Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.

Event information

Jesus Juice Present
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. & OPIUM LORD
Sunday 13th October
The Flapper. Cambrian Wharf, Kingston Row. Birmingham. B1 2NU
Doors 7.00pm / Curfew 10.30pm

*UPDATE: The first 50 people through the door on October 13th will receive a hand numbered limited edition live AMT CDR featuring the bands set from their (almost) legendary last visit to the venue back in 2001. That was a GREAT night so lets try and make this one even better!. Doors 7pm first come first served*

After a two year absence from the West Midlands stage, Japanese psych Gods Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO return to The Flapper, the scene of their legendary first Birmingham gig way back in 2001. The intimate setting is sure to propel the band to another memorable and sweaty performance, in the city that has many close ties with the band. The band are now an expanded five piece and are currently laying waste to North America before returning to their mountain top studio to record their latest studio album in a humongous catalogue.

Forming in Japan in 1995, Acid Mothers Temple was originally a musical collective of over 30 famous and unknown, musicians, artist, dancers, farmers etc, formed in order to follow and document their multifarious activities. Over near 20 years and hundreds of releases on labels big and small the world over, the core live band has whittled down to a respectable 5, led by guitar guru Makoto Kawabata and have gained a reputation for being a phenomenal live band. Never a band to be accused of phoning it in, Acid Mothers Temple still leave their audience slack jawed and drooling with tense, over the top live performances that rarely last below 90 sweat soaked minutes. In fact given licence, you expect they would willingly carry on playing until their amps literally gave up ... and what's more, they have ... on several occasions.

Since forming, Acid Mothers Temple have toured the world over almost every year building up their loyal fan base from the USA to China, from the UK to Australia. The band never stop working. If they're not out on the road they're tucked away in their own mountain top studio in Osaka making yet another head expanding masterpiece.

'The Melting Paraiso UFO' incarnation is probably the best known of all the collectives offshoots, both on the stage and on record. In 2001, this incarnation became the first Japanese band to properly tour the UK for over two decades. That tour went down in folklore for those that attended any of the sold out club shows. And since then they've been back to the UK virtually every year to build on that and create an almost cult like following.

Showing little sign of slowing down, Acid Mothers Temple continue along their own chosen path, ignoring trends, fashions and the temptation to smooth out their sound for mass appeal. They instead continue to be an underground legend, one that has given their dedicated followers and themselves almost two decades of glorious loud, unhinged, out-there mayhem. Long may they continue and in the words of the song ... GOD BLESS AMT!