LITTLE WET HORSE

led by Daniel Beban, Duke Garwood, Paul May

Duke Garwood plays a haunted contemporary blues music, by turns evoking windswept plains and the hive-like emptiness of inner city estates. He drags the downtrodden spirit of plantation blues forward through time to linger in shopping malls and empty train stations. As if to emphasize this juxtaposition, Duke left his home in South London to record his album, Emerald Palace, in a Surrey log cabin. The resulting music twists the blues template thoroughly, with rasping acoustic guitars exploring ethereal tonalities as they clamber over rattling, syncopated percussion. Metallic tones and eerie drones imbue country idioms with the alienating clamour of the city. Duke’s voice ranges from a well-worn gruffness close to Sprechstimme, through plaintive melodies, to a feral howl. The effect is at once beautiful and disturbing, familiar and alien.

“The South London blues, according to charismatic travellin´ man Duke Garwood, is a clanging, loping blues, all pots and pans percussion and monotone Tom Waits growl via Trout Mask Replica and Deptford post-punk mavericks This Heat.” - PLAN B

“It's like traditional country blues subjected to a barrage of 21st-century urban noise, with something of the guitar-improv abstractions of the late, great Derek Bailey thrown in.” - INDEPENDENT

LINKS

http://www.myspace.com/littlewethorse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqMHcYWgSrw

SAN MORITZZ

San Moritzz has recently supported Archie Bronson Outfit’s European tour.

LINKS

http://www.myspace.com/sanmoritzz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A1LNw6sjBU&feature=related

BITTEN BY A MONKEY

Steve Myers and brothers Roland & Dylan Bates have been playing, composing, and philosophising together regularly since the mid 80s when they were members of a band called Blood, Blood and Blood.

Their first performance as Bitten By A Monkey took place in October 1997.

The band has since played at Hampton Court, the Vortex Jazz Club, the British Museum (when they wrote and performed original music for a production of Aristophanes’ Wasps), the Klinker, Chelsea Physic Garden, the White Bear Theatre and other venues.

LINK

http://www.myspace.com/bittenbyamonkey