David Bailey made a poster for our next show

which takes place on Monday 18th July 2011 at Bar Centro, Tib Street, Manchester. FELIX MULLER,  Rob Walmart and Cole Moldy all reside in Portland, Oregon - home of the record labels that combine to give a name to this tour: 'H as In' (ran by Felix) and 'Marriage' (the label set up by a 15-year-old Adrian Orange and the first label to release music by THANKSGIVING, Y▲CHT, LUCKY DRAGONS, tUnE-YaRdS, Rob Walmart and etc/ one of our own personal inspirations) and will each perform a set of their own as well as forming a band for Felix Muller- in fact don't be too surprised if they all play with each other.
Felix's songs occupy a space in our minds and hearts right next to THANKSGIVING/ Little Wings/ Microphones/ MT Eerie which is a special place indeed and we are very excited to welcome him for his first Manchester performance. If you can remember the first Manchester performance of any of those other guys you'll know this is going to be special.

David Bailey has an exhibition 'Flesh & Bone' at Common, a shop 'GOOD GRIEF!' at the Soup Kitchen, a new collaborative painting with Bryony Jackson in the 'Bright Tomorrow' Exhibition at the Art of Tea in Didsbury (where a Good Grief! concession is open for the summer months/duration of the exhibition) and has recently started a food blog.

COMING VERY SOON

'YOU HAVE REACHED... OUTER SPACE' by Neil Burrell. A Re-issue of a 9 song set recorded in Cambridge and Hove over the last couple of years. Occupying the same kind of (outer) space as the classic Jakob Olausson lp 'moonlight farm' but even more damaged. This is the wooziest, trip we've been on in a long time. Listening to it is like being in the Casa Batllo at night on some vintage C.1960's acid. The cover art is by David Bailey who, along with Lucy Jones , is prepping their first exhibition for a long time at Islington Mill in Salford. The exhibition opens Friday 30th April with a party at which we will be playing records. It runs through Sounds From The Other City.

The following Friday 7th May sees another exhibition opening in the same space of the Higgins family zine collection entitled 'STOMACH PUMP' as part of the launch of the excellent SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY

which will, for one day only, be installed in the Angel Centre in Salford between the two floors we're curating for Sounds From The Other City on May 2nd. Our line-up is 100% complete and totally gnarly. Upstairs we have a screening room which as well as hosting an exclusive show-reel of animations from CARTUNE XPREZ  will also feature performances from MARIA & the GAY, GIRL MOUNTAIN and NO WOMB.

Downstairs TALK NORMAL, PHEROMOANS, WAY THROUGH, HOTPANTS ROMANCE, DINNER PARTY, SEX HANDS , WAITERS & LEVERET all play live. If you don't have tickets yet we strongly recommend you get them soon because if you email or call us on the day we will not be able to help you out no matter how much we love you. Get them HERE.

Also May 7th WAITERS and DINNER PARTY will be playing at the DEAF INSTITUTE with these guys:

'Dylan's Birthday Present'

is the name of what will be our first ever audio release.

IRMA VEP 'DYLAN'S BIRTHDAY PRESENT'  is A C-55 of pure Rothko darkness and beauty, 12 songs/self-eviscerations recorded by the guy in the foreground of the above photograph* as a birthday present for the guy in the background (HAPPY BIRTHDAY DYLAN!)

Street date November 18th: five years to the day from our first ever show

PRE-ORDER now from HERE and get it before everyone else and to guarantee you get one 

(first run 50 copies)

Some guys that played that first ever show, and  also have a new tape for sale HERE have just made two videos with David Bailey on webcam duty:

'TAKE THE LEAD'

 

& 'THE GOLDEN ROAD'

Simon Joyner, the reason this whole thing started also has a new album out. It is called 'Out Into The Snow' and we recommend you buy that HERE where you can also buy a T-shirt designed by afore-mentioned video-director David Bailey.

 * taken by Adam Faulkner