Down Around
Concert footage from a K-Line gig at Dingwalls, London edited by Matt & Sophie Elmy to fit reasonably closely with the audio of “Down Around” taken from the 2nd K-Line EP. Filmed by Matt Elmy & Graham Pryor.
Stay Poor
A very low-fi video of “Stay Poor” a song taken from K-Line’s first E.P. “In The Red”. Filmed and edited by Roop Coulson (who also recorded & mixed the song).
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Sink did a big 9 week, joint-headline tour of Europe (including dates in the UK) with our bestest buddies from Washington DC, Shudder To Think. They had just released Tenspot on Dischord and would record Funeral At The Movies at Southern in London directly after the tour. Shudder were my favourite band at the time and I think I got to see them 53 times that summer. Wonderful stuff. The line-up of Craig Wedren, Chris Matthews, Stuart Hill & Mike Russell will always be my favourite version of Shudder and it was cool watching them every night and seeing them write and develop some of the Funeral songs as the tour progressed.
As for Sink; we had just released Old Man Snake & The Fat, Black Pig on Decoy and were excited to be back in Europe and on tour. Outside of the UK you were expected to play longer sets and so we embraced this with our own fairly eclectic take on “life after hardcore”. A few chuggy, Fugazi-inspred numbers, some poppy, Replacements nods, as few fast ones as we could get away with and some covers we couldn’t really play. No two nights were the same and we had a lot of our own material and plenty of covers to choose from. This was probably the height of our embracing of The Blues and in that I hope you’ll be indulgent with us. Everyone should spend a couple of years looking into where the whole of popular music came from and discovering the Blues greats. We did and we thoroughly enjoyed it…it was just unfortunate for our audience that we tended to play a lot of what we were listening to at the time. So on this tour we ‘gifted’ the crowd with dodgy, post-punk versions of white-boy blues that we loved, but which looking back, probably aren’t even 10% as good as we thought at the time. Fuck it, we had a ball.
We always enjoyed playing at the AJZ, a squat in Bielefeld, and Bobo, the booker there, was a great guy who seemed to like the band and helped us out a fair bit. Also on hand was our very good friend, Alfred Bradford, who took these great photos. Incidentally, Alfred had brought along US band The Dambuilders who were also touring at the time. We said hi to each other on the night, but didn’t really hang out. Ironic then that 3 years later, Chocolate, would tour Europe supporting The Dambuildes on their Islington Porn Tapes tour and that their drummer, Kevin March, would end up playing for the final line-up of Shudder To Think. Small world.
Anyway, what follows is the whole gig. It’s very much warts and all. If you’re a Sink fan then you’ll probably enjoy it, if you’ve not heard Sink before then I wouldn’t recommend this as your introdution to the band; there are bum notes aplenty and the mix isn’t always great (the sound man seems to like his reverb and his delay effects). That said, the versions of Angel Turns Blue and Big Red Car are pretty damn good 
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Seams (live): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Squirrels (live): Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadOur good friend and former K-Line drummer, James Sherry, was on hand at the Bird’s Nest gig last week to take some pictures and record a few minutes of video. Turns out the room was too dark for you to see anything on the video, but the sound quality was decent enough, so I cut that out and have uploaded the 2 songs as audio only. Squirrels cuts off a few seconds from the end, but you get the whole of Seams. I’ve also included a few of James’ snaps from the gig too.
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Here’s a taste of the Cambridge gig from last night. The lights a bit irritating and mean that you can’t really make out Tom & Rich, but at least the sound doesn’t distort which is nice. We’re playing the old Sink song, Blue Noodles.
Liquidman - Cambridge 19th December 2009 from Ed Wenn on Vimeo.Liquidman playing an old Sink song, “Blue Noodles” at The Portland Arms, Cambridge on 19th December 2009. Ed, Tom & Rich. Filmed by Jacqui. Posted in Liquidman | No Comments »
Thursday 17th: Liquidman
The Birds Nest supporting STFU
32 Deptford Church Street, Deptford, SE8 4RZ
FREE GIG
I assume we’ll be opening up proceedings at this gig because Kev kindly agreed to slip us in at the last minute. That means we’ll be onstage at 9PM sharp.
Friday 18th: Billy No Mates
Wat Tyler
+ Billy No Mates
+ Ted Leo
+ STFU
£5 on the door. No advance tix.
Saturday 19th : Liquidman
The Portland Arms in Cambridge
Ciarafest 14 with Karmadillo, Puncture Repair Kit & The Pony Collaboration.
We’re on 2nd from last and will kick off our set at 9.30.
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