A festival of music, with food, films, art, dj's and maybe strawberries. Bands will play 15 minute sets, meaning lots of bands in a very short space of time! The first one will be held
from 2pm-late on Sunday June 22 at the Klondyke Bowls Club, Burnage Range, Levenshulme, Manchester. More details will appear here! If you would like to be involved in any way then send a message on myspace, or email:
[email protected]
Tickets can be bought in advance at all future Jamboree's (go to www.myspace.com/jamboreemanchester for dates) for £7.50. Alternatively you can buy them through paypal (with 50p booking fee):
A brief history of strawberry shortcake
8pm Thursday June 12 at the Klondyke Bowls Club:
Blackberry Shortcake
2pm Sunday June 22 at the Klondyke Bowls Club:
Strawberry Shortcake
line-up:
Le Tetsuo
Le Tetsuo met at art school in 2002, when it was fashionable to wear plastic grapes around your neck and drink lager through a straw. These things may or may not still be in fashion, but since then this delightful noise-pop riot-boy/grrrl three-piece have gone on to win the largest music competition in the Eastern region, share sell out stages with the likes of Prinzhorn Dance School, Screaming Tea Party, Kaito, PRE and Bearsuit. “Le Tetsuo do their thing like they heard awesome riot grrrl pioneers Huggy Bear seconds before... Rest assured, they're a band on the riseâ€- NME
Puzzle
Formed in February '07, Puzzle are a Liverpool based indie/pop band who don't waste time! They've already released an album and
played a bunch of gigs, including one of my favourite gigs of last year. 'Words and Actions' is a beautifully arranged and intricate pop song,
with guitars bouncing around like pin balls to shifting rhythms, and a sense of melody reminiscent of 'Crooked Rain' era Pavement. They
must have a cool record collection(!), bringing together elements of bands such as Tiger Trap and Apples In Stereo, yet still sounding original. One of the most exciting bands around at the moment!
Sparky Deathcap
Its nice to see people doing things a bit differently - when I booked him to play a gig last year he changed his name several times and I couldn't find him again on myspace.
Now there's no music on his page, and though I don't remember exactly what he sounds like I do remember that it blew me away last time I heard it. He's toured with
Daniel Johnston and Plan B describe him as wearing 'a hoodie with felt animal ears sewn onto the hood', which is good enough for me. He's described as sounding like 'a slightly
more good humoured Smog' who 'twists proggy guitar loops against the sound of himself whistling a lovely dawn chorus'.
Sad Shields
In 2007 a circus ringmaster captured three feral children - two from London, one from Portsmouth- and entrapped them in a big top tent for 6 months. During this time he forced them to make fairground music on primitive instruments (drums / keys / guitar), before releasing them back into the wild. Emerging from beneath their matching fringes, the trio decided to unleash what they had learnt on the world, going on to support Los Campesinos!, Lovvers and Jenny Hoyston. They are about to embark on a tour of the UK with Vile Vile Creatures.
The Fountain
"...if you can imagine a female David Byrne duelling with Stephen Malkmus whilst Wire and The Fall have a Krautrock party...one of Manchester's most exciting underground bands...""Very, very clever people who can play very, very quickly and very, very smartly. Very, very clever people who can take the piss out of Kate Bush, the entire punk thing and spare the time to slap down some riffs made from barbed wire whips"
The Lovely Eggs
The Lovely Eggs are Holly and David. Together they write music which is quite odd. Actually, its funny, sad, magical, brilliant
(and maybe a little odd too). Do you remember those messy paintings you did when you were 7? I bet if you went back and looked at them
now you might quite like them. Thats how I feel about The Lovely eggs - they manage to take all that spontaneity, roll it up into a ball
and make something wonderful out of it. They remind me a little of the japanese band Yumbo (look them up!), or a less bearded Incredible String Band. On their myspace it says they both play 'other stuff'. If only more bands would play 'other stuff' then music would
be much more fun!
Buen Chico
A trio from Leeds who seem to reel off perfect slices of upbeat surf-pop in their sleep. Not afraid to sing in northern accents, have long curly hair
or play fast, they make jagged & jangly cheerful punk-pop that you can't help liking! Onstage they ooze confidence and buzz with the energy and youthful
exuberance of the Buzzcocks and Britpop bands like Sleeper and Elastica, with whom they clearly share a similar love of simple, intelligent and fun pop music!
EYES & Skitanja
A combined set from EYES and Skitanja.
'EYES Hail from Chicago and are label mates with that indie weirdo band Xiu Xiu. When I first listened to them, I didn’t really get it. In fact I had to force myself to listen to it. Maybe I was just being stupid, but I’ve come round to their way of thinking. I’ve been telling people that they kinda are like an even druggier fucked up listen to Velvet Underground. But they also come across as a more nonchalant lo-fi A.R.E. Weapons. Soon playing with CRYSTAL CASTLES, and AIDS Wolf!'
'Skitanja are part of a developing gonzo field of UK musicians that like shitty keyboards, hi-tempo, and playing with the idea that if all musical history were to be condensed into one room, they would try and emulate it. Highly melodic psychedelic no-holds barred punk and noise on fuzz guitar, trumpet, manic keyboard and insane pre-recorded tracks!'
Plaaydoh
Reading that 'Plaaydoh are a lo-fi pop band in Glasgow who record music in the garage' would have been enough to make me
buy their self titled first EP without hesitation. However, this still didn't prepare me for the surprise I had at first hearing their beautiful messy
blasts of noise pop. From the first desperate screams of 'Oh Jay', sounding like Aggi from the Pastels possessed by the spirit of
Lydia Lunch, I knew they were a band I would fall in love with. Walking a tightrope between delicate and eerie keyboards,
thudding bass and fizzing guitars, Plaaydoh are capable of creating pop perfection amidst deliriously chaotic songs. They inhabit the space between the Shangri La's and No Wave bands like Mars, without ever seeming out of place.
Les Enfant Bastard
"My teachers at school were Andy Warhol and Kim Gordon, except my art teacher, he went mad when I dropped acid with his son in 5th year. I left school and joined music school but after 4 years it was apparent only musos enrolled. I moved up to Edinburgh because my close family are all from Scotland. Straight away I was drawn to the art school here and worked on my portfolio for three years until I got accepted. I spend my days and nights drawing and painting and making songs."
Amida
Manchester's Amida produce highly charged indie-pop music that manages to fit more into a two minute burst of pop-noise than most bands
squeeze on an entire album. Somewhere between Pavement after having electric shock treatment and Orange Juice on speed, they jolt and
jangle with their unique brand of start-stop-pop that crashes through your ears in a whirlwind of colours and sounds, leaving you slightly stunned
but always wanting to hear more!
Peepholes
Anyone who has witnessed Brighton's lo-fi heroes Peepholes and their joyously enthusiastic live shows will have been won over by their statically
charged air full of charm and chaos. 'The guitars sound like Mick Ronson's laptop crashing, the vocals sound like Bis on the last day of school, and the trashpop attitude cuts the previous strings loose.' -Artrocker
We're Not The Cool Kids
We're Not The Cool Kids are a band from Brixton who make music on their computer. Mary does the beats, plays the guitar, wrangles Ableton Live, stumbles over the keyboard, screams and sings harmonies with herself. Their songs are patches of haunting and delicate fragments, splintered electronics and fuzzed circuits, cathedral echoes and thrashing guitars. They inhabit their own world, which would perhaps resemble Cat Power and Sigor Ros doing the score to an eerie Japanese ghost story.
Hoe Cakes
My name’s Samuel Oliver Bear, I’m 22, and this is the musical arm of Hoe cakes, an arts project which I co-run with my friend Robyn. I’d like to think that the music I make is soulful, simple, and melodically and lyrically engaging. Musically, good reference points would be artists such as Roy Orbison, Solomon Burke and Arab Strap, and, without wanting to sound like a prick, in terms of poetics and the lyrics I seek to employ I look up to writers like Thom Gunn, Gregory Corso, as well as Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs.
Forest Creature
Freenoise duo from Sheffield that mix dumb electronics and self taught drums clatters, scrapes, fights and pure dense noise with the
odd barely recognizable vocal ... one flowing blurted nightmare.' Formerly known as "la chambre" after the local sex club that they are frequent
visitors of, they played some shows with people including ovo, wolf eyes, jazkamer, talibam! and some others, then the sex club changed names,
so they did.
Jam On Bread
'Over a sparse, but sufficiently jangly, ukulele backing, he sings of his desire to be a sea cow in a manner that is both affecting and funny.'
On his myspace Jam On Bread describes himself as a "borecore pioneer" and "an incompetent bearded man singing songs about sea
creatures", which is unnecessarily harsh as self-deprecation always is. Although he does sort of have a point since his chin is somewhat
bushy and he does have songs about manatees and isopods; he is not, however, boring.
