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October 30th
October 31st November 1st 2003CE This Lyric Night Special sees Julian Cope bring together an array of special guests to create three different evenings of music and associated events. Featuring Cope and his band performing their first electric shows since 1996CE, this will be a 3-day series of proto-metal, underground grooves, and rare rock'n'roll footage. Enjoy music of shamanistic powers in the comfort of the Lyric's intimate beauty and lush acoustics. All tickets £20 (£9 limited availability) |
 (Oct 30th, 31st & Nov 1st) Is it really 25 years to the month since Cope's debut 45 ("Sleeping Gas") was recorded? Yup, November 1978! From the mind-death proto-metal of "Reynard the Fox" to the Louie Louie of "World Shut Your Mouth", via such refusenik works as Autogeddon, The Modern Antiquarian, Fried, Krautrocksampler and countless more, Droolian Cope has always been the voice of the post-ironic generation. And with such gems as Let Me Speak to the Driver, The Megalithic European and Citizen Cain'd still to come, we gots to ask ourselves whether there's any stopping his sustaining mantra: "Education! Education! Education!" |
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(Oct 31st)Several all-nighters at the Leeds Dronadrome have featured this magnificent gloop troupe exclusively. Adam Davenport, Julian Bradley, Neil Campbell, Michael Flower and Bridget Hayden create a surging and propellent drone of ass-fixiating toxication. By now, you'll all know their albums (Dabbling with Gravity & Who You Are, Lino Hi, Versatile Arab Chord Chart, etc) and agree when I say I'd rather have a full-frontal lobotomy than a full bottle in front of me. |
 (Nov 1st) Doom and Gloom from Seattle's grey lords Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley. These sacred twins of ambulent grudge-grunge death-trudge sludgecore will fuse your inner butt walls together and break on through to the other side, so bring your portable commode. Their albums (OO Void, White 1, Flight of the Behemoth, Grimrobe) are Al-Things of underground legend. 'Scuse me while I kiss these guys! |
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(Oct 30th)As the swamps of Massachusetts were always an in-breeding ground for dyslexic post-Shaggsian crab-skank, perhaps it's only to be expected that this 16-wheeler should have hauled ass from said location. Messrs. Moloney, Bohill, Cooper, Franklin, Orleans, Pontius, Thomas, Critter and Cousin Rich have led us to expect the world. However, only the truly deluded could have anticipated SUNBURNED's exceptional hybrid of Miles Davis' Dark Magus and Captain Beefheart's Mirror Man. |
 At 72, Colin Wilson (The Outsider, The Occult, Mysteries, etc.) has still found the time to add spoken word to this project run by writer Welbourn Tekh and Brain Donor's legendary guitarist Doggen. This epic eulogy to the psychic researcher TC-Lethbridge is a bizarre stew of lecture, guitar pyrotechnics, rant and troublefunk. More Dr. John than Dr. Johnson. |
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(Oct 31st)Sampling a whole Stooges LP may have seemed like a bad career move back in the Winter of '02, especially as the powers-that-be insisted upon its immediate deletion. However, McGrail's Raw Power Suite is destined to become a 21st century download classic. Now a member of Julian Cope's L.A.M.F., McGrail finally unleashes tracks from his new album Collecting Earthquakes (Yerkrasharzhakagh) and makes Boris, Leviathan, Earth and Slomo seem like yesterday's news. |
ROCK'N'ROLL MOVIES TOO!!!
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ROME WASN'T BURNED IN A DAY
DAY 1: OCTOBER 30TH
JULIAN COPE BANDSUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN Films to include: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS (1971) VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR (1971) DAY 2: OCTOBER 31ST
JULIAN COPE BANDVIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA HOLY McGRAIL Films to include: LES RALLIZES DENUDES (1970-76) AMON DÜÜL 2 (1971) DAY 3: NOVEMBER 1ST
JULIAN COPE BANDSUNN 0))) Performance & Lecture from: THE SONS OF TC-LETHBRIDGE Film: KISS performing in 1975 Includes "Deuce", "Parasite" & "Strutter"!!! PLUS! Every night:
SETH MAN'S QUAD ROOMwith Black Sabbath's Paranoid album on heavy rotation |
October 30th - 7.45 pm October 31st - 7.45 pm November 1st - 5.00 pm Tickets: £20/£9 (limited availability) Ticket Office: 08700 500 511 (no booking fees) Book Online www.lyric.co.uk (no booking fees) 24 Hour Booking: Ticketweb 08700 600 100 (fees apply: up to £1.50 per ticket, plus £1.25 postage fee) Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, King Street, London, W6 0QL |
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