Chain & The Gang

+ JFG & The Regulars (bx) + BAGARRE (bx)

"Né à Chicago dans l'Illinois, je suis l’un des principaux acteurs du mouvement hardcore de Washington de 1988 à 1992 avec les séminaux Nation Of Ulysses. En 1995, après le bref épisode suicidaire Cupid Car Club, je forme le quatuor de “gospel yeh-yeh” Make-Up, que Christophe Basterra qualifiera de “dernier groupe majeur” dans sa critique de l'indispensable recueil de singles I Want Some (1999). Depuis le split en 2000, je jongle entre des projets musicaux mouvants (Weird War, Scene Creamers, David Candy), l'animation d'une émission rock de haut vol (Soft Focus) et la publication d'un essai pop politique dévastateur (The Psychic Soviet, 2006). Je réapparais aujourd'hui à la barre d'une nouvelle formation, Chain And The Gang, qui compte dans ses rangs le fondateur du légendaire label K Records, Calvin Johnson. Sur Down With Liberty… Up With Chains!, premier album à réveiller les morts confédérés, je combats l'oppression née du concept occidental de liberté en embrassant le blues des forçats et la poésie de l'évasion. Minimalistes et minérales, mes dix nouvelles chansons oscillent entre doo-wop affamé (Chain Gang Theme), rock préhistorique ((Lookin' For A) Cave Girl), soul à l'égout (Trash Talk) et gospel de bout de chandelle (Cemetery Map, What Is A Dollar?). J'étais et reste un performer-chaman à l'élégance abrasive, un théoricien halluciné de l'anti-capitalisme, un héros immortel du rock sauvage et subversif. Je suis ? Je suis ? Ian Svenonius, motherfuckers! " Michaël Patin

http://www.myspace.com/chainandthegang

JFG & the REGULARS (psyché pop punk)

http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomjfgthesexual



BAGARRE noise blues



10€ sur place

8€ en prévente: TOTAL HEAVEN rue Candale / ALLEZ LES FILLES rue Teulère



The new soul experience of IAN SVENONIUS of MAKE UP, NATION OF ULYSSES and WEIRD WAR



Everywhere that liberty goes, it leaves a path of destruction. Fast food, bad architecture, materialism, rampant greed, environmental destruction, imperial conquest, class struggle; these phenomena, when combined, seem to be synonymous with “Liberty.”



So just as it’s called “liberty” when war and greed stalk the land, IAN SVENONIUS (MAKE UP, NATION OF ULYSSES and WEIRD WAR) calls his band CHAIN AND THE GANG. Like a true chain gang, they’re on the road to confront and defy any freedom-lovers that come across their path. They shuffle, manacled, across railway yards, and through graveyards; they’re on the side of the road, picking up the garbage as they walk, as people drive by, yelling at them. All they can do is become a chorus of metal meeting metal, hands hitting hands and a collective voice louder than one.



The songs they have created on Down With Liberty … Up With Chains [K records] are sing-alongs; a call and response in the tradition of gospel tunes, work favorites and the girl groups and vocal aggregates that once dotted the corners of the Mid-Atlantic United States. It sounds as natural as a freak hail storm or the roar of a lion on the veldt.



They were part of the gang for the album recording : CALVIN JOHNSON, KARL BLAU, musicians of OLD TIME RELIJUN, DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM, FINALLY PUNK, DESOLATION WILDERNESS... How do they describe their sound? Something they just found. They dug it up from the ground. Essential to that soil: guitar, drums, organ, saxophone and chants; paying off our collective debt to the universe.



“Ian Svenonius is an inadvertent pioneer. His career has been a studied attempt to advance the history of punk rock, using influences as tools to build with rather than styles to flaunt and discard.” The Wire



quelques articles sur CHAIN & THE GANG

http://musique.fluctuat.net/blog/37236-ian-svenonius-de-retour.html

http://www.maxoe.com/rama/lake-chain-and-the-gang-et-the-brian-jonestown-massacre-a-toulouse/