Crow Versus Crow: Bar Up

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Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Crow Versus Crow presents... JUFFAGE | GIGANTES | MAHOGANY HAND GLIDER

*POSTPONED* We've had to postpone this gig until later on in the year. It may be as soon as June, but, whenever it will be, IT WILL BE.

Crow Versus Crow presents...

JUFFAGE | GIGANTES | MAHOGANY HAND GLIDER

~~Saturday 19th May 2012~~

Bar Up

Halifax

8pm

£4

Sunday, 1 April 2012

Crow Versus Crow presents... SILENT FRONT | EYES | WILD WIZARDS

Crow Versus Crow presents...

SILENT FRONT | EYES | WILD WIZARDS

Sunday 8th April 2012

Bar Up, Halifax

Doors 8pm

Free Entry/Donations

We're more than a little happy to be able to present SILENT FRONT once again at Bar Up. Joining us for the last leg of their tour with Love Among The Mannequins, albeit LATM-less for this final date of the tour unfortunately (Blame a combination of skiing and competitions...), they will be joined by Liverpool's EYES and a post-Thee Cuss Words WILD WIZARDS, who will be playing their first ever live set...

SILENT FRONT

Website
Bandcamp
Facebook

EYES

Facebook
Soundcloud

WILD WIZARDS

Here is the Facebook Event Page for the gig. Please tell your friends and spread the good word!

It is free entry, although donations are gladly taken, with all proceeds going directly to the bands. Please come and support DIY music in the arsehole of the world...

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Lubricated with Tea, The Production Line Rolls On...

Crow Versus Crow presents... A-Sun Amissa | Ten | Trouble With Books

Friday 23rd March 2012

Bar Up, Halifax

Doors 8.00pm

£4/£3 conc/adv

A single edition of 30 zine/3" CDR splits will be available at this gig, featuring Crow Versus Crow and Sean Wars artwork, A-Sun Amissa remixing a Ten track, Ten remixing an A-Sun Amissa track and a live Trouble With Books track.

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Crow Versus Crow presents...A-Sun Amissa | TEN | Trouble With Books

Crow Versus Crow presents...

A-Sun Amissa | TEN | Trouble With Books

Friday 23rd March 2012

Bar Up, Halifax

Doors 8pm

£4 otd / £3 concs/adv

We're very pleased to have been asked to set up a gig in Halifax for A-Sun-Amissa, ahead of the release of their Desperate In Her Heavy Sleep record on Gizeh Records. They will be joined by fellow Leedsers TEN, whom we've been unsuccessfully trying to set up a gig for, for what is now far, far too long. Trouble With Books, who came to our attention via the brilliant Don't Drop The Dumbells project, will complete the line-up.

Sonically, the night is at the opposite end of the noise-scale to the previous night we held at Bar Up, but that sits just nicely with us...sound is sound after all, and all... and as lovers of live music and residents of Halifax(ish) we're incredibly excited about seeing music of this kind and quality in our home town.

There will be an A5 zine/3"CDr made specially for, and available only at, this gig, featuring Crow Versus Crow visual art work, an illustration by Sean Wars of Trouble With Books, a live recording by Trouble With Books and A-Sun Amissa and Ten remixing a track of each others. It has been printed by Footprints of Leeds, and is being sold at cost price. (Photographs to follow...)

This gig is set up on the same principle, and for the same reasons, as all previous Crow Versus Crow events at Bar Up - entry fee is as little as possible (£4 on the door, unless you are unemployed or can't afford the full amount for socio-economic reasons in which case it is £3...unless that's too much, then just come along and ask us and we'll work something out. £3 advance e-tickets are available here). All money taken on the door will be split between the bands, without Crow Versus Crow taking anything.

A-Sun Amissa

TEN

Winter Light by Ten LIVE from Boo Said the Goose on Vimeo.

Trouble With Books

FFO: A Silver Mt. Zion, Constellation Records, Keith Fullerton-Whitman, Avro Part, Hibernate Records, field recordings, quiet things, heavy things, sad things, pretty things, melancholy and punk rock...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Crow Versus Crow presents... #8

Crow Versus Crow presents...

Palehorse | Nitkowski | False Flags | Super Luxury

Thursday 27th October 2011

Bar Up, Halifax

Super Luxury

False Flags

Nitkowski

Palehorse

Photographs © Kane Rattray

Thank you.

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Crow Versus Crow presents... #8

We are unbelievably pleased that what will be our last Crow Versus Crow presents... night at Bar Up for the foreseeable future will include two of our favourite UK bands, London's Nitkowski and Palehorse, as part of their joint Crushing Inevitability tour. Joining them on the night will be False Flags and Super Luxury, two Leeds-based bands that, judging from the bands' respective demo's that are circling the interweb, will ensure the night is an absolute banger.

Palehorse.

Palehorse

Shit Columbo

'Soft as Butter, Hard as Ice'

(2011)

Mixing elements of grindcore, hardcore, post-rock, noise, sludge and handclaps (YUP!) into a cohesive, groove heavy sound, Palehorse are a 5 piece, dual bass, dual vocalled monster!

http://www.palewhores.tumblr.com

Nitkowski

Strike the Last Flare

'Stay in the Home You Love'

(2011)

Incredibly intricate and complex song structures that combine elements of contemporary hardcore, math- and noise-rock, and dual 'spoken/bellowed' vocals that span the trajectory between The Fall and Botch. A new album, Stay in the Home You Love, is to be released on Function Records, and the word on the street (or, the Function newsletter) is that copies will be available to grab at the dates on this tour.

http://www.nitkowski.net

False Flags

Namedropper (live)

Unreleased

(2011)

I, along with an army of others I don't doubt, am eagerly awaiting the first release from Leeds' False Flags. Real heavy slabs of hardcore in the vein of Botch. The Bar Up date falls in the middle of a set of really important support slots, playing with the likes of ENVY and Take a Worm for a Walk Week.

http://falseflags.bandcamp.com/

Super Luxury

Milk Sauce by Super Luxury

Super Luxury
Milk Sauce
Unreleased
(2011)

As of yet, Super Luxury have yet to play live. They're due to play at this year's Brainwash Festival in Leeds, and have a string of dates lined up around the Bar Up date. They're three dudes and a greasy drum machine kickin' out lo-fi stadium rock, with a kind of garagey, Big Black sound.

http://superluxuryofficial.blogspot.com/

As always with Crow Versus Crow events, we don't take any cut from the money made on the door (or from the bar, or from anyone else, for that matter!) and all the money will be split between the bands, after we have recovered printing costs, rider etc. If we could have free entry on the night we would do, but touring is expensive and bands have costs to cover, so we simply can't. In a town the size of Halifax, with no established music scene as such, it is difficult for bars to have to confidence to pay the bands upfront and hope to recover that cost, and profit, through drink sale - which we completely understand. So, we are charging as little as possible, and attempting to minimise the dents to our personal bank accounts, and not rip people off. £4 for 4 awesome bands seems fair to us.

Thanks for reading this, and we hope to see you down on the 27th. Come say 'Hello'!

Facebook Event Page

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Crow Versus Crow presents...#8

Monday, 12 September 2011

Crow Versus Crow presents UNITED FRUIT | THEE CUSS WORDS | HORSES | Bar Up, Halifax | 10th September 2011

Image credit: Andrew Wild

A massive thank you to everybody involved in making this night what it was; to all the people who came down to support Crow Versus Crow, the bands and DIY music in Halifax - we're seriously grateful to you all; to everyone at Bar Up; to Horses for their Stapleton tee (Matt), incredibly powerful moustache (Adam) and all round good vibes; to Thee Cuss Words for their superior taste in Post-Trousers Polaroid Photographs and all round good vibes; and to United Fruit for being super, super nice guys, playing a cracking set involving a dismantled drum kit and 10+ drummers and all round good vibes.

United Fruit were filming throughout the night, compiling tour footage towards a documentary, erm, documenting to realities of DIY touring, so hopefully one or two pretty Fax faces will make an appearance.

...excellent vibes.

Thursday, 1 September 2011

UNITED FRUIT | THEE CUSS WORDS | HORSES, Bar Up, Halifax, 10/09/11

Just a quick reminder that the UNITED FRUIT | THEE CUSS WORDS | HORSES gig at Bar Up, Halifax is just shy of a week away - taking place on Saturday 10th September. It's a snip at £4 on the door, with all the proceeds going straight to the bands once we've recovered our meagre expenses (printing costs, sound guy, rider).

Here's a live clip of Horses playing one of their Billy Childish-ish, archetypal pop tunes, 'Kill Me Now' earlier this year...

...and part of the Cuss Words song, 'Fascinator' recorded live at The Harley in Sheffield...

...and finally, United Fruit's big rock, early Manics meets Sonic Youth vibes 'Kamikaze'...

...to whet one's whistle.

Here's the Facebook Event page

Monday, 15 August 2011

Works in Progress

Untitled
(2011)
digital collage

Working towards a body of work which will form part of the installation at Bar Up on the night of the UNITED FRUIT | THEE CUSS WORDS | HORSES gig on Saturday 10th September, here are a couple of sneak peak works in progress.

Thursday, 21 July 2011

Crow Versus Crow presents... #7

Crow Versus Crow presents...

United Fruit | Thee Cuss Words | Horses

Saturday 10th September 2011

Crow Versus Crow are very proud to present, for the seventh in the '...presents...' series of events at Bar Up, HORSES, THEE CUSS WORDS and UNITED FRUIT.

Horses.

Fuzzed-out, no-guff rock'n'roll in the vein of Japanther, Coachwhips, Thee Oh Sees, Spector's early Crystals/Ronettes hits, yadda, yadda, yadda...

Darryl Peat EP was released on cassette by Manchester label Bright // Tomorrow earlier this year (BUY IT!). A digital version of the EP is being given away for free here.

Thee Cuss Words.

You know the score...

photograph: Hannah Cordingly

Thee Cuss Words - Fascinator by Anthonygdli

United Fruit.

Peddling discordant, melodic, BIG rawk that smells a bit like Shellac, Mcklusky, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Sonic Youth... Glasgow's United Fruit join us on their second stint spreading the good word about the band's debut, self-released, album Fault Lines. Listen and purchase here.

Along with awesome bands, you can expect CVC visuals and music continuing until 2am. Trains run towards both Manchester and Leeds until way past the live music curfew (11pm), so there isn't an excuse not to come. Not one! All proceeds from the night will go directly to the bands, and as always we've made the fee on the door as cheap as we possibly can, whilst hoping to cover our expenses. Come support a developing DIY live music scene - a gosh darn good cause, if ever I heard of one.

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Crow Versus Crow presents... #5

Crow Versus Crow presents...
SILENT FRONT | JUFFAGE | THEE CUSS WORDS

Bar Up, Halifax | Saturday 4th June 2011

A massive 'Thank You' to everyone involved in making this happen; to Thee Cuss Words, Juffage and Silent Front, who are all swell fella's; to everyone at Bar Up, Jules, Neil et al; to Tom and Martyn for making sound audible in a most excellent fashion; to everyone who came down and made the night a ball; and last, but by neigh way least, Hannah Cordingly for these most honourable photographic documents...