Comfortable On A Tightrope stage at Shebeen Festival 16/12/12

Above is the poster for SHEBEEN FESTIVAL by David Bailey, The poster we made for our stage at said festival, a video playlist we made containing music and video of most of the acts from our stage and the album artwork for our 'headliners' GOLDEN GRRRLS forthcoming debut album (made by Laetitia & Roxanne). Hits the shelves and the streets Feb 2013 via NIGHT SCHOOL and SLUMBERLAND and with a small cassette run on C.O.A.T. A Release is in the works too for EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS who'll be performing in Manchester for the first time!

BIRTHDAY TAPES MMXII explanatory notes

At the beginning of the MMXIIth Year of our Lord we started a new collaborative with our sweet-hearted friends GIANT HELL.
We called it BIRTHDAY TAPES, as it was to be in concert with the cosmos and zodiac-affiliated and but also because we wanted each object to feel like a gift, wrapped as they are specially commissioned ark work.
Essentially a 'singles' club with one split release per zodiacal month.
So in MMXII there will be contributions from 24 different bands /recording artists and 12 visual artists/ image makers/ illustrators.

You can listen to the 7 so far below.

The series can be subscribed to HERE or digitally HERE.

Alternatively individual releases can be purchased HERE or digitally HERE

There a still a few full subscriptions remaining, which, in addition to all 12 tapes, also include a hand-mae wooden box to keep them all in courtesy of WINEBOX PRESS as well as some other surprises  and printed matter.

If you have any questions please direct them to:
 birthdaytapes@gmail.com or comfortableonatightrope@gmail.com

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 

Help Night School Records to Help Japan

 Night School Records have released two of our favourite records so far this year (Beautifully screen-printed and hand-stamped 7"s by Golden Grrrls and Terror Bird) and are readying a tape compilation called 'APPEAL', the artwork of which is above. One Hundred Per Cent of the funds generated by the sale of the tape will go directly to helping those affected by the recent humanitarian disaster in Japan. We are honoured and delighted to contribute to this worthy and worthwhile project (via donating songs from WAITERS, IRMA VEP and FORMER BULLIES) and urge you to buy it immediately from HERE . Here is the  full and fully amazing tracklist:

S I D E  A 

1. 1.  B I T C H E S  -  JESUS SWEAT
2. 2.  H E A T S I C K  -  2010 DUB (APPEAL EDIT)
3. 3.  I R M A  V E P  -  THE FEELING HAS GONE
4. 4.  T R A S H  K I T -  TEENAGERS
5. 5.  H E L M  -  1221 2
6. 6.  S P I N  S P I N  T H E  D O G S  -  BED (ALT VERSION)
7. 7.  D I V O R C E  -  LOVE ATTACK (DEMO)
8. 8.  T H E  S H I T T Y  L I M I T S  -  TWICE AS FAST
9. 9.  G O L D E N  G R R R L S  -  DATE  IT
10. 10.  W O O L F  -  FISHING WITH LOLITA (DEMO)
11. 11. T E R R O R  B I R D  -  MAKE YOU SWEAT 
12. 12. M E D D I C I N E  -  TELL ME THE WORD
13. 13. W A I T E R S  -  STEPLADDER
14. 14. P H E R O M O A N S  -  ROBOTIC SON
15. 15. P L E A S E  -  CLOTHES
16. 16. T H E  H A X A N  C L O A K  -  INCANTATION
17. 17. M A R I A  M I N E R V A  -  WHERE DO YOU GO
18. 18. S K I T T E R  +  C O L I N  S T E W A R T  -  BOXBAND

S I D E  B

1. 1.  T R O G O N S  -  MAKE IT SO
2. 2.  P E E P H O L E S -  STEP ONE (DEMO)
3. 3.  H A R D  S K I N  -  SAUSAGE MAN (DEMO)
4. 4.  G I R L S  N A M E S  -  I DON’T MIND
5. 5.  D E S I G N  A  W A V E -  STRANGE FEELING 
6. 6.  W A Y  T H R O U G H  -  RUINED  ACRE
7. 7.  M U S H Y  -  FORGOTTEN HORIZONS
8. 8.  D I G N A N  P O R C H  -  DARKNESS (HOME DEMO)
9. 9.  R A Y O G R A P H S  -  SPACE OF THE HALLS
10. 10. W A R M  B R A I N S  -  MARBLE ARCH
11. 11. PETER  M  -  TERMINATE
12. 12. B E C O M I N G  R E A L  -  SOUTH LONDON CONGO 
13. 13. T H E  L O W E S T  F O R M  -  7.
14. 14. C L E C K H U D D E R S F A X  -  CLEX30
15. 15. F O R M E R  B U L L I E S  -  THINGS STAY THE SAME

15. 16.B I L L  K O U L I G A S -  UNTITLED

    17. J A C K  M A Z E S  -  AIN’T THAT ENOUGH

If you still want to do more to help those affected in Japan, all of the songs on WAITERS bandcamp  are now available on a 'pay-what-you-like' basis (including the 15-minutes recorded for and released at the Bijin Record Festival in Tokyo this January) and, again all of the proceeds will go directly to Japan.

Furthermore, BIG LOVE (our favourite record shop in the world), has organised an exhibition and made a charity zine to raise money too! you can buy it, along with special totes, keyrings, tapes and records HERE. Here's a couple of photos of the exhibition:

Remember, A Generous World Demands Generous Living.

COLOMBO is DOWN

A Do It Youself Thing from comfortableonatightrope on Vimeo.


And but maybe not as down as  Irma Vep , who while a hiatus from performing live, have just released two legitimately CLASSIC albums.

CALENDER SNAKES/ A SHIT JIGSAW (GIANT HELL )

is a collection of 12 songs that were not recorded for any other album and over its 40 minutes it runs the gamut from plaintive and sparsely arranged nocturnes to full-on full-band workouts as well as the usual outsider howl.The only constants  are the clarity, sincerity and intensity of the playing. It's like This Heat, Palace, Nisennenmondai, Cat Power, Jandek or whoever else used to be your favourite until you heard this. Seriously this is for YOU. You NEED this album.  includes a cover of Rollin Hunt's 'The Husband'. The cover art displayed above is one of 100 multi-layered silk-screen prints by Lucy Jones.


GOODBYE 33, HELLO PLASTIC FURNITURE (Icecapades )

 Was recorded with the assistance, equipment and expertise of Karl Sveinnson and contains the heaviest and most rocking Irma Vep songs we've had the good fortune to hear. Multi-tracked guitars (one locked in hypnotic grooves, one searing) and propulsive drums, chants and incantations. Another total mindblower.
Cover art by Miriam Avery. Ltd to 50 copies. buy it here.

Also we're down to the last few copies of the first run of 'Dylan's Birthday Present' (on blood red cassettes, cover silkscreened by Lucy Jones emblazoned with Gold Letraset-brand transfers with Lyric Sheet). If you didn't get one yet go here.

Irma Vep have a video

it runs slow by IRMA VEP

kicktheghost | MySpace Video

Ethan From SILK FLOWERS

made this awesome poster for their show next Monday at the Corner. 

The L train has made one too, but the scanner problems persist. It's one of our birthdays this week. If you are our friend you'll come to this show and help us celebrate! You can buy tickets by clicking on the listing on the right----->

Similarly, you can now buy tapes we've made by IRMA VEP, FORMER BULLIES, NATHANIEL & WAITERS by clicking on the photographs.

Here's a video of them and a couple of FOOT VILLAGE:

JOHN MAUS is coming to town

next tuesday and is playing at Trof on thomas st. JESS HIGGINS has made a beautiful poster to illustrate and publicise the fact. Here is a photograph of it (no-one has scan-capable at the mo):

As you can see IRMA VEP will be playing too and we might just have their tape ready by then- no promises though. Also ready on sunday is the new NATHANIEL tape 'I could be 1000' andFORMER BULLIES 14 song cassette album 'greetings'  for which Lucy and Nick made 100 different hand-screened covers, 4 of which are displayed below

and WAITERS tape 'HATERS' hot on all of their heels. All of these will be in the SHOP soon.

'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