LEAD SOUP: October Listings

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I would say this, but October's line-up of acts coming to the Ifthereishellbelow.com curated live music and club night LEAD SOUP is one of the finest in the whole of London. It's all happening at the new Mother Live venue in Old Street where entrance is free, pints are £3, mixers and wine not much more and you can dance into the night with the Lead Soup DJs.

Here's a wee run down of the acts playing over the next month and some choice pickings from their musical fruit basket.

OCTOBER 1st
Facebook event

BLACK MANILA
http://blackmanila.bandcamp.com/
Sneering leather clad punks playing garage rock n roll
Happiness by BlackManila

FLAMINGO DRIVE
http://soundcloud.com/flamingo-drive
Psychedelic anglo-pop

I Saw the Bishop by Flamingo Drive

OCTOBER 8th
Facebook event

THE SOFT
http://www.soundcloud.com/thesoft
Re-igniting the darkest corners of synth music from the last 20 years

Sylvia by The Soft


CHAPEL CLUB (DJ set)
Our good friends from Chapel Club will be taking to the Lead Soup turntables to play some choice cuts from their flawless record collection.



Alex and Liam from the band came into the If There Is Hell Below studio's last year for the podcast, talking about the band and the songs they were currently digging, check it out here.


OCTOBER 15th
Facebook event 

THE BLACK TAMBOURINES
http://soundcloud.com/the-black-tambourines
Soundtracking an endless summer with lo-fi garage surf rock
Vitamin D by The Black Tambourines
The Black Tambourines EP by The Black Tambourines

The Black Tambourines have an upcoming split 7" release with New Years Evil (you need to check those out too!) on the most excellent Art Is Hard label. Keep your ears to the ground for that one, you'll not be disappointed.

CUSS WORDS
www.theecusswords.bandcamp.com
They say: '2 piece lads paggering out fast drums and loud, scratchy guitar. One sings down an old phone and the other shouts down an old CB radio mic.'... what else you need to know? They're killer!

Download: Cuss Words - King 90's

Cuss Words have a brand new EP the exquisitely named ' Even the devil went home and barfed that night', you can download it for a few quid on their bandcamp or you can buy the circular here 


OCTOBER 22nd
Facebook event 


BREATHE OUT
http://soundcloud.com/breathe-out
http://breathebreatheout.blogspot.com/
Breathe Out take the 80s hardcore influences of Mascis, the melodic sensibilities of Evan Dando and make the perfect kind of pop songs presented in a satisfying reverb heavy package.
Everything You Know by Breathe Out


Breathe Out EP is out on Art Is Hard 


THE SUN ELECTRIC BAND
http://soundcloud.com/thesunelectricband
Manchester's Sun Electric Band have that west-coast pop sound, sweet harmonies and tangy country rock guitar that here at Lead Soup we're an absolute sucker for.
In a recent interview Ross Charnock said 'If someone thought our music reminded them of a lost Big Star album or some Teenage Fanclub out-takes, I’d be delighted.'
Well Ross, I hope you take some delight from us saying 'you remind us of…' 
The Sun Electric Band - About a URL by The Sun Electric Band

LEAD SOUP: Oct 1st - Black Manila and Flamingo Drive at Mother Live (Old Street)

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IfThereIsHellBelow.com presents
LEAD SOUP

London's newest weekly underground live music and club night, celebrating all that is glorious in rock n roll, indie, garage rock, psych, punk, rock and whatever sounds we're digging - we'll throw anything into the Lead Soup as long as it tastes good! And we'll do this EVERY SATURDAY at Mother Live in Old Street (right next to Mother Bar 333)

On October 1st we're massively excited to have both Black Manila and Flamingo Drive playing at Mother Live.

BLACK MANILA
http://blackmanila.bandcamp.com/
Fresh from the release of their new EP and a tour of France Black Manila return to London with their sneering biker garage rock.
Black Manila have been building up a hell of a reputation around their fellow London and you'll see why, their sound is that kind of dirty blues rock n roll, that has a touch of heavy and fucking groove you'll find irresistible. 
Happiness by BlackManila

FLAMINGO DRIVE
http://soundcloud.com/flamingo-drive
Cryptograms by Flamingo Drive Flamingo Drive make pop music; it's a very English type of pop music too, singing about bishops, vagabonds and chimney's... I don't think these things exist anywhere else do they? You could say their music is psychedelic, but their is a driving krautrockness and heavingess to them in parts that suggests these boys ain't no 60's revisionists.


Afterwards, Spacehips keeps the basement party going with a killer set of psych, rocknroll, noise, punk, garage rock, electronic, freak pop music from the past, present, future and beyond.

Doors 9pm - 2am
FREE ENTRY!

If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Callum's Current Factor

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Callum and Rob have it, nothing but new stuff (give or take a few months) and stuff that could appeal to kids with those caps and that Supreme clothing. That's why we have something from the new Lindsey Buckingham album, cos it sounds like Atlas Sound and just to prove that, we have a new Atlas Sound track too. Wise Blood, Tennis System, Thee Oh Sees, RLMDL and more delights await.

Callum's Current Factor by Ifthereishellbelow on Mixcloud

Tracklisting

OBN IIIs - New Innocence

RLMDL - Just My Luck

CLOUT! - Maxwell's O

Civil Civic - Street Trap

Wise Blood - Nosferatu

Tennis System - Hey, We Tried

Not The 1s - Your Dad Hate Me

The Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler

Sight Seeing - Feel

Atlas Sound - Te Amo

Lindsey Buckingham - In Our Own Time

Galaxie 500 - Strange

The Tea Company - You Keep Me Hanging On

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Download: The Tea Company - Keep Me Hangin' On

Here is a drawn out psych rock cover of my favourite Supremes cover that isn't by Vanilla Fudge.
At the moment, I'm going to say it's a superior version too.

Not The 1s - Silverstein Status (Prod. Monster Rally)

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Download: Not The 1s - Silverstein Status

Man, I may be rusty at this blogging stuff. I've been away on holiday and sorting out the If There Is Hell Below affiliated gig and club night Lead Soup. It feels like I ain't been giving this baby blog some attention and here is some of that now and long may it continue!

Here is a cut from 'Why You Cryin?' the debut album from hip hop duo Not the 1s produced by a blog favourite, the hazy tropical surf pop producer Monster Rally.
Monster Rally's laid back, beach lounger and cocktail production really lends itself to a more lethargically delivered hip hop track, check his Doom remix and you'll see.

Not the 1s debut album 'Why You Cryin?' is out on Gold Robot records.

If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Welcome to Tomorrow

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Schools back, Callum and Rob have some teaching to do, with little room for fun. We listen to Kurt Vile's new track and ask whether there is a better 'yeah' in music than Kurt's? Callum recounts the evening he came face to face with his musical demons and Rob plugs the upcoming Lead Soup with a dynamite song from Vision Fortune who play on sept 24th. There's also music from Wavves and Fucked Up, Health, Netherfriends and their Nilsson sampled psych pop record, Mo Kolours and more.

Welcome to Tomorrow by Ifthereishellbelow on Mixcloud

Tracklisting 
Kurt Vile - The Creature
Lilac - Cathedral
Gross Relations - When You Go Down
Mo Kolours - Biddies
Vision Fortune - Seven Saints
Wavves ft. Members of Fucked Up - Destroy
The Spills - Summer Vibes
Netherfriends - Girrrlfriend
HEALTH - Goth Star
Shy - Shift
Dive - Sometime
The Patience - Solar Fields