FUJIYA & MIYAGI // ANDY VOTEL // TWINKRANES - Dec 15th @ Maximum JOY

Maximum Joy

We’ve got early XMAS presents for ye in the form of a bumper Dec 15th line-up. Fujiya & Miyagi are currently riding on the crest of an irrepressible wave. The release of the very wonderful Transparent Things album followed by a series of critically acclaimed live performances confirms them as on them as one of the bands of the moment. This will be their second time playing live at Maximum Joy.

Also appearing for a second time are the B-Music collective with head honchos Andy Votel and Dom Thomas threatening to blitz us with all manner of psychedelic jams, long forgotten weirdo pop gems and motorik rhythms. Their set back in July was one of my personal highlights of the year and will appeal to dancers and crate diggers equally.

To start it all off, local heroes Twinkranes will be belting out their own brand of experimental analogue driven rhythms and setting it all off as only they know how.

Maximum Joy Present
FUJIYA & MIYAGI (Tirk) (live)
ANDY VOTEL & DOM THOMAS (B-Music/ Finders Keepers)
TWINKRANES (live)
Kennedy’s of Westland Row, Dublin 2
10 till late / €15 (door only)

FUYIJIA & MIYAGI (Tirk Records)
Fujiya & Miyagi produce a sound that has been located by the music and media fraternity as somewhere between Can, the Happy Mondays, Alabama 3, Kraftwerk and Talking Heads. This, combined with David’s eclectic line in lyrics: I’ve got a slow, a slow, a slow metabolism, has won them an excited legion of supporters, among whom may be counted DFA, Tiga, Andrew Weatherall, Chicken Lips, Damo Suzuki and BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson.

Quotes
“…sure-footed disco-punk…, a sweet, clever, charismatic record.” 8/10 NME

“Not just one of the years freshest dance records but also the wittiest… F&M’s low profile is inexplicable.” 4/5 The Guardian

“Genius takes many forms, this is but one.” FACT

Listen at http://www.myspace.com/fujiyaandmiyagi

ANDY VOTEL & DOM THOMAS (B-Music)
B-Music is an independent collective of DJs, musicians and music lovers dedicated to the obsessive and painstaking pursuit of obscure, obsolete, exquisitely obnoxious, unbelievable, underexposed and undeniably delectable discs of experimental pop music from the psyched-out sixties and seventies.

B-Music.co.uk provides a pocket library for discerning aficionados of fascinating rhythms from six times around the globe - unifying record collectors, beat diggers, fanatics of the avant-garde and trash-merchants alike.

Centred around the Mancunian eponymous travelling club and bar night - hosted by Andy Votel (Twisted Nerve) and Dominic Thomas - and along with twin record labels Finders Keepers and Delay 68, B-Music represents a passionate, un-blinkered approach to the culmination of way-out sounds encompassing all elements of off-kilter counter-culture: Psych Prog Space Rock Ye-Ye Euro Beat Folk Funk Jazz and Whacked Out Movie Musak, as well as cherry pickings of bugged-out cinema, design and literature in token doses.

Listen to some nuggets at www.myspace.com/bmusiccollective
www.b-music.co.uk

TWINKRANES
Somewhere over one third of the way into the first decade of the new millennia in the long dank winter of 2003/2004, three young world weary musicians T.Krane and his child-hood friends and companions The Rooster and Dr Raymond Krane, sat up and dusted themselves down. After some time spent floating in the stratosphere after the implosion of various different musical projects they began to gravitate slowly back to earth and began to realise that time had been kind to their souls and minds but the musical landscape they now co-habited looked considerably dull and un-moving. So with a newly found hunger our heroes began to rejuvenate themselves, not unlike a worm or maggot that gets stood on, breaks into many pieces and grows happily and multiplies into some more worms or maggots. They soon began to establish their very own Palmer Space Studios. An other worldly environment specifically set up for the purpose of creating challenging uncompromising electronic pop music. Buried deep within these smokey hallowed walls, through rigorous experimentation with vintage electronics, tribal drums and undying love for popular music and popular culture, a six-legged avant- groove machine monster was born. Now under the moniker TWINKRANES our heroes had returned from a long and truly strange migration.

Listen at http://www.myspace.com/twinkranes

Future Maximum Joy events:
31st December - NYE MAXIMUM JOY PARTY
26th January - Masked Ball Party Starring Warlords Of Pez & Queen Kong