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News taken from the Future Noise website about a show happening in Manchester UK next week:

Future Noise presents: Cut Hands + guests

Endtyme Records presents the first in a series of monthly extreme and experimental music events. These unique events, part band night/part club night, will feature a heady mix of challenging live acts interspersed with guest DJ’s spinning the best in DOOM / DEATH / BLACK / GRIND / NOISE / INDUSTRIAL.

The night is headlined by Cut Hands, an ‘afro-noise’ project featuring none other than William Bennett of Whitehouse fame on Friday 30th September 2011 at Night And Day Cafe, Oldham Street, Manchester.

The full line up features:
Cut Hands
Gum Takes Tooth
Blue Sabbath Black Fiji
Pine Barrens
From The Bogs Of Aughiska

Doors open at 8pm, tickets available via this link
https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/events/?id=10017500

Be there, or be Patchie.

 

It's going to be a lock out, get down early.  Church of Misery; heroes of Roadburn, Charger, one of the best live bands from "Grot Britain" and some retro stylings from Firebird.

Manchester, soon. (Or, we all love Future Noise)

First:

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Second (No Flyer):
Future-noise presents....

"Grind to Groove III" - Sponsored by Zero Tolerance Magazine

Esoteric
The Sontaran Experiment / Stuntcock
Charger
Gonga
Volition
They Are Cowards
Jonathan Ross

14th Sept @ The Star & Garter, Manchester
2:30pm till 10pm £8 w/flyer £10 otd

Future Noise Update

Home of many great bands that are much loved at Claw Towers, North West collective Future Noise have some dates for us to get booked off work/get out of bed early for/get off the bench in the park and bring our cider to:

As promised, here's the details of our up and coming gigs:

On Thursday 28th August 08 @ The Star & Garter, Manchester, we will not only be celebrating 6 Years of Future Noise, but also the release of Lazarus Blackstar's darkest chapter 'Tomb of Internal Winter' CDEP, bands playing are Lazarus Blackstar, Limbic Riot & Dog Kicked In Half (although these are still to be confirmed). And as a way to thank all those that have supported us through thick & thin over the last 6 years, this gig will be FREE ENTRY, yes you read correct FREE ENTRY!! So you really have no excuse!

The 'Grind To Groove' All Dayer returns for its third installment on Sunday 14th September 08 @ The Star & Garter, Manchester, Esoteric have been confirmed to headline this and we hope to announce the rest of the line up very soon!

On Thursday 13th November 08, we have The Star & Garter, Manchester booked, as yet we're still awaiting confirmation on who is scheduled to play, but we just thought we'd make you aware of this date so you can pencil it into your diary.

And finally, on Tuesday 25th November 08 @ The Star & Garter, Manchester, Ufomammut make there welcome return to the UK bringing with them recording & label cohorts Lento, Malleus will once again be supplying visuals for this gig and support is still to be confirmed.

Phew...we hope that's enough to wet your appetite and as usual, keep an eye on this website or our forum as news as and when its confirmed will be announced.

Can't wait for that new Lazarus Blackstar EP, it's going to be total filth!

They Are Cowards / Black Sun / Lazarus Blackstar / Gloomy Sunday @ Star & Garter, Manchester

A few photos taken during last night's gig:





Another great gig from the Future Noise boys. All of the bands were new to me (or had new members amongst them at least).

Before the show started, before the venue had even opened up for business, me and Patchie showed up in Manchester, mainly because there was not much for us to do in Liverpool to kill time (apart from maybe walk about the city centre in the sunshine) and we have a bit of a ritual now before gigs of parking the car up and wandering around by the venue and checking the area out. It's just as well that we did so on this occasion - we started walking our way down the roadside by the Star & Garter - an old (and derelict looking) detached pub which is situated all on its own, smack-dab in the middle of Manchester's red-light district - and we happened upon 3 guys dressed in black who were sat on some grassland by the edge of a busy street. They were just sat with nothing to do, 3 of them on their own, along with some traveling gear comprising of assorted guitar cases and backpacks.

Turns out that these guys were GLOOMY SUNDAY, the last band playing this night's gig, they had flown in from Sweden only to get to the venue and find no one there to let them in. They'd been in town since 9am that day (we met them at about half 4 in the afternoon) and in the meantime they had pretty much been waiting outside the venue in the baking sun, sitting around and getting burned. No one there to meet them, no one there to greet them.

And then Thee Claw turns the corner to find a Scandinavian rock band sitting about looking desolate and bored. So what do we do? We do what any decent person would do - no, *Should* do - we put their bags and guitars in the back of our car and took the guys down to the local pub and got them some beer until we could arrange for someone to come to open the venue so the guys could get in their and soundcheck.

See, this is pretty much what Thee Claw does best. We turn up early and buy stranded band members beer. Lucky stroke. Actually, they saved us an unmemorable journey to the usual places along the lane, all we had plans of doing was walking to a rock club and sitting about listening to Venom on the jukebox. The Gloomy Sunday guys (3 out of 4 of them) were cool, in spite of the sunburn, we spent an hour or so with them in an Irish pub talking about traveling and future plans. The usual stuff when you first meet someone and go to the nearest bar I guess!

I'll leave it to Patchie to serve up a fantastical drunken gig review. After all, he somehow does that kind of thing much better than I tend to.

They Are Cowards, Lazarus Blackstar, Black Sun, Gloomy Sunday

Ok, so here's my little bit of what I have to say about this gig at the Star and Garter (which is now completely cemented in the number one venue position in my mind).

We flew across the short distance from Liverpool to Manchester, listening to Priest and Sabbath, and when we got there the venue was closed still, and as Ste pointed out in his post we bumped into ³/₄ of Gloomy Sunday, and nipped off for a few pints with them, nice lads, they'd been sat in the park from like 9am or something.
Anyway, we got over to the venue (after I nearly had the poor lads killed a few times due to my habit of walking straight out into oncoming traffic; after all I'm too metal for crossings, and the cars drive on the other side of the road in Sweden!) and bumped into Mikhell who is the newly installed vocalist of Lazarus Blackstar, and Dennis, the last quarter of Gloomy Sunday to arrive.
The guys then started to show up in droves, Dean from Huddersfield, Caitlin and Steve from Liverpool, Doomlord and Thee Barbarian from Manchester...everyone was out, the sun was shining and there was a night of doom, sludge and general filth in the offing.

So let's go!

They Are Cowards
They Are Cowards are angry.
No, scratch that, They Are Cowards are fucking livid.
Exactly what they are so angry about is a mystery, but you can feel it seeping off the stage and into everyone watching. I'd been listening to an advance copy of their demo for a day or two before this gig, and I was really looking forward to seeing them, and if you didn't know that this was their first show together you would never have guessed. We've also got one of their riffs stuck in our heads here at Claw Towers, how mad is that.

Lazarus Blackstar
I've seen tham a few times in the past, but this was the first time I'd seen them with new vocalist Mikhell (formerly of After The Massacre), and he's given them a whole new, more menacing edge. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this band develop, because they are crushing onstage.

Black Sun.
Coming from Scotland, Black Sun are something else. They have a t-shirt that has the backprint "You Won't Like It" which just about sums them up. They are a frightning fucking maelstrom of downtuned, fast, slow, scary scary shit.
And they are fucking nutters.
As Kevin crouches forwards towards his mic spitting out the vocals...you think to yourself that this is the kind of music you don't want to listen to at rush hour on the motorway!

Gloomy Sunday
As I say, I'd nearly killed them a bit earlier on in the day, but I think they had forgiven me when they came onstage. As I say, three quarters Gothenburg Doomsters, one quarter English Doom, and all quarters fucking killer. I've been listening to their "Beyond Good and Evil" for a while, and seeing them bang this stuff out live was a real treat. The only thing that was off about this was that people had started to leave before they even came on.
Well, fuck them, it's their loss, Gloomy Sunday were (are) fucking brutal.

And their "Alucarda" shirt is awesome too.

Incoming

News just in from the lovely guys over at Future Noise...

Thursday 8th May 2008 @ The Star & Garter, Manchester
Swedish Doom merchants Gloomy Sunday will be playing their down-tempo madness, backed up by:
Lazarus Blackstar
Black Sun
They Are Cowards

Doors: 7.30pm Damage: TBC

Baroness / Kylesa, Manchester Star and Garter 30/1/08

Last night we went along to see Bastard of the Skies, Kylesa and Baroness at the Star and Garter in Manchester. Amazingly, the gig totally sold out and people were being turned away outside. And there we were dragging our heels having another pint "waiting for the queue to go down a bit".
Anyway, we got in, don't worry!!

Bastard of the Skies are from Blackburn, and played some decent stuff, nice use of one guitar as a bow to play the other one at the end I thought.

Kylesa came on next, and they totally blew me away; total thundering basslines and two drummers - awesome.
They did a cover of Pink Floyd's Set the Controls for the Heart of The Sun - I always say that Pink Floyd are one of those bands that nobody should ever cover, with only Voivod ever getting away with it in the past, but this was absolutely amazing.
The entire set was full of energy, and after they'd finished my ears were ringing like mad.Baroness played a good, solid set, heavy and rolling, but for me, they just couldn't top what Kylesa had done.
I went home happy with sore ears, and slept so soundly that I jumped up this morning for work, travelled all the way into Liverpool and went to clock in, and then realised it was my day off.
Ahh, the beauty of thee claw!

Kylesa / Baroness @ Star & Garter, Manchester

Some photos from the Kylesa / Baroness gig in Manchester on 30th January:

Kylesa:




Baroness:





The opening band was Bastard Of The Skies, they were pretty smart too. I look forward to seeing them again. In my opinion the highlight of the night was Kylesa's set - they blew everyone else off the stage, they were sooo good. Any band with 2 drummers is good in my book! They covered a Pink Floyd tune, I'm sure Patchie will fill you in on that one.

This was a really good gig, very loud (my ears are ringing like mad right now) and extremely well attended. The promoters (Future Noise) must be very pleased with themselves today - great show guys!