COMPETITION CLOSED
Garage-rock/ soul crossover kings The Heavy released their second LP The House That Dirt Built last month and you know you want a piece of that action. Well, here’s your chance: the first two correct answers to the question that follows will WIN:(COMPETITION CLOSED – congratulations Trev and Alison!)
1. A CD copy of The Heavy’s current LP The House That Dirt Built
2. Free entry to the band’s upcoming gig on 26 November 2009 at the aptly named (considering the line up) Garage in Highbury (support acts POLSKY, In The Black and Rough Science)
…all courtesy of Soundcrash Productions. Here’s the question:
What hamlet near the city of Bath do The Heavy come from?
There now – easier than a Richard & Judy phone-in and not rigged. Get your skates on. Mail answers to:
monkeyboxing.editor@yahoo.com
N.B. You must include:
1. Your name (so you can be put on the guestlist)
2. Your address (so that the CD can be mailed to you).
Here’s some press guff about the band…
(PRESS RELEASE) Taking the stage of the recently, awesomely refurbished Garage this November are the hottest, dirtiest band of the moment; with their new album ‘The House that dirt built’ tearing up systems across the country and riding on the back of a host of amazing reviews (including ‘single of the day’ for ‘How you like me now’ in Q magazine and a guest appearance on Jonathon Ross’s Radio 2 show!) The Heavy are set to crush your ears with their own eclectic brand of music.
In Noid, a tiny hamlet situated to the south west of Bath, some of the most dangerous and ill sounding beats and riffs are being created by four wolf like personalities. The Heavy started out ripping and chopping beats from the likes of Bo Diddley, Little Walter and The Parliaments and fusing them with their now patented brand of high grade dirt. Guitar riffs that intoxicate, bass lines that reverberate around your head like a King Jammy dream and vocals that will challenge any of the genres they decide to take on. And they continually cross genres; as a unit they’re proud to be completely musically schizophrenic. From country to rhythm and blues, garage punk to rock and roll, Studio one to the slums of shaolin, you’ll find that The Heavy are indeed like a pack of chefs with the way that genres get cooked up, blended, stirred and then mixed, to create their own unique style of rock and roll.
The album Great Vengeance and Furious Fire released on Counter Records in late 2007 generated a great deal of interest with songs like That kind of man, Girl, Set me free, Coleen and Dignity, firmly laying foundations for the house of dirt that they are building at present. There is no other band that sound as raw as The Sonics while holding soul in a headlock and frequently wrestling rock to the ground with the weight of Mr 808 as tag team partner. Listen, then try and tell Louis different.
You will not experience another band like this ….So dirty. So much weight. So much energy and laced with a soul that you just don’t hear anymore……..The Heavy have indeed created a monster.
The last track on this sees Warren G give old Nate a pass and hook up instead with another Dogg – Snoop by name – you might have heard of him. Also, if you’ve ever wondered what Motorhead’s Lemmy sounds like singing on anything other than Ace Of Spades now’s your chance to find out as he does a totally un-ironic cover of Stand By Me with his two lovely assistants: L.A. based ‘alternative/ thrash/ electronica’ producer (according to his myspace) Baron (the lynchpin behind this soundtrack) and pro-skater Geoff Rowley who now (according to wikipedia) resides in Huntington Beach, Orange County. I stayed in Huntington Beach once. I didn’t see Rowley but I did see a couple nearly get arrested for dancing in a bar that didn’t have a ‘licence’ for dancing.
It’s a fact, plain and simple, that the remix/ mash-up/ bootleg crowd usually have a far better idea of what a dancefloor beat should be than many of those whose beats actually chart. DJ Angelo is no exception. Was he inspired by Nice Up’s year or two old rerub of Old School, the use of The Adventures of Stevie V’s Dirty Cash on Dirtee Cash or just moved to pity by the sorry ass shit that was Bonkers? I don’t fucking know. I DO know that you can download this topically retro mash-up right 
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I haven’t got the energy for this though you might have – it’s the vid for those free Ruffneck remixes posted up last week. If your club nights involve huge quantities of man-made mood enhancers and if you didn’t already – you can cop them 
…In which the ‘Members use a bhangra sample as an excuse to get some fit Asian birds into a video. Or maybe they used some fit Asian birds in a video as an excuse to get a bhangra loop on one of their tracks. Either way this one involves a bhangra loop and some fit Asian birds. Trashy but I kinda like it. And it’s got dancefloor smash written in intricate henna designs all over it.
Okey dokey – Obie’s here (again) with a new LP. Let’s hope it’s got some teeth eh? You can stream it 
DJs Dash and Inch resurrect an old Freestylers track. I have some reservations about the advisability of this but then some people’ll dance to anything when they’ve had few chemicals – Pendulum for example. Hit the links below to DOWNLOAD:
Free instrumental mash-up booty y’all! Courtesy of ‘King (Leonidas) of the (break)beats’ George Fotiadis. Better known as Basement Freaks…download links below:
Tarmac toerag? Concrete conundrum? Forrest Armstrong’s written a book. Yeah – you remember them – not the ones you sit in front of while media whore clones babble mindless shit about other media whores – I’m on about the other ones. The ones where you have to do the work – y’know – turn pages, read the words, reflect…it’s time to get your cerebellum on yo!
