PULLED APART BY HORSES

Debut album released today

‘Surely the greatest live band in Britain.’ The Observer

‘This Leeds four-piece are causing quite a stir with their manic art-punk convulsion, discover why Pulled Apart by Horses are the name on everyone’s lips.’ Rock Sound Magazine

‘Nobody said the revolution would be pretty. Equine-based torture never sounded so sexy.’ NME

‘Brilliantly unpredictable smarty-pants art metal, hoarse hardcore. Beautifully focused racket.’ Kerrang

‘Pulled Apart By Horses’, the debut album from the Yorkshire quartet of the same name, is due for release through Transgressive Records on 21st June 2010.

Pulled Apart By Horses is a blistering document of a band that manages to rock extremely hard yet still remember the importance of vital hooks and incredible songwriting (and having fun).

Produced by James Kenosha, and recorded in Bridlington’s Lodge Studios, ‘Pulled Apart By Horses’ will be available digitally and on CD / Vinyl.

The band’s highly-anticipated debut album will not disappoint those lucky enough to witness their incendiary live shows over the past months. ‘Chaotic’ is a massive understatement for the nuclear-powered PABH live experience, their every show a violent whirlwind of noise and acrobatics – of the body as much as the guitar. In a much kinder sense, the band’s onstage antics echo the medieval execution technique after which they were named. Certainly, the members have the scars to prove it. Guitarist James, who had a tendency to jump on his knees, ended up in hospital on a drip after an infection turned his leg into a gigantic yellow balloon. “The Doctor said if I’d left it a couple more days it would’ve spread to my balls, and once it gets to your balls it spreads everywhere.”

At last year’s Leeds Festival, vocalist and guitarist Tom knocked a chunk out of his shin and ended up with a ‘spurter’. It wasn’t until the end of the show that he even realised his jeans were black with blood. “I thought, I’ve smashed my leg and broken my guitar strap, I may as well crowd-surf. I got back onstage and realised I had a bloody hand print on my shoulder,” he laughs.

Tom’s girlfriend will no longer watch the band live through fear of what might happen, but none of this has made them tone down the intensity. “That’s what it boils down to,” considers James, “because when we play it’s just what happens. It’s not something we plan or think about it just happens because we enjoy it.” And as their reputation grew, they found themselves princes of a new UK underground as support band of choice for aggro-rock’s ivy league, racking up tours with Future Of The Left, Biffy Clyro, Glassjaw and The Bronx.

The album expertly captures the cavalcade of their live shows while expanding the sound into that of a proper gleaming rock record. Capturing this energy was the most crucial thing. Says Tom: “Most of the takes that we kept were from a bit later on when we started to loosen it a bit. If there was any bum notes or fuck ups, if the energy was there then we kept it as it was.”

“We were very aware that when you have a reputation as a live band then your album will be judged against your live shows so we knew we had to do the live show justice. But we’re very happy with it.”

Indeed, from the breakneck shriek of lead single ‘Back To The Fuck Yeah’, through the pure-pop-with-teeth of ‘Yeah Buddy’, the screeching hardcore jam ‘The Crapsons’, down to the lurching heavy-metal thud of ‘Den Horn’, this is an album that brilliantly captures the surreal thrill that makes Pulled Apart By Horses what they are.

Pulled Apart By Horses on tour:
JUNE
26 // Glastonbury Festival

JULY
16 // 2000 Trees festival
24 // Off The Cuff festival
25 // Truck festival
30 // Kendal Calling

AUGUST
7 // Hevy festival
20 // Pukkelpop

SEPTEMBER
4 // MANCHESTER // LCCC supporting Muse
12 // End of the Road festival

You’ve no doubt read the reviews of the latest release from Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti Before Today scoring high ratings across the board. And probably about how their London show on this tour sold out before the press could get their names on the door, which explains the line of scribes across the back the the Brudenell Social Club when I went to see them, and him, on a Monday evening.

So everyone is expecting big things. The range of people is wide, the record store kids have crawled out for a rare evening, the hipsters are down front, other musicians are nestled amongst the rare dash of students and as I said earlier, the photographers and reviewers are out to play. But there is something worth noting about Before Today ahead of talking about this gig – this record, is a music fans record. It jumps around and with skill the record dips, twists and turns and has invented something entirely new in pop music. But it is technical and the thing is that this won’t, and doesn’t, always hang together quite as well as you would hope when they are playing live. This is made worse perhaps be the odd scenester attempting to dance along to the many grooves they put out and then melting their moves slickly away as the band have launched into an entirely new time signature. But then no one really cares about the hip kids looking a bit awkward occasionally because it’s clear the band can write some seriously catchy pockets of music that you wish would last, just a little, longer and leave you wondering how many songs you can fairly squeeze into one. Every song has movements and this is indie pop for listening listening. Not just hearing.

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti

A fine attribute to the band has to be the slap twang base brought out as even fatter when coupled up along a tickling and tinkling keyboard that runs through the tracks. An even finer attribute is Ariel Pink himself. He’s a front man who can howl, and whisper throughout a song. His slight figure teeters on the edge of the stage, twirling is long bushy black hair. Through out the set he embodies the best of rock. He can swagger like Mick Jagger, be intergalactic like David Bowie and show off as much as Iggy Pop, all whilst twirling his hair.

Despite the exhaustive-ness of the tracks, they climb the guitar riffs led by contrast by monotone vocals, which at times disperse into 4 part harmonies and then break off into ethereal otherworldly lines time after time and could not get boring.

ERRORS

Co-headline tour with The Twilight Sad announced

Errors are delighted to announce the details of a co-headline tour with The Twilight Sad for this Autumn.

SEPTEMBER

29 // ABERDEEN // Warehouse
30 // DUNDEE // Doghouse

OCTOBER

1 // STIRLING // Tolbooth
4 // NEWCASTLE // Cluny
5 // NOTTINGHAM // Stealth
6 // MANCHESTER // Deaf Institute
7 // LONDON // XOYO
9 // BRIGHTON // Audio
10 // BRISTOL // Thekla
11 // LEEDS // Cockpit

www.rock-action.co.uk // www.myspace.com/weareerrors

The Crayonettes

‘Playing Out – Songs For Children & Robots’

Debut Album, One Little Indian, 6^th September

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The Crayonettes are Kathryn Williams – ‘Without doubt one of the most authentic folk voices in the country’ (Q Magazine) & Anna Spencer – formerly of punk band ‘Delicate Vomit’; two mums weary of the traditional ‘children’s cd’ format, those well meant but over-earnest singalongs performed inevitably in a ‘well-to-do horse-y voice’. Meeting up for their boys – Louis (4) and Lenny (3) – to play together, Kathryn and Anna noticed the weird and wonderful ideas the boys would conjure up from their imaginations ‘and we got to thinking about creating something that would make them laugh and make us laugh. We wanted songs that sounded like punk or disco or hip hop or country – The Small Faces brushing their teeth or The Velvet Underground asking questions about toads!’

Far removed from Kathryn’s solo work, one listen to ‘Playing Out’ suggests The Crayonettes are working to deliver not only a happy distraction to kids, but also knowing chuckles to long suffering mums. Inspired by a love of the ‘hand-made’ feel of Oliver Postgate’s classic small films, and with their own ready-made focus group to hand, the pair set to work on creating a kids record. ‘We would meet in the evenings when the kids were in bed…and play!’ says Kathryn. ‘It was so much fun creating with a friend. We would be crying with laughter and have to wait for the giggles to go before doing a take. When we’d written a song we would play it to the kids and get a reaction.’

Work on the album continued through Kathryn’s recent pregnancy (Ted was born this April) and between her solo work commitments. Towards the end of recording Anna announced that she too was pregnant – due in August. (‘Although I’m not sure how that happened because we were in the studio a lot!!!’ jokes Kathryn).

The end result is a truly road-tested kid’s record that takes in everything from hip hop and electro to 50′s crooners with songs about robots in the rain, sweets on the floor and pirates taking over buses! Incidentally, the album’s sleeve art and booklet is the work of Anna’s eldest son, Sam, 11.

‘Playing Out’ is not Kathryn’s first foray into kids’ albums, having contributed the song ‘Night Baking’ to the ‘Colours Are Brighter’ charity album (Rough Trade, 2006).

Kathryn has the following dates scheduled over the summer for solo shows, performing songs from her 10 year career, including from her most recent album, ‘The Quickening’; her first for One Little Indian.

Fri 23-July        TROWBRIDGE FESTIVAL

Sat 24-July           PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL

Sat 21-August     BEAUTIFUL DAYS, DEVON (Big Top, Stage 2)

Thu 23-Sept         THE SAGE, GATESHEAD

Sat 25-Sep           QEH, LONDON

On the 2nd and 3rd July go to Kent to the Hop Farm Festival!

With the likes of Blondie, Bob Dylan, Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Devendra Banhart, Villagers and much more you cannot be disappointed!

For only £135 for both days, camping and a bit of Bob Dylan, why have you not got your ticket yet!

For full line-up details go to www.hopfarmfestival.com

Wild Palms announce new shows this summer! Wednesday 23rd June: VICE PARTY with The Big Pink-  Scrutton Street Warehouse, Shoreditch. Competition to win tickets to the show will be announced soon on the bands’ Facebook.      http://www.viceland.com/wp/2010/06/win-tickets-to-the-best-fashion-party-ever/

Friday 30th July: Cumbria, Lowther Deer Park, KENDAL CALLING festival
Friday  20th August: Spain, Barcelona, Pop Bar, Razzmatazz   Sunday 5th September: Offset Festival, Hainault Forest Country Park.

Friday 24th September: Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, Germany.     The band are currently in the studio recording their debut album with producer, Gareth Jones. Look out for a brand new single from Wild Palms in September.   Here is a link to their latest single ‘Deep Dive’ which was out on 17th May: http://bit.ly/cWxanj
www.myspace.com/wearewildpalms

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‘Beachy Head’ released today

Fittingly enough, for purveyors of all things gloriously offbeat and infectious, Veronica Falls are back for the summer with a brilliant double whammy neatly socked away. First up, a double A-side 7” on the tastemaking label No Pain in Pop on June 14, featuring the long beloved but previously unreleased “Beachy Head”, followed by a jaunt around the UK with those renowned forefathers of perfect pop, Teenage Fanclub themselves.

Like their debut UK single “Found Love in a Graveyard”, which spoke, beautifully, of unrequited love from beyond the grave, “Beachy Head” is yet another nugget of haunted pop classicism, complete with careening choruses, swoonsome harmonies and a deliciously nasty sting in its tail. As its repeated refrain of “I’m gonna miss you/ When you’re gone” attests, this isn’t exactly an ode to the seaside, but instead something rather darker, menacing even – the cloud in the clear blue sky, or the worm in the Pastels’ juicy pop apple.

Which is exactly why the band will be a wonderfully atypical counterpart to the newly reunited Teenage Fanclub when they embark on their much anticipated tour in June. You couldn’t possibly ask for more – Veronica Falls’ off-kilter songs of love and death playing beautifully off the pristine melodies of the Scottish foursome – this is a marriage made in pop heaven.

TRACKLISTING

1. Beachy Head

2. Staying Here

“Beachy Head/ Staying Here” released on limited edition 7” vinyl/ digital download on No Pain in Pop June 14

UPCOMING LIVE DATES:

26th June // GLASGOW // Captain’s Rest
10th July // Lounge on the Farm
23rd July // Indietracks
24th July // 1,2,3,4 Shoreditch festival
25th July // Truck festival

www.myspace.com/veronicafallshard

PULLED APART BY HORSES

Single ‘Back To The Fuck Yeah’ out today

Debut album released 21st June

UK tour begins today

‘Surely the greatest live band in Britain.’ The Observer

‘This Leeds four-piece are causing quite a stir with their manic art-punk convulsion, discover why Pulled Apart by Horses are the name on everyone’s lips.’ Rock Sound Magazine

‘Nobody said the revolution would be pretty. Equine-based torture never sounded so sexy.’ NME

‘Brilliantly unpredictable smarty-pants art metal, hoarse hardcore. Beautifully focused racket.’ Kerrang

‘Pulled Apart By Horses’, the debut album from the Yorkshire quartet of the same name, is due for release through Transgressive Records on 21st June 2010.

Led by the single Back to the Fuck Yeah, released on digital download and limited-edition 7” vinyl, available just prior to the album on June 14^th, Pulled Apart By Horses is a blistering document of a band that manages to rock extremely hard yet still remember the importance of vital hooks and incredible songwriting (and having fun).

Produced by James Kenosha, and recorded in Bridlington’s Lodge Studios, ‘Pulled Apart By Horses’ will be available digitally and on CD / Vinyl.

The band’s highly-anticipated debut album will not disappoint those lucky enough to witness their incendiary live shows over the past months. ‘Chaotic’ is a massive understatement for the nuclear-powered PABH live experience, their every show a violent whirlwind of noise and acrobatics – of the body as much as the guitar. In a much kinder sense, the band’s onstage antics echo the medieval execution technique after which they were named. Certainly, the members have the scars to prove it. Guitarist James, who had a tendency to jump on his knees, ended up in hospital on a drip after an infection turned his leg into a gigantic yellow balloon. “The Doctor said if I’d left it a couple more days it would’ve spread to my balls, and once it gets to your balls it spreads everywhere.”

At last year’s Leeds Festival, vocalist and guitarist Tom knocked a chunk out of his shin and ended up with a ‘spurter’. It wasn’t until the end of the show that he even realised his jeans were black with blood. “I thought, I’ve smashed my leg and broken my guitar strap, I may as well crowd-surf. I got back onstage and realised I had a bloody hand print on my shoulder,” he laughs.

Tom’s girlfriend will no longer watch the band live through fear of what might happen, but none of this has made them tone down the intensity. “That’s what it boils down to,” considers James, “because when we play it’s just what happens. It’s not something we plan or think about it just happens because we enjoy it.” And as their reputation grew, they found themselves princes of a new UK underground as support band of choice for aggro-rock’s ivy league, racking up tours with Future Of The Left, Biffy Clyro, Glassjaw and The Bronx.

The album expertly captures the cavalcade of their live shows while expanding the sound into that of a proper gleaming rock record. Capturing this energy was the most crucial thing. Says Tom: “Most of the takes that we kept were from a bit later on when we started to loosen it a bit. If there was any bum notes or fuck ups, if the energy was there then we kept it as it was.”

“We were very aware that when you have a reputation as a live band then your album will be judged against your live shows so we knew we had to do the live show justice. But we’re very happy with it.”

Indeed, from the breakneck shriek of lead single ‘Back To The Fuck Yeah’, through the pure-pop-with-teeth of ‘Yeah Buddy’, the screeching hardcore jam ‘The Crapsons’, down to the lurching heavy-metal thud of ‘Den Horn’, this is an album that brilliantly captures the surreal thrill that makes Pulled Apart By Horses what they are.

Pulled Apart By Horses on tour:
JUNE
14 // MANCHESTER // Deaf Institute
15 // LONDON // 100 Club
16 // NOTTINGHAM // Bodega Social Club
17 // GLASGOW // King Tuts
19 // LEEDS // Brudenell Social Club
26 // Glastonbury Festival

JULY
16 // 2000 Trees festival
24 // Off The Cuff festival
25 // Truck festival
30 // Kendal Calling

AUGUST
7 // Hevy festival
20 // Pukkelpop

SEPTEMBER
4 // MANCHESTER // LCCC supporting Muse
12 // End of the Road festival

www.myspace.com/pulledapartbyhorses