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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

On Our iPod

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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65daysofstatic Live Soundtrack to Silent Running
Queen's Social Club, Sheffield

Article written by Matt H - May 7, 2011

65daysofstatic - not so silent

Well, they were always going to be a bit different from some Joan Baez songs...

My decades-old memory of Silent Running was, for all the post-Manson hippiedom of its protagonist, of a quiet film. So it wasn’t certain that 65daysostatics noisier musical textures were going to work with it. And the band do very much use the film as a backdrop to their post-rock sound. But it’s a sound that has been increasingly doused in retro electronics of late, which chime nicely with the 70s shabby-space sets of the film leading to a number of exciting set pieces. While the volume is sometimes a little incongruous - especially with the nature shots, it provides a different angle on the film highlighting the simmering then explosive rage of Bruce Dern’s Freeman Lowell over his despair. It’s helped as well by the film’s dialogue (or rather, largely monologue) which is mostly declamatory rather than conversational and cuts though the music to good effect.

Mostly though, it strikes you how far 65daysofstatic have come. Completely at home staging this sort of more ambitious event and capable of creating a genuinely thrilling and moving noise you get the sense that they’re properly established and that there will be much more such goodness to come from them.

Links:
http://www.65daysofstatic.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/65daysofstatic/59496880675?sk=wall