"Youse Don't Give A Fuck" - Live in Bradford - 2010

BELLS

Opening track from 'Johnny Rocket, Narccist and music machine..I'm your biggest Fan!' the brand new album by the Eccentronic Research Council..As well as featuring The ERC's regular collaborator, Maxine Peake, on narration duties, the album also features guest collaborations with Lias & Saul from the Fat White Family...read press release below for more details.
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Let us go then you and I… to where ugly farmers drown kittens in weighted down sacks but always go back afterwards to reclaim their bricks; to where lonely drunks die in pubs and no one notices until the corpses slump from their barstools; to where hipster nightclubs burn down to the ground mysteriously in the dead of night; to where court injunctions and restraining orders aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on… and to where a malign presence stalks the darkness at the edge of Sheffield.

The Eccentronic Research Council’s fabulous fourth album, Johnny Rocket, Narcissist And Music Machine…I’m Your Biggest Fan, released on the Fat White Family’s Without Consent label on Monday May 18th 2015, is written from the persuasive point of view of an obsessional fan of a local band – The Moonlandingz, who gig around the fictional South Yorkshire district of Valhalla Dale – and how this fan’s behaviour tips over into stalking and then plummets dramatically into something far worse.

ERC are the mysterious Dean Honer (All Seeing I), the manic Adrian Flanagan (Kings Have Long Arms) and the magnificent Maxine Peake (Shameless, Silk) and together  have created something which will target your head, your heart, your hips and the medial epicondyle of your humerus (or your funny bone) in equal measures.

It’s a record for our times: a swirling, brightly lit, adrenaline surging, fairground carousel ride of gleaming synth pop, narcotic psych rock, bewitching spoken word and demented avant garde electronics. Like a Chaucerian epic retold by David Peace for a music hall located in Hell, it looks at obsessional behaviour and how this is fueled by our need to document every passing moment on social media. It also deals with the legacy of Thatcher, which is stronger now that she is dead than it was when she was alive. And it also reaffirms the fact that music is one of the only obsessions in life worth having.

The album also sees ERC team up with Lias Saoudi & Saul Adamczewski of South London’s The Fat White Family, who ably play the role of the The Moonlandingz, the fictional band at the heart of the story

Preceding the album on March 16th, The ERC digitally release an EP of tracks by said fictional band, The Moonlandingz – lead track, ‘Sweet Saturn Mine’ will feature on the ERC album.
JOHN DORAN, JANUARY 2015.

Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine…I’m Your Biggest Fan

Welcome To Valhalla Dale - Eccentronic Research Council ft Maxine Peake

A man cares for his wife as she gradually succumbs to dementia, her health fading away. In her stillness, he catches fleeting glimpses of the vibrant woman she once was, even as she feels like a ghost of herself. Memories of their life together fill his mind, a bittersweet reminder of all they shared.

GHOST

The debut album from O_RLLY is a record of fallibility, a coming to terms with post-pandemic life as adulthood stretches into decades. Half Life is a mid-point reckoning, recognising the compromise of youthful idealism. Throughout the album the songs' protagonists find themselves acknowledging their limitations, reassessing their assumptions and challenging their place in the world.
Yet all this introspection does not come at the cost of melody - these are at their heart pop songs with a sparkling core, as waves of synths flow over chiming guitars, and each chorus hooks the listener further in.


Thought for the Day

Me and You

I was running

Outer Wilds (Original Soundtrack)

End Times

Time Is Kind ...

O_RLLY are a bittersweet synthy guitar pop band from Leeds, West Yorkshire. Originally conceived as a bedroom project during Covid lockdown by former Finnmark! bassist Owen Radford-Lloyd, the band has since expanded into a 6-piece act with friends from the ever-vibrant Leeds indie community. 

Taking particular inspiration from Alvvays’ sparkling melodicism and the white-collar weariness of The National, debut album Half Life is a record of fallibility, and a coming to terms with the loss of youthful idealism as adulthood stretches into the decades. These are songs of uncertainty in a world irrevocably altered by the pandemic, scarred and unsure but not entirely without a sense of optimism.