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1. • Brew Records
   • Friday 25th July
     
     Brew Records Presents
     
     Upstairs at the library, leeds
     
     
     
     Kong:
     
     
     
     Holy honkers, we are doing a sexy 7" release with these mucky pups. One of the best live ands i've ever seen. Over at Brew towers we are over the moon to have them on board for the release and this will be a super sexual gig
     
     View some interesting channel M live footage over on our myspace ----> www.myspace.com/brewrecords
     
     Heres some wonderful words from Andrew Falkous (McLusky/Future of the left):
     
     Kong is not a name chosen by accident. It does not describe an effeminate collection of callow fuckers thrust together by a desire to look plucked or sound eager to please.
     
     All are/were/shall be in other, perhaps more commercially viable bands, which is notable only because it fills out their biography and creates the impression of a deeper back-story, which becomes, by definition, massively interesting to idiots. Yes, Nancy was in Jane’s Addiction, and Milicent founded ITV.
     
     Kong’s music, such as it is, takes all the risibly obnoxious elements of lots of very loud, credible bands, feeds it non-brand specific lager, then comes on it in its sleep.
     
     In truth, they are difficult band to describe unless you're a music journalist, in which case you'd probably pick a large animal (elephant, dinosaur or a fantastical creature of myth) and put it in an unusual place (Middlesbrough) with predictably madcap results.
     
     In summary - the first time I saw them play I felt a burning sensation on my arm and realised that I had developed eczema.
     
     The album, 'Snake Magnet', will follow when somebody grows balls and fucking puts it out there.
     
     Their first single "Blood of a dove" is released on 28th July on Brew Records and is available on limited coloured 7 inch vinyl (and the usual download channels), with artwork courtesy of Joby J Ford (The Bronx). View our other thread for info on that....
     
     Support from:
     
     Manatees
     
     
     
     Mixes up soaring, clean melodic parts with filthy sludge, all underpinned by thunderous percussion. The whole post-metal genre is getting a bit stale, but Manatees take it way beyond what the majority of Isis clones are capable of in terms of atomsphere and power.
     "This cacophony is something you feel even with the volume down; close the curtains and dim the lights and let it lift you clean out of your seat and up into an otherworldly state of mind that so few cosmic travellers have ever traversed. King Crimson, Sunn O))), Comets On Fire: there are elements of these acts here, but they’re distorted, radiation from some collapsing star speckling them with an alien fire that burns harder and faster than this band’s slow-motion approach to ear-shredding alludes to initially. There’s a rawness that comes on like a rash; it itches, infecting the skin and later the senses until the body is powerless to do anything but nod itself in time to the thundering drum beats and snarled vocals."
     
     Year Of The Man
     
     
     
     Apocalyptic posty metal that slams you brain, really great band, saw the in the Fenton a while back and they melted my face. Think hive destruction era Isis meets Baroness.
     
     The Grand March
     
     
     
     Members of Chickenhawk and ex-members of Whores x3 creating fast/slow technical yet riffy filth, with influences from such brutes as Cursed, Mastadon and Rabies Caste (remember them?).
     
     I prefer seeing them in peoples living rooms but you can't win everything.
     
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     www.brewrecords.net
     www.myspace.com/kongdom
     www.myspace.com/manatees
     www.myyspace.com/yearoftheman
     www.myspace.com/thegrandmarchgoeson
     www.myspace.com/brewrecords
     
   • [21:32 on 15/07/08]
2. • Pete
   • I see Flatlands in two of those pictures, the pesky tykes.
   • [06:06 on 16/07/08]
3. • Brew Records
   • this friday!
   • [15:13 on 20/07/08]

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