Tuesday, 17 March 2009

FUCK EGHAM, LETS DANCE! MARCH 27TH!


Our next social/house show features Robert Logan, Handshake, China Soul, Matthias Kammel and the Colcre collective. Its on the last friday of term, 27th march. Email lovetomakenoise@hotmail.co.uk for all the details.
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EGHAM-ON-SEA PICTURES!





















First off, massive thanks to everyone who came out to Egham-On-Sea, devoured the candy floss and jumped around. It was ace! Jake Gill and Tabloid Vivant executed their pop stylings despite dodgy sound and Lets Wrestle absoloutley killed it. So so good! Matthias and Sevgi also threw down and got 'em going. The place was sweating 'till late, which was excellent to see. If you came, nice one. You made it happen!
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LTMN SOCIAL #3 (BIRTHDAYYY!) - PICTURES


























We had our third house show a couple weeks back. We called it a birthday party because the society has been going a year now. The Pope's Head Exploded started with a slice of spoken word/sound, scaring half the people who had stopped by to party back out into the cold night in search of proper 'fun'. Tabloid Vivant took up the mantle and re-stored that saturday feeling with good ol' fashioned down beat pop, finishing with THE hit of the year in a song called Peter which features the greatest trumpet riff ever penned. Fuzzy Lights played a set of tense, seething, exploding post rock that made our living room floor vibrate with heavy sonic weight. YES YES YES. Good time and ace cake had and shared by all. We're having another soon. Email lovetomakenoise@hotmail.co.uk for all the details.
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Friday, 13 February 2009

MARCH 5TH - EGHAM-ON-SEA - LETS WRESTLE + MORE!

LOVE TO MAKE NOISE PROUDLY PRESENTS...

EGHAM-ON-SEA!
THURSDAY MARCH 5TH, TOMMYS BAR, RHUL
A trip to the golden coast of Royal Holloway featuring the sun soaked sounds of -

LETS WRESTLE
Totally ramshackle and utterly loveable rock and roll played loud and messy like your new favourite pin-ups (hinting at Black Lips, Good Shoes, Love Is All, Pete And The Pirates) and all your heroes (touching on Pavement, Beat Happening, Yo La Tengo). Think wonderful, discordant, fuzzzz soaked, ultra infectious three minute hits inspired by too much cheap red wine, staying up late making mixtapes for girls and the heroic feats of Hulk Hogan and Giant Haystacks Jamaica. Lets Wrestle have played all over, including Bestival, Concrete And Glass, Great Escape and Camden Crawl and we are absoloutley psyched to have booked their last UK show before they set sail for America and South By South West festival for the next couple of months. BRITISH WRESTLING IS THE WAY FORWARD!!!http://www.myspace.com/letsfuckingwrestle

“mark e smith, thurston moore and eddie argos all bundled inside an awkward kid in sunglasses,which is basically fucking amazing” NME

“something of the early Wedding Present to Let’s Wrestle. It’s not just in the way that the guitars go after each other and chatter magnificently in heady abandon, but it’s also in the way that the lyrics are so insanely self-possessed/obsessed"
PLAN B

“'I Won't Lie To You’ is so life affirming shambolic, it sounds like they actually split up realise they can't live without each other and decide to make another go of it somewhere in the middle.”UNCUT

“like The Buzzcocks running down the street with their pants round their ankles, ‘I Won’t Lie To You’ all but trips over itself to bowl the listener over in a frenzied rush of pop hooks. It ends on a fumbled guitar solo that sees our favorite reprobates get to third base before collapsing in a sweaty heap. Utterly perfect, in its own retarded way.”DROWNEDINSOUND

TABLOID VIVANT
This will be the debut show for a scruffy quintent that are fresh out of the east side of Englefield Green. They've been spreading glorious, colourful sound all over Larchwood Drive for a while and bring a set of songs that take influence from and will charm fans of Beirut, Belle And Sebastian and Arcade Fire. Hear irresistably offbeat indie pop played on anything they can get their hands on: melodica, guitar, violin, trumpet, the sound of church bells, drawled vocals, harmonica riffs...

JAKE GILL
Everytime we see Jake play this happens - A speakeasy somewhere downtown circa 1920. Plumes of cigarette smoke fill the air, huge shots of bootleg liquor are gulped, the sound of some dreamer floats out of the jukebox in the corner. Everyone dances until the sun comes up. - Come hear gypsy jazz like you would'nt believe, like the flavour of prohibition New York and the reincarnate of Django Reinhardt, Glenn Miller and Fats Waller. Don't miss this!

PLUS LOVE TO MAKE NOISE RESIDENT DJS

SEVGI UMUR
Holloway's leading lady steps up and throws down! The dancefloor will shatter under bass weight, come hear an upfront mix of heavy electro like LCD Soundsystem, Metronomy, Presets, Justice, Boys Noize, Yuksek, Herve, Crookers...

MATTHIAS KAMMEL
The boy from Berlin brings a set of strange games and funky things. Expect all kinds to go down from our favourite DJ who brings free jazz, heady soul, waves of dubstep, electronic shapes and some all out hits.

SKULLEDOUT!
Kaleidoscopic cuts and interplanetary rhythms played by a pair that should know better but spin 'em anyway: dub, dancehall, funk, northern soul, girl group pop, krautrock, afro-beat, highlife, experiments, new folk, sixties garage punk, electronics, nu disco... Anything goes.
http://www.skulledout.blogspot.com

AND -

FREE candyfloss!
Projections
Too many bad dance moves

SO -

THURSDAY 5TH MARCH
TOMMYS BAR, RHUL
8PM TIL LATE
£4 DOOR/£3 ADVANCE/£2 MEMBERS

ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM THURSDAY 26TH FEB.
Get in quick for a cheaper deal and guaranteed entry on the night.

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BRIGHT LIGHT CIRCUS PHOTOS






























Massive love to everyone that came down to Monkeys Forehead on wednesday, Bright Light Circus was awesome! Thanks for showing support and making it happen. The pub burst to the seams and all the DJs killed it! We recorded the whole night, so watch out for downloadable mixes coming soon! Make sure you check out The Treatment too, its a great play and is being performed during reading week at the studio theatre. Our next show is March 5th featuring Lets Wrestle + loads more at Tommys. Details above! Here are a selection of photos from the circus, once again, nice one for turning out and getting down...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009

FEB 11TH - THE BRIGHT LIGHT CIRCUS!

For this one, Love To Make Noise is hooking up with Royal Holloway Student Workshop to throw a big ol' party in celebration of The Treatment, a play by Martin Crimp that will run on the 19th-21st February at the studio theatre on campus. All in the name of promoting the play, playing some records, dancing into the night... So here goes!

Student Workshop Presents
With Music Curated By Love To Make Noise
The Monkeys Forehead - Wednesday 11th February - 8pm til Late - FREE

THE BRIGHT LIGHT CIRCUS
Celebrating the launch of The Treatment...

Hosted By -

LUKE DONEGANCome meditate on liquid drum and bass played fast and loose by our favourite RHUL DJ. Luke kills it every time with up front cuts that hit the spot just right. Expect a feast of low end wobble perfect for bassbin heads, dancing feet and fans of London Elektricity, High Contrast and LTJ Bukem.
http://www.myspace.com/nativednbuk

BEN + CRISTINA
Famous for throwing kids on a bus and giving them a one way ticket to a good time with their Nightclub And Drinking Society, Ben and Cristina bring an assault of sound to the circus. Specialising in rumbling electro gone all distorted, glitched out and wonky. Like Annie Mac, Erol Alkan, Digitalism and Mylo. But better looking.http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=20532866456

SKULLEDOUT!
Love To Make Noise residents that get a kick from digging crates in search of all kinds of sonic rhythm get the floor warmed with an extra special set of the weird and downright wonderful. Listen out for roots reggae, dancehall, african highlife, latin groove, brazilian shakedown, funk, northern soul, motown, fuzzed out 60's garage punk, krautrock, free jazz, nu disco, punk funk, electronica and beyond. Think Mr Scruff vs Beyond The Wizards Sleeve vs Giles Peterson. http://www.skulledout.blogspot.com

Plus -

POLAROID PHOTO BOOTH
Come pose out at our photobooth. Get your portrait taken in classic polaroid style. We've got a couple original cameras from the 80's, a box full of fake beards and a suitably kitsch set of backdrops. Yes!

FREE HOMEMADE SUSHI
Our chefs get down to business... Free sushi for all.

So -

Roll up one and all. Dress to impress and come dance. We're turning our local boozer into a den of party excellence. A launch party/clubnight/perfect union warm up/quiet drinks gone very wrong/night of good times guaranteed...

FREE ENTRY
The Monkeys Forehead
Wednesday 11th February
8pm til Late
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Thursday, 1 January 2009

YOU TOLD YOUR MUM YOU TOOK ACID (2008/HAPPY NEW YEAR)

HAPPY NEW YEAR! With many thanks and much love to everyone who has stopped by to help Love To Make Noise get up and go! this year. Expect more of the same during '09... Clubnights, socials, our magazine (!), members packs (finally...), LTMN resident DJs Holy Spinach! and the Dandy Highwayman embarking on world domination (or, maybe just Egham via Insanity Radio through the healing power of too much vinyl) and anything else we can get involved with at Royal Holloway that will further inject a little life, colour, NOISE into campus. If you want to collaborate, contribute, say hello, whatever... lovetomakenoise@hotmail.co.uk. We're always psyched to hear from you!
So, here's our take on 2008. We haven't written about the music we really like as much as we should've done, so here goes!
YOU TOLD YOUR MUM YOU TOOK ACID (2008)

BEST ALBUM
El Guincho - Alegranza
Played most weeks on our radio show, wrapped up in excellent cut n' paste art and put out by Young Turks (who seem to have hit a streak of perfection), Alegranza is a burst of colour that exploded the autumn into huge flashes and bright patterns of percussion heavy rhythms wound tight and released, repeated, kept rolling on and on until collapse under too much excitement, handclaps, shouted chorus lines, sun soaked guitar lines and dancing. It's recorded warm and fuzzy like some basement club in Barcelona where walls swirl, blur, change shape with every drum beat and when the show finally stops, the blue yellow of dawn in the sky outside. OR the best record we've heard in ages.

TOP FOUR LIVE (IN NO REAL ORDER, WELL, MAYBE...)
Shellac - ATP Release The Bats
All Hallows Eve in Kentish Town drenched in the furious static angles of Steve Albini, the ccccrrrunch and howl of Shellac, heroes to anyone that ever found the real alternative, rock and roll thrown to the ground and broken, bent, beaten black and blue with unflinching precision.
Keiran Hebden And Steve Reid - Dingwalls
We couldn't really afford it, but, well, y'now... We went anyway, got a good spot, meditated upon the point at which roots rhythm and electronica met, became intertwined, reverberated against each other into totally new sonic shapes. Free flowing jazz drumming supporting waves of bass, abstract effects and all kinds of synthetic noise.
The Oscillation - Everywhere...
Set against a backdrop of swirling oils (placed on top of overhead projectors, the origanal psychedelic aid), The Oscillation explore the depths of space, time and colour by creating a huge whirl of steady krautrock groove and psych experimentation. We got lost...
Shit And Shine - Corsica Studios
Forty minutes - Five drummers hit the same feral charge over and over, three guitarists force white noise to gush from the stack. Intensely rhythmic drone that left us feeling cleansed, serene.

THREE FOR THE FLOOR (LIKE ABOVE, BUT DJ'S)
Mr Scruff - Matter
The closest thing we've had to a musical epiphany... Mr Scruff plays everything, perfectly, at just the right time. Anything you want, he's got. Ended with Love Cats by Cure. Incredible.

Caspa And Rusko - Fabric
The first time we really FELT the weight of dubstep and the force of the records played by Caspa And Rusko and the fleet of producers and DJs emerging out of all sorts of locations to throw heaps of low end dynamite into the night.
Nathan Fake - Komedia
Chopped up and glitchy and abrasive and a little horrible and heavy and soaring and totally wonderful. Pieces of euphoria cut, torn, ripped, blistered, burnt into an hour of intense techno.

WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO...
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
One of the records that slipped through our fingers, left on a hard drive since summer and only discovered months later with little of the year remaining. But happy to have found it... Los Angeles bumps and shuffles through pools of sub bass, the pitter patter of tiny sparks of effects, looped electronics, warm drum rolls that take flight into patterns of african roots and tripped out hip hop. Textures built, throwing shadows that envelop and shroud, a mass of blissed out sound. Where were we?!
Jonathan Richman (And The Modern Lovers) - Anything...
Incredible jukebox swing pop from the seventies and still releasing and touring today. Voice smooth and guitars gone upbeat in perfect three minute charmers that are bleached with sunshine, good times and stupid steps. Rock and roll gold dust!

Maps And Atlases - Both EP's
http://www.myspace.com/mapsandatlases
Impeccible dance-punk-math-pop-art-dance band who we listened to a lot and saw a few months ago but just didn't appreciate enough. Get hip and hear them play angular pop that twists and turns and never goes quite where you expected.

BEST LABEL
DC Records
http://www.dcrecordings.com/
Every disc DC release is amazing. We tapped in and have been reaping the glorious benefits. Go straight to The Oscillation, Emperor Machine, Kelpe, Arcadion and White Light Circus. Disco gone psych gone into space and back. Yes!

WATCH IT...
Your Twenties feature one of Metronomy and play jump beat, melodic and straight catchy c86 indie pop. Perfect way to start a mixtape for a girl, a sunny day or a trip into the city. Check their seven too! http://www.myspace.com/yourtwenties. Go see Tomb Crew who are pioneering parties wayyy into the next year, they play anything going and have a bunch of mixes online at http://www.myspace.com/tombcrew. Find An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump at http://www.myspace.com/anexperimentonabirdintheairpump and hear Bush Tetras style garage punk put together by three ladies with a whole lot of fuzzy riffs, feral drum beats and banshee howls.

Enjoy. Back soon!

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