Monday 9th May
£5 pay on the door. 7.30pm
The Banshee Labyrinth, 29-35 Niddry Street. Edinburgh.

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Turn To Crime
Derek Stanton aka Turn To Crime is better known as lead singer and guitarist with Awesome Color whose trio of maniacal Stooges/MC5 inspired LPs were released on Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore’s label Ecstatic Peace between 2006 and 2010. The band gained worldwide notoriety, touring as headliners and with the likes of Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth themselves. In 2010, the band broke-up, but it wasn’t long before Derek had a new sound and a bunch of new songs ready to go under his solo moniker of Turn To Crime.

“Derek learned to play guitar from [Stooges drummer] Scott Asheton because he grew up next door to him, so he’s got a really classic Stooges, Detroit feel to his playing. He could be in the Stooges; in fact they’d sound a lot better if he was in there now and not James Williamson. He plays lead and sings, and you don’t see that done well much these days.” 

J Mascis, Dinosaur Jr, The Guardian, 14th March 2011

http://www.myspace.com/turntocrime
http://turntocrime.bandcamp.com

Float Riverer
If you can imagine being bludgeoned to death with a pair of dancing shoes then you pretty much understand what it is to see Float Riverer live. The Manchester duo, formed in 2010 while hitch-hiking across the UK, delivers all the hooks, punishing the audience with a relentless, often venomous, catchiness. Drummer Kate (also one third of grrrl-punk heroines Hotpants Romance) pounds her two drums in a repetitive, motorik style, her vocal has the rasp and depth of a Holly Golightly and, when she screams, well, she SCREAMS! Guitar player Nick mangles shrill, rhythmic repeato-riffs out of his Telecaster and spits out his lyrics in with a high-pitched androgynous stutter. They’re now in the process of recording an LP for summer release.

http://floatriverer.blogspot.com/


That’s What The Old Man Said & He Never Came Back
Earth and Melvins worship from the beard of Scrim and the sticks-man of The Pineapple Chunks. Instrumental heaviness that will get your blood pumping to all the correct organs, Jane Fonda style. Gurning, repetition and sludge aplenty.

http://www.myspace.com/germanshepherdofthedeep


Red Death
Synth or possibly guitar syncopations and dronezzz from the Braw master of ceremonies. Ya herd!