Eat Your Own Ears presents
VON SUDENFED (Featuring Mark E Smith of The Fall and Mouse On Mars)
XX TEENS
CHROME HOOF
FOUR TET DJ SET
DJ SKREAM
plus guests

Thursday 18 October
Doors 7.30pm

Heaven
Under The Arches, Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6NG
020 7930 2020
www.heaven-london.com

Tickets £17.50

www.myspace.com/vonsudenfed

Who are Von Sudenfed? For starters they’re a trio formed by Andi Toma, Mark E Smith and Jan St Werner. But depending who you ask and how, they’re a sound-system, a family, a band. They’re all these things and more, as Jan himself explains: ‘We wanted the album to have the energy we would imagine a hybrid band – a futuristic band playing grime or ska or soca like a pirate radio station – to have.’

With Von Sudenfed, the word ‘group’ is inadequate. This isn’t a standard set-up with Musician A on Instrument A and Musician B on Instrument B. The riffs and rhythms come together from so many different places, with synths, samplers and sequencers all firing off. It’s not a band: it’s a free-flowing collectivist dance generator – a futurist sound system

Mark E Smith has led The Fall through more than 25 studio albums since their formation in Manchester 31 years ago. His lyrics, delivery, song-writing and attitude have had an incalculable influence on punk, post-punk and as many of their close relations and off-shoots as you care to think of, with artists from Wu Tang’s RZA, to LCD Soundsystem, DJ Shadow, and Pavement all acknowledged fans.

Jan St Werner and Andi Toma are best known for their work together as Mouse on Mars, debuting in 1994 with Vulvaland. On albums like Niun Niggung (their first for Domino), Idiology and Radical Connector they’ve gone on to perfect a signature sound which blends the lateral improvisational moves of jazz with the abstract complexities of electronica and the directness of acoustic instrumentation.

Mark E Smith hits the dancefloor – Independent

Might be even more fun than The Fall’s latest opus – The Observer

The one thing no one could have predicted about Tromatic Reflexxions was just how much fun it would turn out to be…….every track contains something to surprise and delight – OMM

Suggests some rough and ready sound system banging out electro, dancehall, soca and grime, with Smith as the surreal and belligerent master of ceremonies…..satisfyingly adventurous – The Guardian

The kind of exploration of space and motivation that the dance-punk scene is supposed to be about – Uncut

XX Teens (previously Xerox Teens until a certain photocopier manufacturer had a word!) tonight showcase the band's frenzied punk-funk guitars and steel drums assault into a driving electro rock-fest. Expect a night of strange psychedelia before being propelled into the ether by the Teen’s mighty kick drum.

As the progenitor of a red-eyed blaze of dubstep fury, DJ Skream will add to the evening’s furore.
 

Plus special guests
 

ENDS

VON SUDENFED (Featuring Mark E Smith of The Fall and Mouse On Mars)
plus special guests

Thursday 18 October
Doors 7.30pm

Heaven
Under The Arches, Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6NG
020 7930 2020
www.heaven-london.com

Tickets £17.50

www.myspace.com/vonsudenfed

Who are Von Sudenfed? For starters they're a trio formed by Andi Toma, Mark E Smith and Jan St Werner. But depending who you ask and how, they're a sound-system, a family, a band. They're all these things and more, as Jan himself explains: ‘We wanted the album to have the energy we would imagine a hybrid band – a futuristic band playing grime or ska or soca like a pirate radio station – to have.'

With Von Sudenfed, the word ‘group' is inadequate. This isn't a standard set-up with Musician A on Instrument A and Musician B on Instrument B. The riffs and rhythms come together from so many different places, with synths, samplers and sequencers all firing off. It's not a band: it's a free-flowing collectivist dance generator – a futurist sound system

Mark E Smith has led The Fall through more than 25 studio albums since their formation in Manchester 31 years ago. His lyrics, delivery, song-writing and attitude have had an incalculable influence on punk, post-punk and as many of their close relations and off-shoots as you care to think of, with artists from Wu Tang's RZA, to LCD Soundsystem, DJ Shadow, and Pavement all acknowledged fans.

Jan St Werner and Andi Toma are best known for their work together as Mouse on Mars, debuting in 1994 with Vulvaland. On albums like Niun Niggung (their first for Domino), Idiology and Radical Connector they've gone on to perfect a signature sound which blends the lateral improvisational moves of jazz with the abstract complexities of electronica and the directness of acoustic instrumentation.

Mark E Smith hits the dancefloor – Independent

Might be even more fun than The Fall's latest opus – The Observer

The one thing no one could have predicted about Tromatic Reflexxions was just how much fun it would turn out to be…….every track contains something to surprise and delight – OMM

Suggests some rough and ready sound system banging out electro, dancehall, soca and grime, with Smith as the surreal and belligerent master of ceremonies…..satisfyingly adventurous – The Guardian

The kind of exploration of space and motivation that the dance-punk scene is supposed to be about – Uncut

Plus special guests

Eat Your Own Ears and Fat Cat present
MICE PARADE
THE TWILIGHT SAD
TOM BROSSEAU

Thursday 13 September
Doors 7.30pm

Cargo, 83 Rivington St, London, EC2A 3AY 020 7739 3440
www.cargo-london.com

Tickets £10.50 from
www.ticketweb.co.uk
08700 600 100
www.seetickets.com
0871 22 00 260

www.fat-cat.co.uk

Mice Parade
Mice Parade was originally the solo project of New Yorker Adam Pierce, who has also drummed in Swirlies, The Dylan Group, HiM and múm, and runs the Bubble Core label and distribution company. 

From its outset, Mice Parade has shown a boldly inventive and highly individual take on post-rock / electronica.

The sound’s origins in 1998 were a distinctive, immersive audio space of piled-up percussion and atmospheric, hook-laden melodics, and have since shifted to include an increased influence of Eastern harmonics and African beats, and the formation of a proper band of musicians.

What started out as a studio project has since developed into a poppier, more accessible sound, with a full touring band, based around the cheng (Chinese harp) and a two-drumkit rhythm section, with HiM’s Doug Scharin on the other kit. Also in accompaniment are vocals, vibes, violin, classical guitar, rhodes piano and old synths, forging Mice Parade into a seriously talented and energetic live unit.

http://www.myspace.com/miceparade22

The Twilight Sad
Based outside of Glasgow, The Twilight Sad formed in late 2003. The band played a couple of gigs at the 13th Note in Glasgow, creating half hour-long pieces of music using guitars, bass, drums, theremin, tape loops from films and old folk/country songs, effects pedals, toy keyboards, thumb pianos, saws, computer games and a lot of noise in an attempt to try and discover a sound they could call their own and continue to develop. After these two shows, they rejected many gig offers, and became a more reclusive unit, spending any spare time they had in the studio focused on writing and sculpting away at new material.



Recent developments have seen the band make lo-fi recordings in bedrooms, bathrooms and their own rehearsal space, developing a more folk/experimental/noise sound. Where the band’s recorded sound is layered with many melodies, their live sound is a more intense experience which replaces the intricacies of the recordings with a more visceral wall of noise.

http://www.myspace.com/thetwilightsad

Tom Brosseau
The gentle acoustic sound of Tom Brosseau's music is a testament to his origins; born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He comes from a family background steeped in music – growing up in a house with instruments lining the walls, and taught by his Grandmother to play at an early age. Tom's early influences included Guy Lormbardo and The Inkspots, records in his Grandfather’s collection.

The “balladeer of beautifully crafted songs“ in his own words: “The one thing I remember most is the cold weather: the cold can and will find ways to take the warmth away from anything- no matter how tight your mittens are, or how bundled up you are- eventually the wood burns out and ashes and darkness comes in. One thing I know, no matter what, I had joy and love from many things: I had a dog once named Lucy; I had a good family; I played hockey and liked to skate on the river; my grandmother taught me guitar; I had a girlfriend who was pretty sweet to me. It's a strange combination- cold and love.”

http://www.myspace.com/tombrosseau

Thank you to all those that came to the first FIELD DAY, we hope you enjoyed the bands and other activities, however we would like to address the issues of the bar and toilet queues and apologise for this, we hope this didn't put too much of a dampener on your day. 

Thanks again for coming to the first field day – we will improve these issues next year and again we are very SORRY for disappoint.