The High Society

High Society, in association with Savage Reservation present…

Friday 9th November, 8.30pm
The Arts Organisation, Nottingham (which is located near the station, email us if you’re unsure where the venue is)
£4 on the door

THE FAMILY ELAN
The Family Elan began on horseback some time in the distant past. A young Tatar boy, seeking refuge from the windswept plains, suddenly came across a huge swathe of primeval forest. Hearing the sound of the wind rushing through the trees he began to imitate, and soon discovered that he was a pretty decent whistler, but this wasn’t quite enough. He jumped off his horse at the next convenient stop (what is now Eastern Poland) and fashioned a crude lute out of a fallen tree. Here were spent many years in solitary pleasure, living frugally from the land, and enjoying the bounties which the forest provided. He wrote many songs and improvised to his heart’s content. Growing old however he resolved to find a wife and have children, thus ensuring that the music continued after his passing. His descendents have spread like wild fire, some, like Stryek Hladowski, have remained in that corner of the world, leading the spiritual life, while others either through forced exile or a natural pioneering bent, such as Kazimiera Paliwoda, the fiddler Mikolaj Soltan, adoptive patriarch Anatol Krakowiec, and the pigeoner Wujek Wladzio (to name but a few) have toured extensively in Bialowieza, Belarus, Tatra/Carpathian mountains, Siberia, Palestine, Munchen, Bradford, Glasgow, the Highlands and Islands, always preserving the music, often in non-musical forms. Due to the cycle of life and death the family is currently under the gaurdianship of Chris Hladowski, who aims to archive the bulk of material, whilst struggling to transmit the spirit of his forebears. He receives valuable assistance from Hanna Tuulikki. One album is completed, having been recorded in Glasgow, summer/autumn of 2006, with the help of honourary family member John Cavanagh. It is called “The Stare of Dawn” and will be released October 2007
http://www.myspace.com/familyelan

THOUGHT FORMS
Recently added to the PORTISHEAD ATP festival this December so we’re very excited at the prospect. A three piece from Bath, Thought Forms are amazingly proficient, they will launch into a deceptive detour that quickly ascends into some marvellous pyramid of sound leaving you demanding more and more. A giddy concoction of Sonic Youth (circa ‘Evol’), Rothko, Hovercraft, Slowdive…Not to be missed.
“feedback-soaked diz-busting that recalls Major Stars shows of yore”
- Byron Coley, Wire magazine
http://www.myspace.com/thoughtforms

STRAP THE BUTTON
“Seamless shifts from conceptual, Cage-ian composition to resplendent guitar led symphonies, a band steadfast in their refusal to submit to categorisation” We’ll try to get around to writing our own description but the one KneeKnees wrote is more than apt for this semi-improvised who seem intent on trawling the oceans of prog, kraut and experimental music aimlessly (?) in search of refinement.
http://www.myspace.com/strapthebutton

EL HEATH
Mr. Heath who is also a member of Strap the Button (amongst others) will be playing an exclusive short solo set of Martenot Loops.
http://www.myspace.com/elheathmusic

For more details please visit http://www.myspace.com/savagereservation

COWTOWN (Leeds. Chinchilla Records.)
With a practically sold out 7″ on Golden Lab Records, and a totally sold out split 7″ on Bloodloss, Cowtown are about to release an album on Chinchilla-Tone (CD), Golden Lab (Vinyl), Catmobile (extra distribution) and On The Bone (downloads)

Delectable chunks of angular no/new wave noisy pop played by people who clearly know what they’re on about (their other bands include Tigers!, Brown Owl, Beards, G-Fang, The Dragon Rapide, Monster Killed By Laser etc). When people talk about Cowtown songs, they always go ‘I like the one with the Hard Days Night chord at the start, and the one that goes, ‘Deneh! Deneh! Deneh-duh-duh! Deneh! Deneh-duh-duh!’. A sound that touches upon Devo, The Beatles, Deerhoof and Link Wray, this is the juiciest piece of summer fruit you’ll taste all year, even if they have been frozen for consumption in late November..but it’ll come topped with the cream of newly added bonus vocals, from Ste (Pifco). PARTY BAND OF THE CENTURY!
http://www.chinchillaweb.co.uk/cowtown
http://www.myspace.com/cowtownsuperstars

CHOPS
Frewheeling dysfunctional big beat drums! Cosmic keys! Mind controlling tone generators! Limb shaking guitars! Shifted sax! Jazz lounge with uncomfortable sofas! Broken R’n’B! Calypso played naked in the fridge-freezer! Euphoric knees-up! Psychedelic forays into wonk pop! Fresh faced fortune tellers! Tear jerkers! Motivational speakers! One Love revivalists!

Forthcoming releases include a split 12″ on Upset! The Rhythm with someone as yet unknown, and a split DVD with Talibam! on Chinchilla-Tone. Their faces are also seen in popular beat combos such as Quack Quack, I Had An Inkling (EYE HAI), Sense Or This?, etc
http://www.chinchillaweb.co.uk/chops
http://www.myspace.com/mightychops

I LOVE SARAH
For those who missed ILS last time in Nottingham then you have another chance to redeem yourself. Making an impossible racked for a two-piece, they’re like The Fucking Champs on a bouncy castle. An impossibly fun gaggle of casio, saxophone, drums, guitar and smiles.
www.myspace.com/ilovesarahilovesarah

Thursday 22nd November, 8.30pm, Price TBC
The Bodega Social, 23 Pelham Street, Notts (map)

RADAR afterwards…

SINCABEZA
SOUVARIS
BEYOND THIS POINT ARE MONSTERS
Friday 2nd November, 8.30pm
Rose of England, Nottingham [map]
£4 on the door

All hail the genius that is James ‘Indiehorse’ Robert Birtwhistle for the poster. I think you’ll agree with us that it’s simply incredible!

Our facebook event provides you with more information. This should be a night to remember. It’s upstairs at the I-Bar (which is easily found (map) just down from Pelham Street, on the right before you turn left to go towards Broadway/Lee Rosy’s. We hope you can make it down, it’s going to be quite an evening that’s for sure…

Thank god for that! As you may have noticed our website is back from the morgue, so get reacquainted with it, get on the forums; there’s plenty of threads to get your teeth in… none more so than this one

Our fortnightly chill-out session, Quiet Night Out relocates to Ilkeston Road this Sunday (21st October); more specifically to no. 101, El Gordo’s (map), where we’ll host you all from 8pm ’till about midnight. Meet us all, make fancy decorated “High Socks” (Get it?), eat cake, indulge ourselves in the Sunday papers, have a couple of drinks (the desperados is particularly good), and swap a mix-tape! Plus, bring along a few CDs (or records, whichever) of your own if you fancy having a go(we’ll show you how to do it), or just sit and admire a perfect Sunday night soundtrack.

ALSO, our SHOWS page has recently been updated so have a look what we have lined up for you in the future, and watch out for more additions in the next week or so…

Supernight presents…

FRIDAY 28th SEPTEMBER @ The Maze, Mansfield Road

SJ ESAU (Anticon)
His biog reads like a pack of lies - freestyled with Massive Attack, won DMC Rap Battles aged 12, duetted with Lou Barlow… but releases on both Twisted Nerve and now Anticon would seem to back up such outlandish claims.
What is undeniably true is that Sam makes wonderful, warped folk akin to Beck, Animal Collective and Why?
We’ve been trying to book this guy for ages and we finally got him!

www.sjesau.co.uk

MONSTER BOBBY (Hypnote)
Signed to New York’s Hypnote, Bobby writes home-spun romantic tales for the shy indie kid in all of us.
These lo-fi solo recordings are a million miles away from his work with the Pipettes, the all-girl indie pop sensations he is credited with having masterminded. Look out there’s a monster coming!

www.myspace.com/monsterbobby

DOKTOR COCACOLA MCDONALDS
The good Doktor heads to Supernight from Derby via Dublin and the Edinburgh Festival.
He has recently been spotted singing in his pants on Jimmy Carr’s DVD, popping up on BBC 3, penning ballads for Gene Hackman and abusing innocent bystanders with a battered Casio keyboard.

www.myspace.com/doktorcocacolamcdonalds

PLUS we’ll have an exclusive set from special guest DJs Midlands Dance Club

All for £4!!!

www.myspace.com/supernight

Drowned in Sound Nottingham present:

Damo Suzuki

The Burning Hammer band (featuring members of Lords and Glissando)

Yo Chomsky!

Napoleon IIIrd

+DiS DJs

@ Junktion 7, November 10th

£5 advance, £6 NUS/flier, £7 doors otherwise

Mantile presents…

A Band - influential Nottingham based free-noise band that has included members Neil Campbell and Richard Youngs in the past.

Filthy Turd - “The prince of UK noise” has even been named by Thurston Moore as one of his recommended listens in the NME for chrissakes. Wow.

Johnny Scarr - http://myspace.com/johnnyscarr

Friday 28th September, 8pm

The Arts Organisation, £5