Photos from Oceansize’s London show, with support from the fantastic And So I Watch You From Afar and Vessels. Live review to come soon!

Vessels

Artist: Japanese Voyeurs + Sharks + Wounds
Venue: Barfly, London
Date: 2/2/10

Arriving literally just in time to see Irish lads Wounds open tonight’s show, I’d be lying if I was surprised by just how great their performance was. Playing to a half full Barfly audience who are full of trepidation and standing right at the back of the room, the band seemingly took the audience’s fears and exacerbated them mercilessly. Within seconds of their opening salvo of ragged riffs, guitarist James Coogan is in the middle of the room, throwing his instrument and limbs all over the place. It’s not long before his brother and vocalist Aiden has joined him, the two bounding around the space like jacked-up kangaroos, getting in the faces of the perplexed audience.

Russian Circles are returning to the UK in April.

The dates are:

April 8th – Thekla, Bristol
9th – The Well / Brudenell, Leeds
11th – Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow
12th – Rock City Basement, Nottingham
13th – Underworld, London

To get yourself in the mood, why not read our review of their 2008 show with These Arms Are Snakes (R.I.P)?

Photos from Japanese Voyeurs‘ Barfly show, with support from Sharks and Wounds. Live review to come soon!

Wounds

Brighton’s annual Great Escape festival has now announced its first bands to get your tongue salivating.

Playing the festival over the course of May 13-15 are:

Delphic
Chase & Status
Broken Social Scene
Marina & The Diamonds
Esben & The Witch
Ellie Goulding
Crystal Fighters
Slow Club
Cold Cave
Hurts
Japandroids
Real Estate
Timbre Timbre
Darwin Deez
Best Coast
The Cheek
Wild Palms
The Ruby Suns

The festival sees bands playing the variety of venues in Brighton over the course of three days. This year promises something in the region of 350 up-and-coming talents to grace the stage.

Album Review: Flies Are Spies From Hell
Album: Red Eyes Unravelling
Label: Unsigned

It is notoriously hard to stand out when you’re tarred with the ‘post-rock’ genre. Most listeners only have the patience to dip into the assured highlights of the genre: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, its offshoots and Mogwai amongst a few others. When you do try to explore the tag further, it’s hard to find anything that isn’t either a re-hash of what GY!BE perfected years ago, or isn’t bland movements polished with an unhealthy dose of pomposity. It’s a difficult genre to get into, rarely disposable and often demanding patience and attention from both musician and listener, a fundamental relationship that is rapidly dissipating in modern society.

Admiral Angry will release their follow up to last year’s ‘Buster’ (review) with the EP ‘A Fire To Burn Down The World’ in April.

The EP will be released through *shelsmusic on the 23rd April, and reportedly plunges into “filthier, doomier and more sinister new depths” according to the label.

Shortly before the release of Buster, the band lost their guitarist Daniel Krauss to a long battle with cystic fibrosis. In honour of this, proceeds from the EP will be donated to cystic fibrosis research and support.