The Thomas Family 'Dub Variations' Now Available

 

The Thomas Family

Dub Variations

2014

CVC001

 

Limited Edition of 100 CDs / Digital Download

 

I'm unbelievably proud to be able to announce the release of The Thomas Family's debut record, Dub Variations, through Crow Versus Crow. The record has been a long time coming, having been originally recorded in 2012, but still sounds as fresh to me as the day I first heard it - albeit more intricately composed, detailed and complex a record; it's good like that.

 

It's available to order in both formats via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp and also through Norman Records, who said of the record, '...Its as if you are lying in a hotel room in an industrial area of somewhere slightly scary feeling disorientated and lost and listening to sounds emanating from a nearby factory through a partially opened window. Strangely soothing'. and also at FUSE in Bradford, whilst stocks last.

 

Creative Calderdale 'Creative Profile' Q&A:

I recently had the pleasure of answering some questions posed by Creative Calderdale, regarding Crow Versus Crow, it's history, intentions, projects etc, ahead of the release of The Thomas Family's Dub Variations CD.

 I also made a photocollage specifically for the feature.

 It can all be seen here. 

Thanks to Katy and Creative Calderdale for the opportunity.

Stream an excerpt of 'III' from The Thomas Family's Dub Variations album here:

Pre-order the album from Bandcamp here

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #43

'There's mad potential in anonymity.'

For episode #43 Benbow returns with a selection of records, including new and unreleased tracks from releases on his own Horrible Injury label, to bolster selections from the records I've been listening to over the last couple of weeks between the recording of episodes. Demos, new releases, previews of soon-to-be-released records, remixes, tracks mined from the archives...independent / DIY vibesin'.

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 11th November 2012 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Runners - Tranquillity Base I (Galaxians / Runners 12" split / Stargaze)

2. Oren Ambarchi/Robin Fox - Trios (Connected / Kranky)

3. Abe - Daunt (Abe EP / Not on Label)

4. Flash G - Pearl (Snake in the Grass EP / Grizzaleng)

5. Umez - Airship (BBBlood / Umez / So I Buried Records)

6. BBBlood - Breathe in the Fumes (BBBlood / Umez / So I Buried Records) 

7. The Phantom - Connect the Dots (The Phantom EP / Senseless Records)

8. Ashtray Navigations - 2 (The Cream Wheel / Not on Label)

9. Ithaca Trio - Cortical Node (New Music from the Delta Quadrant / Hibernate Recordings)
10. Tindersticks - Trouble Every Day (Trouble Every Day OST / Beggars Banquet)

11. Slowcoaches - Tummy Bug (Tummy Bug / Not on Label)
12. Tuff Sherm / PMM - Lyre (The Pagan Cinema / Opal Tapes)

13. Mazes - Bodies (Hookworms Remix) (Bodies / Fat Cat Records)
14. Bardo Pond - The Crawl (Yntra (Latitudes) / Southern Records)#

15. Mister Mitch - Bethlem Royal (Mind Machine EP / Slit Jockey Records)
16. Bobby Womack - Jubilee (Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around) (The Bravest Man in the Universe / XL Recordings)

17. DJ Ford Foster - Gargoyle Track (Gargoyle / Primitive Dancer)
18. Matt Miles-Dixon - 2.50.2 (Passing by with Beer / Horrible Injury)

19.The Secret - Daily Lies (Agnus Dei / Southern Lord)
20. Wode - Last Days (Demo / Not on Label)

Thank You.

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #41

Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero, or some shit...

So, it's the 41st anniversary of the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show's birth and the weight of the encroaching end lies heavy on sallow, worn skin. We are balding, fallen and wise...r.

We are mixless and proud this week, with Benbow (Horrible Injury) joining the recording, presenting a selection of tracks to compliment/contrast/boost the credibility of my own selections.

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) between 6 and 8pm on Sunday 14th October 2012.

Tracklisting

1. Nisennenmondai - Itkyokune (Neji/Tori / Smalltown Supersound)

2. Forgets - Deliberately (And My Equal Vegetates for Her Boy / Not On Label)

3. Galaxians - Mermaids of Miami (Nighthammer Remix) (Unreleased / Not On Label)

4. Idea Shower - The Fool (Paradigm Shift / Not On Label)

5. The Pixies - (In Heaven) Lady in the Radiator Song (At the BBC / 4AD)

6. Rufige Kru - VIP Riders Ghost (The Origin) (Doc Scott / Rufige Kru - VIP Drumz / VIP Riders Ghost (The Origin) / Metalheadz)

7. Diddy & Benbow - Mod Night (Unreleased / Not On Label)

8. Abe - Drazz for Junks (Unreleased / Not On Label)

9. Pjaro - Need Parmesan (Unreleased / Not On Label)

10. MS30 - NDAR (excerpt) (NDAR / Idiosyncratics Records)

11. DJ Nate - Free (Da Trak Genius / Planet Mu)

12. Moloch - All Eyes Blinded (Moloch / Closure / Feast Of Tentacles)

13. Closure - Constant Pain (Moloch / Closure / Feast Of Tentacles)

14. John Shuttleworth - Excerpt from Seven Songs By Sunset (Self Released)

15. Barrington Levy - Here I Come (Barrington Levy's DJ Counteraction / Greensleeves)

16. Esoteric Youth - Cannis Pullus (Demo / Church of Fuck)

17. Woods of Desolation - Within a Crimson Tide (Sorh / Eisenwald Tonschmiede)

18. Miles Davis - Black Satin (On the Corner / CBS)

19. Skitz Beatz - Man in the Boot (John Halifax Refix) (Unreleased / Not On Label)

20. Offthesky & Man Watching The Stars - Star Crossed Through Empty Thick (Afar, Farewell / Rural Colours)
21. Rrose - White/Drip (Artificial Light (1969 - 1909) / Sandwell District)

22. Roll Deep - People Don't Know (In at the Deep End / Relentless Records)
23. C_C - So Devil (Retro Action / Bedroom Research)

Thank You.

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #34

Here is the thirty-fourth episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, once again made up of a selection of the highlights of the records spun on the Crow Versus Crow stereo/Walkman over the last couple of weeks since the recording of #33.

There are a selection of tracks taken from the free-to-download 'Afterburners Vol.2' compilation put out by the most excellent Bruised Tongue; a track taken from the second release by Manchester's Slumberjack Records, Richard Knight's 'Sinedie'; As-yet-unreleased tracks from People Eaters and Halifax's Harry Bercules; further explorations of Black Metal (particularly USBM) in the form of Mord, in and amongst other, for the most part, independent/DIY releases. 'This is our Punk Rock...'

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on Calderdale's 96.7 Phoenix FM on Sunday 8th July 2012 between 6 and 8pm.

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode please follow up and support the artist through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

Tracklisting:


1. An Introduction by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
2. Sky Pup – More Dots (Afterburners Vol.2 / Bruised Tongue)
3. Ceramic Hobs – Untitled (Oz Oz Alice 6 / Poot Records)

4. Ex-Easter Island Head – Mallet Guitars Two (Bootleg recording)

5. Richard Knight – Triangles (Sinedie / Slumberjack Records)
6. Richard Dawson – We Picked Apples In A Graveyard Freshly Mowed (The Magic Bridge / Pink Triangle)

7. Mord – In Nomine Sathanas (Imperium Magnum Infernalis / Non Compos Mentis)
8. People Eaters – Veikanikani (Unreleased)
9. Crowhurst – Claustrophobic In An Empty Room (Aghoree / Independent)

10. Clams Casino – The Fall (Original Mix) (Instrumental Mixtape 2 / Not On Label)
11. Mount Eerie – Over Dark Water (Clear Moon / P.W Elverum and Sun)

12. Toucans – Turn The Lights Down Low (Afterburners Vol.2 / Bruised Tongue)
13. Swollen Eyes – That’s What I Am (Afterburners Vol.2 / Bruised Tongue)

14. Serfs – Untitled (Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man / Poot Records)
15. The Flaming Lips With Lightning Bolt – I Want To Get Damaged But I Won’t Say Hi (The Flaming Lips With Lightning Bolt / Lovely Sorts Of Death, Warner Brothers)

16. Jason Parent – Second Movement Part 1 + Rough Part 2 (Afterburners Vol.2 / Bruised Tongue)
17. Chelsea Light Moving – Burroughs (Unreleased / TBC on Matador)

18. Ten – Adrift (East Of The Elm / Self Released)
19. Harry Bercules – Walken’s Pendulum (Soundcloud Release)

20. Kogumaza – Swang (Kogumaza / Low Point)
21. Smog – Driving (Supper / Drag City)

Thank You.

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #31

'Who the F*ck Is 'Bill Crosby', for a Start...!?'


Here is the 31st episode of the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, presented in glorious 192kbps technicolour, with a bit of a focus on the Fucking Amateurs label (tip of the iceberg, I reckon, though), a couple of tracks from upcoming releases on Hibernate Recordings (Wil Bolton, Caught In The Wake Forever), a small tribute to Robin Gibb, and an obligatory The Fall track, amongst many other noisy and/or quiet things.

If you are interested in the work of any of the artists included in this episode then please support them through buying their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 27th May 2012 between 6 and 8pm.


A List of Tracks Played, In The Order They Appeared.

1. Minor Threat - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone (Complete Discography/ Dischord)
2. William S. Burroughs talks about Writing and Art
3. The Unit Ama – Glass Like Water (The Unit Ama / Gringo Records)

4. Philadelphia Dave – The Probability of Life’s Construction (Fucking Amateurs 50 / Fucking Amateurs)
5. Netherlands – New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Soundcloud release)
6. The Fall – Mountain Energei (Country On The Click / Unreleased leaked version)

7. Johann Johannsson – They Being Dead Yet Speaketh (The Miner’s Hymns / Fat Cat)
8. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Dramatic Theme (A Manual Dexterity Soundtrack Volume 1 / Gold Standard Laboratories)

 9. Basilica – Blood Servant (Casual Curses [Ear Songs of Unfit Eyes] / Fucking Amateurs)
10. Richard Dawson – Her Bright Smile Still Haunts Me (Fucking Amateurs 50 / Fucking Amateurs)

11. Wil Bolton – Dissolve (Under A Name That Hides Her / Hibernate)
12. Charalambides – Wanted To Talk (Exile / Kranky)
13. Hangedup – Klang Klang (Clatter For Control / Constellation)

14. L’Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti – Sare Mobo (L’Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti / Kindred Spirits)

15. The Blind Piano Tuner – Beans (Fucking Amateurs 50 / Fucking Amateurs)
16. Warsaw – No Love Lost (Warsaw / Movieplay Gold)
17. Tide Of Iron – Bill Cosby (Sow EP / Shybairns Records)

18. The Long Lonesome Go – Potlatch (Chapel Day Trip / Bandcamp Release)
19. Mononoke – Windsor McClay (Issue #1 / Bandcamp Release)

20. John Frusciante – Life’s A Bath (Smile From The Streets You Hold / Birdman)
21. Caught In The Wake Forever – Western Medicine Failed Me (Against A Simple Wooden Cross / Hibernate)

22. Tim Hecker – Analog Paralysis, 1978 (Ravedeath, 1972 / Kranky)

Thank You

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #30

Big Songs for Big Lads (and Dead People)

Continuing on from the last episode, 'The Golden Age of the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show' is picking up pace in it's second episode presented by A Representative of Crow Versus Crow Industries, mixing olde and new and loud and quiet, all filtered through hopeless punk rock ideals.

This show is uploaded at 192kbps and, after a break of almost a year, is now available to download. The intention with the entire show is to promote the music that CVC is passionate about and believes in the merit of. If any artists/labels object to the availability of their track to download then please do not hesitate to get in touch.

If you are at all interested in any of the artists featured in this episode, please show your support and purchase their records and attend their live shows where possible.

This episode originally aired on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 13th May 2012 between 6 and 8pm.

Track List

1. Kurt Schwitters – Dritter Teil (Ursonate, WERGO)
2. Hookworms – Form and Function (Split 7” w/ Kogumaza, Gringo Records)
3. The Velvet Underground – Foggy Notion (VU, Verve)

4. Beastie Boys – Sure Shot (Ill Communication, Grand Royal)
5. Kiezos – Rumba 70 (Angola 60s: 1956 – 1970, Buda Musique)

6. Geraldo Mestre Morgado – Mini Saia (Angola 60s: 1956-1970, Buda Musique)
7. Sonic Youth – Silver Loop (Silver Sessions (for Jason Knuth), SYR)
8. Hiva Oa – Morning (Future Nostalgia for Sale, Mini50 Records)

9. B>E>A>K – Keehar (White Edition, Audacious Art Experiment)
10. Ganger – Missile That Backfired (Fore, Domino)

11. Doctors – Gold (Back To Rural Violence, Self Released)
12. Lungfish – You Did Not Exist (Indivisible, Dischord Records)
13. Richard Knox & Frederic D. Oberland – The Wreck of Hope (alternate ambient version) (The Rustle of the Stars (bonus DL track), Gizeh Records)

14. L’Orchestre Kanaga De Mopti – N’Do, N’Do (Kanaga de Mopti, Kindred Spirits)

15. Memphis Goons – Baby, Let’s Bathe in Tang (Teenage BBQ, Shangri-La Records)
16. BnP – In The Key Of Love (Welcome To Mediocrity, Self Released)

17. La Boite Diabolique – Dez Knows (A Lovely Box Of Chocolates, Strictly No Capital Letters and Eat A Book)
18. Greg Sage – Seems So Clear (Straight Ahead, Enigma Records)
19. Mudhoney – Good Enough (Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Sub Pop)
20. Endless Rope – David On The Guillotine (Demo 2012, Self Released)

21. AMERICANS – We Fear Post Rock (AMERICANS, Self Released)
22. Ex Models – That’s Funny, I Don’t Feel like A Shithead (Chrome Panthers, Troubleman Unlimited)

23. My Bloody Valentine – You Made Me Realise (EPs 1998 – 1991, Sony)

Thank You

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

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...

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.

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #26

Here is the 26th instalment of the Crow Versus Crow Lectures, mixless but proud. Post-Jeff Mangum's All Tomorrow's Parties, there is a strong ATP theme throughout this show, along with a range of eclectic tracks that have stuck themselves to ourselves over the last couple of weeks.

As always, if you are at all interested in any of the work featured in this show then please support the artists through purchasing their records and attending their live shows where possible.

This episode originally aired on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 18th March 2012 between 6 and 8pm.


A List Of Tracks Played, In The Order They Appeared During The Show:

1. Brion Gysin - I Am That I Am
2. Michio Yagi, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love - Bla By Bla
3. Talking Heads - I Zimbra
4. Mouse On Mars - Diskdusk
5. A-Sun Amissa - Arm In Arm To A Full Awakening
6. Tim Hecker - Spring Heeled Jack Flies Tonight
7. A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen - Molasses For The Masses
8. Andy Boay - Big Chestined Nights
9. Half Japanese - Tn Tn Tn Tn Ki
10. The Magnetic Fields - When You're Old And Lonely
11. The Angels Of Light - Micheal's White Hands
12. The Haxan Cloak - Disorder
13. Lamp - Shutter
14. Nitkowski - Strike The Last Flare (Live)
15. Kogumaza - Swang
16. Forest Swords - Hoylake Mists
17. Sun Ra & His Astro-Galactix Infinity Arkestra - Enlightenment

Thank You

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...

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #24

'Music doesn't exist on its own. Anything that we call new music, or whatever is popular this week or this month or this year, is obviously the product of a bunch of lesser-known musicians falling away who weren't paid attention to. It's a rich and long history'

We return, once again mix-less, filling just shy of two hours with music that has stuck to us over the couple of weeks since the recording of the previous show.

This show originally aired on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 19th February 2012 between 6 and 8pm. If you are at all interested in any of the work you hear within this show then please support the artist and purchase their records and attend their live shows where possible.

Track Listing

1. Julia Holter - Try To Make Yourself A Work Of Art

2. Balam Acab - Dream Out

3. Bang On A Can All-Stars - Breakfast At J&M

4. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - I Am A Snail, And You Are A Place I Cannot Match

5. Wipers - The Lonely One

6. Tenniscoats - Hikoki

7. Coate - Everybody!

8. Jasper TX - All I Could Ever Be

9. Los Llamerada - Second Stranger

10. Closure - Jim's Round

11. Broken Shoulder - Organomegaly

12. Ben Kweller - BK Baby

13. Cave - Drum Like Devil

14. PJ Harvey - Reeling

15. Ox Scapula - Half Circle

16. Caretaker - I Have Become Almost Invisible, To Some Extent Like A Dead Man

17. Dirty Three - Rising Below

18. Fugazi - Promises

19. Maths - Belief In Hope

20. Plebeian Grandstand - Don't Expect Much From The World's End

Thank You

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #17

'...Scandinavian Languages...'

After a short break that has stretched on far too long, we are incredibly pleased to once again present the most recent installment of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show in full stereo sound. This week's show features an exclusive Crow Versus Crow Mix courtesy of London's Imaginary Forces.

If you are interested in any of the music you hear in this podcast, please support the artist(s) through buying their records and/or attending their live shows where possible.

Recorded live on 96.7 Phoenix FM on Sunday 30th October 2011, between 6 and 8pm.



Track Listing.

1. An excerpt from an interview with Steve Albini.

2. Retox - Piss Elegant

3. Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells - Man of the Cloth

4. Ghedalia Tazartes - Transports 1
5. Slowdive - Golden Hair
6. Hapsburg Braganza - Lion
7. Young James Long - Her Jammies
8. Caretaker - Impasse
9. Crash of Rhinos - Lifewood
10. Palehorse - Shit Columbo
11. Imaginary Forces Mix:
      J G Ballard (Interview Collage)

      Richard Devine - Route Increment

      John Wiese - Mystical Finland

      Alva Noto - Y=1,6,18,54

      Angel - Dark Matter Leak

      Relay For Death - Birth of an Older, Much More Ugly Christ (Side A)

      William S Burroughs - Wonderful Copenhagen
      Morton Subotnick - The Last Dream of the Beast
      Mauricio Kagel - Acustica (Third Part)
      Pan Sonic - Rähinä I
      Kevin Drumm & Prurient - First Memory of Pain
      Ivo Malec - Spot
      Dalglish - Sdss

      Ennio Morricone - Humanity (Part II)

      Jaap Vink - Screen
      Iannis Xenakis - La Légende d'Eer

12. Tom Waits - Kiss Me

13. Alemayehu Eshete - Mekeyershin Salawq

14. The Truth About Frank - A Butterfly Mind

15. This Heat - Paper Hats

16. Womack & Womack - Teardrops

17. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Ashtray Heart

18. Aethenor - Vivarium

19. Diskreet - Faust

20. Misfits - All Hell Breaks Loose

21. The Mars Volta - Eunuch Provocateur

Hapsburg Braganza's Blogspot Site

Caretaker's Bandcamp

Crash of Rhinos' Website

Palehorse's Tumblr Site

Imaginary Forces' Website

The Truth About Frank's Myspace Page

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

 

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

 

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

Crow Versus Crow presents...#8

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.

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.

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...

Thee Cuss Words

Juffage

Silent Front

All images © Hannah Cordingly