The first Totality All Dayer of 2023 will be at
Moor Brewery on Days Road, bristol. June 3rd.
Starting early afternoon and rolling well into the night.
Tickets are now available at Headfirst. hdfst.uk/E88510
This shits STACKED so don’t miss out.
Ax
A.L.Lacey
Alice is a classically trained pianist and vocalist. Having collaborated with various indie/electronic/folk/ambient artists across the years (inc. Monsters Build Mean Robots, Cower, VLMV, Snails), Alice has recently finished recording her debut solo album (Lesson) with a release date set for the Autumn. Alice’s music alternates between sparse, minimalist songs that ruminate on the passing of time and more kinetic, upbeat pieces charting the journey towards total autonomy. The result is strikingly personal and haunting. She'll be joined by Holly MacIntosh on bass."
BLACK SHAPE
Massive riffs, noise, appalling language, beer, tracksuits and hi-vis jackets.
Review for recent release, ‘Fuck Me’
“Earlier encounters with BLACK SHAPE, London-based if not necessarily Londoners, pegged them in my mind as jawdropping outsider two-man doom primitivism (with recorder solos and monologues)—a British version of SLOTH, in essence. This album-length tape is distinct from that, in that the songs are faster and it sounds a little cleaner, though we’re talking guitar heroics somewhere between HARVEY MILK and SCISSORFIGHT with a touch of SHELLAC clang-tone, so all these things are relative. The guitarist, David Burdis, also writes lyrics for the ages: genuinely funny without just doing relentless one-liners or otherwise going OTT on the zaniness (that NORMAL MAN LP from a few years back is a decent reference point, actually.) “Your Money or Your Life,” towards the end of the album, contains especially pleasing multitudes: a VAN HALEN-worthy solo, Burdis’ condensed history of capitalism (“Back in the day it was all about goods / Brought in the ships by the merchant traders / Now they trade in imaginary things / Information, numbers, ideas”), and a concluding call for solidarity with people who have to clean toilets after the world’s vomiting hordes have passed through.”
Noel Gardner - Maximum Rock n Roll
Listen - https://blackshape666.bandcamp.com/music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_bg0BzcwrY
DEAD POP
Fast, hard hitting & riff heavy bass/drums sludge rock duo from London. Skewed pop samples, wailing vocals and churning rhythms.
Listen - https://deadpopuk.bandcamp.com/album/deadpop
DOWNARD
Two-piece rock combo. Born and raised in Bristol, UK. Punishing distorto-riffs + math-slam drums = we.
Album review excerpts: "...their awaited long play debut Permanent Damage is a gripping, abrasively raw and mentally engaging barrage on the ears that showcases why this band are held with such regard in their home circles." (NOIZZE.CO.UK)
"Teeth-grinding, weirdo-rock... If it sounds like it’s rusted to the point of disintegrating apart, then it’s committed to tape – that’s Downard’s motto." (KEEPITFAST.COM)
"Punishing riffs, creativity at every turn, Bristol’s Downard transcend the two-piece straitjacket" (LOUDERTHANWAR.COM)
Listen - https://downard.bandcamp.com/album/permanent-damage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twTVe6UxbJM
KNIVES
With recent success following their debut single release and headlining a sold out Rough Trade Bristol show, Knives are excited to continue their rapidly increasing success with more performances and coverage alongside their upcoming 2023 EP release.
The Bristolian post punk band are currently organising coinciding support and headlining shows that will take place with the EP release in April. These events will provide a special orchestral experience with harp and sax members pressing a unique spin on punk.
Listen - www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVrAc8ncO4A
NIETZSCHE TRIGGER FINGER
Thrash-Hardcore-Punk with bonus weird parts
Listen - youtu.be/_DVxa_UDYcw
OLANZA
Listen - https://olanza.bandcamp.com/album/olanza
RITUAL ERROR
Arresting and acute post-hardcore and punk with nods to Dischord Records and Ebullition Records. Forming in October 2021 this brazen London quartet are steadily cementing their name as an unforgettable force with chasm-creating noise and creeping melodies.
Listen - https://ritualerror.bandcamp.com/album/demo
SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE
Neo Jazz Wreckin Crew
Listen - http://familydrone.bandcamp.com
“Up from London, The Drone arranged their gear in a tight circle, facing each other, their small-but-intense audience gathering around, soon in thrall to a particularly abstract compulsion for head banging, the sort that always takes over the body when it’s experiencing free form sounds of a heavyweight nature. This willing zombie response cannily amalgamated the hook-impalement state usually invited by fully abandoned free jazz, manic electro-shrieking, and sludge-a-boogie forms. This circle of simultaneously slow banging druidic head motion held the whiff of primitive ritual, an alternative type of trance music.
The Sly set consisted of an extended improvisation, moving through multiple personalities. Both of the knob-sweeping electronicists also fed their anguished vocals through their tabletops of wiring, and one of them, founder Matt Cargill, also became a third drummer, with his periodic floor tom undercurrents. James Allsopp’s baritone saxophone provided the gristle of animalistic free jazz eruption, hacking out gobbets of molten buckshot. Sly Drone swims through immense echo, holding up its immense bass-body weight, as Ed Dudley minced his vocals through dark electronic pipes. Sticks-men Will Glaser and Kaz Buckland create a Burundi thunder, topped by the high squeal scurf of the baritone. It’s an elasticated bedding for a Lynchian slow-dance stretch, becoming so soft that a gourd shaker can be heard, before the bullhorn shapes build again, and a grand space Krautrockery sets itself in heady motion.” - Brooklyn Rail