UPCOMING EVENTS //

CROCODILES / WOUNDS / CHEAP FREAKS

San Diego's Crocodiles evoke the Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Velvet Underground while mixing in dense synthesizer drones, echoing drum beats, dream-like harmonies and the sassyness of their previous band, the evocative, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower to create some of the best fuzzed up art punk hits you'll hear all summer.

"a darker, more caustic brand of shoegaze rock, complete with feedback, drum machines and pedals galore. As one onlooker remarked, "If (Factory Records exec) Tony Wilson were alive, he'd sign 'em --San Diego City Beat"

''The deconstructed Punk duo parlay their appreciation for melody into a kind of modern-day Suicide, complete with a minimalistic Rock sound saddled with doomed electronics.'' -PORTLAND MERCURY.

"(Summer of Hate LP) This is a repeat-ready 34 minutes of melodic pop pushed to the disintegration point and beyond. Welcome to the art-punk renaissance." - - Rolling Stone

Special guests on the night are WOUNDS and CHEAP FREAKS!!!!

Skinny Wolves presents

CROCODILES
(Usa, Fat Possum Records)
w/ Guests:
WOUNDS + CHEAP FREAKS

Whelans, upstairs. Camden St, Dublin
Thursday 30th July

Doors : 8pm
Tickets 10e (+booking fee to be included) from Tickets.ie, WAV, etc

CROCODILES

(Ex members of Some Girls / The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower)
http://www.myspace.com/crocodilescrocodilescrocodiles

For the uninitiated, Crocodiles songs began slinging across the Interweb after their friends in No Age named the band's song “Neon Jesus” as one of their Top Ten shredders of 2008. Unprompted, the forward-thinking Fader Blog posted two more stunner tracks, “I Wanna Kill” and “Summer of Hate.” Stereogum recently named them Band to Watch and described them as “The Velvet Underground swinging Jesus and Mary Chain.” Really though, Crocodiles are just a great new rock duo hollering some fine tunes.

San Diego is a sleepy military town, stuck between Tijuana and the bright lights of Los Angeles, but this isn't Surf City, USA. The beaches may be home to students and tanners, but they're also home to hell's angels, jocks, drug casualties, and the medicated rich. Warplanes rumble in and out of the naval base, and as in countless American cities, the kids here are bored.

Charles Rowell and Brandon Welchez met as teenagers amidst this overwhelming feeling of emptiness. Playing in various groups since then, the duo struck out on their own as Crocodiles in April of 2008. They quickly self-released a 7' single and used it as an excuse to escape their tarpit hometown, first touring up and down the west coast and then venturing across the whole of the U.S.

Crocodiles debut album, Summer of Hate, was recorded over the winter of 2008, and was released by Fat Possum on April 28, 2009. it is born of the same alienation and frustration that fueled Charles' and Brandon's initial pairing. Poppy vocal melodies are crushed with harsh electronic drums or lifted and left floating in spaced-out noise and echo. loud, wiry guitars jab wildly like mutant synapses skirting along a tightrope drone.This is the dark side of the California sun.

Crocodiles - Refuse Angels from christin turner on Vimeo.

Crocodiles - Neon Jesus from christin turner on Vimeo.

WOUNDS

www.myspace.com/thewoundsband

Wounds are a 4-piece noise-inspired garage band from Dublin city. Drawing inspiration from bands like The Locust, Black Lips, Death from Above and a mutual love for Prince, they sound like Refused playing Joy Division songs.

CHEAP FREAKS

www.myspace.com/cheapfreaks

CHEAP FREAKS, Dublin City's power-trash garage punks, fronted by (ex-Things bassist) Robbie Brady and fellow Dubliner Al Dodd. With primitive cave-punk songs of sex, drugs, war and,violence, these freaks kick out some serious motha f*ckin' jams!