KEEP IT WRONG/LESSON NO.1 PLAYLIST

LESSON NO.1 PRESENTS: WRONG MUSIC TOUR, MARCH 2ND

The Japanese wing of Brighton's Wrong Music imprint invade Clwb Ifor en masse! Music from label head honcho DJ Scotch Egg, plus Osaka breakcore legend Ovenaxx, surrealist hip-hop queen Doddodo, psychotic beatboxer Gulpepsh, and many more. High Quality Recordings' Stabmaster Vinyl and DJ Maxx Rammage (ex-Mountain Men Anonymous) strikes a note for the locals. Doors 8pm, tickets £5 available now from www.clwb.net

DJ SCOTCH EGG
Lloerigrwydd llwyr o Siapan - dau nintendo gameboy, tecno 300bpm, a nifer fawr o wyau albanaidd yn cael eu taflu at y gynulleidfa. Cerddoriaeth electronic swnllyd tu hwnt a lot, lot, fawr o hwyl... “Fuck, Fuck, Fuck – KFC, KFC!”…

STABMASTER VINYL
Melodiau electronig, twrw gwallgo, curiadau wedi’u difrodi, a darnau o stwff pobol eraill. Mae Stabmaster Vinyl yn rhyddhau recordiau ffrantig a brwnt ar y label Cymraeg o Fryste Recordiau Safon Uchel. “Melodiau prydferth a syniadau newydd cyffroes” – Brechdan Tywod.

Lesson No.1 Playlist:

1. Battles - EPC/BEP (Warp)
2. Pearls And Brass - No Stone (Drag City)
3. The Noisettes - Iwe (Transgressive)
4. Aaron Spectre - Pay To Cum b/w You Don't Know (Omeko)
5. Liars - The Do Rong Co At Mt Heart Attack (Mute)
6. The Keep - Bunch of Ingrates (Detournment)
7. Throbbing Gristle - Part 2 (Mute)
8. Various Artists - Trade and Distribution 3 (Adaadat)
9. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Recorded In Lisbon (Kranky)
10. Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords (Rephlex)

LIKE LOTTERY WINNERS ON ACID

LOOSE CLUB PRESENT THE CRIMEA, CLEARLAKE, AND BROKEN SLEEP, FEBRUARY 7TH

Fresh from their No.2 placing in BBC Radio 1’s Festive 50 with the re-released single ‘Lottery Winners On Acid’, The Crimea return to their old South Wales stamping grounds for a show in support of their impending Warner Brothers debut LP, ‘Tragedy Rocks’. Formed in 2002 from the ashes of aggressive rock nearly-men The Crocketts, The Crimea pioneer a brand of lush, orchestral pop that’s seen comparisons to everyone from The Arcade Fire to Dusty Springfield, and won them friends from Stereophonics to the late, great John Peel (who called ‘Lottery Winners On Acid’ “one of the greatest songs I’ve heard in years”).

Support on the night comes from the Arctic Monkeys’ Domino labelmates Clearlake and Cardiff newcomers Broken Sleep. Tickets cost £6, available now from Spillers Records, or online now at www.clwb.net.

SHOCK HORROR

CUT THE MIDRANGE, DROP THE BASS

FORECAST AND MACHINE.RECORDS PRESENT :

CYLOB / HIDDEN PERSUADER + INFO_CIFON / MANCHUKO

Thursday 26th January
Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby St, Cardiff
£7 8pm

 Oh yes indeed! Cylob is coming to town. No messin'! In the first of a regular collaboration, Forecast are teaming up with Cardiff-based Machine Records to satisfy their aching electro needs.

Another product of Richard 'Aphex Twin' James Rephlex stable, Chris Jeffs' releases as Cylob and Kinesthesia have numbered among the Cornwall-based imprint's most celebrated recent releases. Not nearly as prolific as his friends and sometime-labelmatesJamesand Mike Paradinas (u-ziq), Jeffs has nonetheless amassed an impressive catalog of releases in a relatively short period of time. Although he only began experimenting with electronics in 1991, within five years Jeffs released three EPs and three full-lengths — including the cheeky DJ double-pack "Loops andBreaks" (as Cylob) and the sparse ambient of Empathy Box (as Kinesthesia) — in addition to remixes for Aphex Twin,BochumWelt, and Immersion. Although focusing more recently on a refined brand of ambient breakbeat and techno, Jeffs' stylistic palette includes crunchy, industrial-leaning techno, beatless ambient, and new-school electro-funk.

Support comes from some of Machine Records' finest acts. Hidden Persuader and Info_Cifon are two members from the collective Access Tonal Communications who have been making waves on the electronica scene for some time now. Access Tonal Communications is a full blown movement of electro(nica) producers, video archivists and designers. And if you heard their recent session for Rob Da Bank's OneMusic show on BBC Radio 1, you'll know what an exciting live prospect they are. Founder members Info_Cifon and The Hidden Persuader each take electro to previously unexplored territory, while delivering a heavy sonic punch of angular rhythms, skewed melody and snatches of noise. Both maintain a refreshingly anti-purist musical stance, citing hip-hop, punk and jazz as jumping off points, besides their obvious familiarity with the Detroit origins of their beloved sound.

Lastly, Manchuko will be opening up the evenings proceedings with Aphex inspired ambient synth washes, kraut style guitar work and fierce drum and bass all played the traditional way, with drums and bass! Manchuko were recently the legendary Damo Suzuki of Can's 'sound carriers' for his UK tour - originally Damo Suzuki's policy was to play with a band resident to the city he was playing in only once for a spontaneous free jam but he was so taken with Manchuko that they toured together for some time. If that isn't reason enough to come early to watch these guys, I don't know what is.

BET THAT THIS SOUNDS GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR

Popscene presents the exclusive first UK airing of the Arctic Monkeys' debut album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not', way up on the top floor of Clwb Ifor Bach. Mark Wednesday January 18th in your diary... now! And don't turn up too late, or you'll miss the bloody thing

FORECAST PLAYLIST

1. Rotary Connection - Hey Love
2. Marissa Nadler - The Saga Of Mayflower May
3. Alexander Tucker - Old Fog
4. Jack Rose - Kensington Blues
5. Jana Hunter - Black Unstaring Heirs Of Doom
6. Fursaxa - Mandrake
7. Gene Clark - No Other
8. Moby Grape - Moby Grape
9. Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - Buck Dharma
10. Judee Sill - Heartfood

Visit the Forecast website at www.weareforecast.com

WRIGGLE LIKE AN EEL

The first ever Welsh show from veteran musical extremists Whitehouse. Feted by musical luminaries from Aphex Twin to Steve Albini, tonight sees these UK noise pioneers debuting material from their new album Asceticists, before a return to the US for dates with Wolf Eyes and Pig Destroyer.



Support on the night comes from Canada's AIDS Wolf (pictured) and Gindrinker ("Cardiff's best cult band" - NME). Tickets are available for £6 from the Clwb website. Doors 8pm.

SHORT SHARP SHOCK

ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK/MARTINI HENRY RIFLES/GINDRINKER/THE SOUTHERN ELECTRICS PLAY CLWB IFOR BACH, January 21st

“NME always dreamed of a band like Japan's Electric Eel Shock. A band willing and able to rid the world of sexually retarded indie schmindie dullards while spunking in the face of accepted notions of cool” - NME

Conceived in Japan sometime towards the end of last century, toughened up on self-financed world tours, and now holed up in London plotting their next manoeuvre, Electric Eel Shock stake a strong claim to being one of the best live bands in the world. Frontman Aki Morimoto is the spirit of metal incarnate, bassist Kazuto Maekawa wears a leather jacket like no-one since Joey Ramone, and drummer Tomaharu ‘Gian’ Ito has a habit of taking to the kit entirely nude.

An early single, ‘Do The Metal’, came out on Swansea’s Mighty Atom, but the patronage of metal gods Bruce Dickinson, Lemmy, and Judas Priest producer Attie Bauw has seen them progress through rock’s ranks at terrifying speed, culminating in 2005’s legendary LP ‘Beat Me’. Support on the night comes from cult Cardiff favourites Martini Henry Rifles and Gindrinker, plus rock newcomers The Southern Electrics. Tickets cost £6, available now from Spiller's Records or the Clwb website

AT A STRETCH

BRING THE NOISE

2006 is going to be a big year for The Noisettes, a year that sees this fiery art-rockers shake off that ‘best-kept secret’ tag and explode on the overground. Led by the petite Shingai Shoniwa, a frontwoman whose idiosyncratic voice has already won comparisons to outsider female vocalists from Billy Holiday to Bjork, this London trio have already toured the US with The Kills and supported Bloc Party and the Mystery Jets back here on home soil.



Right now, they’ve only got one rare, self-released EP – the excellent ‘Three Moods Of The Noisettes’ – under their belt, but their new single ‘IWE’ is due January 30th, out on Transgressive Records (previously home to The Young Knives, The Subways, and Mystery Jets). The Noisettes play Clwb on Friday January 13th, with support on the night coming courtesy of local heroes The Keys, reconvened after a lengthy hiatus with a new suite of twanging, primitive rock’n’roll, and newcomers Good Shoes. Tickets cost £6, available now from the main Clwb website