Ultimate Thunder + Lands & Body

Ultimate Thunder
Post-everything learning disability-forward avant space rock a la Hawkwind, The Fall, PiL
https://ultimatethunder.bandcamp.com/

Lands & Body
Former That Fucking Tank men making loud instrumental guitar and drums un-rock

8pm (prompt start) – 10pm

FREE ENTRY with donations for bands gratefully accepted. Done in time for trains back to Leeds / Manc. Supported using public funding from Arts Council England.

Ultimate Thunder are the Leeds learning-disabled / neuro-divergent band who made the news recently when their funding was cut. This is their second album collaborating with producer/ musician James Mabbett (Napoleon IIIrd). ‘The Fall meets Hawkwind’ description still fits but there is so much more to this band and it’s a great punk/experimental album in its own right, says Ged Babey.

This is not a novelty record.

This is just a great album full stop. One of the best of the year.

Behind the scenes at Louder Than War I’ve been fighting for it to be the coveted ‘Album of The Week’ only to be over-ruled by dictatorial middle-management as supposedly Big Special and Arab Strap are deemed more important and of wider-interest to our hipster readership. I threatened to resign, hinted at blackmail, intimated violence, the lot, but there was no swaying them….
If this isn’t the most immediate, exciting and original 2020’s slice of dance-punk since ‘Jobseeker’ and ‘We Live Here’ I don’t know what is….