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Wolf Eyes - Back & Touring from Mid-May
The infamous Michigan noise trio are back in the continent after three long, painfully silent years.
Wolf Eyes are Nate Young, John Olson and Mike Connelly. with over a 100 releases so far and hopefully at least another 100 in the future, Wolf Eyes constantly re-invent music, turning noise, death metal and industrial music into an intense, unforgettable live experience.
14.5 friday NL amsterdam @ occii
15.5 saturday DE bremen @ friese
16.5 sunday SE malmo @ singsang
17.5 monday SE gothenburg @ utmarken
18.5 tuesday DK copenhagen @ lades
19.5 wednesday DE berlin @ berghain
20.5 thursday CZ prague@stimul festival, archa theatre
21.5 friday AVAIL!!!
22.5 saturday CZ brno@fleda
23.5 sunday off
24.5 monday off
25.5 tuesday IT padova @ unwound
26.5 wednesday IT rome @ init
27.5 thursday IT bologna @ locomotiv
28.5 friday CH dudingen @ kilbi festival
29.5 saturday CH geneva @ l'usine
30.5 sunday FR lyon @ grrrnd zero
31.5 monday FR lille @ la peniche
1.6 tuesday UK brighton @ the engine room
2.6 wednesday UK london @ plan b
3.6 thursday FR paris @ vilette sonique festival
4.6 friday BE aalst @ netwerk
5.6 saturday DE cologne @ tba
6.6 sunday NL utrecht@ekko
Wolf Eyes Website
Wolf Eyes on Myspace
Touring from mid-May till early June, if you'd like to book Wolf Eyes...
Contact > mia{at}littlebig.org.uk
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"An ungodly Noise hybrid which sucks fragments of US hardcore, Industrial, free jazz ..., avant garde electronics and Death Metal into a sonic vortex. Cloaked in cartoonish horrorcore imagery, their music's obvious delight is its own intensity, as infectious as it is puerile."
Nick Cain - The Wire
Permalink | January 13, 2010
Wolf Eyes autumn Euro trip Oct 20th > Nov 3rd
No sooner have their spring & summer tours ripped through Europe like a rabid beast, the Michigan industrial noise trio are being brought straight back for a two week trip in Oct / Nov 07.
Oct 20th, Holland, Utrect @ Rumor Festival
Oct 24th, Holland, Den Haag @ Helbaard, Laan van Meerdervoort 211
Oct 25th, AVAIL for Southern Germany
Oct 26th, Austria, Graz @ Elevate Festival
Oct 27th, Italy, Verona @ Interzona
Oct 28th, Italy, Milan @ Magnolia
Oct 29th AVAIL FOR SWITZERLAND
Oct 30th, France, Lyon @ Grrrndzero
Oct 31st, France, Marseille @ L'Embobineuse
Nov 2nd, Spain, Castellón @ Tanned Tin Festival
Nov 3rd, Belgium, Kortrijk @ De Kreun
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Unlike the almost immediate eruption of Burned Mind, the characteristic building of tension and bone-shattering releases are prolonged, and when the climax arrives it does so with a crushing force that leaves you gasping for breath...
The second half of the album is introduced with the title track, erupting with high power sonic explosions and the chest-splitting roar of Nate Young, penetrating the dense, swirling clouds of noise.
Critics are never short of words with this band. On Human Animal, Plan B wrote "It flips the listner between immersion and alienation, frequently settling in an almost hypnogogic, lucid-dream state where it is no longer clear whether a sound comes from within or without", and their live shows have been described as a "orgiastic symphony of hypnotic build-up and cathartic discharge" (Pitchfork), not to mention the continued praise of the experimental purists at The Wire.
Permalink | June 12, 2007
Wolf Eyes - Welcome to Littlebig
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96 to '98: Wolf Eyes begins life as a single individual residing somewhere in the sprawling Metro Detroit labyrinth. Nate Young is Wolf Eyes, generating noises with electronics, programming, voice and whatever instrument he can (re)construct. Aaron Dilloway releases a few near-extinct cassettes of this initial Wolf Eyes incarnation on his Hanson imprint then he joins the group full-time, generating noises with guitar, tapes, electronics, horns, mouth and whatever instrument lies within an arm?s reach. Wolf Eyes (as two) tour and record incessantly. A steady stream of quick-to-vanish cassettes, split LP's, lathe-cut records, and CD-R's, flows into the general population.
'99: Wolf Eyes become a fully integrated industrial-hardcore-noise hybrid generating waves of broken guitar riffage, boiling electronic percolation, blasts of feedback like black boots snapping bone, and Young's animalistic howl. It is absolutely the toughest sound emitted from a human?s mouth since John Brannon?s. Check out the Wolf Eyes/Nautical Almanac split LP (Hanson), Fortune Dove 12" (Bulb), and Wolf Eyes? self-titled CD (Bulb), to hear what I am
talking about.
'00: Young and Dilloway relocate to Brooklyn, and Andrew Wilkes-Krier joins Wolf Eyes. His exact role remains unknown. Vice magazine publishes a photograph of Wolf Eyes (as three) but little else is known of this short-lived phase. New York?s concrete and bullshit prove antithetical to Wolf Eyes' larger
evolutionary concerns. So, Young and Dilloway head back to Michigan while Wilkes-Krier remains in New York and becomes a successful motivational speaker. Wolf Eyes (as three) return to Wolf Eyes (as two). Then, with the release of the With Spykes CD-R (Hanson) a hulking, sweaty figure called Spykes (AKA John Olson, manipulating tapes, electronics, horns and more) emerges as Wolf Eyes? perfect third collaborator.
'01: Olson?s effects on the group are dramatic. Wolf Eyes (as three again) dramatically increase their recorded output. In just under a year, the hyper-productive Olson releases over 20 Wolf Eyes cassettes and CD-R?s via his American Tapes imprint including their first major statement, the Dread LP(Hanson/American Tapes). By this stage, Wolf Eyes have evolved into a single super-organism. A rich tapestry of wires and pedals inextricably link Young, Dilloway nd Olson, and their respective towers of homemade electronics, guitars, horns, gongs, etc. It all has fused into a single, monolithic machine-entity. Wires ven slither up into their mouths for sonic purposes just like that old bitch from Superman III who is turned into some freaky fucking cyborg by Richard Pryor?s totally out-of-control self-conscious super-computer.
'02: Olson releases dozens of Wolf Eyes cassettes and CD-R's. Dilloway releases the ultra-lean Slicer, and the Troubleman Unlimited imprint releases the lavish Dead Hills picture disc LP. Wolf Eyes are now traveling without a map. Every new release reveals new forms comprised of pounding inner-space reverberations, snippets of slowly crackling ?sub-atomic? feedback, and glass-shattering shrieks that slowly rise and fall until a rattling pulse clobbers the tops of sweaty heads and hundreds of flailing fists puncture the air in compliance with Wolf Eyes? commands: THE WOLF EYES RULE.
'03: Dilloway releases the Mugger CD-R (Hanson), a small cadre of indie labels releases the expansive Wolf Eyes/Panicsville ?Stabbed in the Face? split 12?, and you know how busy Olson is. Wolf Eyes? distinctive stomp dissolves into sheets of microscopically crafted feedback like lightning bolts shattering immaculately blown stained glass. It is over-amplification of the humming spinal cord and the chatter of a billion cells sharing information.
'04: The machine-entity that Young, Dilloway and Olson, have brought to life sprouts limbs and runs roughshod across America. The recently released 'Stabbed in the Face' 12" (Sub Pop) scratches, tears, rocks, claws and moves with the precision and clarity of quantum uncertainty. Their new full-length for Sub Pop, Burned Mind, will molest you. That is statistically for certain. But, you can say nothing of the how and when until it actually happens, unpredictability by design.
’05: Halfway through the century brings change to Wolf Eyes. With Aaron Dilloway relocating to Nepal, the band decided to scoop up Mike Connelly of noise kins Hair Police to pick up the slack. Connelly has been in the game since around 2000 with his own tape label Gods of Tundra and sound assault group Hair Police. He moved up to Michigan at the end of 2004 and has been jamming with Olson and Young in various projects, leading up to his introduction into Wolf Eyes. The band's recent shows have been a return to a much more primitive and raw approach to the bands own version of armageddon (which includes brews and Negative Approach's "Ready to Fight" on repeat). New recordings like "Deranged" and "Droll vol. 19" highlight Wolf Eyes' current state of mind, while new songs like "Leper War" tear it all to pieces. Its going to be a gnarly year.
Wolf Eyes' trademark boil-bursting thud has evolved into the roar of a lithe panther with rattling jackhammers for claws. Agility and quickness are now this beast's most lethal attributes. Placed on the evolutionary charts, Burned Mind appears as the progeny of Throbbing Gristle's Heathen Earth sound-model. But, the complex of muscularity and emotional range found in Wolf Eyes' new sound-model has rendered its apparent ancestry slow, clumsy and rather limited in comparison. Fuck, man, cite all the top-shelf noise and power electronics bands until you're blue in the face; Whitehouse, New Blockaders, Nurse with Wound, whatever ? but none possess the internal being of Wolf Eyes. The former were performance artists flirting with the dire circumstances of the human condition in the abstract. But, Wolf Eyes just fucking ARE the dire circumstances of the modern human condition. Ever watch a movie about the future and the future is so oppressively grim, violent, foreign and insipid, that even a romance with nihilism seems way too quaint and inappropriate of a response?
And then you realize: We live in drastic fucking times, and Burned Mind is drastic fucking music.
--Justin F. Farrar
Burned Mind was recorded from October 2003 through June 2004 primarily by the band themselves. Parts were recorded at Key Club in Benton Harbor, MI by Bill Skibbe and Jessica Ruffins. Mixing help came from Brendan M. Gillen.
Wolf Eyes website
info on Sub Pop
Burned Mind review on Pitchfork media
Burned Mind review on Junkmedia
MP3
Quicktime live clip (very bad sound!)
Permalink | December 23, 2006
Wolf Eyes destroying Europe now!
Wolf Eyes Euro April 2006 Live Tour.
Featuring members :: John Olsen, Nate Young, Mike Connelly (as above)
13/04 UK. Brighton, Overkill @ Concorde2
14/04 Fra. Paris, Les Voutes
15/04 NL. Rotterdam, Motel Mozeique Festival
16/04 Bel. Brussles, Domino Festival @ AB w/ Mogwai & 65 days of static SOLD OUT
17/04 Ger. Berlin, Volksbuhne Theatre w/ Black Dice & Battles
18/04 Ger. Koln, Gebaude w/ Black Dice & Battles
19/04 Ger. Heidelberg, karlstorbahnhof
20/04 OFF
21/04 It. Milan, Jail Legnano
22/04 It. Rome, Ravenna Bronson
23/04 It. Turin, Spazio 211
24/04 Swiz Geneva, L'Usine
25/04 Fra. Mulhouse, Noumatrouff
26/04 Fra. Bourges, Printemps Festival
27/04 UK. Edinburgh, Triptych Festival @ The Venue (Mogwai aftershow)
28/04 UK. London, Electrowerkz
29/04 UK. Nottingham, The Social
30/04 UK. Glasgow, Triptych Festival @ Barrowlands
w/ Aphex Twin & The Bug & N>E>D SOLD OUT
01/05 UK. Manchester, Jebez Cleg. info. tkts
02/05 UK. Newcastle, Cluny
03/05 UK. Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
04/05 Austr. Danube Festival. with Battles
Look out for Mike Connelly's band 'Hair Police' show in Paris at start of May.
Wolf Eyes Info
Wolf Eyes Promo downloads
Permalink | January 08, 2006
Wolf Eyes euro tour in June / July
The music that Wolf Eyes creates is truly intense; Sonic touchstones include Throbbing Gristle, early Cabaret Voltaire, Black Flag, Whitehouse, Pre-Asheton Destroy All Monsters, Negative Approach, Swans and early Sonic Youth. The advocacy of the latter has led to many opening slots and a spot on the entire 2004 Lollapalooza tour.
Euro summer 2005 tour ::
10/6 Switzerland: bad bonn kilbi festival w/ Mike Patten & Rahzel
11/6 Switzerland: bad bonn kilbi festival w/ Fe Male
13/6 uk, Brighton, Freebutt
14/6 uk, London, ICA
15/6 uk, Birmingham, Custod Factory
16/6 uk, Manchester, Dry Bar
17/6 Ire, Dublin, Wheelans
18/6 Ire, Belfast, Pavillion
19/6 uk, Glasgow, Mono
21/6 Spain, Porto, Teatro Pa?os de Manuel
22/6 Spain, vigo, club vademecum - www.clubevademecum.com
23/6 Spain, Madrid, Revolver
24/6 Portugal, Lisbon, Galeria Z? dos Bois - www.zedosbois.org
25/6 Belgium, Hasselt, Kunstencentrum w/ Sunn 0)))
26/6 Holland, Rotterdam
27/6 Berlin, Twisted Robot
28/6 Austria, Vienna, Flex
30/6 italy, Rome, Circolo
01/7 italy, Bolognia, Link
02/7 Athens, Synch Festival w/ Pansonic
03/7 italy, Turin, Piazza San Carlo (!)
06/7 Sweden, Gothenburg, Accelerator Festival @ Tr?dg?r'n
07/7 Sweden, Stockholm Accelerator Festival @ Munchen brewery
08/7 Norway: Kongsberg Jazz Festival w/ Fe Male
09/7 Paris, Feedback Festival
10/7 Newcastle, uk, Version festival onboard MS Stubnitz
11/7 London, uk, Bardens Boudoir
Wolf Eyes are booked in europe by ned@littlebig.org.uk
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Permalink | March 30, 2005
