Can't get enough of this whimsical closet caberet of fetishistic magic realism. Flavours of Tom Waits and Rasputina with sprinkles of Dita Von Teese avec food fetish and a whiff of Angela Carter. I feel a sudden urge to make trifle.
We predict a very bright and spankly future for the marvelous Ms Marabese and her Gypsy Circus Pigs and Mistresses. Deeelightful!
On Sunday 24th of October the Snooty Fox in Wakefield is putting on a night of hardcore metal headlined by Gargamel featuring hamish Glencross and members of My Dying Bride who will be finishing the evening off with the unique mellifluous, dark and heavy brand of doom metal for which they are renowned. Other bands include Venificus Hora, The untold Sorrow and Hypnosis.
The doors open at 6 PM and costs £6.00 on the door, or £5.50 online (buy here). All money raised goes towards the Shaun Prest Cambodian Appeal.
Local northern bands have come together in droves to help out the Shaun Prest Cambodian Orphanage Appeal and are playing at venues in Leeds and Wakefield over the coming months to help raise money for the Campaign.
On Friday the 8th of October the Fenton in Leeds is playing host to a night of hard rock and punk featuring Auntiedope, The Swindells, The Sewersuckers and the Nottingham band The Amplifires. Tickets are available here.
The Guys from My Dying Bride are playing the Snooty Fox as Gargamel on Sunday the 24th of October supported by Halifax's finest metal bands including Hypnosis, The Untold Sorrow and Vonificous Hora. Get your tickets here.
Carpe Diem is offering a free night of muscial entertainment on the 18th of November with Auntiedope, the Blind Dead Mcjones Band, The Tipsy Lions and Icon 13. All donations are welcome and you'll be pestered by a guy with a bucket to give generously for the cause.
You can read the story of the appeal here:cambodian Orphanage Appeal
Already a local legend on the Leeds live music scene, rockabilly punk guerillas Auntiedope are set to take themselves to the next level with plans to tour more widely around the UK and to bring their uniquely upbeat and edgy sound to a much wider audience. Auntiedope have been resident at the Primrose for the past two years and have played at many of Leeds' best-known live music venues including Joseph's Well, Carpe Diem, the Pack Horse, the Cockpit, the Fenton and many more.
They will be in the recording studio this Friday to remaster some old classics and belt out some new tracks in preparation for the next stage in their evolution as punk rock gurus of angst, attitude and loud noise.
Visit Auntiedope's MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/auntiedope
It was pointed out to me the other day by a friend that some of my all time favorite Bowie has been floating around on PooTube like a dejected Mr Hanky, so I thought I'd best go and check it out. Bowie's music from the late 60s is just utterly unique, lyrically genius and deviantly innocent, challenging, exploratory and very charming. Its easy to forget that Bowie started out with such an amazing capacity to mesmorise and enchant almost like no other artist before or since. Lines such as:
Who's that hiding in the apple tree
clinging to a branch
Don't be afraid its only me
Looking for a little romance
are just packed with moral ambivalence and dubious sexuality. This to me is the best of Bowie by far. The Laughing Gnome is perhaps a little too contrived for my tastes, but She's Got Medals, Uncle Arthur, Rubber Band and numerous more are just spine tinglingly good.
Sooo, here's a taster:
Well a few of us went to see 'Let the Right One In' at Leeds Vue at the Lights last night' - and I'm just not sure a vampire movie is meant to traumatise you in quite that way. I'm going to be having nightmares about 1970s knitwear, woolly Jerseys, rollnecks and the like for months. It took us all about 40 minutes to guess whether the film was set in the 70s or whether there were just some particularly badly dressed Swede's having their blood drained to feed the appetite of that archetypally liminal and borderline menstrual twelve year old vampire girl. You could spend hours mulling over the symbolism, and at least from that point of view its not you're average salacious slashing, biting and shagging vampire fayre.
Anyway, the girl's henchman (father/ brother figure) is getting on a bit and keeps botching it when hunting for her dinner so she finds herself a substitute to groom in the form of a wet twelve year old boy who lives next door, and wins his affection by helping him to stand up to some bullies who have obviously seen Deliverance about a 1000 times - the opening words of the film are 'Squeal like a pig' according to the subtitles at least. |
I suppose the demographic of the theatre was probably Swedish folk, knitwear fetishists, vampire movie lovers and the odd person who should probably be on the sex offenders register. If you think this is you, then go and see it and find out how it all pans out.
Ahh, If you like Happy Tree Friends and enjoy seeing cute bunny rabbits blowing the bejeezus out of each other then the Japanese 'Cat Shit One - Apocalypse Meow' is a must see. God bless the Japanese for their perverted take on fluffy stuffed animals
You can now buy Cat Shit One DVDs - see below:
Don't go easy on them just cause they're cute!
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