Issue 49 / October 2014

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News Arts Club HQ Seel Street’s venerable old building, known to us as East Village Arts Club for the past 18 months, has had a bit of a refresh. Now operating solely as ARTS CLUB, the Mama Co venue will still be functioning as one of the city’s busiest hubs of live music, with a host of great shows lined up for October – DJ YODA, ETCHES, and two packed CHIBUKU nights are among the highlights. The recently redesigned Bar & Kitchen area will now also be hosting open mic nights, as well as vinyl stalls, DJs and a music quiz on the new Stylus Sundays. Head to artsclubliverpool.com for further info and listings. Bido Lito! Dansette Our pick of this month’s wax wonders, as chosen by Bido Lito! writer Alastair Dunn. A Decade Of Mellowtone One of Liverpool’s promoting institutions, MELLOWTONE, celebrates its landmark tenth birthday this month. Having racked up a decade of Liverpool gigging that covers folk, blues and roots, the collective are planning to mark the anniversary with a commemorative release. The Mellowtone Is 10 compilation celebrates a decade of quietly creating a stir by featuring acts who have graced the Mellowtone stage over the years. To accompany this there will be a launch/birthday party at Leaf on 26th November, and warm-up shows at Leaf in October with James Yorkston (14th) and Liverpool Comedy Festival (1st), featuring Micky P Kerr and Dylan Owen. mellowtone.info Orchestral Museum Dazzling OMD are celebrating 35 years in music with a special show at the Museum Of Liverpool on 1st November. The Wirral-based band’s influential fourth album, Dazzle Ships (pictured), was inspired by the painting Dazzle Ships In Dry Dock At Liverpool by Edward Wadsworth. Now that there is once again a Dazzle Ship in a dry dock in front of the Museum – by Carlos Cruz-Diez for Liverpool Biennial – the time couldn’t be better. As well as performing the missing parts I, IV, V and VI of their 1983 musique concrète composition, the band will be joined by a reel-to-reel tape recorder known as Winston, which they used in their very early gigging days. The Epstein’s Comic Timing If you prefer your night out to include a belly laugh-inducing routine rather than a chin-stroking musical turn, then The Epstein Theatre’s comedy programme should have something for you. The star in October’s listings comes on 2nd October when British Comedy Award-winning duo CARDINAL BURNS (pictured) bring their character-based sketches to town. The pair have been performing stand-up shows since they met at film school in Edinburgh, but it was their 2012 self-titled E4 series that gave them their massive break, and they’ve been gathering plaudits ever since. The rest of the venue’s comedy and theatre listings can be found at epsteinliverpool.co.uk. We’re Oxjamming This month sees two brilliant fundraising events that come under the OXJAM umbrella. First up is THE OXJAM PROJECT, a charity gig at Arts Club (18th October) as part of the National Music Festival. The show features live sets from Andrew Metcalfe (ex-Sound Of Guns), Run Tiger Run and plenty more. Then on 18th October it’s the turn of OXJAM LIVERPOOL TAKEOVER, who bring a Super Weird Happening to Constellations. Featuring performances from a crack assemblage of local DJs, the event – in association with Freeze – centres around Greg Wilson and Kermit Leveridge’s band Blind Arcade, and is one of only five such shows across the country. On General Release COMPETITION! It’s been yet another busy month for local artists, with many a release to treat our ears. The Cubical’s DAN WILSON finally released his solo record All Love Is Blind, which is a melange of his own distinctively Waitsian bar-room ballads with some grander arrangements. It’s been a stop-start project for Wilson, having been compiled over the last two years in-between bouts of touring. Then there’s the juddering concoction Hadakaknacht on Rest Relax Records, a ghostly collaboration between locals MITTERNACT and Swedes HADAKA that will curdle your blood in no time. Keep the releases coming, we say. We’re spoilt for choice when it comes to gig megathons round these here parts, and one of the longest-running and most consistent of these is LIVERPOOL MUSIC WEEK. This autumn’s incarnation of the festival is extra special as it will be the tenth edition, for which a suitably attention-grabbing line-up has been assembled. Starting with large showcase events at Camp And Furnace (MOGWAI, CARIBOU) and O2 Academy (THE WAR ON DRUGS and WILD BEASTS), the two week-long gig extravaganza is also interspersed with free shows at The Kazimier (HOOKWORMS, THE ANTLERS), and a mammoth of a closing party spread across the Baltic Quarter. This month we’ve teamed up with the bods at LMW to offer two lucky readers the chance to each win a pair of tickets to the closing party (1st November), which features headline shows by CHVRCHES, BLACK LIPS (pictured) and dozens more. To win, all you have to do is answer this question: Black Lips hail from which state of the USA? a) Georgia b) Alexandria c) Sofia To enter, just email your answer to competition@bidolito.co.uk by 25th October. All correct answers will be placed in to a big pink washing machine, with the winner drawn at random and notified by email. Good luck! Grouper Call Across Rooms KRANKY Though it was recorded three years ago, GROUPER's latest track has only just surfaced, ahead of the release of Liz Harris’ tenth studio album Ruins. Haunting and beautifully melodic, Call Across Rooms sees a stripped back Grouper of just piano and vocals. It is minimal yet expansive, and a promising sign of things to come. Ariel Pink Put Your Number In My Phone 4AD The first single to be released from new album pom pom, Put Your Number In My Phone is predictably enjoyable, but marks a departure from ARIEL PINK's synth-heavy, disco-inflected output of the past. With jangly guitars and bittersweet lyrics, it is fairly reminiscent of Stephen Merritt's early work, and perhaps a bit more restrained than what Ariel fans have become accustomed to. Aphex Twin minipops 67 [120.2] [source field mix] WARP RECORDS After several months of blimps and the most intense APHEX TWIN hype ever, Richard D. James has released a new track to satiate the rabid hunger of seemingly every music fan/journalist on the planet. Typically dark and infectious, with unsettling vocal sample melodies, it is hard not to get excited to hear what the electronic icon will produce on his first record in ten years. FKA Twigs LP 1 YOUNG TURKS Tahliah Debrett Barnett's enthralling and critically lauded debut is one of the most impressive albums to be released this year. Meandering through a landscape of ghostly, broken RnB interspersed with lyrics about twilight sexual encounters, LP 1 makes for a fascinating listen - the past 20 years of electronic music uniquely imagined. bidolito.co.uk
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