The Bellows & Resurrection Men
Fri 4 Jun 2010 7.45pm
Studio £6 (£5)
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CloseThe Bellows (pictured) are an 8 piece outfit comprising of banjo, mandolin, 2 electric guitars, double bass and thunderous drums. Their trumpet fanfare and 5 piece vocal harmonies deliver a full theatrical assault.
This husband and wife fronted festival favourite tell tales of twisted murder whilst stirring a swampy cauldron of country, punk and Gothic Victoriana, cooking up Cossack style upbeat to wistful melancholy. If you hunger for the dark beauty of Nick Cave’s murder ballads, the poetic chaos of Tom Waits’ bone machine or the world weary woes of Johnny Cash’s rambling characters – this is surely for you.
Formed recently from the shattered pieces of various other local bands, Resurrection Men have been securing a place in the Coventry music scene over the last year. Eschewing frills and bells, the band offer gimmick free alternative rock music stretching from Captain Beefheart style strangeness and Cream-esque Blues power to the angular fair you might expect to hear from Fugazi or Battles.
This is the sound of the Coen Brothers and Stanley Kubrick if they had made a film without pictures. Along the way this brave and honest band take influence from wherever they find it… and they find it in the strangest of places.
Studio
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