Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds

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SHOT BY BOTH SIDES
A spektakular soireé of degeneracy and bloodlust!

Shot By Both Sides – London's premier purveyors of arcane, outlandish and fantastical musical delights - launch another sordid spektakular, on Friday 30th May. This is a gathering in the intimate surroundings of Brixton Windmill – their first soiree at the venue since Christmas 2006.
Disregarding the patronising idiocy of bargain-bin indie nights, SBBS offers a ramshackle assortment of music, poetry, performance, spoken-word and strange men leering. Influenced by everything from the Antifolk scene to C86, from beat-poetry through to Rick Wakeman's 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth', it is a heady, kaleidoscopic and keck-soiling experience. Doubtlessly topped-off with some silly haircuts.
Expect a thrilling soundtrack of wonky psych, gritty '60s garage, gnarled folk, freakout jazz, rockabilly, C86 indie and Northern Soul, poetry, stories, free ‘zines, various handouts, literature/tape exchange, some peculiar visual treats, cakes, a few out-of-the-hat surprises and some sensational live sets from…


LUPEN CROOK & THE MURDERBIRDS
Gnarled, twisted folk and bleeding-heart candor from Britain’s most underrated songwriter. Fresh from delivering second LP ‘Iscariot The Ladder’, Crook’s edge-of-the-ledge, bloody-minded mini-masterpieces pack more high-drama than most can ever aspire to. Intense, bug-eyed and vehement; this will be a performance to savour.
Lupen Crook stands alone as one of the few artists around who seriously defies categorisation – The Fly
A bewitching talent – Uncut
Original and highly concentrated stuff - Mojo
…An air of insanity and a genuine edge-of-the-seat brilliance – The Sun
www.myspace.com/lupencrook

DAVID CRONENBERG’S WIFE
Achieving something-resembling-legendary status on the UK Antifolk circuit, DCW are a band that deserve to be treasured – and not just for their fabulous moniker. Raw, early-80s, Fall-fried sounds clash with Tom Mayne’s incisive lyrics – which come-on equal-parts sardonic, wide-eyed and bitter. The punk-edged carnival of mental breakdown that you can dance to.
Dark and twisted as the name suggests – London Metro
David Cronenberg’s Wife sound like a mid-Eighties independent band – sarcastic, sardonic and articulate, with gothic undertones, a little bit of shambling, some David Lunch surf guitar…the focus is on the songwriting – Everett True, Plan B magazine
www.myspace.com/davidcronenbergswife

LEFT WITH PICTURES
An experimental, emotionally-frazzled three-piece with pop at their core. In some mysterious hinterland between the Beach Boys, The Beta Band and Barett-era Floyd, their classical affectations are coupled with a range of instruments – from Gregorian plainchant to electronic tape loops – to create glorious technicolor ‘chamber-pop’. Or, as they’d have it, 'Claude Debussy on a shoestring budget'.
Left With Pictures, though relatively early on in their career, have legs enough for walking, swooning, harmonizing and lilting with the very best of their contemporaries – Drowned In Sound
www.myspace.com/leftwithpictures

THE PHANTOM LOVERS
The kind of band that leaves journalists scraping for adjectives to describe the sheer girth of sound on offer. Monstrous ‘soundscapes’ and downbeat torch-songs – ornamented by Elsie Martins’ brooding vocals – with an ‘80s shoegaze vibe. Grab the nearest sodden overcoat, for this is truly The Big Music.
Dark and subtly textured, moodily atmospheric soundscapes - Time Out
www.myspace.com/thephantomloversuk

More info:
www.myspace.com/shotbybothsidesclub