OOOSH! FEST 2007: SATURDAY 24TH & SUNDAY 25TH NOVEMBER

SATURDAY 24TH

BILGE PUMP
This band has been the ultimate party music machine for 15 years or something ridiculous like that... oh yeah! Equal measures silliness, awesomeness, RIFF, and outrageous damn-goodness, all wrapped up in one nice Leeds-shaped, beer-guzzling package.
(Gringo Records)

SAILORS
Bosh! Harking back to the glory years of musical innovation that was the post-punk age, Sailors strangle the freshest dancey sounds from the least likely of sources. Fingers, feet and gobs.
(Gringo Records)

MONTANA PETE
You cannot see the beauty of this band on a record: if they do not make you smile then nothing can. Or, in other words, miserabilist amateur comedy with rock instrumentation.
(M-P)

COWTOWN
No-wave, lo-fi, danceable keyboard-led gubbins that screams out for hyphens. Here's another: LEEDS-TASTIC. That is, familiar faces making non-familiar tunes that you none-the-less think you might have heard before.
(Chinchilla-tone)

CHOPS
The Leeds love continues: avant-garde mathletics from the folks that bought you Quack Quack, Eye Hai and Eagle Eye. Expect mutilations from keyboards, saxophones, drums and heck knows what else.
(Upset! The Rhythm)

SLOATH
Members of every other Brighton band ever get their heads down and their smoke on.
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ACK ACK ACK
Flip-flop inducing jazz rock from the three buffest guys around.
(Jurassic Boredom)

BOX
Lesser-spotted kentish nice-ness in the form of jazzy post-rock.
(Superfi Records)



SUNDAY 25TH

TRENCHER
Just about the most fun you can have in front of a band. Purveyors of the kind of absurdist casio-led grind/drone ridiculousness that makes you want to go truly ape-shit on the dance floor.
(Southern)

CHARLOTTEFIELD
It's a cliche, but sometimes words truly aren't enough to describe a band. At once slow / fast; jazzy / rocky; quiet / loud, these boys sure know how to make what should be baffling seem plain easy.
(Fat Cat)

I'M BEING GOOD
Long standing bastions of all that is good and innovative about rock music. True heaviness blends seamlessly into achingly sad pop beauty in the way that only really, really good bands can manage.
(Infinite Chug)

LOVVERS
Nottingham's post-punk finest, well versed in the art of making your dancing shoes feel comfy again. Like the Electric Eels jamming out Minor Threat.
(Jonson Family)

HEADQUARTERS
Painfully awesome heads-down, arms-up rock riffage. A true curiosity to watch: you want to laugh but then you want to thrash and then you just want to roll on the floor gnawing at your feet hoping nothing gets better than this.
(Unlabel)

END THE AGONY
A ferocious onslaught of noise and anger that recently expanded to a three-piece.
(Superfi Records)

THE SCEPTRES
Uptempo garagey thrash-pop, reigned in by sweet vocals.
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SAUSAGE PARTY
Two-piece garage-grunge riffage. A fine varietal of the Stupidity versus Rockage tipple.
(Ooosh! Records)

The Westhill Community Hall, Compton Avenue, Seven Dials, Brighton (5 minutes' walk from Brighton train station).
Doors 3pm



With Epideme DJs inbetween.
BBQ (meaty & veggie).
Plus distros, video projections, art displays and cake stall.
Bring your own booze! (Drinks will be available at the venue, too).
ALL AGES WELCOME.

Tickets available from Brighton shops: Rounder, Resident, Edgeworld and Brighton Electric, or online, thus:

Weekend Ticket
Saturday Ticket
Sunday Ticket