Partyline, Spider & the Webs + Medea, the Hub, 12th Nov 05

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Partyline(ex bratmobile)
Spider and the Webs
(ex bikini kill)
+
Medea


The Hub, Temple Bar, Saturday 12th November 2005,
€10 on the door, doors 8.30pm


PARTYLINE
Out of the ashes of the Washington D.C suburban dude music scene crash the three ladies of Partyline! armed with politics, punk and a penchant for partying, they party on vigilantly against boredom, the Bush regime and body control! Girls with glasses, they'll squash you like a bug!

Partyline consist of singer Allison Wolfe (BRATMOBILE, COLD COLD HEARTS, HAWNAY TROOF etc), guitarist Angela Melkisethian (SAVAGE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, CRUCIAL DEFECT, HOTT BEAT etc), and drummer Crystal Bradley (THE APPLICATORS, ATLANTA etc) and fuse partying and politics to perfection, nailing such hot topics as Ralph Nader ( Unsafe at Any Speed), brainy broads (Girls with Glasses), female trouble (No Romantic), and feeling trapped like a bug (Cicada Summer).

Discography:
'Girls With Glasses' CDEP, Retard Disco 2005
'Who Knows Who Cares?'/'Ladies Room' on split 7" with Spider And The Webs, Local Kid - out Oct 2005
(both distributed in Europe through Southern Records)


Links:
www.partlinedc.com
www.retarddisco.com
www.localkid.co.uk
www.southern.net


SPIDER AND THE WEBS
Formed in the summer of 2004 by Tobi Vail (FRUMPIES, BIKINI KILL, THE GO TEAM), James Maeda (SERUM GREYS, NOVEMBER WITCH, BOO-BOO) and Chris Sutton (C.O.C.O., DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM, HORNET LEG), their sound, the result of many disparate factors is always minimal, peircing and melodic. As urgent and imediete as you'd expect, "spinning intersections between the past and the future to create the present. Spider and the Webs are NOW meets WOW".

Re-inspired to play guitar by nu post-punk groups like ERASE ERRATA, MELTDOWN and QUIX*O*TIC, Tobi's songwriting harken's back to her most musically innovative group, THE GO TEAM. Preferring the RAINCOATS, YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS and THE TELEVISION PERSONALITIES to the GANG OF FOUR, Tobi uses simplicity and starkness as punctuation, creating space for notes to be felt and rhythms heard. Her guitar playing is deliberately spare yet meticulous where James' is wild and eccentric, with a 1981 northwest punk/1966 psychedlic flavour - like RICKY ERICKSON meets GREG SAGE in a FIELD OF FLOWERS. All the while, Chris keeps the rhythms solid and driving yet simple, in a MODERN LOVERS/TRONICS kind of way, inciting dancers to chant and yell "SPIDER MAGIC!" until they fall on the floor, exhausted. The singing is classic Tobi Vail style, varying between SCREAMY SCREAMS and WHISPER-CORE. When they switch instruments it is clear their biggest influence is growing up in OLYMPIA, listening to the first BLACK FLAG single while looking at pictures of MARY WEIS.

Discography:
'Do You Really Wanna?' on limited CD compilation available at Yeah Fest, 2004
Cassette/CDR, Bumpidee, 2005
'Do You Really Wanna?'/'Bacon Achin'' on split 7" with Partyline, Local Kid - out Oct 2005
(7" distributed in Europe through Southern Records)
7"/CDEP, K Records - out Feb 2006

Links:
www.myspace.com/spiderandthewebs
www.bumpidee.com
www.localkid.co.uk
www.southern.net

MEDEA
Medea is a Dublin based three-piece comprising of Edel Coffey (guitar and vocals), Mary Carton (bass and vocals) and Lynn Millar (drums). Since they formed in 2003 they have developed a sparse, melodic sound which has been likened to bands such as Joy Division, The Breeders and Sleater-Kinney. All three women share songwriting duties and are due to release their first album in late 2005. Medea have played several gigs throughout Ireland in the last year, including an IMRO showcase and a set at Dublin Ladyfest where they were praised for their “quality sound and engaging stage presence”. In January the band was hailed by Hot Press as one to watch out for in 2005. "There's an insistent brooding quality about the Medea sound, that's leavened with shafts of light and beauty" Niall Stokes, Hot Press