EVENT:
THE SONAR YEN
‘SLOW PICTURE’ ALBUM LAUNCH
VENUE:
STAR &
GARTER, 18-20 FAIRFIELD ST, MANCHESTER
M1 2QF
Tel. 0161 273
6726 Fax. 0161 272 8704 email. staff@starandgarter.co.uk www/starandgarter.co.uk
Describing
Slow Picture is the same as pouring our sensibility into the funeral urn
instead of hurling it far off, in violent spasms of action and creation. Do you wish to waste all your best powers in
this eternal and futile worship of the past, from which you emerge fatally
exhausted, shrunken, beaten down?
In truth I
tell you that daily exposure to radio, television, and the internet (cemeteries
of empty exertion, Calvaries of crucified dreams, registries of aborted
beginnings!) are as damaging as the prolonged supervision by some of certain
young people drunk with their talent and their ambitious wills. When the future is barred to them, the admirable
past may be a solace for the ills of the moribund, the sickly, the prisoner…But
we want no part of it, the past, we the young and strong The Sonar Yen!
So let them
come, Blacks Dogs & Irish more than welcome on this St Patricks night...to
see and hear…
The Forest:
Television obsessed jerks getting wise to Richard Hell and the Buzzcocks and
gobbing their approval with great uncomplicated riffs and yelps.
The Longcut:
Dry mouthed post-natal punks discipline their shouty-bastard- supermarket-kid
sound, live on stage with electrode induced dancing. (The drummer sings-Ed)
Big Joan:
Spaz-punk telephone abusers from Bristol mix airy trip hop melodies with sexy
Germanic riot girrl rants. Alexander
Graham Bell would turn in his grave and he didn’t even invent the damn thing,
it was some Italian bloke…bovvered, that’s a history lesson and Big Joan wagged
that class, are you listening at the back, you gluey-eyed, retro-rock dunce?
THE SONAR YEN. Sometime “glammed up noise-core
switchback” onetime “scally space rock”(!) and oft-times plain old “unsigned”.
If you’re still in the dark, come down on the night and have it spelt out for
you. Playing some of the tunes from the album, some old, some new, some
borrowed (from the most credible of influences I assure you Mr Purist, sir)
and…the album cover is blue(ish). If you like.
Slow Picture, the debut album from The Sonar Yen will be
available exclusively to buy for the special one night only price of £5. True
fans buy two copies!
They will come
from far away, from every quarter, dancing to the winged cadence of their first
heard songs, flexing the hooked claws of predators, sniffing doglike at the
doors..and they’ll storm around us, panting with scorn and anguish, and all of
them, exasperated by our proud daring, will hurtle to hear us, driven by a hatred
the more implacable the more their hearts will be drunk with love and
admiration for us.
Music strong
and sane will break our radiantly in their ears.
DOORS:
8pm Until Late
£5 - Door
GENERAL EVENT INFO:
www.thesonaryen.co.uk
PRESS /
CONTACTS:
Matthew Long
Reverence
07791 272 370
0161 226 7756
mathlong@hotmail.com