Domino Recording Co presents:
"DOMINO presents:" Sam Coomes (Quasi) + Fish + The Sweat
Sam Coomes (Quasi) + Fish + The Sweat
Entry Requirements: 18+
We've teamed up with the mighty Domino Records to present a great night of music. Indeed we're rather happy about that fact.
Topping the bill, from Portland, the cool one in Oregon, is Sam Coomes who after many years in bands such as Quasi and Heatmiser releases his debut solo album on Domino. We've plundered London for the best supports and come up with heavily topped FISH and The Sweat.
Line Up
Sam Coomes (Quasi)
Sam Coomes. is probably best known as half of the long running underground pop duo Quasi, the other half being Janet Weiss, herself better known as the drummer for Sleater-Kinney.
Quasi has managed to release nine or ten (depending on how you count) albums on such labels as Up, Domino, Touch and Go, Kill Rock Stars, and has toured all over the place for a couple decades or so. Concurrently Sam has toured &/or recorded with a number of other bands/artists, such as Built to Spill, Elliott Smith, Jandek & numerous other less recognized names, & also worked as a producer (with above mentioned Built to Spill, for instance), scored underground films & art installations, etc., etc.
In short, not a newcomer to the scene.
This all brings us on nicely to the issue at hand - Bugger Me, the first solo album under the given name “Sam Coomes” and released in the UK through Domino. It's probably quite accurate to call it Suicide meets the Beach Boys. Not the sophisticated Pet Sounds Beach Boys, but more like “Surfer Girl” type stuff. According to the man himself, "More conscious reference points were Chris Montez, or Timmy Thomas. The idea was to keep to a rigorously minimalist aesthetic, and balance classicist impulses with an overtly non-mainstream approach. The fact that Bugger Me is a murky, maybe even a little creepy sounding album is no accident. It is entertainment music, but entertainment music meant for those not served by more mainstream entertainment music. Maybe one might want to take a break from Sheer Hellish Miasma & enjoy some simple tunes that maybe speak to the same sense of the absurd, that likewise reject commercialism & market-based aesthetics, & even now & again pay a little homage to the raw synthesizer noise we have grown to love & even crave. Maybe timeworn themes such as love & war still resonate in the dusty backrooms of your mind (indeed maybe they are the only themes which do so)."
Fish
Silky feminine voice over a highly constructed musical ability to create an exceptional sound of music within the air. https://www.facebook.com/FISH4MUSIC https://soundcloud.com/fish-84/in-drought
The Sweat
Heavy Sweatin’ (link below) is the nine song debut recording from The Sweat. Scientifically proven to enhance your aural enjoyment, hand crafted lovingly from 45 years of recycled garage rock'n'roll material, 100% Organically grown in the legendary Homerton Sound Savers Studio.
https://thesweat1.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/TheSweatrocks/
