Posts Tagged ‘psych-garage’

In anticipation of their soon-to-be-announced new album, Italian psych-garage band Bee Bee Sea returns with a 3-track concept EP titled It’s All About the Music and a limited 7" edition presented at Bergamo’s Punk Rock Raduno #8.

Three acts. One song. Three versions. The same song, reimagined in three forms:

The original version.

A faster one, like a punked-up Sgt. Pepper’s Reprise, born out of rehearsal boredom.

A slow, kraut-rock-inspired instrumental version shaped in the studio by producer Marco Giudici, who also played one of the guitars.

Each version got its own video, crafted by a different filmmaker:

A collage of Age of Empires visuals, curated by Lorenzo Perteghella

A medieval fantasy starring the band in armour, directed by Marco Bellini, with photography by Gloria Pasotti

A dynamic green-screen performance edited by Marco Alliegro

The limited 7-inch vinyl was released at Punk Rock Raduno #8, and was screen-printed live during Bee Bee Sea’s show in Bergamo by Saldacani and Baby Lemonade. A physical artefact. A visual riot. A mini garage-rock opera.

Check the video trilogy here:

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Hot on the heels of their acclaimed EP Hex Domestic, Dragged Up release their new single ‘Missing Person’ on Rare Vitamin Records on 2 February, as digital, super-limited CD and cassette.

The single is taken from the band’s forthcoming album, High On Ripple, which will be released in April by Cruel Nature and Rare Vitamin Records.

Check the video here:

Missing Person was recorded by Robbie Wilson (The Kundalini Genie) and Chris Geddes (Belle and Sebastian), mixed by Tommy Duffin (The Cosmic Dead) and mastered by Sam Smith at Glasgow’s legendary Green Door Studio. The flipside is the a dub-dirge remix of the title track, entitled ‘Machine Person’.

Dragged Up are an off-kilter psych-garage proto-grunge band with a spoken word element, founded in late 2018 by Eva Gnatiuk (Violent Butlins) with Simon Shaw (Trembling Bells) and writer Lisa Jones. Chas Lalli (Vom) and Stephen Mors (The Owsley Sunshine) joined in 2019 and 2022 respectively.

Upcoming live shows (more to be added):

Feb 3rd – The Ferret, Preston (daytime)

Feb 3rd – The Source Collective, Carlisle (evening)

March 8th – Summerhall, Edinburgh (with Amateur Cult)

April 11th – Stereo, Glasgow (supporting House of All)

May 2nd – The Ferret, Preston

May 3rd – Big Hands, Manchester

May 4th – The Underground, Bradford

May 5th – Museum Vaults, Sunderland

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(Click image to listen / purchase both tracks on bandcamp)