fully pickles and ready to confuse your eardrums! Double cassettes up on the bandcamp! Get yours in the comments!
“Another seething mass of chitinous mayhem from Shrimp.
Recorded in August of ’23 at First Avenue Studio and including the live recording from that year’s performance; Brine Shrimp was left to steep for year before being released in time for the 2024 rendition of the band.
Weighing in at a hefty two hours and fifteen minutes, and with a queasy spatial mix by David Curle, Brine Shrimp is a sprawling mass of free-form guitar, vocals (an associated miscellanea), effects and percussion. The listener is thrown about the room with the sound, as the initial dirge collapses into a frantic scramble of activity, glitch and movement as the various pincers and claws dart out from the sonic mass. The sound field shifts as elements are isolated or the entire band is channelled through the snare, sometimes in line with the music and others completely of its own accord. Not even the platform you are listening from is stable.
Brine Shrimp concludes with Pickled Air - which was recorded live and draws the band into a more straight-ahead pummeling sound, with an artefact of that performance.“
RYOSUKE KIYASU / HELL ON HEARTH / SHRIMP
Huge thanks to everyone who popped down Zerox on Friday and extra huge thanks to Kiyasu, Hell on Hearth and the Shrimps (Esmé, Jon, Kiyasu, Theo and me I suppose) for playing. Cheers to Byker Grave for co-promoting and Zerox for hosting. There’s a mega double cassette up tomorrow from last years recording session, so keep and eye out for that (or grab one direct from Kiyasu if you’re catching him live), and some more things in the works. Nice to be doing stuff again.
RYOSUKE KIYASU / HELL ON HEARTH / SHRIMP
TOMORROW! Come to Zerox for a lovely time with snare maestro Ryosuke Kiyasu, Shrimp and Hell On Hearth! Tix in the comments or you can pay a bit more on the door!
THIS FRIDAY! Ryosuke Kiyasu returns to Newcastle and the walls of Zerox ring to the sound of his snare! Come have a lovely time with Shrimp and Hell On Hearth too. I’m going to be picking up some nice tapes tomorrow that you’ll get your first dibs on if you turn up on Friday and there are going to be SEVERAL TELLIES in the Hell On Hearth set. Classic Shrimp madness expanded to a five piece and featuring Theo of Territorial Gobbing/Solderer/Garbage Pail Kids/etc etc etc fame on the keys! Tix in the comments.
RYOSUKE KIYASU / HELL ON HEARTH / SHRIMP
THIS FRIDAY! Ryosuke Kiyasu returns to Newcastle and the walls of Zerox ring to the sound of his snare! Come have a lovely time with Shrimp and Hell On Hearth too. I’m going to be picking up some nice tapes tomorrow that you’ll get your first dibs on if you turn up on Friday and there are going to be SEVERAL TELLIES in the Hell On Hearth set. Classic Shrimp madness expanded to a five piece and featuring Theo of Territorial Gobbing/Solderer/Garbage Pail Kids/etc etc etc fame on the keys! Tix in the comments.
RYOSUKE KIYASU / HELL ON HEARTH / SHRIMP
Coming up fast! In a couple of weeks Ryosuke Kiyasu returns to Newcastle alongside Hell On Hearth and SHRIMP. Should hopefully even have some new and relevant tapes by then too! Loads of cacophonous madness at Zerox Tix in the comments.
Running a bit behind still, so there’s no new Panurus releases for this Bandcamp Friday. Some announcements to come soon when I’ve finished some art and sorted myself out a bit. In the meantime I’ve chucked up a sale, so you can fill any gaps in yer collection or take a punt on something you’ve not heard. 50% off with the code BARGAINS. Grab some tapes yeah? Should have all releases set as pay what you want too so now’s a good time to chuck a few quids at something to add it to your collection.
Hello everyone, nothing new up from us today (having March off as I need to catch up on a bunch of jobs and projects), but we’ve still got loads for you to dig into! Have a little browse through the site, and a little trip across to the loads of other people that have got good things out today too. I’ll chuck a bunch of things in the stories in a second. We’ve got things to announce in April I reckon.
Big cheers to everyone who popped down to The Little Buildings last night, Sgerbwd, Geheimnisknecht and Knifedoutofexistence absolutely smashed it and it was lovely to get out the first Dolmen Dweller set in a good number of years. Big thanks as ever to Queer Love for co-promoting duties, and to Tomm for sound, and the S Club Party.
Extra thanks to Logan and Sam who’s footage I’ve half inched for some of the reel.
Big ol’ mega cheers to everyone who ventured out on Sunday for hefty helpings of Lava Mouse, Melting and Tim Holehouse! A proper lovely time. Cheers to Queer Love for continuing co promotion duties, The Little Buildings for having us, Sam for excellent sound as per and just everyone for contributing generally. Everyone on that bill has a Bandcamp so do yerself a favour and go pick some stuff up, yeah?
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Next up for us is Knifedoutofexistence and co THIS FRIDAY! With a Queer Love night on directly afterward!
Big cheers to everyone who came down to The Little Buildings last night and to Dan Johnson, Bartholomew and Lucy Valentine for stellar sets across the board, and Sam for excellent sound as per. Extra shout out to Queer Love for co-promoting duties even though Esmé couldn’t make it on the night. We’ve still got some tapes up for sale but they’re shifting pretty fast so grab one quick if you want one.
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Next up for us it Tim Holehouse on the 18th! Will pop links for that in the comments in a second.
The Bellflower by Dan Johnson is out very soon! And alongside it are a bunch of gigs that your really don’t want to miss! The recording on the tape does a great job of capturing it, but Dan is a force of nature live and that’s where you want to experience it.
DAN JOHNSON / LUCY VALENTINE / BARTHOLOMEW
