Originally written by Sean Adams · 5 June 2003
They sweat, they scream, they set fire to the world to put things in a better light, they throw anglular chord craziness into pits of noizes and bury 'em with rants. Brighton's Cat On Form may be dogged by lazy comparisons to some of the finest bands in recent times (Fugazi, Icarus Line) but don't for one second think there's anything remotely compromised or predictable or unexciting about two topless guys wrestling with guitars, spewing their souls into microphones, whilst a girl behind them's smashing drums like the skulls of sexist lads and another guy's thundering out bass. The COF live show is the full-on assualt we've been promised, here on earth to make up for all those let downs!
Their debut album 'set them on fire with their own matches' is released Monday 16th June in the UK on Southern. You come buy it at one of their shows!
We recommend all bands go along and get inspired, and anyone with a inclination for noize, be it punk, hardcore, eM* or whatever, just go, to..
June 11th London 93 Feet East • Ten Grand 13th Brighton Freebutt • Proudhon + Human Bomb OVER 16s 14th Winchester Railway Inn • castro 15th Exeter Cavern • jarcrew ALL AGES 16th Bristol The Croft • Big Joan 17th Cardiff Barfly • Day of The Locust 19th Limerick High Stool • with somedays better 20th Dublin Ballroom of Romance • tracer AMC 21st Belfast Giros • Yakuza 23rd Liverpool Zanzibar • Lapsus Linguae +The Mighty Saguaro 24th Nottingham Rescue Rooms • Lapsus linguae OVER 14s 25th Manchester Mumbo Arts Centre • Lapsus Linguae + The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg ALL AGES 26th Newcastle The Cluny • Lapsus linguae 27th Aberdeen Dr Drake's • Masamune OVER 14s 28th Glasgow Nice n Sleazy's • Sluts of trust 30th Leeds Royal Park • Snail Racing
July 1th Oxford The Cellar • Querelle 3rd Brighton Freebutt • Off Minor OVER 16s 7th Kingston Peel • Capdown OVER 16s
All of these shows are OVER18 unless it says otherwise (sorry). Tho' if you look older or can blag a fake ID or pull the person on the door the week before, you should be able to sneak in.
DiScuss: DiS knows who some of these bands playing with COF are, and has heard the names of others, but come on underground archivers, tell us and the world how great these bands are, who they are, etc..