Originally written by Gareth Dobson · 10 June 2004
And you can buy Public Service Broadcast Number Four at the show (see below for tracklisting).
The Guff: Drowned in Sound.com & 93 Live in association with Smalltown America Records presents:
Brave New Ideas #6
Fighting With Wire
La Momo
Santo El Diablo
We Will Be Pilots
93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London, E1 020 7247 3293 www.93feeteast.co.uk
To mark the release of volume 4 in the series of Public Service Broadcast compilation albums, Jetplane Landing's Smalltown America Records will be hijacking Drowned In Sound's monthly Brave New Ideas showcase of the UK's most exciting new bands for a special launch night with live performances from four of the acts included on the new record.
Fighting With Wire Hotly tipped BBC Northern Ireland favourites featuring Jetplane Landing guitarist Cahir O'Doherty; jagged riff-laden punk redolent of Helmet's grit and momentum while hinting at the pop sensibilities of Sugar.
La Momo Gordon Raphael produced and Everett True approved goodness from this 2 boy/2 girl fusion of Detroit garage, krautrock and guitar-based electro.
Santo El Diablo Occupying a previously undiscovered land between the Beta Band and Seafood, Santo ED provide feedback driven, dark & tribal sounding power pop by parts dreamily beautiful and subtly unsettling. Not for those with a weak musical taste.
We Will Be Pilots Idly compared by some to 'Captain'-era Idlewild chomping on a bunch of My Bloody Valentine records, WWBP are young, noisy, scraggy chancers swimming in the sea of indie toilet circuit queens and vagabonds.
And the tracklisting for the new compilation is:
1. oxford collapse - for buds, not boston 2. la mômo - lobôtopop 3. the mono effect - our way home 4. dealership - pure of heart 5. daughters courageous - the saddest ever 6. fighting with wire - first time we met 7. school for the dead - uncomfortable 8. penniless - story of a punk 9. seedling - dutch disease 10. santo el diablo - santos are el diablo 11. we will be pilots - we are not the doctors 12. dorlene love - dl rumble 13. now - abominatrx 14. the new shapes - just paranoid 15. hooker - you & i 16. the hindi guns - goin' to portland 17. venetian love triangle - march of the confederate 18. the half rabbits - spooked 19. hyper kinako - bika lika 20. soma - cancel your future 21. the furious sleep - among the wolves 22. alice & the enemies - touching boys (in supermarkets) 23. front face pancake - grampasex
Photo by Graham Smith.