WEDNESDAY NOV 9TH - TBMC This months chart gig in The Temple Bar Music Centre has a de ja vu vibe to it, with two of the three acts playing at this having already played at recent CPU gigs. Soviet filter, after months of knocking on the door of our charts have just played at our Payday gig in The Hub in September, are now on the bill along with Kopek, who gracefully stepped in when Subscene could not play the chart gig in August. Kill City Defectors have undergone transformations in recent years and we are looking forward to seeing the lads onstage for CPU again. Admission is FREE!! Doors :8pm Line up: Soviet Filter - Kill City Defectors - Kopek Soviet Filter Bio: Soviet Filter make music like hungover angels in a small hole in the ground, they are bitter and drunk, ner do wells, arrogant, play live with a band of chiefs. Experimental, guitars, vocals, unafraid of synths or samples. Cannot use samplers Two Irish. From Dublin, northern ancestry (Temper!.Temper!) Vox assorted.Strictly barred from guitar. Played full-back for Dublin schools once ......................................................................... From Tipp - 8 foot tall, strong silent type, the prototype - angel of harlem. refuses to eat anything but eggs, he is expected to pass away in may of 2006 because of this. Two English. From Lake district, northern (if you grow up around sheep you turn out odd) Guitar and assorted Drums nonsense. Will not under any circumstances eat vegetables. Used one sampler.once Hate the blues, the sixties, keane, bono, the frames, the thrills, camera phones, 171, USB2 cables, cassettes, brazil nuts, bridal showers, 5 a side football, the reds, by default the manic street preachers, samplers, djs, the downtrodden, thank you, , the weak, the talented, the expressionless, the painted, the bare, the bear, the bee, the pee, the postal service, and last but not least Chesney Hawkes.God Bless Fr Michael Cleary! Get yer ma to cut yer hair, mmmmmm! I heard it in a department store ten years ago but cannot begin to explain why! Love Robert Palmer, S-Express, The Hoovers and Sledgehammers, The FCA, Diagnosis Murder, The Verb too bee, The Levellers, Yer Ma! The French Nation and Soviet Filter.breathe Like everything else that is great, our eep eez are in cardboard and freezer bags and can be bought in Tower records, freebird records, road records and that odd place downstairs on Wicklow street. Kill City Defectors Bio: Kill City Defectors were formed in January of this year in the backstreets of Kildare. Armed with a determination to get people shaking their arses to music again they set off to a rented bunker on the Aran Islands and began writing & recording songs. Their Mission was simple, to prepare to launch a pre-emptive shock of energy, rhythm, soul and dirty fat grooves onto an unsuspecting public. After their debut performance supporting Meteor Award Winners Angels of Mons in the Sugar Club the band have gone on to headline renown venues around the country including; The Roisin Dubh Galway, The Stables Mullingar, The Soundhouse Johnstown and Crawdaddy in Dublin. They set up their own label Protection Racket Records and have just launched their debut single So Lo in June of this year, which is being followed by their album and first nationwide tour this September. The band are prolific songwriters and has influences ranging from funk to hypnotic reggae and from rock to thumping dance. This cumulates in a performance and sound that is both unique and versatile often breathing with and bouncing off the audience/listener creating an umissable musical experience. Kopek Bio: Kopek have always been a band with a grunge rock vibe and a knack for catchy guitar hooks. They’re an underground band with a strong following, who only gig a few times a year but still manage to make two of those gigs this year at the Viper Room in L.A - the Johnny Depp owned venue on Sunset Boulevard where recently Iggy Pop, Billy Corgan,, Hole, Dave Navarro and Supergrass, to name a few, have gigged. Kopek launched their latest EP in August 2004, which is bursting with five new songs. It is probably their most accessible release yet - but without dropping their trademark heavy sound. The first track on the EP is Cocaine Chest Pain. No guesses for what the song is about. Dan’s edgy guitar hook sets the atmosphere for the song, which is an invitation to excess in the great rock ‘n’ roll tradition: “Don’t go over the top he said/But I can never figure out where to stop”. Next up is the pounding“White Collar Lies” takes off where WAR (from their album The Landing) left off. The song is a strident attack on President Bush and America’s current blood thirsty mood: “The president is calling for your life, your gun and your liberty/ It’s about time you earned your freedom/ … Tell your mother not to cry/We’ll stick some guns in the air if you die/Cos it’s about corruption, the money, politicians, the money, the war, the money”. Just as the song pushes forward with it’s angry lyrics, a typically Kopek, flippant, pop chorus breaks out: “What about that?/Doo doo doo ooh”. Bruce Springsteen , Green Day and REM may be getting all the headlines for anti-Bush indignation, but here Kopek speak for THEIR generation. Sx Drgs & Roc-n-Roll is an homage to Catholicism, “So raise your glass and make a toast/To Father, Son and Holy Ghost”. Well funnily enough it’s turns out not to be Christian rock’s answer to teenage recruitment, more a love song to getting wasted “Feels like I’m going out my mind/I know my love for this blind”. Try to picture Smashing Pumpkins meets AC/DC with Kurt Cobain singing direct from Heaven, or Hell, or some beautiful, edgy Nirvana. It’s a potent combination. So far so decadent, with a bit of angry politics thrown in. The next song on the EP is called “Games”, which starts out with a mess of feedback to settle down into a solid, catchy rock tune, with the chorus bringing back some distortion to echo the theme of confusion in the song, “And it’s you/ Running around again/Playing the same old games/Trying to clear your name/”. Track five “Be Another Way” is probably the strongest song. Typically for Kopek, the song is hidden at the end of the EP, a reward for playing the other songs, rather than sequenced as track one, where less sure, more commercially minded bands might put it. At the start of the song Dan’s vibralto chirps “My chest is tight and it’s hard to breathe/But I’m not caving in/Just one more taste and I’ll believe/Everything you’re saying/… And everything that you’re saying is burning down like the sun on my back”. Kopek are a band always looking forward, determined to make great music as Dan chants during this last song, “And it’s you who always gets the goal/But it’s me who wants to break the mould”. This is probably how Jack White thinks his band sounds. Could this be the one that gets Kopek on commercial radio? In a perfect universe, on a perfect station, yes. The production on the EP captures some of the excitement of Kopek live, but to really appreciate this band, go see them play. Then buy the EP afterwards and become the latest to join their devoted following. This kind of excitement is what it’s all about. Rock n Roll baby.