The first Which Way Is Up! of 2012.
Friday 20th January. The Wilmington Arms, 69 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, EC1 4RL.
As always its £5 in advance and £6 on the door.
✚ Chips For The Poor ✚
http://www.chipsforthepoor.com/
In recent months, CFTP have been racking up some notable live outings around Northern house parties, East London squat pubs and South Side Windmills supporting the likes of DD/MM/YYYY, Damo Suzuki, Bobby Conn and Eat Skull, plus local flash flood IKEA heroes.
"Like a box of frogs jumpin' hard and fast" - Odd Box Records
“Tell Your Mum, Bolan's Back!”
(Airplay on Radio 1, XFM, NME and ResonanceFM)
"The return of Chips for the Poor, which is obviously a moment for rejoice, fantastic" - John Kennedy, XFM.
"It's a banger" - Huw Stephens, Radio 1.
"A favourite and veritable oddball - artist of the week" - Cloud Sounds.
'Broken Britain in full effect - Single of the week' - Organ Magazine.
✚ Chapter 24 ✚
http://chapter24band.blogspot.com/
New single 'Spindle' / '4454' is Art Rocker's single of the month.
Chapter 24 release two gems of unclassifiable brilliance - double a-side 'spindle' and '4454', on odd box records - so say Rough Trade Shops. They go on to say they sound like a sexy frankenstein modelled from the various limbs of bow wow wow, ramones and hawkwind members. '4454' manages to combine stoner-doom, erase errata erraticness, bush tetras-style funk and sleater kinney-esque scuzz, resulting in an anthem for non-generic music fans.
Who are we to argue? They last played for Odd Box back at our Weekender in May 2011. They were one of THE bands of the weekend.
✚ Diaphragm Failure ✚
http://www.diaphragmfailure.com/
Be afraid. Diaphragm Failure are newcomers to Which Way Is Up! and they make a frightening racket. Live I've been told to expect the unexpected. I like that.
"6 piece London based improv circus/hole band. A new breed of performing arts, fearless, fun, slightly disturbing, entertaining, inspiring, dancey, trancey, punky and psychedelic. Basically the sound of 2020' BBC Musique