Revolverines is a new London-based psych garage duo, formed by singer Zofia Filozofia and guitarist Deniz Erdal. Their music compromises between raw rock’n’roll, shoegaze and dark psychedelia. Heavily inspired by surrealist cinema and dangerous minds like Hunter S. Thompson,  Revolverines creates a disturbing and holy sound.

“Probably Nottingham’s ninth best one-man dog-related electro-industrial-rock music act around”

Dog Explosion began in 2011 in Nottingham when ‘music enthusiast’ Oliver Lovley decided to perform his electronic & vocal songs at an open mic night at The Maze on Mansfield Road. Suitably encouraged Oliver purchased his now famous stuffed dog mascot to give him comfort onstage and to discourage troublemakers. Over the years Dog Explosion have played at craft fairs to audiences of fighting children, in car parks to confused real ale drinkers, in living rooms to clusters of baked students and at political fundraisers for sparse audiences of head-banging folk music socialists. 
The Music  If we can imagine a highly stressed office worker having sat on an overcrowded train for three hours without bottle of water on a damp seat within the vicinity of the smell of vomit, and then turning up to perform the music this journey has inspired, we have an accurate flavour of the music of Dog Explosion. 
But whatever ‘they’ say, Dog Explosion probably remains Nottingham’s ninth best one-man dog-related electro-industrial-rock music act around!

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Good Day Father is a collaboration between Brian Futter from Catherine Wheel and Tanya Donelly from Belly. Don’t expect a trip down memory lane. While their alternative rock and shoegaze musical heritage trickles through, there’s a fresh deluge of sound, with lyrics mining the dark side of life’s evocative experiences.

Dark Star were an English rock band from London whose music mixed dark psychedelica with a dub undertow and noisy effects-laden guitar. 

Christian "Bic" Hayes, Laurence O'Keefe and David Francolini, all former members of Levitation, formed Dark Star in 1998 and signed to the now defunct Harvest Records, the progressive rock subsidiary of EMI. 

Dark Star released several EPs and a debut album Twenty Twenty Sound, produced by Steve Lillywhite. Their explosive live performances, usually with a stage decorated with fairy lights, attracted a dedicated following. The band's common musical influence was Public Image Limited. In 2000, the band had two top 40 singles with re-releases of "Graceadelica" and "I Am The Sun", both from their debut album.

Following the touring and promotion of Twenty Twenty Sound, the band entered the studio to record the follow up. Strangers And Madmen was mooted as the lead off single and received its first play on The Evening Session, hosted by Steve Lamacq. Due to a change in personnel at EMI and a general lack of interest from the label in the new material, it was agreed the two parties would part. 

The band split in 2001 with no official announcement, to pursue different projects. They were unable to release the already recorded second album as the rights to the music belonged to EMI. A recording of pre-master mixes of this album is what you can listen to here, entitled Zurich – the title 'Zurich' came from a sketch in Dadaist comedy show 'Big Train' of which the band were huge fans. It was Laurence's job to make sure that the latest episode was always ready for viewing on the tour van VHS. Apparently the sketch comprised a tense office meeting, a deadline to be met, a graph paper bikini and, of course the word 'Zurich' was involved.

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