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Cat on Form: Set Fire to The UK
Posted: 05 Jun '03, 21:08
They sweat, they scream, they set fire to the world to put things in a better light, they throw anglular chord craziness into pits of noizes and bury 'em with rants. Brighton's Cat On Form may be dogged by lazy comparisons to some of the finest bands in recent times (Fugazi, Icarus Line) but don't for one second think there's anything remotely compromised or predictable or unexciting about two topless guys wrestling with guitars, spewing their souls into microphones, whilst a girl behind them's smashing drums like the skulls of sexist lads and another guy's thundering out bass. The COF live show is the full-on assualt we've been promised, here on earth to make up for all those let downs!
Their debut album 'set them on fire with their own matches' is released Monday 16th June in the UK on Southern. You come buy it at one of their shows!
We recommend all bands go along and get inspired, and anyone with a inclination for noize, be it punk, hardcore, eM* or whatever, just go, to..
June
11th London 93 Feet East • Ten Grand
13th Brighton Freebutt • Proudhon + Human Bomb OVER 16s
14th Winchester Railway Inn • castro
15th Exeter Cavern • jarcrew ALL AGES
16th Bristol The Croft • Big Joan
17th Cardiff Barfly • Day of The Locust
19th Limerick High Stool • with somedays better
20th Dublin Ballroom of Romance • tracer AMC
21st Belfast Giros • Yakuza
23rd Liverpool Zanzibar • Lapsus Linguae +The Mighty Saguaro
24th Nottingham Rescue Rooms • Lapsus linguae OVER 14s
25th Manchester Mumbo Arts Centre • Lapsus Linguae + The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg ALL AGES
26th Newcastle The Cluny • Lapsus linguae
27th Aberdeen Dr Drake's • Masamune OVER 14s
28th Glasgow Nice n Sleazy's • Sluts of trust
30th Leeds Royal Park • Snail Racing
July
1th Oxford The Cellar • Querelle
3rd Brighton Freebutt • Off Minor OVER 16s
7th Kingston Peel • Capdown OVER 16s
All of these shows are OVER18 unless it says otherwise (sorry). Tho' if you look older or can blag a fake ID or pull the person on the door the week before, you should be able to sneak in.
DiScuss: DiS knows who some of these bands playing with COF are, and has heard the names of others, but come on underground archivers, tell us and the world how great these bands are, who they are, etc..
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Cat on Form: Set Fire to The UK
http://www.themurderof.co.uk/
shame their webspace went down or i could give you a link to an mp3. their message board still works so there might be something on there.
i don't really know how to describe them. kinda-fucked-distored-hardcore-electro
fucking mental
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Cat on Form: Set Fire to The UK
They very good. Got their EP the other week, fucking amazing. No, really. They sound to me like The Icarus Line (sorry!) playing with Les Savy Fav, fighting with The Panoply Academy Glee Club whilst Pretty Girls Make Graves watch. Yeah, that fucked up. Go listen.
Lapsus Linguae, aside from their weird 'classic rock' logo, play some ace dark, heavy stuff. They have loads of MP3s on their website.
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aww capdown are brilliant live! as with a lot of punk/ska bands, although i dont really like the music, it's impossible to deny what a brilliant atmosphere they get when they play live. punk fans rullle :)
KPxx
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The Murder Of are complete clones of The Locust. Spazzy hardcore played by treny-looking indie kids.
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Oh, and...
Snail Racing- Three-way bass and vocal action. Pretty. Like Dianogah.
Tracer AMC- nice slo-core. As slo-core tends to be.
Lapsus Linguae- you've heard 'em already, I bet. Good.
And there should be a load more decent support bands that haven't been mentioned. Bands that DON'T strive for indie rock superstardom. Bands that DON'T give a shit about being reviewed on a webzine. Not that I'm being nasty or anything.
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nice
All these inverse politics, it does my head in.
I don't understand the problem of people who love bands, writing about bands they love. I dont understand great bands not wanting to compromise in the slightest so people can actually hear them and have their lives changed by them. Is sending out a demo selling out? Would you be equal to Busted if your band gave a shit about people coming along to a gig? Course not. But it's important that people don't think you're a fucktard, right?
We're [drowned in sound] on an ongoing mission to change the way the grassroots of the uk works and allow people to get less of a glimpse and more of a foot in the door into what's actually happening out there. Basically improving access to it. If people don't want people to listen to their band, then fuck them. Being reviewed isn't important to some people then fine, but it doesn't stop people writing about something they love. It's all discourse for the greater good and I'd rather spend my time writing about great stuff which isnt corporate crap and dream that one day a band can do it all on their own terms and not have to work a shitty job or live in poverty to do it their waaay.
The underground is this country is so backward. Discuss.
p.s. without the grassroots, the grass falls and desertification takes place (i'm sure some geography nerd can expand on this theory-in-similie)
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Cat on Form: Set Fire to The UK - Drummer
apologies for mailing everyone again so soon, but we have important updates...
eva has bust her back, and cannot come on ANY of the tour below. since cancelling the whole tour would be infinitely crap, we've decided to take on the challenge and play out anyways.
we have replacement drummers for some shows :: our friend ashleigh from the rather fine charlottefield will be playing the shows marked * (and possibly more), and tom barnes (the oedipus, now i'm being good) will be joining us for the ones marked #. the other shows will most likely feature us 3 with a drum machine! we just wanted to make sure everyone knew and didn't turn up thinking "what the fuck!?". wherever possible we're gonna have replacement drummers play instead of using the drum machine, because we prefer it that way. for now this is how things look :
11 june • london 93 feet east • with ten grand *
13 june • brighton freebutt • with proudhon and human bomb OVER 16s *
14 june • winchester railway inn • with castro
15 june • exeter cavern • with jarcrew ALL AGES
16 june • bristol the croft • with big joan
17 june • cardiff barfly • with day of the locust
19 june • limerick high stool • with somedays better
20 june • dublin ballroom of romance • with tracer AMC
21 june • belfast giros • with yakuza
23 june • liverpool zanzibar • with lapsus linguae and the mighty saguaro
24 june • notts rescue rooms • with lapsus linguae OVER 14s
25 june • manchester mumbo arts centre • with lapsus linguae and the murder of rosa luxemburg ALL AGES
26 june • newcastle the cluny • with lapsus linguae
27 june • aberdeen dr drake's • with masamune OVER 14s
28 june • glasgow nice n sleazy's • with sluts of trust #
30 june • leeds royal park • with snail racing #
1 july • oxford the cellar • with querelle #
3 july • brighton freebutt • with off minor OVER 16s #
5 july • kingston peel • with capdown OVER 16s #
the 3track cd set them on fire with their own matches is out on monday 16. the album structure and fear is out on july 21st, both are through southern.
thanks!
xx CAT ON FORM xx
www.catonform.co.uk
www.southern.net/catonform-
Re: Cat on Form: Set Fire to The UK - Drummer
if cat on form want any free-jazz based improvised drumming for the manchester gig - i will go it as i am playing geeter in one of the support bands. somehow i doubt you'll take me up on this offer, but it stands. i can also drum more normal like but don't know any of your songs (despite seeing you rock more than once)
t'ra
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Cat on Form eat ass with or without Eva - pasty would-be politically motivated fairies. You're boring, BYE!-
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the tour has been cancelled now.-
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Really? Aint heard owt about that as yet...
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mike, thanks so much for your support, i am a camp fairy, are you not one?
why is it you hate us so much?-
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it's probably cause you're not a shit hardcore band... or justin timberlake, mike has awful taste in music. everyone knows that!
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