53 Degrees presents...
Pulled Apart By Horses
Wednesday 24 November 2010
£7
Support: Chaotix/ Gay For Jonny Depp! / Young Legionnaires
16+
NUS/Public
Doors: 7.30-11pm
Venue
Fresh from supporting Muse and being announced as The Gardians single of the week PABH, come to 53 Degrees!
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Pull Apart By Horses New Single High Five Out Now!
'Surely the greatest live band in Britain.' The Observer
'Nobody said the revolution would be pretty. Equine-based torture never sounded so sexy.' NME
'Brilliantly unpredictable smarty-pants art metal, hoarse hardcore. Beautifully focused racket.' Kerrang
'This Leeds four-piece are causing quite a stir with their manic art-punk convulsion, discover why Pulled Apart by Horses are the name on everyone's lips.' Rocksound Magazine
'An explosive rush of brash guitar from the moment they step onstage. With angry expressions fixed firmly to their personas the group are brimming with powerful angst.......they're capable of turning any crowd into an emotional mess.' The Fly
'An incredible band that played a storming set at Leeds & Reading festival. Awesome, totally bodacious.' Huw Stephens - BBC Radio 1
'One of the best live bands we have seen this year, the new single from this Leeds outfit goes some way to harnessing that energy on record.' Music Week
Formed in early 2008, Pulled Apart By Horses made a name for themselves very quickly with a string of energetic and chaotic live shows, which led later the same year to slots at the Latitude Festival and on the BBC Introducing stage at the Leeds Festival, where their performance drew a sizeable crowd, making them one of the highlights of the weekend for many and helping to spread their name further.
They released a debut single, 'Meat Balloon', in October 2008 through Big Scary Monsters, followed by a string of other releases on various labels before signing to Transgressive earlier this year, releasing their debut album through the label in June.
Currently part way through tour dates which will take them through to the end of the year, the band will play In The City this week. We caught up with guitarist James Brown to ask the Same Six Questions.
Q1 How did you start out making music?
I started making music from an early age on a four-track tape recorder. I sang about girls and my teen troubles. EMO!
Q2 What inspired your latest album?
Playing live shows, drinking, suffering from ADHD, art. And did I say drinking?
Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
It's a melting pot that the four of us heat and throw ingredients into. Collective and combined.
Q4 Which artists influence your work?
The Jesus Lizard, That Fucking Tank, Nirvana, Radiohead, David Shrigley and the 'Back To The Future' trilogy.
Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Please fasten your seatbelt, we're going to crash.
Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
Find my inner being, tour the USA and find a fucking girlfriend.
Gay For Johnny Depp formed in New York in 2004 with the sole mission of healing the wounds of a city that had been rocked to its very foundations. Sexual healing was the method deployed and soon their abrasive sound and deeply spiritual songs about fisting went global. They band are Marty Leopard (vocals), Sid Jagger (guitar),Chelsea Piers (bass) and JJ Samanen (drums).
They toured the UK and US many times and made lots of friends and also some enemies. Their music was a machine gun rat-a-tat fire of short, sharp songs with a very well hidden yet deeply intellectual core, and described as “hardcore – in all ways”. Shock! Outrage! And Boys! followed them everywhere. Some people wanted to punch GFJD (which has happened, frequently) others want to love them deeply. Their live shows soon passed into mythical status – sometimes before they had even happened. Which is weird, but good-weird. Gay For Johnny Depp’s 2007 debut album The Politics Of Cruelty gained almost blanket positive coverage in publications such as NME, Q, The Guardian and Uncut, and also received multiple plays on Radio
1 – a triumph given the abundance of curse words and subject matter (Johnny Depp,
mainly).
The band’s approach has been consistently unflinching. Promotional records have come with ‘gay gift hampers’ featuring bottles of amyl nitrate, surgical gloves and visual ‘sauce material’ to aid the listening experience. They have also been known to circulate letters from their most ardent fan, a teenager called Bradley, whose love of the band is matched only by his love of banging sailors in downtown YMCAs, and whose angelic face can be seen in the front row of all their shows.
Gay For Johnny Depp are the perfect symbiotic melding of GG Allin, Marquis De Sade, Quentin Crisp, Jeff Stryker, The Germs and, as Ramon so succinctly just intimated, their music clearly represents that point at which the nihilism and paranoia of the late 90s/early 00s consumer-driven milieau dissipates and gives way to post-recession, pan-international feelings of ‘hope’ and ‘change’, and ‘more sex’
for everyone.
Rare it is that the innovators and pioneers get recognized in their own time, yet Gay For Johnny Depp are changing opinions concerning sexual politics, censorship, public in/decency, international relations, gender and religious divisions and the capacity for the human ear to accept music at deafening volume levels one by one. At this rate the sky it the limit. Maybe not even that.
Yet as we prepare to enter the second decade of the third millennium, one glaring question remains unaddressed: is America ready for its first gay commander- in chiefs?
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