Foot Village

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Foot Village are tribal noise-rock band from Hollywood, California, consisting of four vocal drummers. They are involved with The Smell scene and collaborated for their 2009 album Anti-magic with a series of artists like AIDS Wolf, Jason Forrest, Kyle Mabson, Narwhalz, Tussle and Death Sentence: Panda!, Poingly, Radio Shock, and more. The album raised much attention via Pitchfork Media, Rough Trade, Vice magazine and Tiny Mix Tapes.

The band have been chosen by Portishead to perform at the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival that they will curate in July 2011 at London's Alexandra Palace.

Eagulls need no introduction, currently making big waves all over Leeds and the rest of the UK this five piece seem as though they couldve hung around The Smell with No Age or that they take notes from the likes of dinosaur Jr. They have a better name than pretty much any other band around. The music is a cut above many of their supposed peers, too a mixture of punk ethos and viscera lined with a kind of pop hopefulness.

Bitches are Stacey Owen and Blake Ivinson. She plays the drums and screams like nothing on earth and he plays bass guitar and screeches and sings intermittently (he also gives synopsis before each song, ranging from the King of England hunting small animals with swords to pigeons crossing the street.). They call their music thug pop, and I suppose thats apt, as they sound like a pop song being well and truly beaten up. The word fresh should probably only be used to describe fruit, but I will use it, just this once, about these guys. They sound new and fresh and fun. And a little angry, but arent we all?

Now here's my Wildcard for the evening - Ladies & Gentlemen - Klaus Kinski. They sent me an email containing some modest description and THIS video, which speaks for itself! So I hope you get down early for this bands first trip to Leeds.