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Clique Clack and Highsoc present...
QUACK QUACK
MARVIN
RAMPANT RABBIT
DUSTY BIBLE
Saturday 10th May , 8.30pm
Rose of England, Nottingham [map]
£4 / £3 highsoc

Quack Quack are a Leeds three piece who use keyboards, bass and drums to make slinky, poppy songs that will tickle your krautrock fancy. The band's members have been in more great rock bands than you could shake a stick at (Bilge Pump, Polaris, Chops, I Had An Inkling), yet Quack Quack is an entirely different, synth-driven beast. Like their similarly synthtastic and onomatopoeic comrades Kling Klang, the influence of krautrock giants such as Can, Neu! And Kraftwerk is evident in their sound; however, the simplicity of QQ's minimal set-up makes them an altogether more versatile force. Demonstrating a fine ear for a pop hook and an almost superhuman ability to marry warm, belly-rubbing basslines with expressive, groove-laden drumming, this is music for smiling and dancing. www.myspace.com/thisisquackquack

Marvin are Emilie, Fred and Greg, a guitar-drums-keyboards three piece from Montpellier , France . Marvin like to have fun, and want you to have some too. Eschewing the pretence and po-facedness that so often seems to come as part of the territory of DIY music, Marvin make blistering, noisy and truly joyful pop. Pounding drums and walloping riffs are offset by quirky, catchy analogue synth melodies, the result being something akin to a heavier Devo, the poppiest moments of Lightning Bolt or the tight, proggy silliness of Oxes or Trans Am. Vocals come in the form of simple refrains, chants and yelps, which seem somehow like the appropriate response to the primitive energy and joy generated by three musicians bouncing playful melodies and rhythms off each other. Throw in a bit of The Boredoms and Pere Ubu, and you'll start to understand the fun you'll have here. Put simply, this is part music for dancing to – and what's wrong with that? www.myspace.com/marvinband

Rampant Rabbit are a new band from Leeds , specialising in nasty bastard riffs, pounding drums and absurdist lyrics. Expect duelling basses, lyrics about ice road truckers, and leporidine* lunacy. www.myspace.com/rampantrabbitsafe

*of or pertaining to rabbits

You may well have already seen Dusty Bible plying his musical trade with Nottingham legends Designer Babies (RIP) - he was the stoic guitarist who seemed to acting as a receptacle for the spirit of Zoot Horn Rollo. On his rare solo outings, Mr Bible's downright bonkers tendencies as demonstrated in Designer Babies are replaced by a more grumbling Delta blues style a la Son House. Being Canadian, he can get away with it too.

PISSED JEANS
TROPICS
STOMACH
Tuesday 13th May, 8.30pm
The Maze, Nottingham [map]
£6 adv / £7 door [buy ticket]

PISSED JEANS
Hardcore quartet Pissed Jeans' rock is sourced in the early-80s loose-booty sludge of Flipper and Black Flag, the tightly wound treble-spray of late-80s/early-90s noise-rock such as Drunks With Guns and the Jesus Lizard. Whereas Drunks With Guns and Flipper often dealt with chemical-induced nihilism in their lyrics, Pissed Jeans rally against bad weather and sing about overeating to deal with emotions. They’re human. They will appeal to anyone who’s ever crapped their pants and can admit it. Having a sense of shame is critical in appreciation of shit like this.[Pissed Jeans at SubPop]

TROPICS
People from Bullet Union and An Emergency doing a Jehu / Unwound thing! [Tropics MySpace]

STOMACH
Man is the Bastard-esque Party Sludge! [Stomach MySpace]

Tickets available from Wegottickets (60p fee), Selectadisc (30p fee) and direct from us at gigs (no fee).

SCORCES
JEZ RILEY FRENCH POPPY SEED
Thursday 15th May, 8.30pm
The Chameleon, Nottingham [map]
£4 adv / £5 door [buy ticket]

Tickets available from Wegottickets (50p fee), Selectadisc (20p fee) and direct from us at gigs (no fee).

SCORCES
Over here and out there for their first ever UK tour. The duo of Christina Carter (Charalambides) on guitar/vocals and Heather Leigh Murray (Taurpis Tula) on pedal steel guitar/vocals make music that is heady, physical and timeless. Scorces stop the world spinning and portal the listener to places unknown, unkept and starless. Like Earth, Coil or Gyorgy Ligeti they make music of a certain elemental power... it can do these things. Scorces are kinda mythical actually. The two women are long-time friends and collaborators since cutting their debut CD in 1996. Their music is powerful and spellbinding, drawing the listener into their unique emotional and personal realms. Although recently caught moonlighting with Thurston Moore across the US, this will be the first Scorces full-length tour since 2003 when they played the now legendary, Matt Valentine-curated Brattleboro Free-Folk Fest in a quartet with Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano. Scorces were also featured in the original New Weird America article published in The Wire magazine, the infamous article that birthed the term 'free-folk' and highlighted Scorces alongside peers like MV&EE, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Dredd Foole, Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty and Six Organs of Admittance. Steering clear of the familiar rural/jazz/folk-picking/rock-ist reference points, instead Scorces go for broke, creating a deep listening, heavy and loaded sub-industrial dream sound that glistens and growls with brooding, wild energies rising into and outside of their compositions.

Christina (Charalambides) and Heather (Taurpis Tula) both have groundbreaking careers as solo artists and group musicians. Scorces is their own distinct project to create fully improvised music, veering from blissful/hissful, discordance to bloodied noise or full-on heavy psychedelics. Upcoming releases include LPs on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace and Heather Leigh Murray's own Volcanic Tongue label.

JEZ RILEY FRENCH
Throughout his career as an improvising musician, intuitive composer, field recordist and visual artist, Jez has created a body of work that both celebrates and challenges concepts of emotive response (in sound and image), naturally occurring music, hidden sonic architecture and the imposed definitions applied to the creative arts; especially those applied to the terms ‘music’ and ‘sound art’.His work combining subtle manipulation of string instruments alongside various objects and field recordings has been performed, exhibited and released in many countries including France, Japan, Austria, Germany, USA, Canada, the Czech Republic and Portugal. In recent years he has collaborated with and appeared alongside: Toshi Nakamura, Billy Roisz, Angharad Davies, Ivan Palacky, Lee Patterson, Otomo Yoshihide, Taku Unami, Rhodri Davies, Okkyung Lee, MusicForOne, Helena Gough, Martin Archer, Tatsuya Nakatami, Neil Davidson, Pamelia Kurstin, Noid, Ernesto Rodrigues, Patrick Farmer, Daniel Jones, Lau Nau, Evan Parker, KK Null, Leopard Leg, One Ensemble & many others. [Jez Riley French MySpace]

POPPY SEED
Ballet, diminutive canines, Elton John, one-eyed music teachers and jazz icons…it’s a freewheeling mishmash of brilliantly realised lo-fi thrills and spills that makes Nottingham-based art-folkers Poppy Seed such an exciting proposition. [Poppy Seed MySpace]

LICHENS
PATRICK FARMER & CHRIS SUMMERLIN GARETH HARDWICK
Thursday 22nd May, 8.30pm
Bunkers Hill, Nottingham [map]
£4 adv / £5 door [buy ticket]

Tickets available from Wegottickets (50p fee), Selectadisc (20p fee) and direct from us at gigs (no fee).

LICHENS
Lichens is the solo vehicle for Robert Lowe, who plays bass and sings in 90 Day Men. Lowe's finger picked acoustic guitar sounded like he’s spent time pondering Fahey's legacy, but his looped, wordless vocals were reminiscent of Meredith Monk. [Lichens at Kranky Records]

PATRICK FARMER & CHRIS SUMMERLIN
Drummer Patrick "Patch" Farmer is fast earning himself a reputation as one of the most respected and creative percussionists in the country right now. He has played with such varied folks as Dominic Lash, Christian Munthe, Jez Riley French, The Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra and the final line-up of Designer Babies as well as constantly turning out music on his own and as part of The Good Anna. He can alternate between playful, measured and inquisitive creation of sounds and huge waves of rhythmic drive that make him as entertaining to watch as he is to listen to. Guitarist Chris Summerlin is usually known for playing too loud in such rock bands as Lords, Wolves Of Greece and Reynolds. He has also played with Damo Suzuki, The Telescopes and Glenn Branca as well as making music on his own under the Last Of The Real Hardmen moniker. Patch and Chris have worked together in the past both as LOTRHM (most strangely opening up for Isis last year at their invitation) and with Chris occasionally joining The Good Anna for live work. The closest reference point for the music this pair make as a duo would be Jim White and Mick Turner's work outside the Dirty 3 as the Tren Brothers, albeit with the occasional slip into thick, fuzzed-up blow-outs.

GARETH HARDWICK
Nottingham-based musician Gareth Hardwick creates music that is at once rich and minimalist, dense and subtle. By manipulating the natural tones of his guitar with effects and loops he can deform and reshape the sounds generated by his instrument until you're no longer sure what you're hearing - an organ, a voice, or no recognisable instrument… Between abstract sounds, fragile and delicate melodies reveal themselves to you; finding yourself lost in intricate textures you are suddenly awoken by an absence of structure or sound, of something that one can hold on to. Gareth's main influences are drawn equally from the work of fellow ambient composers Stars of the Lid, Growing and Andrew Chalk and the minimalist rock of Bedhead and Codeine. Having played past shows with bands including Charalambides, Birchville Cat Motel, Peter Wright, Auto Da Fe and Hush Arbors, Gareth has just completed a 10 date European tour incorporating Belgium, France and Spain. Plans for the next year include releases in the US and Australia, as well as an album which promises to develop and explore his style yet further. [Gareth Hardwick MySpace]

MONOTONIX
LORDS
Sunday 1st June, 8.30pm
Rose of England, Nottingham [map]
£4 adv / £5 door [buy ticket]

MONOTONIX
We're fond of saying "if you only come to one DY show a year then come to this one' but this time we mean it. MONOTONIX from Tel Aviv are on the esteemed Drag City label out of the US but if you're thinking it's going to be some quiet, introverted singer songwriterness then think again. These guys possess giant rock balls the size of cars. Somewhere between Royal Trux and Thin Lizzy. [Monotonix MySpace]

They say a picture tells a thousand words so here are a few for you:

Everything on YouTube with these guys in it is mind boggling. Here are some:

Flaming drums: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUdpA-MgyZI

Destroying someone's house: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=8W6dBZlCOyA

Drum surfing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqgg5CmZI

We've deliberately booked this on a Sunday to further emphasise the need to pull a sicky once in a while and we're offering a special deal where anyone attending the gig can have a DY! representative call in to their boss on their behalf on the Monday morning. And you get LORDS too.

SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN

ZUNZUNEGUI

ENABLERS
Oh my! [Enablers MySpace]

UPCOMING (maybe)

other non Damn You! gigs coming up in the area you might like to go to: