LONDON GARAGE PUNK WEEKEND || Scaners (FR), Bad Nerves, Jack Cades, Gee Strings (DE), More Kicks, Trash Culture

Friday, Garageland brings you Bad Nerves, Germany's The Gee Strings, and Trash Culture.

BAD NERVES

Bad Nerves play "surf punk that sounds like a gang of friends high on speed playing so hard and fast it
seems like they're purposely trying to break every string and drum skin in front of them."

THE GEE STRINGS

Undoubtedly, The Gee Strings are one of the outstanding ´77 punk rock bands in Europe. With authentic and sovereign raw energy, they passionately blast their 2 minute songs through the speakers, always with the optimal doses of sex, sweat, and rock & roll.

Influenced by the Sex Pistols, Heartbreakers, The Stooges, and of course, the Ramones, The Gee Strings create their own convincing punk rock & roll of international quality, not only regarding their live performance. Their dirty, catchy songs, somewhere between Detroit and New York ´74 and London ´77, are crowned with the voice and inimitable stage show by female lead singer Ingi Pop.

TRASH CULTURE

Trash Culture is the perfect soundtrack on a Friday night as you crack your first beer, jump and pogo. Trash Culture is the culture of just about living, working for records, beers, rehearsals and gigs. Trash Culture is getting inspiration out of shitty jobs rising out the shit every weekend to be pissed off during the week.
Trash Culture is playing music "because we have to, for if we don't we will kill our work colleagues".

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Saturday, Weirdsville and Dirty Water bring you France's The Scaners, The Jack Cades, and More Kicks.

France’s “alien-gonzo-synth-punk rockers”, THE SCANERS, have taken off with their eponymous debut LP which takes the listener over Area 51 on the Devo spaceship piloted by Joey Ramone:

With extraterrestrial titles like “Abduction”, “No Place In Space”, “We Want To Talk To Your Leader” and “Flying Fuck”, this album is certainly not from the traditional, third-dimensional garage-punk reality. Yes, it has the mainframe DNA of The Ramones and The Dickies, but draws heavily on classic fourth-dimensional synth spirits like Devo and Suicide, coupled with modern acolytes such as The Spits and Useless Eaters.

Pedigrees don't come much better than the Mystreated, State Records, the Embrooks, the Higher State, Speedball Jr, Hipsville/Weirdsville, the Missing Souls, the Baron Four, and Thee Vicars. Not to mention the Masonics, the Kaisers, and the Wildebeests.

THE JACK CADES is a mix of a shared passion for inspirational sounds such as 1960s Garage bands, Snotty Punk from the 1970s, Sun-kissed sweaty Rhythm n' Blues, and a lot of inspirational people.

What happens when you take a pop song, tear it to pieces and start again?

MORE KICKS is an explosion that will hit you in the stomach and make your heart beat faster.

Pop can be dumb; garage can be clever; punk can be fresh; rock and roll can be revitalised.

The four More Kicks members were born everywhere but formed in London. All of them drawn to the city for the same reason: to make loud music in small rooms.