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About Me

2 hirsute fellas causing trouble with a smile...based in Manchester, Uk. Half of the organisers of Homoelectric ...Dj all over the place when the mood takes me...do club visuals for Sequence every now and then. Involved in various art projects (Doodlebug), fashion (Bear Mafia), Djing (Laptop & good ol' vinyl), club running and organising, pointing out how much an underachieving money driven ponce the gay scene is...
Have been together for 7 years...met at Homoelectric. Kev has been recording music in one form or another since the age of 15..from playing with sound recorded on a 2 track to being in various bands. There are tapes of all this oddness that will never be heard by others.. Bought a Boss Digital 8 Track and started recording again....trying to record proper songs but they just get weird!! And theyre all recorded pretty much in the first take....i just lack patience! The music is a total departure from the work we do as The Beards...and doesnt represent the clubs in anyway what-so-evaaa....
**** Brittle Stars- from acoustic, post-rock/space-rock stylings, reverb drenched, slow, melancholic acoustic tunes to sonic detuned drone to layered orchestral minimalist electronics and minimal ambient piano works.....acid stoner drug music basically !
**** Monokomm- lo-fi experimental analogue electronics/sound manipulation using malfunctioning equiptment, childrens toys, battered keyboards, live recordings/found sounds, old PC music programs for kids...anything that makes an electronic sound treated via the 8-Track and various guitar pedals.
**** The Beards- a Djing/visuals thing. If i'm Djing with vinyl chances are i'm playing obscure electronica, 'dancefloor friendly' IDM/electronica, minimalist stuff, soul,funk, disko mutations and long lost gems with very little attempt to mix (if a track is that good it should be played from beginning to end! i dont want to hear the middle of a track just cos thats the only good bit!). If its a laptop set then it'll be mixed, mashed up..twisted...and a mix of anything...if it mixes and works then its played...anything from obscure electro, IDM, Breaks, Grime, electroprogtekhouse, mash-ups, punkfunk,80s pop, digital splice 'n' paste-ups, bootleg remixes, trainspotters electronic music, mentalist beats...a bit of V/Vm in every set (and why not ?)....a spak-jackin' treat.
The Beards/KBeard films- i am currently collecting footage for a film....very warhol/dogma in style. It'll get there eventualy!In the meantime various shorts are appearing on Youtube....just do a search for Thebeardsuk.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/11/2006
Band Website: betarecords.com/brittle.stars
Band Members: The Beards are :- Kev Rolfe & Paul Mayor. But the music is all by Kev....and whoever is about at the time...
Influences:
And for a brief moment they were so cool....even if their best moment was a WIRE Cover version.
Earth...
Possibly the best Plaid track....

well..this is what we're returning to for repeat listens at present :- Isan, Bola, Daniel Johnston, Venetian Snares, Butthole Surfers, Performance OST, Damon & Naomi, Galaxie 500, Slint, For Carnation, Fingernail, P.I.L, Marcia Blaine School For Girls, Expanding Records 7"s, Sovacusa, Vessel, Annie, Crunch, Bauri, Casino Versus Japan,Troubleshooter, Border Community 12"s, SoloTempo, Intricate, rare Boards Of Canada/Hell Interface tracks, Mogwai,Arab Strap's 'Philophobia' Lp, Urusei Yatsura 7"s, Ochre, Roy Harper, Millsart, Red House Painters, Smog, Jega, Transient Waves, NEU!, Can, Trojan 7"s, Duke Reid, Captain Beefheart, Snapper, Blotnik Brothers, Earth, BrickLayerCake,Roy Mongomery, CIM, Skam/ Toytronic/ Awkward Silence/Rocket Girl/Ai/Delikatessen records releases, Plaid, Autechre,Secret Frequency Crew, Mask 500 12", Coil, Myrza, Epic45,Novel23, Fairmont, Apparat, Zeta Reticula,Chevron, Bit_Meddler, Frost Jockey, Ascii Disko, Smash.TV, Japan, Edgar Froese, Vangelis, Bee Gee's 'Odessa' Lp, Funkadelic,Arovane, Maps & Diagrams, Bitstream, Markant, Eu, Funckarma,L'Usine Icl, Bedhead, early Low, early Funkstorung, My Bloody Valentine, Velvet Underground,Squarepusher's 'Tundra4', Slowdive,Big Star, Village Of Savoonga, Rodion, Bread, America,The Pipettes, Black Strobe, Cocteau Twins, Digitonal, Various Production, Codeine, early Jesus & Mary Chain, 'Outta -Space' by Billy Preston,80's syth Pop 7"s , Big Black, Silver Apples, Bark Psychosis, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Radar Bros, Einoma, Mel Torme, Astrude Gilberto, Sun Ra, Killdozer, Love Battery, Monster Magnet's 'TAB' Lp,Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine, Modeselektor,Vex'd, 'Flower' by Pansy Division,early Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, Elliott Smith,Rhys Chattham, Kleg, lots of weird electro tracks...too many to mention., good windowpane acid, rum, Asian Extreme Cinema, Giallo Films, Warhol's Factory, the art of the mistake and the art of improvisation...these 80's 7"s-
'I'm In Love With A German Filmstar' - The Passions
'Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometime' - The Corgis
'Damned Dont Cry'- Visage
'Our Lips Are Sealed'- The GoGos
'Public Image Limited'- PIL
'I Wonder If I Take You Home'-Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
'Its Different For Girls'- Joe Jackson
'I Say Nothing'- Voice Of The Beehive...whether this list explains anything...i dunno.....go figure!
Sounds Like: not what you'd expect from a 'bear'.... [ c'mon 'bears' lets get a bit more intelligent with our choice of music eh ?! its 2006 not 1980 !! Musical technology has progressed somewhat! There are more options to a 4/4 beat and some camp fluff ! ]

* Heres some mixes for you all....just cut and paste the link, enter the code in the box at the top and viola!
*
The Beards present...'the bears are wrong...this is right!!'
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EEHXDID6

The Beards Downtempo'd Mix
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q8PC4M1L

The Beards Mentalist Dubsoul Grime Mix
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BBL6E2L0
Record Label: Dragons Eye Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Manchester Pride Finances 2007...ever get the feeling you’ve been had ?

According to Manchester City Council and Marketing Manchester, Manchester Pride as an annual tourist event brings in around £22 million pounds of revenue to the City of Manchester and is a real financ...
Posted by The Beards_Kev on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:52:00 PST

A Sex And Death Flashback

I was out today working.....walked into one of the newsagents on the soon to be rebuilt estate i was on to see every front page of every newspaper brandishing the same photo and headline......the las...
Posted by The Beards_Kev on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:34:00 PST

Vote For Us In A Dj Poll...for a laugh!

..> Vote For The Beards !!!! Bung us down as a top Dj !Just to tip the fucking balance and stop some twat getting in....Go on...its harmless rubbish.Follow the link below and do it.....Tax x x x ...
Posted by The Beards_Kev on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:32:00 PST

I Wont Smoke If You Dont Fart...

This new smoking law....it may come across as a selfish, selfless act but its having an effect on many a good night out clubbing.Last night was Homoelectric....after spending the day in the venue sett...
Posted by The Beards_Kev on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:58:00 PST

4 tea days in the wilderness..

I went home for a long weekend. I was hoping that i would be doing my debut london gig at XXL. Yeah i know....i've always staunchly railed against the club and its dodgy dealings,unpopularity of the ...
Posted by The Beards_Kev on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:37:00 PST

Big Brother is a Bear411

For those of you who don't know theres a website called Eurowoof....its a Bear chat site.....nearly everyone is on it and its taken for granted as a way of keeping in touch with those you know/like/sh...
Posted by The Beards_Kev on Mon, 28 May 2007 12:31:00 PST

Throw them out, they're breaking my heart...

I'll admit i lack a certain amount of sympathy on reoccuring situations. I'm a sypathetic soul to a certain extent, hence doing such 'hardcore' types of care work, but when i deal with the same issue/...
Posted by The Beards_Kev on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:29:00 PST

The way i'm wired...like a fucked guitar making a pretty racket

i find men only nights are just a block and a getting to basics..which is fine for their purpose, but they are a block.A slimming down (slimming..ha..how ironic!) of ideas to the most basic of needs....
Posted by The Beards_Kev on Mon, 07 May 2007 09:57:00 PST

KlaxONS ?? KlaxOFF!!!!

I'm i one of the only few people who just doesnt rate or get Klaxons ? Save a rather devastating remix by Simian Mobile Disco (who are at the next Homoelectric popsters!) of early single 'Magick'... ...
Posted by The Beards_Kev on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:17:00 PST

2006 In A Sense...2007 More Of The Same..

I'm not one for doing summarys of a years worth of events as i cant remember last month or want to...let alone catagorise an entire year into levels of personal importance. So i'll just plop a few th...
Posted by The Beards_Kev on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:29:00 PST