Arsequake!

[zotz]

http://members.lycos.co.uk/arsequake/

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[gingiber.livejournal.com]

So have you heard any of these?

FLIPPER ('80-mid '90's)

HAPPY FLOWERS ('83-'91)


Interesting, I had completely forgotten about that particular musical classification :)

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Now that'd be *my* idea of good 80s music...

[kiaransalyn.livejournal.com]

"BASTARD KESTREL" Now why have I never heard of this band before? What a great name. Obviously inspired by the tepid brew Kestrel used to try to flog as lager before they just poured in more IMS.

[zotz]

No, I don't think I have heard anything by them. And there's no mention of Dü Hüskers, who have certainly been included as an arsequake band by some.

Re:

[gingiber.livejournal.com]

I also thought that it was abit strange including killing joke, they don't seem to fit somehow.

[zotz]

So we hijack the Whitby 80s night, rename it slightly and watch people's expressions as they walk through the door . . .

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me!

[gingiber.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am SO for that. NO MORE 80's cheese :)

[zotz]

What a great name.

Absolutely.

just poured in more IMS.

IMS?

[kiaransalyn.livejournal.com]

IMS = Industrial methylated spirits.

[zotz]

They did have a reputation for being excessively loud. I was listening to the radio, and someone (probably either John Peel or John Waters) was talking about them recording their first Peel session, and saying that he'd never seen so many amplifiers in one place before.

[kiaransalyn.livejournal.com]

Why don't we organise our own 80's night for Whitby and call it "Now that's what I call Bastard Kestrel music!"

[zotz]

Light dawns.

I assume that it actually tasted better after they started doing that?

[zotz]

Are there any concrete bunkers we could have it in? Do you reckon Fylingdales would let us hold a club there?

[kiaransalyn.livejournal.com]

I always wanted to hire a river dredger, that way you'd have a really heavy industrial "thrumming" in the background! Awesome!

[kiaransalyn.livejournal.com]

I think the usual consumers of Kestrel's product were unconcerned with the subtle interplay of flavours upon the palate so long as it got them drunk.

[blackmetalbaz.livejournal.com]

Brilliant :-) That looks like my record collection (minus all the dodgy Scandinavian stuff obviously). You've got to love any site which lists Godflesh, Fudge Tunnel, EyeHateGod, Iron Monkey, Melvins, Earth, Today Is The Day and Neurosis... I'd also recommend swathes of stuff by SunnO))), Electric Wizard, Khanate, Burning Witch, Botch, Converge, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Thergothon and Thorr's Hammer. Bring on the noise.

Love the Monkey.

By the way, is there any chance you could bring my CDs to the Calling tomorrow?

[zotz]

Ahhh . . . "The sheer physicality of volume".

Yes, I'll make sure I've got them with me.

[blu-matt.livejournal.com]

There was flavour?

[blackmetalbaz.livejournal.com]

I have got to play you some SunnO))) before you go... if nothing else the Julian Cope track has to be heard to be believed. Spread the Sunnbathing cult to Edinburgh :-) Actually, looking at the Southern Lord website reminded me I really should dig out my Grief records again...

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Happy Flowers! Ha, I haven't heard them in YEARS!

But since I did listen to most of those the first time around, I get to avoid the whole satan-throat-shit thing, which is quite a relief.

[zotz]

Yeah. I hate it when that happens. Spoils my whole day.

[zotz]

ISTR Sonic Youth being mentioned as well, actually.

[ex-wendles389.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time... in a field near Plymouth, it was reckoned that they could probably be heard at Land's End...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent idea.

Though there'd be a terrible crush on the stairs as all the terrified kiddywinks fled in terror...

[zotz]

Great. I'll bring my camera.

Am I right in thinking that Public Enemy had a certain reputation as masters of volume also? I read an interview with Gira where he was denyine Swans being particularly loud, and listing allegedly louder bands (most of whom the interviewer had seen and thought were nothing of the sort) like Ac/DC, PE and various others.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I believe so. I would certainly call the PE sound 'headspinningly dense'. Up there with the god-like Tackhead.