About Me
I work for Elastic Artists Agency and I represent the following artists for European bookings:
Cutting Pink With Knives
Holy Roar Records
Making sense of London-based Cutting Pink With Knives' splutter-punk electro goofing is as much fun, and as infuriating, as attempting a top-level sudoku puzzle with your pants down in a bubble pool full of hula girls. Or. Something. Basically: it's super fun, super tough, super tasty, super deluxe, Brutal Deluxe, Speedball Too Fast Too Furious. It'll bludgeon yr skull in, drink the juice and pop a pot plant above your shattered brow. New album is out now!
HTRK
Fire Records
HTRK (pronounced hate-rock) are a mysterious trio from Melbourne who recently relocated to Berlin. HTRK became in 2003. Early music spawned from basement sessions: omnipresent electronic drum sequences, ostinati basslines and twisted guitar loops based on repeated rhythms that make you move. Nigel Yang and Sian Scream found a beautiful muse in Jonnine D, who joined the band shortly after its inception. New alias the Hate Rock Trio: drone moored by Jonnine's listlessly simple vocal melodies. The bands debut album 'Marry me tonight' is due for release in early 2008 alongside a promotoional european tour. Cool, Dark, Calm.
http://www.myspace.com/htrk
The Steve Reid Ensemble
Domino Records
The cause of freedom, on all levels, has remained at the core of Steve Reid's existence and during recent times the drummer has found a greater understanding in Europe, which is where so many fringe crusaders like Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Sahib Shihab, Dexter Gordon and Idris Muhamed found an enthusiastic and receptive audience. Today, it is from Lugano, Switzerland that he usually embarks on his travels in a constant quest to 'keep in the rhythm'!
http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/index.php?page=artists&am
p;artistID=254
Dan Deacon
Carpark records
Dan Deacon has garnered a reputation in the underground as an intense performer and classic showman. The table top full of pedals, sine wave generator, vocoder and casio blasting through the PA, joined by a makeshift light board with various bulbs and green skull strobe light, make his all out dance-til-you-drop performance a complete experience. The shows he performs in his native Baltimore, namely those at Wham City, (the live-in artists collective and DIY venue/theater that he calls home), are especially notorious for its frenzied crowds.
http://www.myspace.com/dandeacon
Marnie Stern
Kill Rock Stars
Her debut record, In Advance of the Broken Arm, is culled from songs written by herself in her bedroom over a two-year period, with production and drum work by Hella's Zach Hill. Her songs are of the earth, birthed in an organic process where the finished product is much more striking than the individual parts: created in solitude, the songs contain a staggering number of layers, each one winding its way around the others, then counterpointed by Marnie's feminine, echoing, powerful vocals. In Advance of the Broken Arm transcends any gimmicky "recluse" label because it is so present and immediate, and is certainly the most vibrant, original, empowering, and groundbreaking record released in a long time.
www.myspace.com/marniestern1
Shining
Rue Grammaphone
The press dropped many names when trying to place Shining..s previous album on the musical map, from The Mars Volta and Slayer via King Crimson and Mahavishnu Orchestra to Henry Cow, This Heat, Ornette Coleman, Ligeti and Messiaen. One thing they all agreed on was the striking originality of this young group who had gone through a radical transition from starting out as a postbop jazz quartet. With â€In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster†they tried to squeze in as much as they could, but masterful editing and production from KÃ¥re Chr. Vestrheim made it all stick together in a very convincing way. Vestrheim is also the producer of this album. NOT to be confused with a black metal band called Shining from Sweden, who are SHIT.
Diagonal
Rise Above Records
Exceptional progressive/jazz/experimental/psych band from Brighton (UK). Diagonals debut album comes out on cult label Rise Above May 2008. Look out for them as they tour the UK and Europe, their blend of Vertigo label inspired Jazz Rock – meets Canterbury flavoured Kraut Rock can not be missed.
Polysics
Myspace Records
Polysics are a Japanese new wave/Rock band from Tokyo, who personally dub their unique style as "technicolor pogo punk". This is high energy music, fusing conventional guitar music, with synthesized and computer generated sound to create a unique mixture of punk and Synthpop, heavily inspired by the American bands Devo and The Tubes, and Japanese bands such as P-Model and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Their song lyrics often consist of Japanese, English, or just plain gibberish ("Space Language").
Chrome Hoof
Southern Records
Their rep for the live shows doesn’t JUST come from the costumes, stunt men, props and mayhem. On drums, we have a burnt out raver (who’s convinced the best years are yet to come) with an insane drive to nail the ultimate disco beat - however much it seems to elude him - mixing it up with stuttering progressive break-downs in some un-holy time signature. Then a bassist, whose fingers blur like knitting needles on cheap speed - pulling up low end from the very foundation-stone of the cosmos, together creating a furnace of restless Disco-Grind. Now bring in the rest of the band armed with bassoon, sax, trumpet, keyboards, violin, cello, percussion, samplers, guitars, bass, drums - and five or six vocalists tackling sprawling, obelisk-like arrangements with consumerate ease and attention.
Tom Ravenscroft (DJ)
Channel 4 music
Like his father, legendary radio DJ John Peel, Tom Ravenscroft is driven to bring quality new music to eager ears via his widely respected channel 4 radio show 'slashmusic'. A modern day musical anti-hero, Tom is a talented club DJ with a record collection to die for. Playing live he selects diverse and eclectic tracks featured on his radio show. The result? an up-tempo mashup of pioneering underground music, and at breakneck speed! Often joined on the decks by legendary radio producer Hermeet Chadra (BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 music & C4), the duo smash crowds with a unique journey through the realms of underground new music.
Kyte
Sonic Cathedral Recordings
I'll leave this to the press...
"Unashamedly epic and unrelentingly beautiful" NME
"An absolutely amazing band making amazing music" 4MUSIC
"It's positively hymnal, like Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation played in a church"
Panther
Kill Rock Stars
Whether live or on record there was a sense that PANTHER was being overtaken by something, not an alter-ego, this was something else. Think Ian Curtis' convulsive intensity and James Browns spastic swagger and you still won't have PANTHER, but a sense of what-the-fuckness that all of them seem to call up!
Ponytail
We Are Free Records
Bunkering down in their hometown of Baltimore, USA at the Magpie Cage, PONYTAIL and J Robbins twisted and tweaked to a final outcome that truly embodies the spirit of the bands live gigs. Complex yet pop, raw yet refined, heavy yet sweet, "ICE CREAM SPIRITUAL" needs to be blasted while standing. "ICE SCREAM SPIRITUAL" is PONYTAIL'S first release for WE ARE FREE, and the label’s third full length, this is THE band of 2008. Touring September 2008
NEW Touring in 2008:
VIDEO HIPPOS JUNE 2008
SUPERNASHMAN JUNE 2008
PONYTAIL SEPTEMBER 2008
TURBOWOLF VARIOUS
CHROME HOOF SUMMER FESTIVALS
PANTHER OCTOBER
KYTE SUMMER FESTIVALS AND EURO TOUR SEPTEMBER
