SO SO MODERN / WILD PALMS / COLD PUMAS
Friday 29th January, 2010
The Lexington
96-98 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm / £6.50 ADV
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SO SO MODERN - frenetic genre-contortionists SSM hail from New Zealand and February 2010 this year sees them release their second full length on our sister label Transgressive Records. Their career thus far has been an immensely creative one – spanning the four x seven-inch series Friends & Fires (each vinyl released one per week across a ‘So So September’ month back in 2007), and singles collection, Friends & Fires + 000 EPs. Purveyors of a fiendishly exciting live show perfect for chin scratching or letting your body go crazy, their performances are fearless amalgams of spurting synths, jagged guitars, shuffling dance steps, and strange animal costumes. More expansive, considered and a hugely enjoyable listen, new album Crude Futures is a real boundary-pushing treat - 2010 might be theirs, you know
www.myspace.com/sosomodern
WILD PALMS - walls full of scratchy guitars, head-nodding rhythms and dark angular moods are just not something we ever tire of at Rockfeedback. Post punk was bloody great, PiL, The Fall and Wire are brilliant, and both we and Wild Palms know it. Similarly to kindred spirits S.C.U.M., Wild Palms take such influences as a cue not to dwell in this hotbed of a past, but to rush full on and fast into the future with it. Seemingly on the brink of a very sharp leap forward, Wild Palms currently stand head and shoulders high atop the capital's underground. www.myspace.com/wearewildpalms
COLD PUMAS - from Brighton, Cold Pumas make wonderfully repetitious krauty sounds that chug like drugged-out waves of goodness over our defenseless ears. Coming across like Ex-Models or Liars at their driving best, live they're a tightly wound hypnotic experience, with riffs that go on and on until something clicks and the rabbit hole opens. Recent releases saw a split with fellow luminaries Male Bonding, and punk disco stormer "Jela", out now on Sex Is Disgusting records. www.myspace.com/coldpumas
Tickets are priced at £6.50, and can be purchased HERE.
Sarah and Richard from MUNCH MUNCH (otherwise known as MANBABE) are going to come down and spin some records throughout the night, and so are our buddies from HOME.UNDER.GROUND.. Also after the bands for those inclined there’ll be the ever-excellent White Light club night featuring White Heat DJS in which to dance yourself into the weekend. Cheap vodka and beer and the White Heat DJs regressing to their indie roots in an attempt to ease the pain of electro and get you dancing
Doors are at 7.30pm, and the venue, unsurprisingly, is The Lexington, located at 96-98 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JB.
