Delicate Hammers

Delicate Hammers play a few gigs now and then, rounded by long periods of indolence. After Loopol gets back from Japan and before Stutchbury heads off to India for a few months, Hammers stick out their sore musical thumbs again for CloudSounds.

Matt Riviere is ace, and we look forward to playing with him enormously. The... Forest lives in Wales - by choice! - so must be an eccentric performer, eh?

We will spit girders in your eye and punch holes in your conception of time. The usual routine.Read More

We've seen the future and it will be.

We've seen the future and it works.

FutureSonic festival will never be the same again, because they are going to change the name next year.

We are lining up alongside some of the finest artists to draw electronic breath in the Mancunian metropolitan area.

We have - Shmoo - http://www.m...yspace.com/shmoomusic - She Machine operators with synths for blood and robots for vocal chords. Nice. A bit like Les Rythyms Digitales turning up at your door and asking if they can borrow a cup of 80s.

Silverclub - http://www.myspace.com/silverclubuk - who are partly the laptop slump-eyed genius Tommy Walker III and partly other people about whom we are not quite as excited. They also pulse with that moody sheen that you might expect, and are tipped for furtherance.

The Thinman Project - http://www.myspace.com/thethinmanproject - with whom we have crossed performance swords on an earlier occasion; an occasion that saw the Noise Police arrive and shut us down. They are a bit dramatic, those guys, with stabbing sounds.

There is also Snowflake, but about them we know not so much.

We will be on about 9.30, but why not take a peek at the whole smorgasbord, as it's like FREE!!!Read More

Delicate Hammers drive a limp flag in a new corner of Y Deyrnas Unedig by turning and making some of that "music" that you've read about in the local press at "Selection Box" at The Square Hotel in Bristol. Quite the swanky place, so we will polish up our best wellies and stitch some sequins on our cosiest balaclavas.

I...n that way, we will bring retribution to the masses just the way that Allah intended - with Hammermusik!Read More

**FURTHER UPDATE**
As well as reducing Hammers down to a lone Coc, posed on a glassy knoll with his hand on his iPod, there is further news of the Reckno specatular!!

Headlining this Tale of Ton Shitties will be Talibam! (http://www.myspace.com/talibam), Noo Yawk purveyors of punch-drunk geometry. They've been pulled fro...m the skies like a jumbo jet versus Godzilla, history has bent towards the coast. Binbags stuffed with talent. Excitement trickles forth!

Also Coc has revived a solo MySpunk presence - http://www.myspace.com/mccocoen. So have a look here and indulge the mystery a little.

**ORIGINAL MESSAGE**
Now we are sidling up to our dreams.

As Delicate Hammers approach the end of five years' existence, questions begin to arise. What is success? How can we get it? What goes on at Vanessa's Health Studio over the road in the middle of the night? When is enough enough?

Reckno (http://www.myspace.com/reckno) is the glorious answer to all these questions! A night that has featured galactic performances from DJ Scotch Egg, Cylob, Agaskado Teliverek and much native genius in myriad forms, including Animal Magic Tricks, noisenik bullyboys Sunshine Republic and the gargantuan True Swamp Neglect.

Our golden invitation arrived in the post, delivered on gossamer strings by junkie pigeons, and we are leaking our trousers with excitements. We want to do at least five new tunes on the night. Dubby fragments,MES-style rants about fuckwits....

Also scraping their fingernails down the chalkboard that night will be:

* Alpine Lager (http://www.myspace.com/alpinelageruk), a secretive bunch, perhaps born in a Munich bierkeller putsch, just waiting to avenge the wrongs of the International Hebrew Conspiracy or somesuch.

* Future Crystal Vision - the glistening drool of Yaaard (http://www.myspace.com/yaaaaaaaaaard) used as a communicative liquid in the re-animated brain of Krayon (http://www.myspace.com/krayonrecordings). No recordings seem publicly available for this either.

* Massacre - Completing this underground triptych, a band about whom next-to-nothing can be discerned. Or perhaps an actual massacre is planned. "Come fiery bombs and fall on Reckno, it's not fit for human respect, yo!" That kind of thing.

Rumours abound of another smoking outfit that will stand bold as synthetic brass in the ashes of civilisation; but nothing is confirmed.

All in all in all - a mighty nighty!

** UPDATE **

Hammers have failed in their projected attempt to maintain their integrity for this date. Therefore, the Herculean intellect that is MC CocOen will be mounting a solo offensive on the sensibilities of the Reckno public. This will involve him spitting all manner of glorious sickness accompanied by a trusty iPod Classic and his own less reliable fingers hitting guitar strings.

Come watch me struggle for dignity before the tears cloud my vocal chords beyond usefulness.Read More

Very kindly and patiently, and with soft, gentle fingers, the good boys and more boys at Blowout and The Canteen have asked us back again to test out their brand new bass bins. We reckon it ought to be a hoot! It looks like we are last on, so the appetite-sharpeners are as follows:

* Blind Atlas* - Chorlton-based countr...y rock hybird. You know how it gets when the tumbleweed gets to tumbling around the Four Banks, and the natives get all restless at the Royal Oak. See more about them here - http://www.citylife.co.uk/music/features/12517_blind_atlas___when_americana_met_mancunia.

* The Moods - Described in Clash magazine as "groovy melancholia", which sounds right up Manchester's Monument Valley, if you ask us. Here they are - http://www.myspace.com/wearethemoods. Touch of James in the vocals, so maybe they'll get crucified live on the BBC at Easter or something.

* Fox Force Five - Urban Live cover stars from Middleton, so we will have a lot to live up after. Have a look here about them - http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=308885904&blogId=472788672. Used to feature Uma Thurman on drums apparently.

* Grand British Decibel - A psychedelic bunch of groovers, who eat a bowl of wah-wah pedals for breakfast every morning. Don't believe us? Listen - http://www.myspace.com/grandbritishdecibel. They sound a bit Native American, so maybe it will kick off with Blind Atlas once the rye whiskey have been flowing awhile.

A hearty menu of moody guitars and broody vocals, I think you'll agree. Fuck alone knows what they'll make of us, but we can escape home quickly enough if it all goes Superbad.

*Imagine if we were being supported by Atlas Sound. How awwwweeesome would that be?Read More