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  • Genre: Alternative / Post punk / Rock

    Location London, Please select your region., Un

    Profile Views: 10077

    Last Login: 8/21/2011

    Member Since 4/27/2006

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <title></title> <meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer"> <meta name="CocoaVersion" content="949.54"> </head> <body> <p>THIS BAND IS BETTER THAN SEX. FORMED TWO YEARS AGO WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF PUTTING THE ROCK BACK INTO ROCK-N-ROLL, ITS MEMBERS ARE A DELICIOUS BLEND OF THE MAD AND THE MIRACULOUS... </p> <p><br></p> <p> SIBYL MADRIGAL, THE GROUP'S LYRICIST AND SINGER, IS AN INFAMOUS PERFORMANCE POET WHO HAS WORKED WITH PLAYERS INCLUDING LOL COXHILL, PAUL ROGERS, PAT THOMAS AND ALEX WARD FOR MANY YEARS. HER WORK HAS SHOCKED AND DELIGHTED DISCERNING AUDIENCES FROM DALLAS TO NEW YORK TO LONDON TO EDINBURGH TO AMSTERDAM... </p> <p><br></p> <p>ON DRUMS, LEE MORRIS IS ARGUABLY THE MOST BITCHIN POWER DRUMMER IN THE WORLD OF ROCK ... ALEX WARD, THE GROUP'S GUITARIST, DISCOVERED AT THE TENDER AGE OF 14 BY THE LATE GREAT DEREK BAILEY, WAS BORN TO PLAY. A SICKENINGLY TALENTED MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST WHO HAS PLAYED WITH EUGENE CHADBOURNE AND COME TO THE ATTENTION OF ANYONE OF NOTE, HIS GUITAR PLAYING IS GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU COME. ALEX IS CURRENTLY PLAYING SAXOPHONE FOR THE GUILLEMOTS...</p> <p><br></p> <p>ON BASS THE BAND FEATURES THE MOODY MAGIC OF DARREN MORRIS, WHO HAS WORKED WITH DJS AND PRODUCERS BOTH IN LONDON AND NEW YORK INCLUDING THE LIKES OF ASHLEY BEEDLE, TIM GOLDSWORTHY (DFA RECORDS AND UNKLE), DAVID HOLMES, PHIL MOSSMAN (LCD SOUNDSYSTEM AND SABRES OF PARADISE), PRIMAL SCREAM AND X-PRESS 2. HIS BASS BEATS LIKE THE VERY PULSE OF GOD'S MAMA'S OWN HEART. </p> <p><br></p> <p>THE FIRST CD IS NOW RECORDED AND ART WORK READY AND AWAITING THE RIGHT LABEL TO PICK IT UP. WE ARE THE TIGHTEST, MIGHTIEST, STRANGEST, FUNNIEST BAND TO BEND THE ROCK WORLD IN YEARS, AT LEAST SINCE JANIS JOPLIN'S FIRST FURTIVE FUMBLINGS WITH PATTI SMITH. </p> <p><br></p> <p>GOD'S MAMA BLESSES YOU.</p> </body> </html>

  • Members

    Sibyl Madrigal - vocals Alex Ward - guitar Darren Morris - bass Lee Morris - drums

  • Influences

    Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Stickmen With Rayguns, Fuck Off Batman, The Klinker club (London N1), Scott Joplin, The Stooges, Fats Domino, Shellac/Rapeman, Charles Mingus, Derek Bailey, Jesus Lizard, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Lol Coxhill, Hugh Metcalfe, Wm. Shakespeare, Kafka, Patti Smith, Birthday Party, East Bay Ray, Grag Gian, Eugene Chadbourne, Arto Lindsay ,

  • Sounds Like

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <title></title> <meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer"> <meta name="CocoaVersion" content="949.54"> </head> <body> <p>God’s Mama, <i>God’s Mama</i> (SM Press, 2010)</p> <p> </p> <p>It’s tempting to use Reviewer’s Algebra for this – “Lydia Lunch fronts The Birthday Party”, say – because, God’s Honest Truth, it’s the sound of the <i>vagina dentata</i> gnashing. Where so many female vocalists in Really Heavy Bands play on the contrast with whispers, drawls, or exaggerated girlishness, Sibyl Madrigal, a Texan performance poet, growls and snarls to match the post-punk / slowcore grind, making this a mixture of Swampland and Spiderland. That said, the opening salvo are explosive; Alex Ward’s chorus guitars on ‘Death on the NHS’ shriek like an incoming missile, before the verse guitars scrape metal on metal, PiL- or GO4-style. Taking a cue from Angela Carter, ‘Just Stephen’ puts the blood and guts back into fairy tales – it’s <i>Psycho</i> merged with “There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”, soundtracked by Slint, but small details like the mad matriarch’s injunction against “big naughty bad” and Stephen’s “wibbley-wobbley dance” are what make this sound fresh. Next up, ‘Carpet Shark’ nails the sensation of a bad trip in two words and a creeping bassline. Throughout, Madrigal proves herself relentlessly inventive in her iconoclasm: ‘Mad MacB’s Love Lament’ drops the witchiness for a hideous falsetto, something like the deformed inner child of X-Factor contestants squealing for attention, or the song Lynch thought too horrible for the Lady in the Radiator to sing. We’ve already had one take on Bad Motherhood (‘Just Stephen’) but ‘Sow Souwester’ doesn’t even humanize this particular Earth Mother; over a freeform backing, Madrigal oinks and grunts the apotheosis of the sow-goddess. Finally, ‘We Come from Fish’ brings everything together: it’s a refutation of Creationism, a shamanic dive into the pre-conscious, a reclamation of hatewords. Plus, it rocks as hard as Slint, Shellac, Codeine, Come. 20 years ago, Kim Gordon deadpanned: “England didn’t invent punk-rock; girls did.” True, the girls of this decade’s post-punk revival have lasted longer than most, but God’s Mama point to the flaw: where are the older Women making punk?</p> <p> </p> </body> </html>

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THIS BAND IS BETTER THAN SEX. FORMED TWO YEARS AGO WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF PUTTING THE ROCK BACK INTO ROCK-N-ROLL, ITS MEMBERS ARE A DELICIOUS BLEND OF THE MAD AND THE MIRACULOUS...


SIBYL MADRIGAL, THE GROUP'S LYRICIST AND SINGER, IS AN INFAMOUS PERFORMANCE POET WHO HAS WORKED WITH PLAYERS INCLUDING LOL COXHILL, PAUL ROGERS, PAT THOMAS AND ALEX WARD FOR MANY YEARS. HER WORK HAS SHOCKED AND DELIGHTED DISCERNING AUDIENCES FROM DALLAS TO NEW YORK TO LONDON TO EDINBURGH TO AMSTERDAM...


ON DRUMS, LEE MORRIS IS ARGUABLY THE MOST BITCHIN POWER DRUMMER IN THE WORLD OF ROCK ... ALEX WARD, THE GROUP'S GUITARIST, DISCOVERED AT THE TENDER AGE OF 14 BY THE LATE GREAT DEREK BAILEY, WAS BORN TO PLAY. A SICKENINGLY TALENTED MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST WHO HAS PLAYED WITH EUGENE CHADBOURNE AND COME TO THE ATTENTION OF ANYONE OF NOTE, HIS GUITAR PLAYING IS GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU COME. ALEX IS CURRENTLY PLAYING SAXOPHONE FOR THE GUILLEMOTS...


ON BASS THE BAND FEATURES THE MOODY MAGIC OF DARREN MORRIS, WHO HAS WORKED WITH DJS AND PRODUCERS BOTH IN LONDON AND NEW YORK INCLUDING THE LIKES OF ASHLEY BEEDLE, TIM GOLDSWORTHY (DFA RECORDS AND UNKLE), DAVID HOLMES, PHIL MOSSMAN (LCD SOUNDSYSTEM AND SABRES OF PARADISE), PRIMAL SCREAM AND X-PRESS 2. HIS BASS BEATS LIKE THE VERY PULSE OF GOD'S MAMA'S OWN HEART.


THE FIRST CD IS NOW RECORDED AND ART WORK READY AND AWAITING THE RIGHT LABEL TO PICK IT UP. WE ARE THE TIGHTEST, MIGHTIEST, STRANGEST, FUNNIEST BAND TO BEND THE ROCK WORLD IN YEARS, AT LEAST SINCE JANIS JOPLIN'S FIRST FURTIVE FUMBLINGS WITH PATTI SMITH.


GOD'S MAMA BLESSES YOU.

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Member Since:

April 27, 2006

Influences:

Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Stickmen With Rayguns, Fuck Off Batman, The Klinker club (London N1), Scott Joplin, The Stooges, Fats Domino, Shellac/Rapeman, Charles Mingus, Derek Bailey, Jesus Lizard, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Lol Coxhill, Hugh Metcalfe, Wm. Shakespeare, Kafka, Patti Smith, Birthday Party, East Bay Ray, Grag Gian, Eugene Chadbourne, Arto Lindsay ,

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