Talibam! - Baker Place, Limerick (1 Viewer)

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The amazing Talibam! are coming to play some gigs in early June:

Friday June 1: Talibam! + Latexspidermonkey + tbc
in Lavery's Bunker, Belfast, 8pm-11pm £5

Saturday June 2: Talibam! + Toymonger + tbc
in The Boom Boom Room, Dublin, 9pm, €8.

Sunday June 3: Talibam! + Toymonger
in Baker Place, Limerick.

http://trashfactory.net/talibam/

‘Ornette Coleman playing on Soft Machine's Fourth in hell"... Talibam!'s brand of shitstorm skronk is grounded in more intelligent thought and dynamic group exchange than many of the more hyped transmissions from the contemporary American 'noise' underground." - Tiny Mix Tapes Dot Com
"...Agro-improv troupe Talibam! will surely harsh your mellow. A cross between noise-rock, free-jazz and unabashed fuckeduppedness, Talibam! is audio terrorism at its most playful. Led by drummer Kevin Shea and the hideous gurgles of what might be Speak & Spells (Matt Mottel, synth) suffocating under distortion pedals (Ed Bear, feedbacksaphone)." - Chris Weingarten, Village Voice
"...spastic, impossibly octopoidal drum splatter is all over this disc, a stuttering spastic free jazz soundscape dense and impenetrable. Above this tangled percussive squall, the synth and the sax do battle. And this is a serious fucking knock down drag out battle to the death. The synth seems to come out on top turning what could have been more of a free jazz record into a seriously fucked up freenoise record.
Mottel is like Keith Emerson on a serious PCP bender, spitting out thick snarling sheets of synth buzz, spraying it like machine gun fire, melodies are tangled and complicated little knots hurled into the fray like cannonballs made out of steel string and roof nails. The sax is all over the place, adding tonal color, mad squawking, chittering chirps and deep fuzzy moans, this is a massive chaotic free for all." Aquarius Records
"The music matches the mania of the packaging perfectly as the trio let loose a... blast of sonic sludge that gleefully destroys everything in it's path, as if on a mission." - Edwin Pouncey, The Wire

Kevin Shea's drumming and stage gymnastics have been gazed at with wide wonder through his membership in bands like Storm & Stress (Touch & Go), Coptic Light (No Quarter), and People (I and Ear). Matt Mottel has been hanging around NYC clubs since he was 16, and dropping electric mind bombs with his synthesizer in diverse projects including Shadowmaps and syntony. (2) Ed Bear plays the baritone saxophone like Ron Asheton, and lives in his girlfriend's dorm room at Bard College.


Toymonger:
Toymonger are Andrew Fogarty (Bullets, Boneyard Witch, Tremors) and Gavin Prior (United Bible Studies). They Play noise/Doom-drone/Dark Rave music. They'll be touring Britain and Ireland with Birds of Delay in June. Their first album will be out soon on Deserted Village. Toymonger sound like this:
http://ez8.ez-web-hosting.com/~cosmicto/mp3s/bodkins-7th-dec-06.mp3
http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Evillagewasteland/Toymonger-%20Whore%20Dame%20Lame.mp3

 

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Talibam!

Talibam! are a 3 piece band who blur the lines between avant-garde jazz performances and free noise rock showmanship. Centered on the drumming of Kevin Shea (formerly of Storm & Stress who were on Touch And Go Records), he creates a vast and stuttering free jazz soundscape over which Matthew Mottel (on synthesizer and electronics) and Ed Bear (on saxophone) do battle to create waves of synth buzzes and jazz lines on sax. Talibam! have so far released a slew of handmade CDrs on smaller labels and appeared on a compilation CD on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label. This should tide them over until their first full studio album which is released by Pendu Sound Recordings next month.


Toymonger

Toymonger are made up of Gavin Prior (of United Bible Studies and Deserted Village Records) and Andy Fogarty (of Bullets and Tremors). This duo have been known to make a fine racket together with pedals, mixers, feedback and contact microphones. Despite having not yet released any CD's, this duo have made a name for themselves in the Irish live scene with a supporting tour slot with legendary drummer Chris Corsano last year. Their debut album will be released by Deserted Village.

End.Fin.Dead

The second support act on the night is the only local electronic act worth their salt, End.Fin.Dead. This electronica/IDM group was originally a solo act by Don Sims (synths and sequencers) but has now become a 3 piece, augmented by Jim (live visuals) and Edel (synths and effects) to become a more improved group. They've supported such luminaries as Chris Corsano & Paul Flaherty, Kaderfire, Lite and Steeple Remove.

Admission on the night is 5 euros and it will be an excellent way to celebrate the bank holiday! Venue address is Underground@Baker Place, Tait Sq., Limerick.

To listen to the bands:
www.myspace.com/talibam
www.thumped.com/bullets
www.myspace.com/endfindead