THE CHAP + ZOMBIE ZOMBIE + MORVISCOUS 7:30PM - 11:00PM £8 IN ADVANCE
THE CHAP are a London-based modern pop group named after a magazine on how to be the perfect contemporary gentleman. They claim they 'have never been influenced by anything or anyone, ever.' Now that's not strictly true. They are influenced by many things, such us the entire pop canon, the entire world cinema canon, food, drink, free improv and liberal Trotskyism. The resulting sound is a unique brand of pop music containing many a snippet of noise as well as space-rock choirs, exploding string instruments and lyrics about courage, modesty, sex and asthma. ZOMBIE ZOMBIE use Sound and Rhythm as a medium to explore the feeling of fear growing deep inside of you. You'll go through different emotional stages with the analog effects. The drumming will make your heart beat faster, like in a horror movie when the car won't start, you give it one last try. London-based instrumental five-piece MORVISCOUS are members of a rare breed - a very rare breed. Without being part of any revival or reformed outfit, and far too young to be nostalgists, they're making nifty, wry proggy jazz rock with the feel of what was termed the Canterbury Scene - bands like Hatfield And The North, Gong, National Health, Egg, Henry Cow - combined effortlessly with contemporary post-rock like Don Caballero, Rothko and Bark Psychosis. Its a magical combination. The Canterbury scene was a sound full of wit and verve - complex, imaginative, heavy on jazz harmonies - the indie music of the seventies. Morviscous, however, could only be contemporary: their energy levels are way higher than most of the aforementioned bands, a spark and liveliness, and a leaning away from those cheesier jazz progressions. Morviscous don't do twee. Neither do they fall into the all too common trap of sounding exactly like someone's post-rock record collection: Godspeed!