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Twisted Robot Presents:
Cobra Killer v Metal Urbain
Whelans 12th June 2007
Tickets: 16euro from WAV, Road Records, City Disc
COBRA KILLER
“We celebrate music.”
Nobody can escape the grip of scarcely dressed Gina V. D'Orio and Annika Line Trost, drowning themselves in red wine and throwing their songs into the faces of the audience. They re loud and hot and definitely take any location captive.
Cobra Killer have no time for posers. They are a reaction against the dullness of early electro stage shows. Their stage presence has always been as over the top as their sound. Every Cobra Killer concert is an attack on the calculated excess of the music business.
The duo has influenced many women with their wild and pioneering work. Peaches’ first show was supporting Cobra Killer.
They have also delighted artists from Underground Resistance to Sonic Youth. “We played a couple of shows these last few nights in Germany with a band called Cobra Killer that completely knocked us out...it’s two girls and a sampler, and it was just phenomenal, like two of the most inspiring shows on a lot of different levels. I really loved it” (Thurston Moore).
METAL URBAIN
They were heavily influenced by The Clash and The Sex Pistols on one hand, and on the other by an electro approach related to "Metal Machine Music" by Lou Reed. They relied on heavily distorted guitars and replaced the traditional rock rhythym section of bass guitar/drums with a synthesizer and drum machine, a then-unique approach that foreshadowed the experimental possibilities that were explored by later post-punk bands such as Big Black. They were also known for their radical image (the color scheme of albums always being a stark black, white and red), and subversive lyrics sung in French.
They were met with much enthusiasm in England, particularly by John Peel and the Rough Trade label. (Métal Urbain's single "Paris Marquis" was Rough Trade's first release.) They had an enthusiastic but small audience in France, receiving little exposure. The punk rock scene was not as popular in France as it was in England, and they did not interest the French media as English bands like the Sex Pistols did. As a result, the band broke up by 1979, though members scattered to form such groups as Metal Boys, Doctor Mix and the Remix, and Desperados, as well as joining Ashpalt Jungle.
Métal Urbain had focused their efforts on singles, and only produced one album, Les hommes morts sont dangereux while active. However, since their breakup, several compilation records were released, gathering their singles with additional material such as BBC sessions and live recordings.
Their electro approach was very innovative for its time, and the group are a reference point for such groups as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bérurier Noir, and the producer Steve Albini. They have recently recorded a new album, J'irai chier dans ton vomi, produced by Jello Biafra.
Cobra Killer v Metal Urbain
Whelans 12th June 2007
Tickets: 16euro from WAV, Road Records, City Disc
COBRA KILLER
“We celebrate music.”
Nobody can escape the grip of scarcely dressed Gina V. D'Orio and Annika Line Trost, drowning themselves in red wine and throwing their songs into the faces of the audience. They re loud and hot and definitely take any location captive.
Cobra Killer have no time for posers. They are a reaction against the dullness of early electro stage shows. Their stage presence has always been as over the top as their sound. Every Cobra Killer concert is an attack on the calculated excess of the music business.
The duo has influenced many women with their wild and pioneering work. Peaches’ first show was supporting Cobra Killer.
They have also delighted artists from Underground Resistance to Sonic Youth. “We played a couple of shows these last few nights in Germany with a band called Cobra Killer that completely knocked us out...it’s two girls and a sampler, and it was just phenomenal, like two of the most inspiring shows on a lot of different levels. I really loved it” (Thurston Moore).
METAL URBAIN
They were heavily influenced by The Clash and The Sex Pistols on one hand, and on the other by an electro approach related to "Metal Machine Music" by Lou Reed. They relied on heavily distorted guitars and replaced the traditional rock rhythym section of bass guitar/drums with a synthesizer and drum machine, a then-unique approach that foreshadowed the experimental possibilities that were explored by later post-punk bands such as Big Black. They were also known for their radical image (the color scheme of albums always being a stark black, white and red), and subversive lyrics sung in French.
They were met with much enthusiasm in England, particularly by John Peel and the Rough Trade label. (Métal Urbain's single "Paris Marquis" was Rough Trade's first release.) They had an enthusiastic but small audience in France, receiving little exposure. The punk rock scene was not as popular in France as it was in England, and they did not interest the French media as English bands like the Sex Pistols did. As a result, the band broke up by 1979, though members scattered to form such groups as Metal Boys, Doctor Mix and the Remix, and Desperados, as well as joining Ashpalt Jungle.
Métal Urbain had focused their efforts on singles, and only produced one album, Les hommes morts sont dangereux while active. However, since their breakup, several compilation records were released, gathering their singles with additional material such as BBC sessions and live recordings.
Their electro approach was very innovative for its time, and the group are a reference point for such groups as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bérurier Noir, and the producer Steve Albini. They have recently recorded a new album, J'irai chier dans ton vomi, produced by Jello Biafra.
