The Windmill presents:
"Blue Temper Album Launch"
Meatraffle + Sasha & The Shades + Wild Fruit Art Collective + Hank Dog
Entry Requirements: 18+
Pat Lyons (aka Me = U) launches his Blue Temper album with the help of some friends.
Line Up
Meatraffle
Meatraffle are fine perveurs of - Death Ragga - Trapdoor Jazz - Speed Waltz - Erroneous Funk - Avant Pop - Bastard Musik - Pedestrian Bio Mekanicalrik - Gulag Baroque
"When Meatraffle first started, I used to say they were my favourite band as a joke. Now they actually are my favourite band." - Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family)
https://www.facebook.com/MEATRAFFLE/
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jpICYBHB7Hs
- Photo courtesy of 'Ravenous'
Sasha & The Shades
Sasha & The Shades are a four piece band fronted by Sasha Adamczewski on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, backed by Tom Julian Jones on lead guitar, harmonica and vocals, Sam Rutland on bass and vocals, and Jason Ribeiro on drums. Sasha’s powerful voice and mysterious demeanour command the attention of any room and lend themselves to incredibly atmospheric performances. The musicianship, strong backbeat and Texas twang of the band provide an energy that is sure to get any audience’s feet shuffling. Musically, Sasha & The Shades aren't easy to pigeonhole but at the heart of it is a convergence of blue-collar rock, blues, and punk music. The group takes influence from bands such as Dr Feel Good, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, The Ramones and Nick Curran & The Lowlifes. With their debut single and EP due in early 2018, they’re definitely an act to watch out for.
Wild Fruit Art Collective
Wild Fruit Art Collective set out to make every year less banal than the last. From early beginnings playing in Huddersfield with a hair metal band with wireless guitars on a stage about 5 feet wide, to recording sessions with Kristian Bell (The Wytches) and working on shows with Trashmouth Records (home to Fat White Family, Meatraffle, Madonnatron).
The everything in between involves touring around the UK spreading their brand of noisey, doom-laden cynicism while harvesting the minds of the pure. Whether its a gig outside John Lewis in Liverpool wearing McDonald's wrappers for masks or a half improvised set in a basement, dressed as posh tory ladies with a passing pirate who was persuaded to get on stage, Wild Fruit have done everything the hard way until their guitar player's lung collapsed...twice.
In the moments when the lung was healthy, Wild Fruit have played alongside The Wytches, Bo Ningen, Goat Girl, Madonnatron, Taman Shud and have performed several shows with the legendary Patrick Lyons on spoken word duties (famed for his "weirdest speech at NME awards" YouTube video) as well as festival slots at Sound City 2017 and the mainstage at WRONG fest 2017. The follow up to their fish-punching debut music video "Wishful" was released in March 2017, when they released their first single "Under The Hooves". With three new singles planned for release in early 2018, next year will certainly be less banal than this one.
The above exploits have led to a cult of people getting the Wild Fruit Art Collective logo tattooed to themselves for life. Here's what some of them had to say:
"Wild Fruit Art Collective could easily be taken for perverted aural sex freaks, which is exactly what they are. They sound like a group of belligerent punk monks who want you under their robes. Do not resist" - Madonnatron
"Wild Fruit Art Collective are a loose, musically anarchic band from Liverpool playing dark, slightly chaotic music. The band fill the venue they play with all encompassing sound. It is an immersive experience" - Louder Than War
"Four ket wigs and a pack of Carling" - Getintothis
"This would wreck your head if you were bongo'd" - Jamie's Dad
Band members: Jamie Robers (lead vocals, guitar), Ben Cowie (bass, backing vocals), Conor Jones (lead guitar), Jake Jones (drums).
Hank Dog
The male voice in The Hank Dogs, one of Britain's best loved acoustic country-folk ensembles, and the founder of The Easycome Club - London's running running alt.folk night - Andy Hank Dog is well known throughout London and beyond for his dark, dusty and twangy songs.
He also played bass briefly for The Sex Pistols.