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Thursday, 22 December 2011

CORPSEKISSER JANUARY 7th 2012 at KRAAK

Above is the poster for our first show of 2012

CORPSEKISSER are Ethan Swan (SILK FLOWERS, Barr, Car Clutch, Emergency) and Heather Anderson from New York City. Their debut album was released on Fred Thomas' (CITY CENTER , Saturday Looks Good To Me) Life Like Records. Listen to it in it's entirety HERE.
 

MARIA & THE MIRRORS are from London and have a 7" and a 12" on Parlour Records. 


IRMA VEP and NO WOMB also perform live.

There will be records played throughout the evening and also after the live entertainment has finished.

Advance tickets are available for £4 HERE 

Friday, 16 December 2011

C.O.A.T012 NISENNENMONDAI / WAITERS

The 2011th Year of our Lord began with WAITERS and NISENNENMONDAI playing together at BIJIN RECORD Festival in TOKYO, JAPAN



AND So it ends with the release of this long-awaited split 7". 




  C.O.A.T012 NISENNENMONDAI / WAITERS by BEATUNHAPPENING

NOW SHIPPING
order HERE

Sunday, 4 December 2011

Here is the artwork for 'Songs of Guilt' the forthcoming cassette album from IRMA VEP. 


















Featuring this:

And this:   Irma Vep - The Feeling Has Gone by GIANT HELL

and available to order soon

Sunday, 20 November 2011

THANK YOU

We would like to give thanks to everyone that played or came to celebrate our birthday party on Friday, we truly appreciate it.

If anybody has any photographs, video or audio recordings we would be very interested in looking at/ listening to them. 

The poster to the left is pretty self explanatory, WAITERS are playing at KRISTINA-----everyones favourite new record shop tomorrow.


LOVE ALWAYS

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18th 2011

by Lucy Jones

Seven years ago, to the day, the first Comfortable On A Tightrope happening took place with Simon Joyner, Enablers, Former Bullies and Land Ahoy!  
Since then there have been 90-something more including the debut Manchester performances of  Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti, Mika MIko, Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps, John Maus, Veronica Falls, Nite Jewel, Cass Mccombs, Grass Widow, Silk Flowers, Brilliant Colors, Finally Punk, Lexie Mountain Boys, Nisennenmondai, Gun Outfit, Women & Children, Animals & Men, La La Vasquez, Box Elders, Pheromoans, The Royal We, Thanksgiving, Chain & The Gang, Girls Names
and etc.

In celebration of this anniversary we are giving a party at
KRAAK GALLERY 11 Stevenson Square
with some of our very favourite bands:
THE BABIES are Cassie Ramone, Kevin Morby and Justin Sullivan from Brooklyn, New York City. They have an album on Dennis Callaci’s legendary Shrimper label and 7”s on Teenage Teardrops, Make-a-Mess, Wild World and LebensStrasse Records and a couple of tapes including ‘Live At The Smell’ on Kill/Hurt. That they deal in golden, shimmering, perfect pop songs will come as no surprise to fans of their other bands Woods and Vivian Girls.
Breaking the Law - the Babies LIVE at the Smell by killhurt

SEX HANDS are, variously, from North Wales and Runcorn. They are probably the only and definitely the best band ever to take the popular television show Friends as the jump-off for their songs. They have a record forthcoming on Icecapades.
  Parker by SEX HANDS

J COLLIN is one of our favourite guitar players in the world, his deep and spiritual nocturnes threaten perfection and are posessed of a purity akin to that of  Sonny Sharrock, Philip Cohran, Loren Connors et al. With Serfs,  The Whole Voyald, Vampire Blues and WV/IL, he has a multitude of releases on various labels including his own impeccable Winebox Press.
  Serfs - Love Scene (Jerry Garcia) by Cabin Floor Esoterica

DOLFINZ are Stonehaven, Aberdeenshires answer to Smith Westerns. Precocious and wholly unpretentious teenagers staying off the bong-hits just long enough to write the catchiest songs around before drenching them in reverb. Their first 7“ single is out now on Tuff Wax records.
  BLOWHOLE by DðlfinZ

FLOAT RIVERER
are Nick Mitchell and Kate Armitage, veterans of Hotpants Romance, Beach Fuzz, EYE HAI, A WAKE etc. Since releasing their debut self-titled album they’ve toured Europe twice and return just in time to play our birthday which one of them shares.


WAITERS chiming, abstract and emotive guitars and rudimentary drums can be heard on a cassette ‘Haters’, a split 7” with Former Bullies, and a couple of cd’s on  Bijin Record, the Tokyo-based label ran by Nisennenmondai with whom they share their most-recent and long-awaited record, the first copies of which will be available at this show.
  WAITERS- ANYWAY by BEATUNHAPPENING

FORMER BULLIES
are the closest thing we have to a house band. They played our first ever show and we hope  they’ll play our last. After a string of strung-out and sold-out tapes and shows with all of the best bands all over, they’ve just released their first Long-Playing vinyl record on C/F records of Belfast.There’s no-one else we’d entrust with the responsibility to get the party started.
Former Bullies - Black Cloud by CF Records

by David Bailey
by Cali Thornhill DeWitt









































































TICKETS HERE

THINGS WE SELL IN OUR SHOP- CLICK IMAGE TO GO THERE

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MUSEUMS compilation tape

MUSEUMS compilation tape
22 exclusive songs from Assassins 88, Beachniks, Dunes, Former Bullies, Girls Names, Golden Grrls, Irma Vep, La La Vasquez, Mazes, Nisennenmondai, Picastro, Piece War, Reading Rainbow, Rollin Hunt, Sad Horse, Sic Alps, Silk Flowers, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Veronica Falls, Waiters and Yellow Fever.

FORMER BULLIES- 'SEASONED'

FORMER BULLIES- 'SEASONED'
new 10 song album on green cassette tape with screen-printed cover

THE REALEST- VOLUME II ISSUE I: 'BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE' BY LUCY JONES

THE REALEST- VOLUME II ISSUE I: 'BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE' BY LUCY JONES
AMAZING pictorial essay on Radical but short lived Art Institute consisting of 13 portraits of Black Mountain College Alumni and Faculty

IRMA VEP- 'DYLANS BIRTHDAY PRESENT' TAPE

IRMA VEP- 'DYLANS BIRTHDAY PRESENT' TAPE
12 songs on Red cassette plus hand-written lyric sheet--- £5 free P&P ---Cover Design and Screen-printed by Lucy Jones with Gold Letraset Transfer

FORMER BULLIES- 'GREETINGS' 14-SONG DEBUT ALBUM

FORMER BULLIES- 'GREETINGS'  14-SONG DEBUT ALBUM
14 songs £5---100 different Screen-printed covers SOLD OUT

NATHANIEL- 'I COULD SOUND LIKE 1000' TAPE

NATHANIEL- 'I COULD SOUND LIKE 1000' TAPE
6 songs--- 5 different cover Designs by Warren Bateman---white cassette --£5 free P&P

WAITERS- 'HATERS' TAPE

WAITERS- 'HATERS' TAPE
5 songs- Every cover a different part of an original painting by LG---£5 free P&P

Comfortable on a Tightrope means

My Photo
1751--------------------------------------------- That year Diderot began to publish his Encyclopedia,--------- and the first insane asylum was founded in London.--------- So the counting out began, to separate the sane, who veil ----themselves in words,--------------------------------- from the insane,------------------------------------ who rip off feathers---------------------------------- from their bodies.------------------------------------ Poets had to learn tight-rope walking.-------------------- And to make sure, officious types began to publish instructions on how to be normal.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Miroslav Holub ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ L. Glenton & R L Perry are comfortable on a tightrope

This is a list of shows past. In reverse chronology

  • CORPSEKISSER + MARIA AND THE MIRRORS + NO WOMB + IRMA VEP + DJ's at KRAAK Saturday 7th January 2012
  • COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE 7th Birthday Party November 18th 2011 with THE BABIES, DOLFINZ, SEX HANDS, FLOAT RIVERER, FORMER BULLIES, WAITERS, J.COLLIN & MORE at KRAAK GALLERY
  • UT + GNOD + FLOAT RIVERER + NO WOMB---SOUP KITCHEN BASEMENT ----SEPTEMBER 27th 2011 (co-presented with TuffLIfe Boogie)
  • SIC ALPS, Former Bullies, MIlk Maid & Peace Signs August 23rd at THE CASTLE HOTEL (co-presented with Wot God Forgot)
  • GOLDEN GRRRLS, PALMS, SEX HANDS, FORMER BULLIES at SOUP KITCHEN BASEMENT SATURDAY 20th AUGUST 2011
  • MEDDICINE + ASSS August 9th 2011 at Bar Centro
  • Las Robertas & KELLIES at the DEAF INSTITUTE Wednesday 15th June
  • CHAIN & THE GANG & HARRY MERRY at THE DEAF INSTITUTE TUESDAY MAY 17th 2011
  • SONNY & THE SUNSETS + The Sensations in the basement of the DEAF INSTITUTE May 3rd 2011
  • SONNY SMITH 100 RECORDS at Islington Mill as part of SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY and for two weeks thereafter
  • COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE stage at SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY SUNDAY MAY 1st -----VERY SPECIAL THINGS----ANIMALS & MEN---VERONICA FALLS---SONNY & THE SUNSETS---IRMA VEP---FEEL RIGHT---GIRLS NAMES---GOLDEN GRRRLS
  • MI AMI + NO BABIES + more Tuesday 19th April at Islington Mill, James Street Salford (in collaboration with MIE MUSIC)
  • NODZZZ & THE MANTLES with WAITERS & HORSES MARCH 22nd 2011 at the DEAF INSTITUTE
  • THE BABIES + FORMER BULLIES + SEX HANDS March 20th 2011 at the CASTLE HOTEL, Oldham Street
  • TERROR BIRD & IRMA VEP MARCH 10th 2011 in the BASEMENT of the DEAF INSTITUTE
  • TRUMANS WATER & SEX HANDS & HORSES SUNDAY 12th DECEMBER 2010 at ISLINGTON MILL
  • VERONICA FALLS & CLOUD NOTHINGS & Former Bullies Tuesday 9th November 2010 THE DEAF INSTITUTE
  • NISENNENMONDAI + GUN OUTFIT + KLAUS KINSKI + WAITERS at SOUP KITCHEN MONDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2010
  • GUN OUTFIT + SEX HANDS + HYACINTH GIRL + FEEL RIGHT at TROF NQ Sunday 24th SEPTEMBER 2010
  • GRASS WIDOW AND TRASH KIT October 4th 2010 at Trof NQ
  • DIANE CLUCK with Anders Griffen + IRMA VEP + WIG SMITH SOUP KITCHEN SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25th 2010
  • SILK FLOWERS, WAITERS, NO WOMB at THE DEAF INSTITUTE WEDNESDAY 21st JULY 2010
  • D.I.Y D A Y at DEAF INSTITUTE w/ PLEASE, GOLDEN GRRRLS, MAZES, PRIZE PETS, HUMAN HAIR LIVE plus BBQ & zine stall Saturday 26th JUNE 2010 from 12-7pm
  • playing records at GOOD GRIEF group show opening at the ART CORNER wednesday June 16th
  • BRILLIANT COLORS & LA LA VASQUEZ & WAITERS & SEX HANDS more JUNE 13th 2010 at TROF NQ co-presented with Suffering Jukebox
  • SIC ALPS & DINNER PARTY & IRMA VEP & WAITERS at THE DEAF INSTITUTE MAY 13th
  • ZINE EXHIBITION with SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY + MUSEUMS + STOMACH PUMP ARCHIVE at ISLINGTON MILL MAY 7th-12th
  • SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY salford May 2nd 2010 with TALK NORMAL, WAY THROUGH, SEX HANDS, DINNER PARTY, NO WOMB, PHEROMOANS, WAITERS, CARTUNE XPREZ screening, MARIA & THE GAY, GIRL MOUNTAIN & HOTPANTS ROMANCE
  • BEAT UNHAPPENING playing records at MOUNT PLEASANT exhibition opening at Islington Mill Friday April 30th
  • LA LA VASQUEZ, GIRLS NAMES, FORMER BULLIES, WAITERS at Trof NQ March 31st 2010
  • MUSEUMS ZINE LAUNCH plus BEAUTIFUL LOSERS SCREENING, Matthias Conner reading GOOD GRIEF STALL, a CHARITY BAKESALE MONDAY 22nd MARCH 2010 at TROF Fallowfield FREE
  • ARIEL PINK's HAUNTED GRAFFITI, BOX ELDERS, RENT BOYS & EGYPTIAN HIP-HOP at the DEAF INSTITUTE DECEMBER 9th 2009
  • BOX ELDERS + MAZES + FORMER BULLIES at THE CORNER DECEMBER 4th 2009
  • FRANCOIS & ATLAS MOUNTAINS + ROZI PLAIN +CARTUNE XPRESS FILM SCREENING/PERFORMANCE NOVEMBER 24TH 2009 at ISLINGTON MILL
  • FOOT VILLAGE + SILK FLOWERS + KLAUS KINSKI live at THE CORNER, Wilmslow Rd, Fallowfield NOVEMBER 9th 200
  • JOHN MAUS live + Irma Vep + MRBLEKRSSSHER at TROF NQ Thomas St. October 27th 2009
  • SIC ALPS + FORMER BULLIES + Brown Brogues + Irma Vep October 14th 2009 at the Corner
  • NITE JEWEL + O Children + BEAT UNHAPPENING DJ's & more TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 29th at The Deaf Institute
  • TEEN SHEIKHS + Former Bullies + Waiters +WHOLE VOYALD INFINITE LIGHT September 18th 2009 @ Islington Mill + DJ's
  • TUNE-YARDS + IRMA VEP TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15th 2009 at TROF NQ
  • NISENNENMONDAI + MARNIE STERN + VERONICA FALLS + TARTUFI + WULF WULF FRIDAY 24th July 2009 at ISLINGTON MILL coproduction with LAMB & WOLF
  • FINALLY PUNK & the Sticks & BEAT UNHAPPENING DJ SET at DEERHOOF at NOW WAVE at the DEAF INSTITUTE MONDAY 29th June 2009
  • T.I.T.S & LA LA VASQUEZ & HOTPANTS ROMANCE & A WAKE at TROF, Thomas Street Northern Quarter Monday15th June 2009
  • DIANE CLUCK & MARY HAMPTON &SERFS at Beat Unhappening at the deaf institute Monday JUNE 8TH 2009
  • CRYPTACIZE & WULF WULF & FORMER BULLIES AT BEAT UNHAPPENING AT THE DEAF INSTITUTE with tears on the golfcourse MONDAY JUNE 1st 2009
  • BEAT UNHAPPENING DJ set at ARIEL PINK's HAUNTED GRAFFITI, MARNIE STERN, TIMES NEW VIKING show at FUTURESONIC at URBIS SATURDAY 16th MAY 200
  • COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE at SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY at SALFORD RESTORATION OFFICE with LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS & FORMER BULLIES & SIR YES SIR & FIRST TIME FLYER & LA LA VASQUEZ & TEEN SHEIKHS & BEAT UNHAPPENING & FRIENDS SUNDAY 3rd MAY 2009
  • TREMBLING BELLS & Ray Rumours & the No Eyed Deers & more at BEAT UNHAPPENING THURSDAY 16th APRIL THE DEAF INSTITUTE
  • 'WE ARE YOUNG AND WE ARE TRYING' zine launch party and exhibition at BEAT UNHAPPENING at THE DEAF INSTITUTE MONDAY 30th MARCH 2009 with FORMER BULLIES
  • BEAT UNHAPPENING II w/ VIC GODARD & SUBWAY SECT 26th February 2009 at the deaf institute
  • One night conceptual art show at 'START RUNNING' with a screening of J.O. Incandenza's 'THE JOKE' with live improvised score by J.Collin & more February 25th 2009 at Sand Bar
  • JACK LEWIS & the Fisherman Three +Former Bullies + Calum Plowright February 6th 2009 Demesne Road, Whalley Range for more information
  • MIKE BONES + Jon Collin January 29th 2009 at the deaf institute
  • CASS McCOMBS + UV RAYS + FORMER BULLIES + MIKE BONES November 17th 2008 at the deaf institute
  • HEAR HERE 2008 SIC ALPS + ANNI ROSSI + ROLLIN HUNT + more Oct 5th 2008 at islington mill + LOOK HERE an exhibition
  • THANKSGIVING +ROZI PLAIN + FORMER BULLIES Sept 20th 2008 at Klondyke Snooker, Bowls & Social Club
  • KELLEY STOLTZ + SEABEAR + GREAT GRAND SUNS Sept 9th 2008 at the deaf institute
  • KATH BLOOM August 24th @ ROWF ROWF ROWF@ islington mill
  • NISENNENMONDAI + hot bone + d/j/m trio July 30th 2008 at the deaf institute
  • DIANE CLUCK + young husband June 9th 2008 at the deaf institute
  • THEE OH SEES + MAY-MING + beach fuzz May 21st 2008 at the deaf institute
  • SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY - ROZI PLAIN & FRANCOIS + TALIBAM! + THOMAS SETTLE + NATHANIEL + SIR YES SIR + MATTHEW TAYLOR+ MAY-MING May 4th 2008 at salford restoration office
  • ANNI ROSSI + ROLLIN HUNT + matthew taylor + former bullies January 25th 2008 at the klonyke bowls, snooker and social club
  • SIMON JOYNER + lewis calvert + matthew taylor + petals on a wet black bough November 20th 2007 at trof
  • HEAR HERE- a festival- SIMON JOYNER + JULIE DOIRON + PICASTRO + REMEMBER REMEMBER + SERFS + FORMER BULLIES + NEIL BURRELL + BEACH FUZZ + NATHANIEL + SIR YES SIR + INNOCENTS ABROAD NOVEMBER 17TH 2007 at islington mill
  • DIANE CLUCK + BARRY BLISS + lewis calvert August 19th 2007 lewis calvert and barry bliss played in cafe saki, diane cluck played under a lamp-post in whitworth park
  • THE BLANKKET + A.F.JAMISON + former bullies July 5th 2007 in the basement of oklahoma
  • MIKA MIKO + NO AGE +June 24th 2007 at cafe saki
  • ANNI ROSSI June 9th 2007 in the basment of oklahoma
  • ADRIAN ORANGE & HER BAND + CARLA BOZULICH + ATLAS MOUNTAIN BAND + serfs June 5th 2007 at sacred trinity church
  • THE ROYAL WE + FORMER BULLIES January 11th 2007 at islington mill
  • ANNI ROSSI + ROLLIN HUNT + nathaniel + petals on a wet black bough December 9th 2006 at islington mill
  • DIANE CLUCK + nathaniel + skeletones August 5th 2006 at islington mill
  • THANKSGIVING + ATLAS MOUNTAIN ENSEMBLE June 26th 2006 at tiger lounge
  • ARIEL PINK + BELONG + magic arm June 13th 2006 at islington mill
  • JEFF & JACK LEWIS + former bullies April 15th 2006 at 30 withington road
  • CHRIS CORSANO + serfs + inigo ugarteburu December 17th 2005 at 30 withington road
  • MAYDAY + ORENDA FINK December 16th 2005 at retro bar
  • CRITERIA + THUNDERBIRDS ARE NOW! + THE FLESH + cornish tin mines December 4th 2005 in the basement of scubar
  • PICASTRO + DWAYNE SODAHBERK November 16th 2005 in the basement of scubar
  • WOMEN & CHILDREN + inigo ugarteburu + serfs October 29th 2005 in the basement of oklahoma
  • HANNE HUKKELBERG + inigo ugarteburu + former bullies October 28th 2005 at 14 lloyd street
  • PIT ER PAT + land ahoy! + neil burrell + apeshit September 11th 2005 at zumeba
  • CRITERIA + former bullies + nursing home July 11th 2005 at zumeba
  • FORMER BULLIES + nursing home + land ahoy! June 27th 2005 at zumeba
  • NURSING HOME + Neil Burrell June 20th 2005 at zumeba
  • LAND AHOY! + PRO FORMA June 13th 2005 at zumeba
  • MARIA TAYLOR + STATISTICS May 21st 2005 at zumeba
  • PICASTRO + bikini atoll + neil burrell + former bullies May 18th 2005 at the star and garter
  • MIA DOI TODD + neil burrell May 9th 2005 at zumeba
  • SON,AMBULANCE + former bullies + land ahoy! + neil burrell April 4th 2005 at the star and garter
  • SIMON JOYNER + ENABLERS + land ahoy!+ former bullies November 18th 2004 in the basement of scubar

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