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The Ferret presents:
The Shits
With support from Ox Scapula & Loser Puppy
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Sunday 23rd July
The Ferret | Preston
Doors 7pm
Ages 14+ (under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult)
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Murderous dirge from Leeds.
The Shits sit somewhere between the heaviness occasionally extracted by Rocket stalwarts like Gnod and Sex Swing. However, displayed across Punishment spectacularly, The Shits’ issue a pure primordial heaviness.
Let’s face facts here; we’re all a mess. Life in the 2020s thus far has been a litany of crushing indignities at best. Living standards plummet, lies carry the same currency as truth, and rock music - that racket that once served as countercultural force and revolutionary fire - has been neutered and subsumed into nullity.
That’s unless you’re listening to The Shits. ‘You’re A Mess’ - the second album from Leeds’ filthiest sons - is a staggering assault of invective fit to reignite your ire, and a sound that constitutes a real and present threat to life and limb. Contained within these eight feral exorcisms is a merciless assault of Stoogian/stygian riffage, gloriously purgatorial abjection and intimidating aggro that takes a garage-rock blueprint and grinds its face in the dirt.
If these grimy dirges and salvos of horror have a precedent, it’s in the menacing audial lineage that connects Fun House through the AmRep label, Brainbombs and Drunk In Hell - the process where relentless negativity is alchemically transformed into profane primal salvation. Yet The Shits worship no heroes, obeying a thanatotic urge that sees no separation between death and glory. Listen to this album and you will believe once again in catharsis by way of heavy amplification.
Psych-rock is dead, and The Shits are the executioners.
Ox Scapula
Noise makers from Stoke. Experience the fierce sonic storm of Ox Scapula's rugged and raucous live performances. Fans of Unwound or Drive Like Jehu will already know the feeling - frantic, stroppy guitars over a heaving, grooving, bass and drumset jam. Then expanding space.
Loser Puppy
Loser Puppy are currently the only true audible embodiment of the manifesto on ‘How To Be Almost Straight’. Loser Puppy use a high energy performance of hyper-ridiculous lensing to provide an incubator for all philosophies sought to be attained through the Manifesto.
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