Mark Almond + Lydia Lunch + Noxagt + Selfish Cunt

Sat 22nd May 2004
Capsule
The Custard Factory

MARC ALMOND*
LYDIA LUNCH
NOXAGT ( load records from Norway)
SELFISH CUNT
BARRY 7 (dj set) djs/films

Event Details:

MARC ALMOND has been brightening up this grubby little island with showbiz sleaze for over 20 years – as one half of the short-lived but hugely influential Soft Cell, with other 80s combos Marc and the Mambos and the Willing Sinners, and solo as a decadent crooner keeping the Brel flame alight. He has collaborated with everyone from Gene Pitney to Foetus, written a caustically funny autobigraphy, and tonight he’ll be bringing a touch of class to the Medicine Bar.

for further info on marc almond www.marcalmond.co.uk.

www.lydialunch.org/

 

LYDIA LUNCH’s uncompromising, multi-faceted vision is on full display elsewhere at Fierce! festival . For this one-off gig in the Custard Factory Theatre she’ll be joined onstage by old friends EUGENE AND NIKO from OXBOW, according to Vice magazine “the greatest art rock band in the world.” Eugene Robinson and Niko Wenner, the singer/lyricist and songwriter/architect of OXBOW’s mean mania, make the making of OXBOW music a thing of rarefied beauty using little more than the rudiments of guitar and voice for the non-electrical rendering of a terror no less absolute because of a lack of volume. From Milan to London to Berlin, The Robinson-Wenner Acoustic Duo, with sonic and video treatments, sits astride the low-fi fence like an ogre of less than obvious intent with its renditions of OXBOW’s musical back catalog, as well as music created specially for these rare events.
A must see, hear, now.

www.noxagt.com

 

NOXAGT hail from the same Load Records stable as Lightning Bolt and Pink and Brown, and produce a similarly stripped-down, apocalyptic sound with an extra edge given by heavy-duty viola. This is how Norway rocks.

“Selfish Cunt are going to annoy you. Not just because Dalston-dwelling Martin Tomlinson and Patrick Constable possess the painfully studied air of dandyish Shoreditch Twats desperately trying to shock-rock their way to winning the Turner Prize. And not just because The Guardian recently stuck them on a list of Britain’s Top 40 bands after only about 12 London hipsters with asymmetrical Hoxton haircuts had seen them play. But mainly because, beyond any whiff of insider hype and media manipulation, the duo’s debut single is unexpectedly very good indeed. Annoyingly good, in fact.” nme
for further info www.horsegluerecords.com/.

 

“Selfish Cunt are going to annoy you. Not just because Dalston-dwelling Martin Tomlinson and Patrick Constable possess the painfully studied air of dandyish Shoreditch Twats desperately trying to shock-rock their way to winning the Turner Prize. And not just because The Guardian recently stuck them on a list of Britain’s Top 40 bands after only about 12 London hipsters with asymmetrical Hoxton haircuts had seen them play. But mainly because, beyond any whiff of insider hype and media manipulation, the duo’s debut single is unexpectedly very good indeed. Annoyingly good, in fact.” nme
for further info www.horsegluerecords.com/.