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SBD presents: PHOBOPHOBES
Saturday October 12th

Six-piece psychedelic punking rock'n'roll. For fans of: Fat White Family, Goat Girl, Black Midi, Shame, The Fall, The Cramps

BIO
Few bands have the bravery, determination and self-belief to survive times as tough as Phobophobes have endured, pretty much intact. And even fewer have the talent to rebuild themselves with such creative voracity, making some of the most alluring, unsettling, inventive and cutting-edge music of the age the sound of The Velvets, Wire, The Cramps, The Monks, Leonard Cohen and Country Teasers fed through the foul filters of South London. No matter what fate throws at them, knocks that would destroy less hardy bands, Phobophobes are too strange and special to be beaten.

It's been the rockiest of roads and the brightest of redemptions. In 2013 singer and guitarist Jamie Taylor started a three-piece with a drum machine in a pub with his drumming keyboardist schoolmate Chris OC. They called themselves Phobophobes, and their simple yet confrontational garage punk tunes saw them instantly immersed in the South London's gristle rock scene alongside Fat White Family, Goat Girl, Shame and their far-reaching diaspora.

Phobophobes' story started rosily: Jamie built a studio in Peckham and, between stints writing songs in Paris and building art installations for his old Slade School art tutor Phyllida Barlow in the USA, Phobophobes gathered a solid local following, playing venues like the Queen's Head and the Brixton Windmill and supporting The Fall.

Via an ever-revolving cast list the group evolved into the gloriously cranky outfit that released 2015 single 'Make A Person', and began recording what was to become debut album, Miniature World, at Utopia Village in Primrose Hill and at Abbey Road. At Abbey Road they even 'stole' swabs of saliva from the oldest microphone, hoping to get a tiny bit of Paul McCartney's DNA onto the album artwork. It could have been anyone's, Jamie grins. It was probably dead, the bacteria from McCartney.

Then, things went seriously, and tragically, awry. Guitarist George Russell died in 2016 from a drug overdose. He got a bit too into heroin and died, Jamie says. Elliot [Nash], our bass player lived with him, they were brothers, basically, best friends, they had a great musical companionship. He didn't want to do it without George so we went back to square one.

After eight months without a show, the band reconvened on George's birthday to play a mental health charity gig at the Windmill in Brixton in his honour and set about completing the album using recordings of his playing intended for demos, hiring production legend Youth to mix the record. We thought the album deserved more than just going on Soundcloud, Jamie says. We wanted to keep fighting for it. There was loads of my work there that had fallen apart through various circumstances. I wanted to do it as well as keeping George's
legacy going.

The good people of Ra-Ra Rok records formed by long-standing Camden record store proprietor Rok Pete Donaghy and these days run by the managers of Black Midi and Shame - stepped in to finally release the album in 2018, with an accompanying book of George's
poetry. 6 Music supported the album and further singles 'The Never Never' and 'Child Star'. And Steve Lamacq played the ruined country pop of 'Human Baby' every day for a week.

Having since played a tour with Killing Joke and demo'd new material beneath the group's DIY built studio underneath the Brixton Windmill, and after years of upheavals, Phobophobes is now a solid, front-facing unit again.

https://www.facebook.com/Phobophobes
https://www.instagram.com/phobophobes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9R2OdQLnVk
https://open.spotify.com/album/6xD5THYDYBAwhhkaWAw0jl?si=lmW2afpbTBGPNV1MaIbN1Q


Plus support from:

EGO
MK trio who are heavier, sexier & angrier than Royal Blood. EGO is the brainchild of Sean Grant (S.G Wolfgang / Fierce Panda Records) & 2 pals Phil (strings) & Dazza (hits the things). Down tuned monotonous guitar + PHAT drum beats, still managing oh so cheeky catchy riffs and choruses = EGO, making them BBC Introducing faves already. Circuit Sweet said A release set to obliterate. Progressive, heavy and equally more-ish
https://www.facebook.com/egoegoband
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkvZQj7amIg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3Q7u9wqKTPRZrY55NcSZFTwLaTfDOHBxu0bi7uMGq6QjuI-Xu-6ZB643c
https://www.instagram.com/egoegoband

AULD
Genre-fluid, brooding, alternative, electronic indie pop with guitars also.
The album 'Mainstream Music' is out now.
https://www.facebook.com/auldmusic
https://www.instagram.com/auldmusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgAP6BaHvc

@ The Black Prince
15 Abington Square, Northampton NN1 4AE
Doors 7.30pm, first act at 8pm
Advance tickets £6

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15 Abington Square,

Northampton,

Northamptonshire,

England,

NN1 4AE.