The Ferret presents:
HEY COLOSSUS
20th Anniversary Tour
+ Rude Films + SLAB
Thurs 19th October 2023
The Ferret | Preston
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To buy tickets for this event please visit our events page: Hey Colossus + guests tickets from Skiddle .
HEY COLOSSUS:
Forging a completely idiosyncratic combination of power, control, tenderness, miscontrol and more power, this six piece band active since 2003 acutely channels the best of your record collections and spit it back out into some quite astonishing shows and releases.
In September 2023 the band will celebrate their 20th anniversary with a new Double LP and a new series of shows.
'Twenty years is nothing.
By September 2023, the 20th anniversary of the bands first gig, there will have been 14 albums, numerous 7's and 12's, split records, compilation tracks and probably around 500 gigs. Or maybe 400. No one's ever kept count. The band has certainly toured through most of Europe numerous times, playing peach farms, BBC Radio sessions, squatted victorian mansions, Glastonbury Festival, and art galleries. A count should have been kept.
There's been 17 people through the ranks, some have come and gone and come back again, not including many guests on records including Nik Turner (Hawkwind) and Mark Lanegan. Nowadays, if you were to drive from one band member's house to another, and onto them all, it would take 11 hours and 47 mins. You'd cover 586 miles. Geography has never been an issue.
From the beginning through to now the songwriting / recording technique has remained head-scratchingly unique. To step in as an outsider would be baffling. Over the years the system has been tried, tested and failed; then tried, tested and succeeded. It's still the same as it was at the beginning, only now the results seem to be arriving as actual songs with almost classic structures. Just like The Fall. Just like Sonic Youth. Just like any band who never sat still, who were developing until the very end, Hey Colossus have shifted and mutated.
The band's 14th album is out in September on Wrong Speed Records. There's plans to play through Europe. There's more studio time booked. Playing live, recording music and travelling are the three basic elements of Hey Colossus. Plotting the onward movement is the driving force.
Twenty years is nothing, but what you can do in that time can be everything.'
RUDE FILMS:
The four piece, hailing from Manchester via Lancashire mill town Chorley, draw upon a dreary, melancholic sound, which they dub as ‘a sonic reflection of their bleak surroundings’.
SLAB:
[slab] formed in 2019 in a basement rehearsal room in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
During 2021 the band spent time recording with Simon ‘Ding’ Archer (Pixies / PJ Harvey) at local studio 6dB and are in the process of finishing off their first album.
“ready for the light motors into action….bursting its banks and delivering a thrilling widescreen post rock explosion” (ManchesterMusic.co.uk)
fierce and enthralling” (Music is my Radar)
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The Ferret presents:
HEY COLOSSUS
+ Rude Films + SLAB
Thurs 19th October 2023
The Ferret | Preston
Ages 14+ (under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult).
Tickets: skiddle.com/e/36360632
