Hysterical Injury's 'Maths' video

First posted on Drunken Werewolf, Hysterical Injury's new video for 'Maths' is an homage to the Shangri Las, and in particular their performance of 'Out in the Streets' on 1960s tv show 'Shindig!'. Annie plays the part of all three Shangri La singers at once.



You can still download the track itself for free, courtesy of Strummerville, from http://bit.ly/himaths.

The album, Dead Wolf Situation, is finally out on Monday - read some suitably excited reviews here, here and here.

Tour dates confirmed, starting this Saturday!

UK
4th February - Olives, Norwich with The Broken Seas and DIY Hammer DJs
9th February - The Rolleston, Swindon
11th February - Official Album Launch - free entry at Green Park Tavern, Bath with Thought Forms, She Makes War, Klad Hest
14th February - Brixton Windmill, London with Lilies on Mars and She Makes War
16th February - 10 Feet Tall, Cardiff with The Joy Collective DJs
17th February - The Cube, Bristol with High Places and Hesomagari
18th February - The Bell by the Green, Devizes with I Am Designer, Crash and the Bandicoots

IRELAND
22nd February - Crane Lane Theatre, Cork
23rd February - Whelans, Dublin
24th February - Pine Lodge, Myrtleville
25th February - Roisin Dubh, Galway

Glastonbury ETC longlist 2011 - Spotify playlist

Glastonbury Festival's annual Emerging Talent Competition longlist was announced last night.

They've gone for a completely different format than in recent years, asking 41 music bloggers to pick 3 bands each from a given batch.

I'm very pleased to see Hysterical Injury have made the list, kudos to Jon Sidwell of Music Liberation for picking them out. The whole list of 123 has to be whittled down to 8 before the finalists are known. It's great that they've published the whole longlist.

More on all this later, but for anyone who'd like to hear them, I've made a Spotify playlist of all the bands on the longlist I could find - the link is http://bit.ly/GlastoETC2011

If you know of any mistakes here - bands I've missed or mixed up, or if you're in one of them and would like a different track featured, email me at dotdashdash.dashdash@gmail.com or leave a comment and let me know.

*with apologies to the many bands on the longlist who aren't on Spotify.

Running out with snow-white tail (Introduction)

Hello, I'm Wes White... this is the first post for what will eventually, hopefully, if I get it right, look something like a music blog.

This is as much as anyone out there is likely to know about me:

I'm the editor/curator of Attack!!!! magazine, a writer when I can be, and in years past I was heavily involved in getting Glastonbury Festival's 'Emerging Talent Competition' up and running.

Last year (2010) I managed to grab a few headlines (1 2 3 4) with a project for independent musicians called Storm the Charts - and, okay, we didn't take the top 40 down in the end but we did have fun trying.

Oh, and - this is a new thing - I'm also now the manager of Bath-based noise-pop duo The Hysterical Injury - although 'managing' is so far quite a grand term for what I do for them, which could to date more aptly be called 'cheerleading'. In any case, they are FANTASTIC, and you MUST CHECK THEM OUT. Okay? Much more on them in the weeks and months to come, obviously.

Glastonbury's ETC has moved on since my day, via Q magazine (meh) and on to what now looks like a much more interesting format with the shortlist from those who enter being drawn up by 40 active music bloggers. I am really pleased to see that people who are passionate about discovering new music and who are going to be in a position to champion some of the artists who apply, regardless of whether their favourites are named as winners or not, are now in charge of the shortlists there, and seeing some of their blogs is a large part of the inspiration for this one.

The main thing though is I just want to keep hearing lots more music. I've no real expectation that anyone else will care a great deal what I think about it, but if you do choose to follow me, well, thank you very much indeed, I hope we find something good together.

The title of the blog comes from a review of an Archie Bronson Outfit gig I wrote for Artrocker magazine. The title of this post comes from 'Rabbit Kids' by Shrag - they were one of the 40 winners from Storm the Charts.

More soon. Thanks for reading.