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Giddy Motors (fat Cat Records)

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  • 29-11-2002 11:22am
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    johanson
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    Import Promotions Presents.

    GIDDY MOTORS (FAT CAT RECORDS)
    + DAEMIEN FROST
    SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER
    WHELANS, WEXFORD STREET
    DOORS 2 PM
    ADM: €8


    Anglo-French heavy avant-rockers Giddy Motors are set to release their Steve Albini engineered debut album, ‘Make It Pop’ on Fat Cat Records in Spring 2002 and are embarking on a round of UK and Ireland live dates in support of this innovative release.

    Formed in 1999 by Goots Devis (guitar / vocals) and Manu Ros (drums / bass), Giddy Motors set out to combine the jazz influence of Coltrane and Miles Davis with the angular punk of the Jesus Lizard and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. From this starting point they have stamped their own originality and innovation on a clutch of challenging and hard-hitting songs, involving chaotic chord progressions, face-slapping vocals and acrobatic percussion. The new sound was served up in cannonball form at a series of small high-pressure live shows throughout late 2000 and early 2001. A lot of kids came up to the band after these saying that they rated them as the best live act they had ever seen.

    Around this time the band got in touch with legendary Chicago-based engineer Steve Albini, who checked out their material and agreed to record their debut album. In the summer of 2001 Giddy Motors set off to Albini’s Electrical Audio studios in Chicago and spent 9 days creating ‘Make It Pop’. The result captures the intensity of the music in a blistering 8 song rocket that bucks the trend for over-long, lazy, sprawling discs. Every track on the record was chosen from a stock of music that was amazingly large and varied for the short time the band had been together, with music some would have rushed out being held over for future releases. (This is evident from the self-produced B side ‘Sap Heater’ on the forthcoming single, which has the quality of an album opener, and would have been so for a band with fewer options in terms of class material.)

    On the eve of the band’s trip to America, Fat Cat Records, home to Sigur Ros, Him and Mice Parade, amongst many others, offered the band a deal. The teaming of Giddy Motors and Fat Cat was seen as surprising to some, and indeed is acknowledged as something of a departure by the label, but is evidence of both parties’ open-minded approach to original and exciting music. For Giddy Motors, it was the perfect move to a label they had admired for some years.

    In 2002, the band is joined by new member Gordon Ashdown on bass, who shone at auditions with great versatility welded to the heaviest sound the group had ever heard! The trio are now set to trek the UK with an incendiary new live show in the run up to the 7” release ‘Whirled By Curses’, accompanied by a video, scheduled for March, followed by the album in April. European dates will follow, the band seeing out the year with a U.S. tour at the end of which they plan to cut their second record.

    En garde.

    PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN AFTERNOON SHOW


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