Mike Watt + The Missingmen (USA)
The Missingmen are a punk rock trio fronted by Minutemen/Firehose/Stooges bassist Mike Watt. The band features Watt, guitarist Tom Watson (Slovenly, The Pair Of Pliers, The Jom And Terry Show, Red Krayola), and drummer Raul Morales (FYP, Killer Dreamer, The Leeches, The Secondmen).
The band’s name is a humorous reference to the fact that during a 2005 European tour behind Watt’s album The Secondman’s Middle Stand, neither of the original Secondmen (Pete Mazich and Jerry Trebotic) were able to participate.
The Missingmen began performing in the autumn of 2006, opening for M. Ward. Watt has stated his intention to record an album with the Missingmen since 2007, but no formal plans were made until 2009, when the group laid down the guitar and drum tracks for Hyphenated-man in New York during a planned break in an American tour by Watt. According to Watt interviews with Guitar World[1] and Bass Guitar Magazine[2], the album would feature short songs inspired by the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch. The album, first released in Japan in October 2010, is the first release on Watt’s new independent record label Clenchedwrench.
On a 2009 tour with Dinosaur Jr, Watson and Morales performed without Watt under the moniker lou barlow + the missingmen. This lineup, fronted by Dinosaur bassist and Sebadoh frontman Lou Barlow, performed material from Barlow’s solo recordings.
(source: Wikipedia)
Links:
hootpage.com/hoot_hyphenated-man_tinaclarkeessay.html
facebook.com/wattfrompedromusic
Guess What (Great Britain)
Luke Warmcop (drums, percussion) and Graham Mushnik (organ, piano, melodica) formed Guess What in 1968 (2005). They started out working indoors only, producing obscure metaphysical music and soundtracks, such as their unreleased first EP “Guess what Plato Told me”.
Since 1971 (2008) however, the duet have been hitting the stage, performing live a set of instrumental pieces dedicated to Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin – hence their first album “Yuri Gagarin – 12 Modern Odes to History’s Greatest Spaceman” (on Catapulte Records).
In 1973 (2010), they discovered the mighty “Giallo” cinema, and recorded some italian-sounding music. The second LP, “Mondo Giallo”, is now out on Imagenes Recordings.
In the meantime, a new focus is keeping them busy: the persian mathematician and astronomer Al-Khawarizmi, and music from the Middle-East. You’re in for a surprise…
Links:
guesswhat3000.blogspot.com
catapulterecords.com
L’Œillère
In 2007, Nicolas Gardrat decides to break out of his room and offer Bordeaux and surrounding areas his barbaric classical guitarcompositions.Accompanied by a violinist, he played for two years a repertoirecalled “les Memoires de l’Oeil, inspired by ramshackle rock, judeo-arabic and contemporary music.
Suddenly lonely,he migrates to Brussels, and renames himself L’Œillère, he then begins to branch out with musicians from different backgrounds (Secret Chiefs 3, Jonas Zugzwang, TeTsuo, Aurélie Emery….), while continuing to compose for his solo repertoire.
His work is centred on the uncertain theory that it is possible to at the same time, tell stories without words, use an acoustic instrument that draws a variety of sounds that could turn an electric guitar green with envy, to write musical pieces suited for rock, jazz and orchestral formations… and finally,to play them alone in order to master the feel and the emotions from beginning to end.
-2nd solo Album, FIASCO, out on march 2012, with En V’là and Les Pourricords
-Trio album with guys from TeTsuo on A Tant Rêver du Roi
More than 180 gigs in France, Belgium, UK, Spain, Netherland and Germany, L’Œillère did open for Secret Chiefs 3, Ruins, Fred Frith’s CosaBrava, Anekdoten, Estradasphere, Cabezas de Cera, Fat32, Chocolat Billy, Electric Electric, Alastairs Roberts, L’Ocelle Mare, TeTsuo, A.p.a.a.t, Mein Sohn William, La Terre Tremble, Cam Deas, Radikal Satan….
Links:
loeillere.com
loeillere.bandcamp.com
Photo: Mike Watt.
Admission: 10 €.
Doors: 9 p. m..
Organized by: Madame Macario and Menza pri koritu.
