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blood on the wall
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Wednesday 20 September 2006
The Sugar Club, Dublin
Doors 8pm
€14.50
http://www.thesocialregistry.com/artist_pages/bloodonthewall.html
http://www.myspace.com/bloodonthewall
Blood On The Wall plays superb, high-energy, danceable, wonky rock.
Hailing from Brooklyn, NYC, Blood On The Wall is a three-piece comprising of brother and sister Brad and Courtney Shanks, and drummer Miggy Littleton. BOTW first got started in 2000 when Courtney (bass, vocals) met Miggy (drums) on the way home from record shopping. As they got off their stop on the train, she noticed a man selling records on the corner. That man was Miggy (who ran the infamous Big Deal Records out of his own house). The pair struck up a conversation about music and rapidly became best friends and band mates. Shortly after, Courtney’s brother Brad (guitar, vocals) graduated from college in Lawrence (Kansas), and moved into his sister’s apartment in Brooklyn and was enrolled as the third band member.
Miggy has been in a lot of bands - from the hardcore outfit The Shit to Ida and most recently the NYC band, White Magic. Brad was in a two-piece drunk band called Bandit Teeth, whilst Courtney plays music with solo death blues man T.K. Webb in Laughing Waters. When BOTW play, they do it just to get together and have some fun. Their songs reflect that comfort you find with your best friends. They can be shaky and frantic or heartfelt and warm.
Initially slow moving, the band at first existed as a place for the three of them to get together and play music. In 2000, they played a total of just three shows. In 2001, they decided they should record their songs just to have them on tape. They spent one night in Manhattan recording on an eight-track that only had five channels operating with Nicolas Vernhes (who has produced Versus, Silver Jews, Animal Collective, Black Dice, and The Fiery Furnaces) and Dan Brown. Two songs came to the surface and were self-released as a 7” on the Big Deal/Rejoice label. Vernhes has remained as their producer, and in 2004, a self-titled debut album was released on NYC label, The Social Registry (home of Gang Gang Dance). The same label released a second album, ‘Awesomer’ in late 2005 with minimal distribution outside of the USA…resulting in FatCat records getting in touch with the band, and eventually putting the album out in the UK themselves!
‘BOTW don't build songs bottom-up so much as dream them big then sweat them down. Nothing's sparse, just concentrated, essential.’ Pitchforkmedia.com
cap pas cap
Wednesday 20 September 2006
The Sugar Club, Dublin
Doors 8pm
€14.50
http://www.thesocialregistry.com/artist_pages/bloodonthewall.html
http://www.myspace.com/bloodonthewall
Blood On The Wall plays superb, high-energy, danceable, wonky rock.
Hailing from Brooklyn, NYC, Blood On The Wall is a three-piece comprising of brother and sister Brad and Courtney Shanks, and drummer Miggy Littleton. BOTW first got started in 2000 when Courtney (bass, vocals) met Miggy (drums) on the way home from record shopping. As they got off their stop on the train, she noticed a man selling records on the corner. That man was Miggy (who ran the infamous Big Deal Records out of his own house). The pair struck up a conversation about music and rapidly became best friends and band mates. Shortly after, Courtney’s brother Brad (guitar, vocals) graduated from college in Lawrence (Kansas), and moved into his sister’s apartment in Brooklyn and was enrolled as the third band member.
Miggy has been in a lot of bands - from the hardcore outfit The Shit to Ida and most recently the NYC band, White Magic. Brad was in a two-piece drunk band called Bandit Teeth, whilst Courtney plays music with solo death blues man T.K. Webb in Laughing Waters. When BOTW play, they do it just to get together and have some fun. Their songs reflect that comfort you find with your best friends. They can be shaky and frantic or heartfelt and warm.
Initially slow moving, the band at first existed as a place for the three of them to get together and play music. In 2000, they played a total of just three shows. In 2001, they decided they should record their songs just to have them on tape. They spent one night in Manhattan recording on an eight-track that only had five channels operating with Nicolas Vernhes (who has produced Versus, Silver Jews, Animal Collective, Black Dice, and The Fiery Furnaces) and Dan Brown. Two songs came to the surface and were self-released as a 7” on the Big Deal/Rejoice label. Vernhes has remained as their producer, and in 2004, a self-titled debut album was released on NYC label, The Social Registry (home of Gang Gang Dance). The same label released a second album, ‘Awesomer’ in late 2005 with minimal distribution outside of the USA…resulting in FatCat records getting in touch with the band, and eventually putting the album out in the UK themselves!
‘BOTW don't build songs bottom-up so much as dream them big then sweat them down. Nothing's sparse, just concentrated, essential.’ Pitchforkmedia.com
