Yesterday’s Advent Calendar brought four tunes from our friends at LOUD WOMEN, including tracks from I Am HER, Sulk 93 and I, Doris. LW were one of the blogs and promoters involved with our lovely Balcony Online festival shows last year, and today’s we’ve got a pair of songs courtesy of another of the Balcony gang.
As always, the tracks are completely free to download and there’s no need to sign up to any mailing lists to access the songs (though if you’d like to you can join ours here), but if you’re enjoying the tunes we’d love you to make a donation to the wonderful charity Help Musicians, who offer health and welfare support to musicians at all stages of their lives.
Let’s find out who’s bringing the tunes…
If I sat down and drew a diagram, I could probably trace 90% of the bands, musicians, labels, promoters, bloggers and other assorted musical folk that I know back to Rocklands and their Music Tourist Board meet ups in New Cross in the early 2000s. Since then Caffy St Luce and co. have taken on many guises, including Artful Fest, Artbeat Promo and the fabulous online publication The Zine UK. Today we have tracks from two bands that have shared plenty of Joy with the Rocklands crew.
Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs – Oh Bondage! Up Yours! (live at The New Cross Inn)
Whenever a Rocklands event takes place you can pretty much guarantee that the wonderful Jean Genie will be in attendance, whether onstage, in the DJ booth or dancing in the front row, dishing out huge smiles and massive hugs.
Earlier this year she performed at a special event as a guest vocalist with a group of our musical friends in New Cross to belt out an astonishing rendition of X-Ray Spex punk classic ‘Oh Bondage! Up Yours!’, and today we have the live audio for today’s Advent Calendar treat.
Download ‘Oh Bondage! Up Yours! (live at The New Cross Inn)‘
Follow Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs on Facebook / Bandcamp
Elephants and Castles – Without You
Another of the countless Joyzine favourites that have also crossed paths with Rocklands over the years are South London indie-folk duo Elephants and Castles. They’ve provided a second helping of downloadable delights for today’s window with their track ‘Without You’.
Chris from the band explains, “We released it last year in reaction to the times and in pure wonderment of what will all the out of work pantomime horses do thanks to our sh*t government’s decisions. The song has legs and has actually inspired us to write an entire show off the back of it… more about that in 2022 along with some new releases from us.“
Check out the video featuring one of the aforementioned panto-equines, and download the track below.
Download ‘Without You‘
Follow Elephants and Castles on Facebook
If you enjoy today’s tracks, please consider making a donation to Help Musicians
Come back tomorrow for more exclusive tracks + check out the tracks from previous windows, all of which are still available to download:
#1: Piney Gir – Everybody Knows It’s Christmas
#2: Lost Map Records
Gordon McIntyre – You and Me and The Ghosts of Christmas Past
#3: Hey You Guys! – I’m Sorry
Peter With Rosie – The Oxen
Peter Richard Adams – The Roaring Twenties
#4: Salt The Snail – Matador Print
#5: Dead Horse – Eating The Reindeer
#6: Blang Records
Sergeant Buzfuz – In The Bleak Midwinter
Paul Hawkins (Awkward Silences) – Christmas Doesn’t Love Me
Faux Fibbers – All The Nutters Come Out At Christmas
#7: The Scaramanga Six – Dog Form
#8: Hatcham Social – If You Go Down To The Woods Today (Three Cheers for Our Team)
#9: Alcopop! Records
Beach Riot – Modern Dinosaur
Frauds – Woke Life
Tokky Horror – Eden on Acid
#10: The Mining Co. – Last Stop for Tired Reindeer
#11: Sonic Tonic
Firestations – Long Year City
The Leaf Library – Tired Ghost
Shattercones – In The Bleak Midwinter
Maggie The Cat – The Cherry Tree Carol
Naomi In Blue – Colour of Blue
#12: Cruel Nature Records
Distant Animals – Hyperacusis
Omnibael – The Repetition
#13: The Fades – People In General
Silent Star – To Hell or Hackney (Too Late)
#14: Reckless Yes Records
Paper Birch – Summer Daze (Mild Peril Remix)
Nervous Twitch – You Ruined Christmas + Boredom & Distraction
Bitch Hunt – Shapeshifter
LIINES – Keep On Going
Duck – Santa Claus (ft. Charley Stone)
Hearts Beating In Time – Simone’s
The Crystal Furs – Drinking Alone On Christmas
French for Rabbits – Money or The Bag (Alternative Live Version)
Japan Review – Lose Them All
#15: Dedstrange Records
Plattenbau – Hollywood
Data Animal – Future Primitive
Jealous – K-Hole
Lunacy – Dust
A Place To Bury Strangers – Let’s See Each Other (Grimoose Remix)
Wah Together – Sayonara
#16: Another Christmas: ESKA & Duke Garwood – Silent Night
#17: Bird’s Robe Records
Furnace & the FUndamentals – Giving In The Name Of
Toehider – Carol of The Bells
clayhands – Polars
#18: Joyzine writers
Wonderland – Vampyre
Skylon – Adeline
Maps & Muir – All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit
#19: Buds & Spawn
Emergence Collective – division iii
Michael Woodman – Petrichor
New Ghost – Burning Out (Live Lockdown Session)
#20: The Kunts – A Lonely Wank In a Travelodge
#21: LOUD WOMEN – Reclaim These Streets
I Am HER – Heretic
Sulk 93 – The Eyes In The Wall
I, Doris – In The Ladies
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