AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH / SUPER LUXURY / HUMANS AS ORNAMENTS

Big Spaceship Presents...

Welcoming to Leeds for the first time we have Liverpool 3-piece AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH.

'fuzz, dischords and vocal acrobatics'

Heavy noise rock in the vein of early nineties indie such as Dino Jr, Barkmarket

Currently touring the release of single, "Blossom":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5InD4_LFg

Supporting them are Leeds own mayhem inducing heavy rockers SUPER LUXURY.

New addition of Leeds' fuzz wielding sons of bitches HUMANS AS ORNAMENTS.

more bands to be announced soon...

CANAYA / OLD MAN LIZARD / EARTHMASS / BARRICADES

BIG SPACESHIP PRESENTS...

CANAYA
http://canaya.bandcamp.com/

These dudes have been going for about four years now and have all previously been in some awesome bands. Tangaroa, Year Of The Man, Imposters, Executive Distraction Tasks, Hot Prophecy and Daigoro. They have all individually mastered the art of heavy. There is nothing in Canaya's music that doesn't need to need to be there, this is pure refined balls out heavy metal.

OLD MAN LIZARD
http://oldmanlizard.bandcamp.com/album/old-man-lizard

Riff heavy 3 piece from Suffolk. Their self titled release needs to be in your collection, recorded in an old factory with some sweet fuzzed out drive, meandering guitar licks and some nice dynamic while the whole thing sounds kind of sleazy.

EARTHMASS
http://earthmassband.com/

Earthmass began in 2012 and provide massive doses of heavy prog. In April of last year they released Lunar Dawn (Keep, Relics & Ritual) a tremendous first release displaying waves of spacey drone edged with a folk(y) haunting vocal intermittently crushed by a release of war bound riff.

BARRICADES
http://barricadesnoise.bandcamp.com/album/homeward-demo

Opening the show will be Leeds 5 piece post-metal/sludge machine BARICADES. Their demo 'homeward' is aggressive as fuck to begin with only to swerve though some nice melodic delayed guitar. Despite these moments of release, after listening to the whole thing I kind of feel like some ruckus. The demo is available on their bandcamp, name your price.

1st band about 8:30...ish
£4 entry


 

BS GIG: Telepathy / Himself / Cattle

Big Spaceships Presents...

It would appear that we may have smashed this gig together, sourcing four completely different bands as the main ingredients to some kind of riff soup, accompanied by a bread roll, buttered in a musical spread, churned in the mill of Rock.

So come join us aboard the Big Spaceship, spoon in hand, and prepare yourselves to enter a void of arcane vibrations....


TELEPATHY

These four gentlemen will be travelling light-years to come fourth and play this gig, from the distant land of Colchester. Bringing with them a metallic instrumental, prog offering of their own interpretation. Their EP, Fracture (available for free download from their bandcamp) is a culmination of mellow, dreamy prog crecendoes, some solid grooves and some spectacular fist in the air headbanging moments. It would be pretty daft to pass up a free download of this magnitude.

HIMSELF

And now for something completely different... 5 dudes from YORKSHIIIRE known as Himself, each member contributes to the vocal arrangment as well as playing an instrument, which lends itself kindly to the bands erratic pop sensibilities and comedic narrative. It would seem that some of the best bands around are the ones that don’t take themselves too seriously and effortlessly achieve a sound that many try very hard to accomplish. A few guys having a laugh + Talent = Awesome band. Its for that reason that you will see Himself playing gigs with bands of completely different stylings, regardless of whether you think they fit on the bill or not, this is because, all sub genres aside, they’re just really fuckin good.

CATTLE

Cattle are not your average 4/4 rock 'n' roll band. They formed earlier this year with nothing and everything in mind. Their music is a wobbly wheeled shopping trolly laden with noisy jazz and question mark ending riffs, taking influence from each aisle of the supermarket and producing a chunky stew soaked in a base of rhythmic precision and heavily seasoned with screaming feed back and fuzz groove.

First band around 8pm

400p

Gig: LIMB / BLACK MOTH / THRONE

Come gather round children and witness the day of the holy Sabbat. We here at the Big Spaceship sect are very proud to present a juicy night of psychedelic doom-vibes.

LIMB
Make sure you have acquired the relevant talismans for this daemonic group of heathens, for you will need every kind of protection (especially ear) against the evil forces emanating from the sound of this band. It is Limb's first time out of their lairs into the northern promised land of Leeds and they surely must be preparing well to meet the demands of Leeds' ghastly gig goers.
Limb hail from London and play dirgey sludge ridden doom for fans of Weedeater, Acid King and Electric Wizard.
Download their demo for free here:
http://limbtheband.bandcamp.com/

BS Gig: ANTA / FCOLOSSUS / MHG / CLEFT

Traversing through the realms of the unknown, Big Spaceship uncovered something of a rare find. While meandering through Equine star sector I, an anomalous green moon appeared instantaneously. With the nature of its spontaneous appearance, the crew on the Big Spaceship were imediately urged to explore...this is what we found...

A couple of Big Spaceship gigs coming up: run,WALK! & Wet Nuns

run,WALK! (Holy Roar)
http://runwalk.bandcamp.com/album/peekay
Noisey hardcore band run,WALK! have been soldiers of the riff for quite sometime and have maintained an experimental and brutal approach to their music since their formation. These guys are no strangers to Leeds but if you have yet to see them play then be sure to check them out.

ANTARES (Holy Roar)
http://www.facebook.com/enjoyantares?sk=app_178091127385
These monsters of physical technicality will warp your fragile mind with their chaotic battery of progressive hardcore from the unfathomable realms of confusion. One sentence. That is all.

WE'LL DIE SMILING
http://welldiesmiling.bandcamp.com/
Awesome Leeds based 3 piece of the progressive hardcore persuasion, We'll Die Smiling have been around for a while and every now and again releasing an absolute fuckin' gem, never failing to impress with a creative streak that is apparent in many aspects of their music.

NO COAST
http://www.facebook.com/nocoastband?sk=app_178091127385
No Coast are a relatively new band but have set their standard from the very start. Their music is a cocktail of brutal punk hardcore grind and aggressive as fuck. Only one song available on their facebook page but be sure to give it a listen and make sure you come and see them play.

Lavotchkin / Humanfly / Beards / False Flags @ Santiagos, Leeds. 01/10/11

Big Spaceship Presents:

A NIGHT DEDICATED TO TINNITUS
1st October, @ Santiagos Bar, Leeds

Lavotchkin
Unrelenting sludgey post-hardcore from Newcastle. These guys have been to Leeds and ripped it up a few times in the past, but that doesn't mean that this time is any different. Their album 'Widow Country' has had a bit of time to sink in since summer last year and with a new split 7" with Leeds metallers End To Empires out now, what better time to release their blood-soaked, raging filth on the city of Leeds once again. If you are a bit shy, and a bit reserved, I would probably leave that behind because by the first song you will be pounding your sodden chest with fist clenched, screaming at your relative counterpart from across the room.
They have been described as "possibly the closest thing you will ever get to a UK equivalent to Botch".

Russell and the Wolves // Meddicine // ASSS

Low Culture and Big Spaceship Presents:

Saturday 6th August
Santiago’s, Grand Arcade, Leeds
...Doors 8.00pm

In celebration of the new split EP between ASSS and Meddicine, we present:

RUSSELL AND THE WOLVES

Almighty, well you’ll be goddamned. This band are literally the shit! Bluesy filth churned out at speed with a scary front man, what more could you ask for?

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/russellandthewolvesband?sk=app_178091127385

Well, we also have:

MEDDICINE

Describing herself as ‘psychedelic nostalgia dance’, others have called her Grave Wave, we say whatever you’re into. The fact is that Meddicine’s creepy electronic is always chilling and cinematic with hints of Kraut here and there. A one girl Suicide Machine.

http://www.meddicine.net/

and the equally impressive:

A S S S

Hailing From Portland, Oregon, A S S S deal in minimal and deliciously bleak Electro/post-punk. Their songs emerge like soviet blocks of synths and devolve into howling industrial noise.

Think somewhere between Factory Floor and A Place To Bury Strangers.

http://thisplaceisawreck.b​logspot.com/

Tickets: 4 adv (5 otd)

Jumbo, Crash and WeGotTickets link here: http://www.wegottickets.co​m/event/126936

Hope to see you there!

http://bigspaceshippresent​s.blogspot.com/

http://www.wearelowculture​.com/


words by NLK

Big Spaceship Presents: Pyramido/Beards/More Than A Joke/Curbcrawl/Magpyes

Click to attend the Facefuck event here

Big Spaceship Presents:

PYRAMIDO (swe)
Indelible barbarians hailing from the European capitol of doom. They have put down their axes and chalices to treat UK to a slice of their apocalyptic waves. They seamlessly blend numerous metal genres within their music; from doom, crust and sludge and all other connotations associated with these ever-increasing terms. Their latest album "Salt" is being released on Total Rust Records to name but one of their various label outputs...

http://www.myspace.com/pyramidodoom

BEARDS
Leeds' finest contrapuntal, interdimensionally challenging group shine a light on this night of doom to enrich listeners with more colourful collection of sound-waves. Compound time signatures aplenty, super weird harmonies and thick tonal textures, Beards shall boggle and discombobulate your peripheries and stretch your imaginations to oblivion.
Beards formed in Leeds in 2007 and have toured the UK & Europe several times. Their first album Brick by Boulder is out on Ouse.

http://www.myspace.com/beards2000

MORE THAN A JOKE
This band employ more than enough noise, more than enough energy and more than enough speed to make you leave with your ears oozing generic matter. Listening to their album "Trojan Whores" for the first time the other week, it has left me very much looking forward to a display of experimentally driven hardcore and whateverthefuckyouwannacallit-core on the night. Think of a no-nonsense Melt Banana and you're probably no where near...

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/morethanajoke?sk=info

CURBCRAWL
Incredibly gnarly grind-core from Leeds. Deploy your emotions at the door and vacate the premises re-programmed to kill. I hear remnants of black and death metal within their debauched undulating passages. Unearthly guttural vocals, penetrating riffage and incessantly pounding blast beats and breakdowns; a lot to fit into just over a minute's worth of music.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Curb-Crawl/108683419163239?sk=app_178091127385

MAGPYES
Onslaught, aggression, assailment, assault, blitz, charge, incursion, invasion, offensive. Magpyes offer all this with a kind helping of pleasantry. Insanely heavy Death/ Grind band from Leeds/ Southport. Not to be missed!

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/Magpyes?sk=app_2405167945

Check out this hilarious video for the song "Mother Ruin" here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fV9sjNwgjY

Doors 19:30

First band 20:00

£4

TOM
BS

BRUTAL DAY OUT 1

Big Spaceship & Low Culture Presents…

BRUTAL DAY OUT
Saturday 4th June @ Santiago’s, Leeds

Big Spaceship, Low Culture and Godisdad have joined forces in an effort to blow your face clean off!

A day of savage riff worshiping bands displaying all forms of brutality that will lacerate you mental den and leave you bleeding from every orifice while still begging for more. If loud, heavy and reasonable priced is your kind of deal then this is the event for you.

Throughout the day we will be showcasing 8 bands followed by a DJ set from Milky boy Matt Reid (Hawk Eyes) as well has black metal face painting and homemade confectionery in the form of death metal cupcakes.

Please note: due to the limited capacity of Santiagos we will be using a ‘one in one out’ policy later on in the day.

Tickets a bargainous £5 adv, £6 on the door.

Available from Jumbo records (leeds) and Crash records (leeds) or from We Got Tickets

WE GOT TICKETS LINK

Blast Off @ 2:30

HEY COLOSSUS (riot season)
The headliners of the day will be traveling to Leeds for the first time in light years to grace the stage with their monolithic evil drone. Hey Colossus are not your average doom band, they seem to have re-crafted the genre into the darkest psychedelic sound art you could possibly imagine, Ostracised from structure and form, but. If you listen carefully beneath the saturated malice of their music you will find a groove that will leave you rocking backwards and forwards in a puddle of your own piss.

listen to Hey Colossus here

BLACK MASS (holy roar!)
In 1983 Thrash Metal jumped in to a Delorian, travelled to the future, combined the best of extreame music from both times and created Black Mass. This four-headed bastard child of Metal is everything that Grind/Hardcore should be! Chaotic shouting vocals, hard hitting blast beats with riffs and beat downs a plenty. These guys have the aggression of Slayer and the party vibes of Municipal Waste, if you think you can handle that, I am sure they would like to see you try.

listen to Black Mass here

CASTROVALVA (brew)
If you ever have a party then you should definitely hire these guys to play. Their cocktail of hip-hop breaks, mental vocals, electronic madness and possibly the phattest bass guitar you’ve ever heard, sounds like the residents of a mental asylum who have been let loose in a Whacky Warehouse armed with synthesised explosives and a dosage of mind altering narcotics that could kill a mule. Castrovalva’s unique musical battery will keep you dancing for a week.

listen to Castrovalva here

ANTARES (holy roar!)
In order to comprehend this band, one must posses the mental composition of an astral being; these guys could bench press the solar system with their fingertips while completing algebra equations with their guitars. “I’ve heard this fiddly fret wanking before” I hear you cry. Bullshit! I guaran-damn-tee you haven’t witnessed technical ability being executed like this. Antares will rock your tits off and scatty vocalist Steve Watts will make damn sure you get involved.

listen to Antares here

WIZARDS BEARD (PsycheDOOMelic)
Wizards Beard have just released their debut album on PsycheDOOMelic appropriately entitled ‘Pure Filth’, which just so happens to be the only way to describe this band; Pure in a sense that their music remains uncontaminated by the usual swill you find in Metal these days and Filth in every sense of the word, like you just got brutally fuct in every hole by the arch angel of doom and shamelessly loved every minute of it. If you are unsure of the meaning of Riff, then make sure you come down and see Wizards Beard showing you how its done.

listen to Wizards Beard here

APPLE CANNON
There is no roll here, just rock n riff. You will be inevitably sucked into their fierce groove and cosmic intensity, and without realising it you will find yourselves amidst a crowed of drones nodding along in unison to the cannons beat. The unanimity of this friendly scouse two-piece is not to be questioned as they bestow you with an energetic performance of tailored riffage and inexorable stoner groove.

listen to Apple Cannon here

ETAI KESHIKI
The solidarity of this band is contagious. Etai Keshiki will terrorise you in utterly unfathomable ways, leaving the words ‘Etai or Die’ etched into the back of your mind. These guys care not of your judgement or approval, you will simply be presented with a ghastly display of power and seismic waves of pandemonium that reach deep into your conscience an remove anything that doesn’t need to be there.

listen to Etai Keshiki here

MOTHER/DESTROYER
If you haven’t already witnessed the splendour of this fine new band of riff merchants then make sure you get down early. Mother/Destroyer have recently pounced upon the city of Leeds without warning to give a swift dosage of freshness. Its difficult to pin these guys down they kinda have everything you needs. Riff, groove, funk, good vibes it’s all there. Mother/Destroyer will be the perfect unit to cut the ribbon and open the gates on Brutal Day Out.

listen to Mother/Destroyer here

Dan
BS