Damnably Presents; Instruments/Stranger Son of WB/Lower Slaughter and Former Utopia

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Instruments(uk)
www.myspace.com/instrumentsmakemusic
"instruments make precise yet unconstrained math pop. These sounds are awash with jerky timings and impromptu closes but this never quite compromises instruments longing for the melodramatic pop song"

*****Best Unsigned Live Band 2008 - Playmusic Pick up Magazine*****

‘Don’t be surprised if they’re as recommended by the critics as Johnny Foreigner and Los Campesinos! in 2008.’ Drowned in Sound



Stranger Son of WB (Kum Ba Yah Records, Marquis Cha Cha)
www.myspace.com/strangersonofwb


2 drummer Manchester based exponents of Beefheart/The Fall fuelled improvisational magic. Favourites of Radio 6's Marc Riley and an entralling live act.They have 2 drummers too!



Lower Slaughter
www.myspace.com/johnnymosley
London's Arty Pomo NoWave Post Punk Alt 3 piece explode with beautiful noise invention and play matching white Fender Jags. The band features members of Huw Stephens favourites 'fantaplastic' and 'smallgang' and sound like Robert Wyatt crossed with the Swirlies. "Johnny is a sweatheart" Russ and the Wolf Choir

Former Utopia (damnably)
www.myspace.com/formerutopia


Former Utopia is as down to earth and utopian as Billy Bragg, as haunted as Bill Callahan, as prolific as The Mountain Goats, as furious as Shellac . He has the manic obsessive inventiveness of an atheist Daniel Johnston but balanced with the insight and height of George Orwell.

"Former Utopia fearlessly dissects all in his path metamorphosising personal tragedy and trauma into beautiful redemptive honest music" NME

"Like (smog) on holiday in Shellac " DIS

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