The Windmill presents:
Spratleys Japs, The Stephen Evens Band, Black MiDi, The Display Team
Spratleys Japs + Stephen EvEns Band + Black Midi + The Display Team
Entry Requirements: 18+
THE BRIXTON HILL STUDIOS CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT 2017
Its that night of the year when our dear neighbours Brixton Hill Studios take over the pace and put on their fave bands.
Stagetimes:
7:30pm - The Display Team
8:15pm - Black Midi
9pm - The Stephen Evens Band
10pm - Spratley’s Japs
SPRATLEYS JAPS
As part of their Wonderful WInter Wonderland tour this enigmatic side project of Cardiac's Tim Smith have deemed the stage of our Christmas Carol Concert worthy.
A rare chance to catch this awesome band featuring original lead vocalist Joanne Spratley and a line up made up of loved ones close to both Tim & Jo. A tribute this ain't, a loving recreatiion, a second wave driven with love and devotion - hooray!
They'll play selections from the wonderful Pony record and the Hazel E.P. along with one or two special "treats".
https://www.facebook.com/spratleysjaps/
STEPHEN EVENS BAND
Stephen EvEns (aka Stephen Gilchrist) has mis-spent the good years gifted him by touring the world and elsewhere as an auxiliary cog in the machinery of major “indie-stardom”. A sideman. A player, if you will. A sticks-man, a foil perhaps but never a “session musician.”
No such thing. Look it up.
Lucky enough to have stood for some years behind the likes of Graham Coxon, The Damned, Charlotte Hatherley and, for one brief week, Cardiacs, he has decided to shun the tourbus life and take a walk through his own songbook for a change.
Putting down the drums sticks and arming himself with a battered guitar and a casiotone he decided to channel all his bitterness & resentment into songs rather than bottling it up. Breeding some kind of abnormal growth or canker. An album that took far too long to surface has now been coaxed out by the sympathetic ears of Onomatopoeia Records.
The result is the album Bonjour Poulet. A 43 minute song book that mixes the spirit of Yo La Tengo *and *Ivor Cutler with broken friendships and human error. The songs are beautiful and the words are horrible. I don't know why you don't think that's a good thing.
https://www.facebook.com/stephenevensmusic
https://stephenevens.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8DhiJjnkng
BLACK MIDI
Cronx teenage rampage.
https://www.facebook.com/BLACKMIDIMESS/
THE DISPLAY TEAM
Formerly known as Mumrah, The Display Team invite you to sample the wafer-thin mint of their after-dinner majesty:
Have you ever been beaten round the face by a choirboy? Or felt up by a clown? Have you ever had your feet tickled by Satan? No? Can you imagine what it might SOUND LIKE? No need! Here's The Display Team, London's premier exponents of music that does all of the above and a bunch of stuff you'd never have thought of. Formed in 2000, this six-piece has taken the best bits of Madness, Mad Caddies, Frank Zappa and The Beach Boys and done unspeakable things with them. The result is a heavy, yet gloriously melodic, upbeat yet extremely pessimistic punch in the brain. To borrow a term once used to describe underground heroes Cardiacs, The Display Team play what could be loosely-called pronk: progressive punk. They've taken their frenetic live show all over London, around England and beyond, picking up a demented legion of like-minders. This loyal following have lapped up the bands latest album, Drones, with some elevating it to the point of daily mantra. The Display Team don't want to scrounge off the state anymore. They want to record fantastic, EXCITING albums and tour wherever possible, inspiring some to dance, some to yelp and some to fall over.
Line Up
Spratleys Japs
Nominally a band, one which first wormed its way out into the light back in 1999, Spratleys Japs were one of the more enigmatic branches of the Cardiacs family.
They released only one album 'Pony' and an EP 'Hazel'. In the decade following the album release, there was occasional talk about taking Spratleys to the stage, none of which came to anything: Tim’s near-fatal stroke and heart attack in 2008 finally put paid even to the talk. What was left was the music and very interesting it was too. Half of Cardiacs’ songbook had always been weirdly Arcadian, yearning out and away from regimented urban suburbia into a half-imagined clotted English greenwood, full of growing things. Spratleys suggests what might have happened if Cardiacs had escaped there only to find out that it was a swamp, vegetation, trash and identity alike inexorably decaying into fertile sludge.
Jo is the only original Spratley left standing. Jo’s son Jesse Joe Cutts is backing her on bass guitar and remaining roles are filled by sundry Brighton multi-instrumentalists. Étienne Rodes of Clowwns, his brother Adrien Rodes and Damo Waters drummer for Field Music, British Sea Power and others.
Stephen EvEns Band
Stephen EvEns (aka Stephen Gilchrist) has mis-spent the good years gifted him by touring the world and elsewhere as an auxiliary cog in the machinery of major “indie-stardom”. A sideman. A player, if you will. A sticks-man, a foil perhaps but never a “session musician.”
No such thing. Look it up.
Lucky enough to have stood for some years behind the likes of Graham Coxon, The Damned, Charlotte Hatherley and, for one brief week, Cardiacs, he has decided to shun the tourbus life and take a walk through his own songbook for a change.
Putting down the drums sticks and arming himself with a battered guitar and a casiotone he decided to channel all his bitterness & resentment into songs rather than bottling it up. Breeding some kind of abnormal growth or canker. An album that took far too long to surface has now been coaxed out by the sympathetic ears of Onomatopoeia Records.
The result is the album Bonjour Poulet. A 43 minute song book that mixes the spirit of Yo La Tengo *and *Ivor Cutler with broken friendships and human error. The songs are beautiful and the words are horrible. I don't know why you don't think that's a good thing.
https://www.facebook.com/stephenevensmusic
https://stephenevens.bandcamp.com/
Black Midi
Purveyors of the LOUDEST dreamscapes.