THE MEMBRANES + THE WOLFHOUNDS + MONKEY ISLAND

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Guided Missile presents .. DEATH TO TRAD ROCK #1
with ...

THE MEMBRANES
Last December, My Bloody Valentine convinced the influential eighties post-punk noisenik band fronted by John Robb to reform after some twenty years to play at All Tomorrow's Parties. This is a one-off show for anyone who didn't make it to the festival.
...Formed in 1977 and one of John Peel's favourite and most played bands of the 1980s, The Membranes played deliberately in your face, influential, discordant music that combined elements of punk rock, free jazz, blues, Beefheart and their own interest in bass science that saw Robb design and build his own lethally loud violin bass.
A ONE-OFF GIG from a legendary band NOT TO BE MISSED!

THE WOLFHOUNDS
The Wolfhounds were an indie rock band formed in 1985 by Dave Callahan, Paul Clark, Andy Golding, Andy Bolton and Frank Stebbing. They began as a slightly askew pop/rock band, and signed to the Pink label in 1986. First EP Cut The Cake was well enough received for the NME to include them on their C86 compilation. Later work saw the Wolfhounds' sound develop into a denser, less poppy sound. Second album proper Bright and Guilty was released in 1989. The sound progressed further with the albums Blown Away (also 1989) and Attitude (1990), which found them in Sonic Youth territory, interspersing raging guitars with elegant compositional exercises. This proved to be the final Wolfhounds release - the band splitting in early 1990.
Golding and Stebbing formed Crawl, Callahan hooked up with Margaret Fiedler (Ultra Vivid Scene) in MOONSHAKE.

MONKEY ISLAND
Brier twisting mire-wading siege survivors of fashion and fancy, gore splattered troubadours of beguiling bonecrushing ballads, angular Arquebusier's of outsider riffery... So, you wanna talk garage rock? Drawing on influences as far flung as 70's cod-rock, punk, English folk, sea shanties and miners hymns, imagine Bleach era Nirvana playing the blues with droplets of the bleakest, blackest comedy running down their spines. Equal parts frantic garage, malevolent hardcore and fractured, itch inducing instrumental fallout. Monkey Island have been called "Thee best live band in UK" by NME


Friday 5th November 2010
at The Lexington
96-98 Pentonville Road
Islington, London N1 9JB
020 7837 5371