Friday 09.05.08: KAV (FORMERLY OF HAPPY MONDAYS) / EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS / ONCE

Kav || Watch

He’s spent the past six months writing and recording new material for his debut solo album, collaborating with everyone from New Order’s Peter Hook to Adam Ficek from Babyshambles. On his forthcoming Blaggers & Liars EP, he touts the sort of electronically enhanced, krautrock-inflected riff rock and high-energy mescal-blues purveyed by Primal Scream on their Vanishing Point and XTRMNTR albums. His EP is an eclectic case in point: the title track has the speed and attack of the Scream in chugging, charging Neu! mode. Lizard King starts off slow and swaggering and features bluesy slide guitar before transforming into a Led Zep-ish riff monster, like The Stone Roses circa Second Coming. Easy is a blues-soaked missive about life’s “chancers”. And Satanic Circus Mask makes you think of the Stones’ Sympathy For The Devil hauled into the digital age by Death In Vegas. Lyrically, Kav veers between the lysergic dementia of Shaun Ryder and the insurrectionary fervour of Bobby Gillespie. - Guardian

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Eastern Conference Champions || Listen
Once

9PM / $8 / 21+