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Warm Widow

About Me

Debut EP 'Impossible Acts' is out now on Filthy Home Recordings, tracks are previewable on the player. This should give you an idea of what we do and if you're a promoter who puts on well considered nights where the bands are chosen because they really will compliment each other, rather than being cobbled together because they're in some way describable as 'rock' or 'indie' and that'll do, then we'd love to hear from you. Here's murky footage of us playing 'Bitches Of the band' at the legendary Islington Mill...

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Music:

Member Since: 07/02/2007
Band Members: Martin = Vacuum howl from tear in time Guitar, mumbles and yips.

Lianne = Plastic and bronze attacked with sticks in skittering aluminium lightning.
Zak = Dealer of platinum death-cards from blazing ak-ak Bass.
Ivan = Founding member on large adventure beyond. His spirit liveth on.
Influences: Mission of Burma, The Fall, Husker Du, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Drive Like Jehu, Guided by Voices, Dinosaur Jr, Big Black, Wire, Liars, Low, Smog, Polythene, Sonar Yen.
Sounds Like:

Warm Widow 'Impossible Acts'


CD - FHCD0301 - £3
"Utterly Fabulous" Artrocker
Filthy Home Recordings says: Warm Widow submerged into their former bass player's cellar with a bunch of begged borrowed and stolen recording equipment to produce this marvellously traumatised collection of modern rock songs. The fifteen minutes of the EP flash past in a disorienting montage of backwards rhythms, anthemic ranting, twisted time signatures unfolding into slick post-punk grooves and blasts of intense sonic bullying resolving into hauntingly plaintive melodic passages. This debut release is limited to just 200 hand numbered copies. Get one!

"It's hard not to revel in all the distorted glory and joyous anger shaking the windows." Gigwise

"Their tightly structured, aggressive onslaught of shrieking axework and hypnotic basslines and spectacular, pummelling drumming calls to mind two of the greatest exponents of disturbing, aggressive music, The Fall and Shellac. The whole experience is oddly cathartic and in seeming opposition to the jolly surroundings of a pub full of excitable music fans but works wonderfully." Manchestermusic.co.uk

"The reason music gets amplified. By the last number, I felt strapped to a whining motorbike, petrol in my teeth, concrete flashing by in the night." Sandman

"Possibly the best music of this type I've heard since Drive Like Jehu, which is saying a lot." trickledownwordpress


Record Label: Filthy Home Recordings
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Impossible Acts....

We've made an EP. Impossible acts, recorded last year has finally surfaced and will be available from here (paypal), Filthy Home and elsewhere... It looks lovely and sounds pretty good too so fork o...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:29:00 GMT

IVAN’S LEAVING MEMORIAL GIG FRIDAY 27th

Commemorating the leaving of Warm Widow's amazing Ivan for distant northern lands, a grand boozy do featuring our last Ivan enabled performance will occur on Friday 27th June. Guesting with us are DAN...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:51:00 GMT

Words about Sounds From The Other City

From Gigwise: The peaceful reflection barely has time to set in though before being completely obliterated by Warm Widow. Looking back to the post-hardcore DIY noiseniks of the 80's, the group's barb...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 00:43:00 GMT

Riot of the known EP

The mixing of the long fermented warm widow EP is nearing completion and we expect to be sniffing the first fresh copies before May be out.As is the way of things, the process has taken a little longe...
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT

6pm stage time Sounds From The Other City

We've been given a stage time of 6pm at the Rover's Return which is only a couple of hours after the doors open and a couple of hours before people lose the ability to speak through sheer volume of al...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:32:00 GMT

Warm Widow require bassist

This summer Ivan is moving to Whitby for good and Warm Widow will lose a thoroughly inspirational founding member. Until his departure we intend to continue working as normal and will finish and promo...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:11:00 GMT

Sandman Magazine review of Roadhouse gig

"If Alex Higgins* had taken Shellac to heart, Warm Widow could have been the result. Singer Martin leapt from a shouty MES introduction, through mumbled, chopped-up fridgeless magnetic poetry, to lean...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:31:00 GMT

The ep

At the end of December we finally had enough pan-group availability to go get recording started in Ivan's cellar. Armfuls of technology and wire were introduced into the chilly bunker for an A-Team st...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:58:00 GMT

Words from somewhere in the US

"Now THIS is coolthe band Warm Widow from the UK. Sounds like vintage Drive Like Jehu, Live Skull, Sonic Youth, Gordons, Fall, Husker Du, Mission of Burma, maybe some touches of Swervedriver occasio...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:10:00 GMT

Song blurt

Right. After too much headscratching and faffing there's new songs all over the player and that's that. None are perfect by any means, but I'm loathe to tweak them any more because we'll have some new...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:19:00 GMT