Monday 7 December 2009

HIRED MUSCLE & HOJP UK TOUR APRIL 2010

Oh my shit, we're hitting the road...

We are now booking a joint tour of the UK from April 1st to April 17th 2010 – can you help us out with a show?

Two artists from the idyllic paradise/creative cesspool of Bletchley. The rowdy, noisy Muscle and the sweet, soulful Player promise a variety show more pleasing than a Butlins cabaret. We play short sets, share equipment, and can both be fully set up at the same time (John Player goes straight thru the PA, the muscle use 2 amps one kit and 2 mics) meaning we can share a slot if need be. We have a sweet Sunn O))) Combo and extension which we are happy to share, and a bass combo... likewise.

We are travelling together in one van, and ask for petrol money, a meal, and a place to sleep...

Thanks


myspace.com/hiredmusclemen
Hired Muscle –
A noisy, clangy three piece. Guitar bass and drums, no effects. Tons of riffs. Short songs. Started in Bletchley, taken to Leeds, now spread out around London. At various points it can be described as poppy/noisy/funky/heavy/fast/slow/mathy. Three excitable gentlemen. Members have also been in or played with: Dawn Chorus, Hank Haint, Action Beat, Rampant Rabbit, Belt Motel, and Pete Taylors guitar orchestra.

“Dirt infused abacus blocks of flexing fun funk skronk rock.” – Domchilla

“Essentially a stripped down NKOTB, if they liked the minutemen – BEST BAND EVER!” – Jon Nash

[Demos have been recorded and scrapped, debut full length album coming Feb/March 2010. Please watch the videos for a more accurate indication of what it sounds like.]


myspace.com/houseofjohnplayer
House of John Player
– A young man from Bletchley who drives bands around, makes awesome lo-fi pop gems in his bedroom, and sings with a voice way bigger than you’d expect from such a skinny guy.


“HOUSE OF JOHN PLAYER is the ongoing bedroom/lo-fi project of Dean Spencer -- which has moved through guitars, keyboards, loop pedals, and songs of total charm... somewhere between Animal Collective, Durutti Column, Ariel Pink...” - Allan Harrison (MCP)

"A pretty firework display of sounds and noises which will delight the audience; a good start to the night, if slightly short.worth seeing if he’s in the area." By Quentin



“trapping portions in his looper and over working them with a pacy delivery… really physical, you could literally bottle the energy, cut it from the air ---- like it needed an exit …Wrapped in a slow soak of extended delay…” RottenMeats.com

FROM A MESS TO THE MASSES

I stumbled on a pretty dandy review the other day from when i played with Themselves & Our Brother The Native in Lyon last month. Thank you to Quentin for the kind words and thank you to Harleigh for making those kind words make sense.


"Arriving late, I came across a crazy visionary who invaded the stage at the Rail Théatre all alone. House of John Player has an unlikely folk sound (similar to that of Magic Arm who were seen last week at GZ) which is based largely around the looper which he uses and abuses. However, House of John Player goes further than this, by using various machines to flesh out the bones of his song, which are strangely tribal, enchanting and rich. The result is a pretty firework display of sounds and noises which will delight the audience; a good start to the night, if slightly short. House of John Player is another gem discovered by GZ, and worth seeing if he’s in the area (which will be without doubt sometime in the distant future, as dates don’t seem to come regularly)."


fo'real...

TRIFORCE


I am pleased to announce that for the very first time, the Bletchley-Triforce is being whipped from its home turf and dashed oop north to the fine city of Leeds to play the fourth annual British Wildlife fest next March.
It will be the first time Action Beat, Hired Muscle and House of John Player have shared a space outside of MK. Not only that, there's an arse load of other good bands playing the weekend aswell!

For more tickets and info:

http://britishwildlifefestival4.blogspot.com/

Monday 14 September 2009

House of John Player


WELCOME! The ball is rolling with this blog thing now...I will update this with news and other surrounding things going on. ENJOY!

Dean

H O J P