updated March 31 2000
SOUTHALL RIOT links:
- Contact: 24 Boscombe Road, London SW17 9JL UK
ring Phill (0181) 843 0942 or Stuart (0171) 221 3696
- Interview in Freebase zine.
History of Southall Riot:
Formed early 98
1st single "Into Chicago Abyss" released Sep 98
2nd single "Science vs The World" Feb 99
"Truetale Signs of Earworm" CD (2 songs) Apr 99
Earworm split LP with Magnetic North Pole June 99
Earworm split 7" with George July 99
Debut Live "Londown Earworm Night" Oct 99
3d single "Quality Goods EP" Nov 99
'Sunhead' CD Mini Album With Ansuz Lunasa Apr 00 (?)
Full Suothall Riot LP towards the end of 2000
NME:
SOUTHALL RIOT
It's Science Vs The World! (Interpolating Victory In
Space)
(Victory Garden)
Just as too many records these days are made by
people convinced that sounding as much as possible
like Radiohead is not only a virtue but destined to make
them rich and liable to sire Christina Ricci's offspring,
then too few records these days come wrapped in star
charts. The second Southall Riot single is a triumph on
both these counts and others besides. Admittedly, the
absence of any discernible 'Headism is unlikely to make
them either rich or eligible to Hollywood starlets, but no
matter. As one gazes mesmerised at the mythic celestial
swirl and dreams of gossamer-winged transport to
Delphinus or Vulpecula or, uh, Boscombe, the Riot
boys trip our lights fantastic with a tremulous vision of
Guided By Voices fronted by Bobby Gillespie. 'It's
Science Vs The World...' is a mini-concerto for drone
guitar, pat-a-cake drums and all-around perplexity.
Remember kids, locked grooves can set you free.
SOUTHALL RIOT
Into The Chicago Abyss
(Victory Garden)
Southall Riot are Stuart and Phil, two men from, er,
Southall who like Flying Saucer Attack. And jokes. This,
their debut, is a five-track feedback folk EP that comes in a
brown paper bag and features a resignation letter on the
cover written by Lawrence - the editor of a Syd Barrett
fanzine in the early-'70s. Who knows why? It certainly
hasn't got anything to do with the rest of this magnificent
record, which as well as including an epic, ten-minute
space-drone called 'The Meaning Of Stars', also features
four other songs that sound like Guided By Voices.
What can we say? It's available from Victory Garden
Records, 24 Boscombe Road, London SW17 9JL.