SUFFERING BASTARD / COCK E.S.P TOUR 2008[views:3274][posts:0]___________________________________________ [Oct 16,2008 11:46am - SUFFERINGBASTARD ""] SHIT PISS - CUM BLOOD Sun 19 - Philadelphia Adventure Island 3217 Collins St. Suffering Bastard White Mice Sanguine Piss Cock E.S.P. New Bastard Rexor Sauce Party Cock E.S.P.'s first Philadelphia show in 6 years! Rexor's first Philadelphia show in 9 years! White Mice's first Philadelphia show the week of 10/19/08! _______________________________________________________________ Mon 20 - Newark The Seed Gallery 239 Washington St. Suffering Bastard Sanguine Piss Cock E.S.P. Rexor Sauce Party Cheezface Panther Modern _______________________________________________________________ Tue 21 - Providence SOMEWHERE... Suffering Bastard Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck Sanguine Piss Cock E.S.P. + Rexor collab Crank Sturgeon Pop Culture Rape Victim Shallow Waters Cock E.S.P.'s first ever GOOD show in Providence! No matter how badly we failed in our two previous efforts to perform in the Hope State, we promise to deliver the goods this time around. Our three-point plan includes: 1. Not touring with annoying junkies; 2. Waiting until after the show to get food poisoning; and 3. A special super-powerful five-piece line-up including Rexor. _______________________________________________________________ Wed 22 - Boston The Butcher Shop 24 Armington St. Suffering Bastard Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck Sanguine Piss Cock E.S.P. Rexor Sauce Party + Child Bride collaboration Euu _______________________________________________________________ Thu 23 - Amherst, Mass Hampshire College SAGA Dining Commons 893 West St, Amherst MA 01002 Suffering Bastard Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck White Mice Sanguine Piss Cock E.S.P. WRONG/THURSTON DUEL Sauce Party _______________________________________________________________ FREENOISE: THE ANTI-CMJ FEST Friday, October 24, 2008 Death by Audio 49 S 2nd St. (Btwn Wythe & Kent), Williamsburg, Brooklyn http://www.myspace.com/deathbyaudio Featuring: Cock E.S.P., White Mice, Suffering Bastard, Laundryroom Squelchers, Future Blondes, Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck, Sanguine Piss, Tusco Terror, Radio Shock, U Can Unlearn Guitar, WRONG. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Freenoise.org website and the 15th anniversary of Cock E.S.P., while providing an exciting alternative to the CMJ hype machine by presenting a line-up of excessively non-commercial underground noise. --- Freenoise.org A web portal and part-time label started in 1998 by John Vance (Rexor, WRONG) and Emil Hagstrom (Cock E.S.P., WRONG). The site has hosted pages for a variety of Vance and Hagstrom projects -- bands, labels, film -- as well as those of close friends and collaborators. The current roster includes Cock E.S.P., SunShip Records, E.F. Tapes, WRONG, Smell & Quim, Panelectric Living Sinema and Unconditional Loathing. Former hostees include Richard Saenz, the Flying Luttenbachers, Thumb, Freedom From and Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers. --- Cock E.S.P. (absurdist noise; Minneapolis) http://www.cockesp.com http://www.myspace.com/cockesp "Somewhere between repellent, hilarious and just plain ridiculously stupid." - San Francisco Bay Guardian "Is this guerrilla performance art? Am I on a hidden-camera TV show? Am I just stupid for not 'getting it'? Are you fucking kidding me? These are all normal reactions and seemingly a part of the grand concept that the E.S.P.-ers have been pimping for a decade." - Cincinnati CityBeat "Minneapolis' Cock E.S.P. sound a bit like Radiohead - if Radiohead played an amplified cement mixer and forced Thom Yorke to shriek indecipherable obscenities in a donkey outfit while attacking his bandmates." - Nashville Scene --- White Mice (noise-rock; Providence) http://thewhitemice.com http://www.myspace.com/whitemice Part of their "Grater than Cheesus" Year of the Rat Tour II -- click on the MySpace link above for complete tour dates... "White Mice succeed where so many other performance based, noise oriented artists fail: the actually have great SONGS to back up their performances (and great performances they are, blood spattered mice costumes and all). Who knew a song about cheese could be so brutal?...At their best, White Mice spin cohesive nightmares like no one else." - (Skyscraper #28, Summer 2008) "As a trio composed of bass guitar, drums, and digital oscillation mechanics, you might be lulled into a false sense of security. But do not be fooled; they are extremely loud and abrasive, easily more extreme than some of their more well-known contemporaries in the hardcore, rock, and noise genres respectively. Easily. In short, words alone are inadequete in describing how much this band kicks ass over many other bands. Boasting a high-octane and often-discussed live show, ...it would be an absolute shame if you did not check these guys out. You won't be disappointed." - (Musicfortherestofus.com) "White Mice's 'Excreamantraintraveinanus' is like being dropped headfirst into a cement mixer full of decaying meat. As a drums/bass/noise/ celebration of all things lowbrow and gleefully guttural, White Mice flatten you against the wall with a pummeling, distorted onslaught of obnoxious filth,...a delightfully bestial beating.... - (Terrorizer #166) "Brutal and way over the top, White Mice stay consistent every step of the way. Far more than I had expected, Excreamantraintraveinanus is an enthrallingly grotesque album of head-fuckery. " - (Brainwashed.com) --- Suffering Bastard (goregrind; Providence) http://www.myspace.com/sufferingbastardrules Brutal gore-laced grind ensemble whose heavy guitar-free assault achieves the highest degree of evilness possible. Described by one reviewer as "smarter than they seem" the band presents audiences with one of the few occasions the "devil horns" can be legitimately flashed without irony or misunderstanding. --- Laundryroom Squelchers (noise; Miami) http://www.squelchers.com Founded in 1994 by Miami music stalwart Rat Bastard from the ashes of his previous band Scraping Teeth, voted "Worst Band in America" by Spin Magazine -- before any of their editors had heard the Squelchers. --- Future Blondes (electronica; Houston/San Francisco) http://www.myspace.com/futureblondesliverecordings Featuring members of Rusted Shut, Helios Creed, Indian Jewelry, and A Pink Cloud -- and described as having "...a good deal of this beginning, middle and endlessness..." by one reviewer -- the group's hurricane-forced relocation to the Bay Area only adds fire to their angry, distorted dance music. Former Artist of the Year nominee at the Houston Press Music Awards. --- Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck (power-electronics; Boston) http://www.twodeadsluts.com http://www.myspace.com/tdsogf Conceived as a naked 15-piece teenage grindcore band in 1999, their debut live performance ended with the group being escorted to the city limits of Manchester NH by police -- who handed the group a court order instructing them to never return -- the 'sluts have since been shaved down to a pair of naked feedback-manipulators and screaming provocateurs fueled by acute alcohol intoxication and an intense hatred of all non-Boston sports teams. For this special night, however, they promise to be good, keep their clothes on, and show all due respect to anyone wearing a Jets jersey or Yankees cap. --- Sanguine Piss (noise; Philadelphia) http://www.breathmint.net/sp.htm Born from an Antler Piss/Sanguine Vessel collaboration, Sanguine Piss is a harsh noise trio from Philadelphia, PA. Consciously apathetic to press, hype and record sales, the group has only one agenda - steep the audience in their "vulgar mess of enormous sounds that rupture the room." An auditory nightmare from the City of Brotherly Love's discarded sons. --- Tusco Terror (post-noise; Cleveland) http://www.tuscoembassy.com/tuscoterror.html http://www.myspace.com/tuscoterror "Imagine for a moment growing up in a small town in Ohio where one in ten of the townspeople worship an ancient corpse of a tentacled humanoid thing with two sex organs. Try and wrap you head around the idea of a town with a vocational school where Coffin Making, and Meat Processing are the most popular fields of study. Tusco Terror is making the sound of growing up in a small town in Ohio. A town where everything looks fine on the outside, but, when the skin is pulled off, there is only wrongness and a total TERROR." - Mark Tidrick, the Times Distorter "The sound of reckless confrontation, living room shambles, chaotic slipstreams and glorious friendship noise crackled from one brain stem to another." - Ecstatic Peace "There was a small, dedicated group directly in front of the band, transfixed by the sound of jet engines. There was another small group who didn't care to hear the sounds of Hopkins Airport, and were dedicated to covering their ears. As a funny aside, when I ran into a friend of mine during Chum's set, I asked him if he heard that first band, who sounded like airplanes landing, and he said, 'Yes, that's why I was downstairs at the B-Side Lounge getting a drink.'" - I Rock Cleveland "Before you start thinking “Oh jeez, yet another bout of my ears and brain having to wrestle with pulverising chaos and undifferentiated noise lacking in any originality”, let me just reassure you that that is far from the case here. While the ingredients certainly do include the aforementioned mashings and mutilations, it also includes a broader palette of experimentalism and creativity, bringing in a wide range of other techniques and styles that inevitably helps it to appeal to a wider constituency than just the kind of person who likes listening to material that sounds like it's the safest way to come close to experiencing the effects of having a stroke or being lobotomised without actually undergoing either." - Heathen Harvest --- Radio Shock (dance; Brooklyn) http://radioshock.org http://www.myspace.com/radi0sh0ck Radio Shock is a one-man band -- hailing from Brooklyn but famously known to be "always on tour" -- which will make you want to get up and dance while trying to trip you up at the same time. Douglasleader.com: Describe Radio Shock to me using 5 nouns one of which is contained in a prepositional phrase. Radio Shock: Dissonance. Motion. Entertainment. Beat. Noise for dancing. --- U Can Unlearn Guitar (singer/songwriter; Chicago) http://unlearny.com http://www.myspace.com/ucanunlearnguitar While this ex-New Yorker's recordings use an acoustic guitar and a velvety voice as tools to unlock the lighter side of drug abuse and clinical depression, UCUG live performances often take a highly conceptual approach, sometimes resulting in the destruction of multiple guitars. --- WRONG (free-improv; Minneapolis) http://freenoise.org/wrong http://www.myspace.com/wrongbandofficial Founded by John Vance and Emil Hagstrom in 1994, WRONG is a free-improv ensemble incorporating rock, jazz and avant-garde influences and using an ever-changing line-up of musicians and instrumentation. After the group's first live performance in 1994, Courtney Love -- who was present as her band Hole was playing the arena next door -- threatened to beat up John Vance. WRONG has since gone on to perform on bills with such artists as Sonic Youth, Dead C, Borbetomagus, Rifle Sport, Flying Luttenbachers, Babes in Toyland, Shadow Ring, Nihilist Spasm Band, John S. Hall, Grant Hart (Hüsker Dü), Loren Mazzacane-Connors and Growing. |