It's Just Noise present:

ANIMAL HOSPITAL (Boston, USA, Barge Recordings)
Animal Hospital is Kevin Micka's one-man musical recording/performance entity. Formed at the tail-end of Micka's time with Boston band The Common Cold, Animal Hospital slowly began to take on a life of its own in 2004 and has won followers from all corners of the music world, earning himself spots on tours with bands as diverse as Beirut, Neptune, and the tech-grind metal group The Great Redneck Hope.

During performances, Micka buries himself in a pile of electronics-shelves of effects, mixing consoles, amps and delay units-while patiently constructing a layered nest of loops consisting of live drum beats, guitar chords, scrapes, chucks, chimes, and melodies resulting in anything from more conventional songs to meticulously crafted ambient movements on to full on improvisation.

“Animal Hospital is one Kevin Micka and Memory is pretty much the coolest experimental record I have heard, probably since that Fun Years record. Micka is a multi-instrumentalist of the highest quality and in the years proceeding Memory has honed his skills in a live setting by playing and looping his instruments into effervescent concoctions that sound like the work produced by a four piece band (and a talented one at that)” Lil' Thistle - Forest Gospel

“Often starting with a bare skeleton of a song, he adds skin and muscle until it becomes a full, dense soundscape, in a process that feels more like sculpture than songcraft.” Marc Masters – Pitchfork

WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Ysb2ZrgPM
LISTEN: http://www.myspace.com/animalhospital

plus support from

INERTIA BLOOMS
'Their mathrock blueprint is fully developed; echoes of Tool, Mogwai and Tortoise run throughout, but there's a melancholic grandeur about this which is entirely of their own construction. 7/10' - Teletext/Planet Sound
http://www.myspace.com/inertiablooms

FOX AND THE MOON
soaring delicate soundscapes remarkably created by one man and a drum machine
http://www.myspace.com/foxandthemoon

HOWARD JAMES KENNY
Some call him 'a one man Sigur Ros', some call him 'a whisper in a giant cave', some call him 'acoustic Fuck Buttons', we call him Howard James Kenny ... and he's ruddy good!" - Task In Hand
http://www.myspace.com/howardjameskenny


Wednesday 4th November
@ The Flapper
Cambrian Warf, Kingston Row, Birmingham. B1 2NU.
Doors: 7.30pm. Cost: £5 on the door

Info/updates:
WEBSITE: http://itsjustnoise.wordpress.com
MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/itsjustnoise
FACEBOOK PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-Just-Noise/35254624816
FACEBOOK GROUP: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4796547459
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/itsjustnoiseuk