Issue 33 / May 2013

News
Baltic Fleet Triumph At The GITs
After months of build up and an evening of Liverpool music glitz and razzmatazz, BALTIC FLEET were bestowed with the title
of GIT Award winners for 2013. Scooping a cool £1000 first prize will be welcome indeed, but probably even more treasured will
be their performance slot at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown Festival, which comes with the award this year. In addition, prodigious young
talent TYLER MENSAH scooped the People’s Choice Award, voted for by Liverpool’s music loving public. For a full photo gallery
from the awards evening at Leaf, pop along to bidolito.co.uk
Psych For Sore Eyes
The first wave of announcements for the second LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PSYCHEDELIA has been unveiled for September’s
happenings at the UK’s largest celebration of psychedelic sub-culture, housed at Camp And Furnace. This year’s festival will host Trouble
In Mind Records’ FUZZ (pictured), Liverpool’s own masked rapscallions CLINIC, New York City’s PSYCHIC ILLS, and Chilean space cadets THE
HOLYDRUG COUPLE. Make sure you lovely folks get down there – at a cool £30, and with more kaleidoscopic merriment to come, you’ll go
out of your mind if you miss it, and off your barnet if you don’t. liverpoolpsychfest.com
The Art of Relaxation
New Liverpool-based NuNorthern Soul must be walking on air at the minute as, after the rip-roaring success of BJ Smith’s
Dedication To The Greats, comes the latest EP from RAGZ NORDSET. After supporting the likes of Laura Marling, her new EP
Sleepdancing fits neatly into the label’s ethos (“quality music suited to the art of relaxation”). It also marks a change in emphasis
for the beguiling chanteuse, with an electronic direction making the already ethereal troubadour’s voice sound positively ghostly.
There are also remixes aplenty on the horizon from the likes of BJ Smith and Capac. For more info go to nunorthernsoul.co.uk
Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival
The award winning LIVERPOOL ARABIC ARTS FESTIVAL returns for a 12th year, with some intriguing musical highlights. Born in Damascus
to Syrian-Armenian parents, songwriter LENA CHAMAMYAN (pictured) is hugely successful in the Middle East. Her work harmonises old
and new, creating a wonderful blend of medieval and renaissance Arab music. Born in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon, KATIBE 5 are
one of the Middle East’s most dynamic hip hop bands. Growing up with civil war and facing discrimination has had a huge influence on
Katibe 5’s music, which tells the story of how they rose above poverty and prejudice. For listings and details visit arabartsfestival.com
Music To Drink By
It’s no secret that our second love here at Bido Lito! is proper beer. Not the mass produced, nasty chemically stuff, but the
lovingly brewed, independent craft beers that populate the taps and fridges of our favourite hangouts. We’re suitably giddy to
announce therefore that we will be curating the music programme at this year’s inaugural LIVERPOOL CRAFT BEER EXPO, from 14th-
16th June. Expect an eclectic array of live performances and DJ adventures, all presented within the surroundings of the Expo’s Beer
Barrel Musical Bunker. As ever with alcoholic audio indulgence, please listen responsibly. liverpoolcraftbeerexpo.com
Bido Lito! Dansette
Our pick of this month’s Sound City
wax wonders…
Mount Kimbie
Blood And Form
WARP
Ambient dubstep pioneers MOUNT KIMBIE’s
new single Blood And Form, from their
highly anticipated second album Cold Spring
Fault Less Youth, is chock-a-block with their
trademark dusty sound and spectral imagery
which evokes lazy summer nights. Even the
primitiveness of the damped drums doesn’t
deter this track from being a tantalising hors
d’oeuvre to the full album.
Savages
Silence Yourself
MATADOR/POP NOIRE
From the opening sample of John
Cassavetes’ Opening Night right through
to the daringly delicious sax on closer
Marshal Dear, Silence Yourself
will have
you pinned to your seat in sheer awe.
As faultless a debut as we could have
hoped for, SAVAGES come good on their
manifesto that their “music and words
are aiming to strike like lightning, like a
punch in the face”. Jaw-dropping.
Wolf People
Fain
JAGJAGUWAR
Liverpool Calling
COMPETITION!
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Here comes another festival for our fine city (they seem to be multiplying!) as LIVERPOOL CALLING launches in June across two
venues: St Luke’s (Bombed Out Church) and the Shipping Forecast. Some of Liverpool’s finest up and coming bands will take part,
including Oxygen Thieves, fresh from their debut single release, and the recently Bill Ryder-Jones produced Death Masks in one
neat little package. But, it gets even better yet...with the awesome BRITISH SEA POWER (pictured), in support of stellar new LP
Machineries Of Joy, returning to the city to headline. Tickets are available from
bidolito.co.uk
On third LP Fain, WOLF PEOPLE continue
to meld classic British rock, blues and
traditional Celtic folk in such a visceral
way that you can’t help but think that
their balls-out fuzz rock is peeling the
skin off your face like a blowtorch. Hints
of Dungen and Trees infuse the mix
throughout, as expertly witnessed on
the track All Returns.
Baltic Fleet
The Wilds
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