We’re very excited to reveal to you our next wave of line-up announcements for Offset 2009, bringing to you the hottest bands of 2009 alongside their influences. Can legend Damo Suzuki will be making a rare UK appearance, with sets from the unfailingly awesome Dananananaykroyd, Kasms and Bo Ningen, and the Charlatan’s Tim Burgess treating us to a special guest DJ set.
Damo Suzuki will be performing an unmissable one-of-a-kind set with guest bands joining him as “sound carriers”. Dananananaykroyd will be taking over Main Stage with their post-hardcore fight pop. Join us to see shriek beat post-punkers Kasms blasting main stage away on Sunday, with Bo Ningen bringing the chaos and melody to the New Bands tent for a riotous session on Saturday evening.
For those of you that have never been to one of Sexbeat’s nights… where have you been?!! Lynchpins of Shoreditch nightlife for the last few years, they’ve now compiled some of the bands that have played or been played into one beautifully hand-crafted CD.
Their music policy has always been eclectic – their name sums it up well: a Gun Club track that was covered by Andrew Weatherall’s ‘Two Lone Swordsmen’ – and tends to take in anything (punk/rap/hardcore/psychobilly/metal/industrial) with a dark-edge and a bit of a kick to it.
Physical releases from Offset Fest faves Kasms and Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, as well as awesome stuff from These Are Powers, Disconcerts, Dan Deacon, Tilly & The Wall, Asobi Seksu + much much more.
Artrocker start the year at break-neck pace with a whole week of gigs presenting a selection of some of the bands most likely to be causing a stir in the underground scene and most likely to ‘break out’ of the underground at some point in 2009.
In previous years, the ARTROCKER ANNUAL Festival has presented the likes of Good Shoes, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Maccabees, Young Knives, Ipso Facto, Foals, So So Modern, Hot Club De Paris, Johnny Foreigner, Art Brut, Thomas Tantrum amongst many others.
Artrocker checks the pulse of the underground and finds it to be alive and kicking hard.
6 nights of unmissable new-ness from the Smiths pop of Official Secrets Act to Darkrock’s S.C.U.M and noise-rock riff monsters Pulled Apart by Horses end in celebratory style with
Kasms have just finished their, as yet untitled, debut album. It was recorded at drummer/guitarist Rory Brattwell’s studio in East London and it was mastered at Abbey Road. The first song to be taken from it is called ‘Bone You’, no news has been released about the B-sides yet. The single will be out on Trouble Records at the end of January and the album will be out a little later next year. You can listen to the track here.
New York’s influentially noisy ‘No Wave’ music scene is thought to have been named, at least in part, in rejection and mockery of the ‘New Wave’ pop that was pushed on them by the media of the time.
Therefore, if the NME’s past genre inventions were to be taken seriously, would that mean that Kasms and S.C.U.M etcetera should be referred to as ‘No Rave’?
