LEAD SOUP. Live music club night every Saturday from the people who bring you If There Is Hell Below

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Lead Soup is a brand new Live Music and Club night coming to Mother Live in London's Old Street from September 10th.

Promoted, booked, run and DJ'ed by me, Rob 'Spacehips' Morgan of the If There Is Hell Below blog and podcast. 

Each week we'll be playing host to some of the most intriguing, forward thinking, exciting, strange, underground and just all-round ace music acts we can find, starting with The Night Jars and Dead Rabbits on September 10th.

Bands will blow open the Lead Soup doors and resident DJ Spacehips will keep everything shaking with psych, garage rock, kraut, punk, electronic, rock n roll and just about anything you'd expect from this blog and beyond.

Trust me when I say we got some absolute dynamite acts lined up over the next few months starting with an all winning line-up of bands and music in September, check out the line up and their sounds after our promo video jump, which gives you a taste of the ace music and visuals you can expect.

September 10th. FB Event

Dead Rabbits 

Psychedelic shoegaze space rock

Its Good by Dead-Rabbits

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The Night Jars

Garage punk rock droogs

Download: The Night Jars - Jenny

September 17th. FB Event

Milky Onions

West coast new wave XTC'esque pop

Is That You Sherilyn? by Milky Onions!

Milky Onions on Soundcloud

The Magnetic Mind

Even further beyond the valley of the psych fuzz pop dolls

September 24th. FB Event

Replicas

Dystopian Ghost Box, Stereolab'esque electric pop

Vision Fortune

Hypnotic psychedelic cosmic tribal jazz kraut music 

VOID OF THE VALLEY by VISION FORTUNE

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Casino Hair

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Rob and Callum return with the If There Is Hell Below podcast and face the grim reality that Is This It came out 10 years ago - it's enough to give Callum a stomach ulcer and go on an ill-informed post-rock rant with Rob. Music wise we have Simon & Garfunkel in Hebrew, brand new tracks from Race Horses and The Fantasies, a cut from 100 Akres Eddie Murphy beat tape, we dig into The People's Temple and question Kitteh Fur. All that and more... more than your deepest desires could ever reach.

Casino Hair by Ifthereishellbelow on Mixcloud

Tracklisting 
The Parvarim - The Sound of Silence
Race Horses - Benidorm
 The People's Temple - Axe Man
The Fantasies - Earth Life
Tiger Waves - Down Down Down
Trouble Books & Mark McGuire - The Golden Waste
100 Akres - Prenup ft. Joose
Blasted Canyons - Death and a Half
Dom - Damn
The Twerps - She Didn't Know
Kitteh Fur - Bruise
Ganglians - Drop The Act

Divorce - Love Attack b/w Meating 7"

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You probably have a lot of energy today, what with it being a Friday 'n all. Here's the new 7" from Divorce. 

Buy Divorce - Love Attack and Meaning digitally on bandcamp

If There Is Hell Below Podcast... The Outsiders and Inside the Box

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Rob and Callum present the If There Is Hell Below podcast. Music comes from the sun-bleached Zombies sound of Mmoss, a highlight from the patchy Washed Out album, the newest track TV Girl, Adrian Younge's Morricone/Premier Symptones Air sounding, the ace new track from ITHB favourites Cymbals Eat Guitars, Danger Beach and brand new band Childhood. 

The Outsiders and Inside the Box by Ifthereishellbelow on Mixcloud

Tracklisting

Warm Brains - Marble Arch

Danger Beach - TV Glow

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Definite Darkness

Doldrums - I'm Homesick Sitting Here In My Satellite

Adrian Younge Presents Venice Beach - 1969 Organ

Whirr - Junebouvier

Childhood - Semester

MMOSS - Another Day

TV Girl - Baby You Were There 

Isle of Pine - Once I Knew, Then I Forgot

Soft Machine - So Boot If At All

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Soft Machine - So Boot If At All

It seems that nobody ever seems to mention how amazing a drummer Robert Wyatt was.
Take this track for example from Soft Machine's debut album The Soft Machine. Utterly relentless; a cacophony of fill, jazz signatures and killer breaks that lead the grinding discordant keys and driving bass.
It all becomes a bit dreamlike towards the end as the keyboards and drums float around the song like half-thoughts, ideas and images. It's a hint at the jazz-fusion sound the band would later be known for, with Wyatt's under-celebrated drumming at the very heart of the sound.

Gross Magic - Sweetest Touch

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 Gross Magic - Sweetest Touch by TheSoundsOfSweetNothing

Can't help but think there's gonna be more said about Sam McGarrigle - the man who is essentially Gross Magic - over the next few months. Hype innit. Young lad from Brighton making that DIY lo-fi sounding glam rock pop, like the Ariel Pink Britain didn't realise it had been waiting for.
Sweetest Touch is a sexy little number; sexy in that sexually ambiguous Brett Anderson and Marc Bolan type of way.

Gross Magic have an EP out soon released on The Sound of Sweet Nothing, pre-order here

Introducing: Tropical Ooze

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 Too Much Light by Tropical Ooze

You can hear why cult pop outsider R. Stevie Moore has chosen as his backing band.
Brooklyn based band Tropical Ooze have that unteachable quality of writing interesting pop tunes with charm, that are unpredictable and tight but also sound like they're a bar away from falling apart.

You can see Tropical Ooze playing with R. Stevie Moore at the following dates:
Aug 4th - The Portland Arms, Cambridge
Aug 6th - Champions, Bournemouth
Aug 7th - 10 Feet Tall, Cardiff
Aug 11th - The Lexington, London

If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Cowboys and Indie'uns

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Rob Morgan is a root tooting wild west outlaw, Callum is a no-sock-moccasin, Rough Trade tote bagging indie kid and they're about to strike up the most unlikely of friendships. This week's podcast is half country rock half (for want of a better word) indie with songs from Gene Clark, Surf Club, Rick Danko sound'alikes Timbercreek, Water Moccasins, Jean Shephard, Ether Teeth and more. Warning: Rob may have over-used his Spaghetti Western impressions in this podcast.


Tracklisting
Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers - So You Say You Lost Your Baby
Mikal Cronin - Get Along
Ether Teeth - Animal
Timbercreek - Hellbound Highway
Goose Creek Symphony - Confusion
Water Moccasins - Gone
Surf Club - It's True
Jean Shepard - The Root Of All Evil (Is A Man)
Riley - Field of Green
Triptides - Outlaw
Sore Eros - Stacy
Daniel Moore - May 16, 1975

Cowboys and Indie'uns by Ifthereishellbelow on Mixcloud