The Windmill presents:
New Starts, Misha Chylkova, Sergeant Buzfuz, Extradition Order
Entry Requirements: 18+
New Starts are a spikey, fresh sounding band recalling the poppier ends of new wave and angular guitar rock. Their influences include The Cars, Breeders, Bay City Rollers, The Velvet Underground and ZZ Top.
Lead singer Darren Hayman has his own long career running from the late 90s with John Peel faves Hefner to his more recent thematic and historical albums dealing with the English Civil War, William Morris and forgotten rural idylls. “I wanted a band again,” says Hayman, “and not a band that just backed me up and played my old songs. When we form our first bands in our teens we just find some friends and work through the musical differences. I usually look for players who play in a way I’m used to. This time I looked for variance and was led by people’s personality.” New Starts first album, More Break Up Songs, is a collection of 12 Break Up songs because Darren broke up with someone. Again. “I suck’, he says, “But it’s never anyone’s fault. It makes me very sad but I do have to work through these things in song and there’s always something to learn. I try to make songs about breakups that could be understood by both parties. I’m not interested in nasty songs.”
...a “Czech Londoner”, currently based in Italy, released her debut album Dancing the Same Dance, featuring Darren Hayman (Hefner) and Ian Button (Death in Vegas), on Gare du Nord Records in November.. She has been played on BBC 6 Music, Cambridge Radio, Absolute Radio in the UK and has acquired a strong following in her now native Italy. Drawing inspiration from bands such as Low, Angel Olsen, Black Heart Procession and Suicide, she’s bringing her new Italian line-up to the UK to present her album.
Sergeant Buzfuz mix earworm melodies and punk energy with stories of everyday life. They've played three live sessions for Marc Riley and Tom Robinson on 6 Music. Other fans include writer Ian Rankin and 6 Music's Gideon Coe who played tracks from last album Fox Pop (2020) five times on his show. Buzfuz leader Joe Murphy founded the Blang record label (Jeffrey Lewis, Meatraffle, Thomas Truax, David Cronenberg's Wife, Brix & the Extricated, etc) in 2005. It grew from the monthly live nights he promoted at London's 12 Bar Club (RIP) which featured early shows from Jeffrey Lewis, Thomas Truax (first show outside USA), Emmy The Great (her debut gig), The Broken Family Band and The Wave Pictures and late-career shows from Television Personalities, John Otway and Sky Saxon. Blang is now run by five hopeless idealists with Joe running the Sheffield 'office' (his attic).
MARC RILEY, BBC6 Music: That is what, I do believe, you call a pop tune". IAN RANKIN: “It's mental - in a good way! Absolutely hooked on it.” TOM ROBINSON: “Absolutely brilliant”. Don't Hear a Single: “a workshop in great lyric writing…as a whole it is magnificent… these eleven songs will educate and amaze you whilst challenging your tastes…highly recommended”. The Punk Site: “always lyrically astute…eclectic, but if you want comparisons you’d be looking at a long list but you can start with The Byrds, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, Squeeze and The Levellers”. God is in the TV:. “the very English charm of a Syd Barrett solo album, and a host of melodies that recall the wistful observations of The Kinks or The Small Faces…. it all adds up to a very satisfying listen” Joyzine: “wrapping a fiery political core inside layers of charming, playful psychedelic folk-pop”
https://blangrecords.bandcamp.com/ https://blangrecords.com/portfolio/sergeant-buzfuz/
EXTRADITION ORDER Extradition Order are a London-based band that have produced five albums, including their American Century trilogy which constitutes three records on the lives, loves and times of the Kennedy family, J Robert Oppenheimer and, their latest album released this year, food writer MFK Fisher. They regularly host the cabaret-discussion night We’re Not Kids Anymore which combines historians, musicians, theatrical performance and novelists in a unique evening of adult entertainment. Their most recent show was at the British Library, featuring the band in a celebration of MFK Fisher's life, 'Oysters, Sex and Death'.
extraditionorder.co.uk extraditionorder.bandcamp.com