ROCKHARD GARÇONS
&
THE ROCK AND ROLL WALL OF DEATH
Release split single


WHAT?

Yes, somebody is putting out a record. Contain your excitement. This is a good one, though. It’s a split single (7” vinyl/download). The tracks are:

Rockhard Garçons: “You Always My Hero”

The Rock and Roll Wall of Death: “The Garden”

WHEN?

It’s out on 23rd December 2013

WHAT ELSE?

On Friday 20th December, the night before the release of the single, Rockhard Garçons and The Rock And Roll Wall Of Death will play a launch show at The Bees Mouth in Hove. Described as “intimate”, this is meaning The Bees Mouth isn’t very big, but it will be special.

WHO?

Rockhard Garçons: 
Is Avy, the leader, voice and former songwriter of Sharkboy, creator of two beautifully textured and cultishly cherished albums for Nude records in the Nineties. She broke up the band, then married (sorry boys), kept writing, kept playing and started recording again eighteen months ago. The best of fifteen years worth of songs are now resurfacing. “You Always My Hero” is the first. If you think it has an eerie, chiming, looping quality only accentuated by its scrawls of guitar, well, that’s your call.

The Rock And Roll Wall Of Death: 
A band gathered around Marc Johnson, musically a perfectionist and a recluse. A man who has abandoned half a dozen different sounds he’d worked on for years because they became fashionable before he was satisfied with what he’d done. These endure now only in the memory of those lucky enough to have caught scarce live performances. “The Garden”, with its dreamlike sense of light glimpsed through mist, is a rarity: an of-the-moment snapshot of his work, which will otherwise have to be compiled on a 100-disc box set in due course.

The drummer on both tracks is Laurence Downes, which will be appreciated as a Good Thing by anyone who has ever seen Laurence Downes play.

AND THE BAND NAMES?

“Rockhard” is a play on the French word for “shark”, “requin”.

The Rock And Roll Wall Of Death is in no way intended to be ironic. It’s what Mark thinks a band should sound like.


Rockhard Garçons "You Always My Hero" Split Single Release

The Rock and Roll Wall of Death "The Garden" Split Single Release

WHAT?
B Side of the debut solo single release by the Rock and Roll Wall of Death. 
Ambient Fields begins with its insistent ear-worm, soon morphing into a progressive aural colour-field or two. Take time out. At 7 minutes and 41 seconds why not have a quick lie down.  

WHEN?
It's out as the b-side of the paid download and vinyl single editions of Catholic Stations on 16th June 2014.

WHO?
The Rock and Roll Wall of Death is the latest incarnation of outsider artist Marc Johnson, formerly of cult Brighton punk rock band The Fuck You Planet Earth. Long-time collaborator Laurence Downes adds his trademark driving drill-beats.

WHAT ELSE?
The band featured on a joint split single in December 2013 alongside label-mates Rockhard Garçons. More tracks will be released during 2014 with live dates planned in Autumn.


Ambient Fields

WHAT?
The Rock and Roll Wall of Death: “Catholic Stations” 

This is the debut solo single release by The Rock and Roll Wall of Death. “Catholic Stations” is fuzzy, hypnotic and overflows with static. Reminiscent of early Mercury Rev - with maybe a touch of Stone Roses - it’s a pure, reflective expression of wonder and doubt and joy. It will swirl in your head for days.


WHEN? 
It's out on free stream, paid download and vinyl single on 16th June 2014. Download and vinyl editions will include b-side “Ambient Fields”.

WHAT ELSE?
The band featured on 'The White Single' in December 2013 alongside label-mates Rockhard Garçons. More tracks will be released during 2014 with live dates planned in the autumn.

WHO?
The Rock and Roll Wall of Death is the latest incarnation of outsider artist Marc Johnson, formerly of cult Brighton punk rock band The Fuck You Planet Earth. 
A man who has abandoned half a dozen different sounds he’d worked on for years because they became fashionable before he was satisfied with what he’d done. Musical partner and collaborator Laurence Downes adds his trademark driven drumming.

AND THE BAND NAME?
The Rock And Roll Wall Of Death is in no way intended to be ironic. It’s what Mark thinks a band should sound like.

Firehorse! Recordings
Outside in, Inside out

firehorserecordings.com
info@firehorserecordings.com
tel: 07791 351782 


'Catholic Stations' by The Rock And Roll Wall Of Death

DEATH DEFYING.
The Rock And Roll Wall Of Death Release ‘The Department Of Recontinued Lines’

A feature-length 5-Track CD Package comprising The Sun And The Shadows / Promised Land / Catholic Stations / Space Station / The Garden 

CD & special edition DVD, out on Monday 26th October. Visit firehorserecordings.com

Promoted by our very own Firehorse! Collective the 5-track psychedelic CD package entitled ‘The Department of Recontinued Lines’ by The Rock and Roll Wall of Death is being released to celebrate their first 3 vinyl releases on Firehorse! Recordings, and as featured on Brighton's Totally Radio.

Includes the band’s brand new standout tracks ‘The Sun And The Shadows’ and ‘Promised Land’. Also includes ‘The Garden’, that was previously featured on the art-press vinyl release ‘The White Single’.

Initial copies will include an exclusive promotional DVD entitled ‘Free Fold-Out Poster’.

‘The Sun And The Shadows’ sounds exactly like being put on a roller coaster while you’re still a little bit asleep. When Laurence Downes suddenly hits the snare you’re immediately snapped off on a head-swinging ride. The chorus wipe-out circles in your head for days. You just have to go around again.

‘Promised Land’ is an epic, melancholy ode with the tiny, wide-open atmosphere of ‘Great Dominions’-era Julian Cope.

‘Catholic Stations’ is fuzzy, hypnotic and overflows with static. It will continue to rip around in your head again and again. It’s a pure, reflective expression of wonder and doubt and joy.

Off to the ‘Space Station’ you find a blissful, Sun-filled continuum. Layered, pacing beats light up your mind’s eye, winking while the track puts a rainbow-iced cooler right in your hand. So turns a hot, endless summer day into a perfect, starlit night.

‘The Garden’ has a hooky, sweetie centre that will earworm its way into your head and down into your heart, while Mark 7’s vulnerable multi-voice gives an otherworldly scope to its groove-grazing, tambourine raga.

This truly beautiful 5 singles-in-one package is a fuzztone psychedelic spin out, zooming along its vortex operetta in 5 acts.

You are fated to want this as the essential soundtrack for your next on-the-road trip. If you haven’t planned one then this collection will make you take off. What are you waiting for?

TRARWOD made their debut with joint vinyl release 'The White Single' 18 months ago with Rockhard Garçons on Firehorse! Recordings, also home to Sharkboy.

They made the ‘2014 Pick of The Year’ on Totally Radio and 'Best of 2015' on The Daily Show. Part of the Firehorse! Collective, the band has upcoming live dates with an accompanying video installation planned for the autumn.

Sign Of The Sharkboy Studio