Wobbly Lamps' Drella 7" released today

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Records release Wobbly Lamps' Drella EP today. Limited to 250 copies on 7" vinyl you can buy it directly from us through this blog or the Polyvinyl Craftsmen Records Facebook page. 

You can also get it from Rough Trade Records (East & West or mail order), Norman Records (mail order), Sister Ray(London), Piccadilly Records (Manchester)and Fives Records (Leigh on Sea). 

A third of the records have already sold through pre-orders so get in early to avoid missing out. 

The 3 songs are picking up airplay on BBC 6Music from Gideon Coe and on various stations in the USA. Reviews have been excellent too:

http://listenwithmonger.blogspot.co.uk/

Uncompromising. It’s a word that gets bandied about all too easily these days along with legend, awesome and amazing. These are words that have lost their power through over use in the same way that if you read the word spade enough times it loses all meaning. Spade. Spade. Spade. Spade. Spade. Spade. Spade. Spade. See? Anyway, this second EP release from Southend-on-Sea’s Wobbly Lamps confirms that they are a truly uncompromising band of brothers and one well worth your ear time. From the neo-psychedelic artwork through the song titles and then to the music, Wobbly Lamps are doing things their way and anyone who gets in the way, well, they’ll just be obliterated I would've thought. This EP is limited to a run of 250 7” records and the opening track of Drella, ‘Never Ever Bloody Anything Ever’, is a swirling maelstrom of distortion, delay and buzzsaw riffs that the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club might have come up with if they’d been hanging out with Mark E Smith 35 years ago. Sure, there are some nice melodies reminiscent of Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet or early Nirvana but it’s the atmosphere that draws you in. Let’s face it, this is a five minute long A-side with minimal vocals and no discernible structure but it makes you want to dance like Ian Curtis on a good day.

On the B-Side comes the more straight-forward ‘Haxan’ (Google tells me this might be a tribute to a Danish/Swedish silent Horror movie from 1922 and literally translates as ‘the Witches’) which has an immense organ sound running through it to give the impression of Dracula going a bit grunge in his old age. There are elements of Rocket From The Crypt and sadly overlooked Belgian quartet Les Anges to this and it’s flippin’ ace. The other half of the B-side is dedicated to ‘Gretchin Fetchin’ and sees vocalist Gareth Thomas on fine form for a man who appears to have swallowed his microphone, meaning he can only sing in a voice that Bill Hicks’ Goat Boy would have been proud of. Towards the end of the track there’s a hypnotic breakdown that builds back up until you can almost hear the band rolling around on the floor and jumping in to the audience before the venue cut the power. This is music driven by the utter self belief of five men that what they are doing is good, important and utterly worth your time. There’s no false modesty or self-doubt here, just colours nailed to the mast and attitude that screams “If you don’t like it ....you’re wrong”. Like I said, uncompromising.

http://www.gew-gaw-fanzine.gr/index_greek.htm

This 7'' ep of Wobbly Lamps is the second number for this company and engleziki circulation is 250 copies. The sound of the guitar is Wobbly Lamps are fasariozikos is dirty, it's garage, it's pop, it's punk! I guess if Joy Division were recording garage sounded like this! The never ever bloody anything ever from the first side is a wild guitar garage / pop song mercilessly melodic despite the harshness of the sound! In the second part haxan and gretchin fetchin barrage is have more 70s punk sound, real rollers, sweep everything while the second, in the end he has a vague relentlessly playing the organ that sends another dimension song.

http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/70772

"limited to 250. Storming garage rock screaming with fuzz and attitude. All the way from Southend-on-Sea, Wobbly Lamps' amps never fall below 11, with distorted vocals recalling the most petulant Billy Childish moments smothered all over the rockin' proceedings. A-side is a 5 minute exercise in garage-rock minimalism, while on the flip there's the more straight-for-the-jugular "Haxan" coupled with "Gretchen Fetchin"... great stuff".

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/139138-wobbly-lamps--drella

*****...according to our Mike on Tue 05 Mar, 2013.

The song on the A side ‘Never Ever Bloody Anything Ever’ is a slightly dirgey bit of fuzzpop that made me question whether I had actually remembered to put the speed to 45, with crumbling distorted guitars with a bit of divebombing shoegaze wibble alongside impassioned vocals like Sauna Youth when they’re doing their more Fall-esque bits.

Flip it and ‘Haxan’ is a gritty slice of Misfits-meets-Cramps razorblade theatrics with some really cool sounding saturation on the vocals making it sound extra filthy. Then to close things off ‘Gretchen Fetchin’ is a bit of distorted, slightly surfy rock’n’roll, all hot amps and reverb as if it was recorded in the early ‘60s by some unknown garage combo and left undiscovered for decades. Bands like The Trashmen and The Mummies spring to mind. Overall this single is a bit darker and dirgier than the last one but just as ace. I really want to hear an LP from this band now! It’s about time a UK band stepped up and had a proper crack at that garage rock they’re so good at over the pond.

http://styrofoamdrone.com/2013/03/06/wobbly-lamps-drella-ep/

The WOBBLY LAMPS from Sarfend in the UK come back with their latest offering from the Polyvinyl Craftsmen label. It’s their second 7″ EP titled Drella and it takes things to an even noisier level than we heard before.

It’s been about a half a year since we encountered the Wobbly Lamps debut 7″ and since then it sounds like they’ve hit their stride. On Drella the band comes through with even more noisy viciousness than we heard before, evidenced immediately in the clangorous introduction of “Never Ever Bloody Anything Ever”. They follow through with melodic guitar shards and soulful, blown-out vocals, driving the song straight into metallic oblivion as the noisy textures burst through the roof. Halfway through the track they suddenly change gears for a build-up of grandiose proportions, but they never lose their cool in the process. They follow it up with the dark and dire sounding “Haxan”, leading the way with a nasty weave of dense, grungy guitars and frenzied vocals, creating a wave of ominous energy to thicken the air.

Take a few minutes to check out these blistering songs right below, and if that’s not enough you may want to go check out their debut 7″ while you’re at it.

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 81

It's been a good week in PVCworld with more good reviews and airplay for the new Wobbly Lamps 7", which is officially released on Monday 11th March, plus we've got tickets to go and see Thee Oh Sees and Nobunny in the next couple of months.

This week's show features all sorts of musical gorgeousness including my new favourite song The Theme From Sparta FC #2 by The mighty Fall.

You can download yours here.

This week's selection

The Feuds and the Fuss of Dancing Kings – Wild Billy Chyldish and the Spartan Dreggs

I Didn’t Mean to Lose You – Lost Sounds

Ana – Los Saicos

Wolfcall – Lord Dent and his Invaders

Too Much Monkey Business – Chuck Berry

Kick the Children – The Barbacans

German Sleeps in My Bed – The Male Nurse

Giggy Smile – Faust

Nothing Like You – Sebadoh

Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) – Grover Washington Jr

Summer in the City – Quincy Jones

Pusherman – Curtis Mayfield

Chapel Perilous – Belbury Poly

Hang On To Your Ego – Frank Black

Requiem – Killing Joke

Telephon – Palais Schaumberg

Brainville – Flaming Lips

Let It Slide – Mudhoney

Punk Rock Mama – Heavy Trash

Bottle Baby – John Spencer Blues Explosion

Cement Mixer – Jim Jones Revue

Dinah Wants Religion – The Fabs

Davey Crockett – The Traditional Fools

April Fool – Ronnie Lane

Mehmet Emmi – Selda

Black Soul – Bo Diddley

The Theme From Sparta FC #2 – The Fall

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 80

We've got a rum old bunch this week, whether your taste is in garage girl groups singing about parking things up your arse, acid jazz instrumentals or obscure Mexican wig-outs it's all here and much more besides.

Plus we've got Miggins abandoning his usual technique for some Two Ronnies-based tom foolery. Enjoy yourselves!

Here is thee download.

The songs

Nasty Sex – La Revolución de Emiliano Zapta

You Will Never Find Me – King Lollipop

Autumn’s Child – Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

Fresh Garbage – Spirit

Still Nights – Mike Stuart Span

Warlocks of Pendragon – Mother Earth

Park It Up Your Arse – Thee Headcoatees

Candylion – Gruff Rhys

A Century of Fakers – Belle & Sebastian

Lullabye Letters – Soft Machine

Tipp City – The Amps

Cement Surf Board – Sic Alps

Death Star pt. 2 – Moonhearts

Salvaje – Los Saicos

They Told Me Too – Ty Segall

Gun-Diddy-I-Die – The Masonics

Crazy Horses – The Mortals

Slow Death – Flamin’ Groovies

Bulldoze Blues – Henry Thomas

Stepping Out – The Fall

Shark Fucks – Tronics

Ooee Baby – Tav Falco’s Panther Burns

Golden Brown – Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds

Into Her Arms – Tandoori Knights

Tongue Tied Jill – Charlie Feathers

Fall in Love With the Sun – The Kumari

This Is What She’s Like – Dexy’s Midnight Runners

Haxan – Wobbly Lamps

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 79

This week's show is for all those people I saw moaning on Facebook about how shit the Brits were, what the fuck did you expect people! 

Wobbly Lee Hall turned up again this week (at PVC HQ, not the Brits) with a few records, we tried to lock him out but he wasn't having any of it. We promise he won't be here next week! 

Only a couple of weeks now until Wobbly Lamps "Drella" gets released officially so form an orderly queue.

Here is your download.

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 79

Please – The Traditional Fools

That’s the Bag I’m In – The Fabs

For Those Who Weep – Ty Segall

Woof Woof –Dan Deacon

Phoenix City – The Skatalites

Shot Down – The Sonics

Harlem Shuffle – Bob & Earl

Get Out of My Life Woman – Allen Touissant

Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further – Lee Dorsey

Hillbilly Music – Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Crucify Your Mind – Rodriguez

What Did I Do – The Beets

You Fucked Up – Ween

Don’t You Forget It – Allah Las

Why Couldn’t I See – Spacemen 3

Reverse Shark Attack – Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin

Play Girl – The Paralyz

Bone Idol – The Drones

It’s Not Enough – Heartbreakers

I Was Led To Believe – Thee Mighty Caesars

Run Diddley Daddy – Bo Diddley

FYUZ – Add N To X

Silly Girl – Television Personalities

Se Que No Cambiaras – Los Yorks

Fugitivo De Alcatraz – Los Saicos

Sueno Sicodelico – Los Holy’s

Fairy Tale In A Supermarket – The Raincoats

Wobbly Lamps go Greek!

Wobbly Lamps "Drella" EP gets its first Greek review in Gew-Gaw fanzine, a cool site that covers all things garage and psych. Unfortunately it's in Greek but with the help of Google translate we can get a pretty good idea of what they think. It seems to have gone down very well, so thanks very much to George for a lovely write-up:

This 7'' ep of Wobbly Lamps is the second number for this company and engleziki circulation is 250 copies. The sound of the guitar is Wobbly Lamps are fasariozikos is dirty, it's garage, it's pop, it's punk! I guess if Joy Division were recording garage sounded like this! The Never Ever Bloody Anything Ever from the first side is a wild guitar garage / pop song mercilessly melodic despite the harshness of the sound! In the second part Haxan and Gretchin Fetchin barrage is have more 70s punk sound, real rollers, sweep everything while the second, in the end he has a vague relentlessly playing the organ that sends another dimension song.

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 78

Alright people, we're  back after a week's break while Miggins was away working. To make up for the skip week we've got the bonus of Lee from Wobbly Lamps dropping in to play a few records too making Transmission 78 a little longer than usual.

Here's your download.




The Songs

Come On – Los Saicos

Sorrow – Los Yorks

Same Old Man – Mark Lanegan

One Track Mind – Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers

Demolicion – The Paralyz

This Time I Got A Reason – Fuzz

I’m Walkin’ – Fats Domino

Sad Skinhead – Faust

Damaged Goods – Gang of Four

Blue Boy – Orange Juice

Medea – Wild billy Chyldish & the Spartan Dreggs

Last of the Buff Medways – The Buff Medways

Pub Grub – The Rebel

True Thrush – Dan Deacon

Mono – Beak>

We Are the Axis – The Asphodells

Ageing – Gonja Sufi

Like A Rolling Stone – The Soup Greens

Hazey Jane ii – Nick Drake

Ammunition Train – Swell Maps

Hills of Pills – Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds

Wayne County Roads – Tyvek

Don’t Want Your Lovin’ – The Mark IV

Double Exposure – Kelley Stoltz

Skuzz Bucket – The Routes

No Longer A Sweetheart of Mine – Dillard & Clark

New Amphetamine Shriek – Fugs

What About Us – The Fall

Something 4 the Weekend – Super Furry Animals

Wildman (live) – Thee Headcoatees

Wobbly Lamps "Drella" EP - first review and airplay

So this week I sent out the first batch of promos for the new Wobbly Lamps EP "Drella". I selected blogs, DJs and magazines that I thought might appreciate the new songs and that had reviewed the first EP last year.

I think the three songs are even better than on the début single and we are all excited and a tad nervous to see what everybody else thinks.

The first reaction came from Gideon Coe from BBC 6Music who tweeted on Monday "This Wobbly Lamps b-side is the best thing I've heard since whatever that record was that came out yesterday"(My Bloody Valentine).

A pretty good start to the week and Gideon played "Haxan" on his show last night adding "I like this very much, look forward to playing it again! "

Today we got the first review courtesy of the Listen With Monger blog:


Wobbly Lamps – Drella EP (Polyvinyl Craftsmen Records)

Uncompromising. It’s a word that gets bandied about all too easily these days along with legend, awesome and amazing. These are words that have lost their power through over use in the same way that if you read the word spade enough times it loses all meaning. Spade. Spade. Spade. Spade. Spade. Spade. Spade. Spade. See? Anyway, this second EP release from Southend-on-Sea’s Wobbly Lamps confirms that they are a truly uncompromising band of brothers and one well worth your ear time. From the neo-psychedelic artwork through the song titles and then to the music, Wobbly Lamps are doing things their way and anyone who gets in the way, well, they’ll just be obliterated I would've thought. This EP is limited to a run of 250 7” records and the opening track of Drella, ‘Never Ever Bloody Anything Ever’, is a swirling maelstrom of distortion, delay and buzz-saw riffs that the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club might have come up with if they’d been hanging out with Mark E Smith 35 years ago. Sure, there are some nice melodies reminiscent of Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet or early Nirvana but it’s the atmosphere that draws you in. Let’s face it, this is a five minute long A-side with minimal vocals and no discernible structure but it makes you want to dance like Ian Curtis on a good day.

On the B-Side comes the more straight-forward ‘Haxan’ (Google tells me this might be a tribute to a Danish/Swedish silent Horror movie from 1922 and literally translates as ‘the Witches’) which has an immense organ sound running through it to give the impression of Dracula going a bit grunge in his old age. There are elements of Rocket From The Crypt and sadly overlooked Belgian quartet Les Anges to this and it’s flippin’ ace. The other half of the B-side is dedicated to ‘Gretchin Fetchin’ and sees vocalist Gareth Thomas on fine form for a man who appears to have swallowed his microphone, meaning he can only sing in a voice that Bill Hicks’ Goat Boy would have been proud of. Towards the end of the track there’s a hypnotic breakdown that builds back up until you can almost hear the band rolling around on the floor and jumping in to the audience before the venue cut the power. This is music driven by the utter self belief of five men that what they are doing is good, important and utterly worth your time. There’s no false modesty or self doubt here, just colours nailed to the mast and attitude that screams “If you don’t like it ....you’re wrong”. Like I said, uncompromising.

Thanks very much to Roland for a great first write up and Gideon for our first UK airplay.