CAMBRIDGE: The Cornerhouse

FRI 30TH MAR, 2012 7.30pm

http://theminutes.bandcamp.com/

"The background: If you like your pop music primitive and primeval – which would, on reflection, make it rock music – you'll love the Minutes. A Dublin three-piece, what they do is so unreconstructed and unrefined they make Black Sabbath sound like the White Stripes. No, that doesn't quite work. No, they sound like Black Sabbath doing the White Stripes – playing their songs, that is, as opposed to enjoying them physically, a horrible image (Ozzy in a clinch with Jack White? Yuk) that has no place in this column. Friends for years, they formed a few years ago and have been selling records and winning awards back home but have only now begun drawing wider attention, perhaps because there is a gap in the market for this kind of pounding, pummelling noise." The Guardian