The Bulbs + Mugstar

Static Gallery
8pm, Thursday 4th August 2011

This event at Liverpool’s Static Gallery brings together two Liverpool bands each of which share the capacity to create soundtracks for imaginary movies of the mind. Coupled with projected visuals and compelling samples this is sure to be an unforgettable experience.

The Bulbs is both a musical concept and a real band which aims to marry adventurous music-making with information and sound samples chosen to challenge the audience to look around them at the world in which they are living. It aims to ‘switch on listeners like light bulbs’ to question conventional wisdom and corporate media propaganda.

As a virtuoso solo guitarist Neil Campbell regularly performs sets all over the City, expanding the scope of his already densely textured compositions with various loops, delays and other electronic effects, making his classical guitar sound like a multi-timbral guitar orchestra. His various collaborations and his concept performance pieces such as ‘Ghost Stories: A Night Opera’ and ‘Frankenstein’ with The Neil Campbell Collective and Sense of Sound Singers,
have earned him a reputation for musical ambitiousness and innovation.

For The Bulbs he has teamed up with Andy Maslivec, bass player from The Neil Campbell Collective, and Joey Zeb, session percussionist and drummer with legendary underground Liverpool dub institution The Zeb. Joey, a founder member of Zeb, has his roots in prog dub. He has sessioned on various reggae, rock, folk projects and met Neil during the highly respected N F I electronic improv sessions. He is currently playing with proggers The Romans
and dub hop outfit The Corinthians.

Famous for having recorded the last ever Peel Session, Liverpool psych kraut rock band, Mugstar have released music on Lancashire & Somerset Records, Trensmat Records, Sea Records and Critical Mass Records and have toured with Mogwai, Fucked Up, Acid Mothers Temple,Oneida, Clinic, Mike Watt amongst others. Their 2006 single "My Baby Skull Has Not Yet Flowered" was hailed in some quarters as a psych classic and featured in magazines as
diverse as Mix Mag, The Wire, Kerrang and The Times.

The debut album 'Mugstar' was released at the end of 2006 on Sea Records on CD and on Critical MASS Records on a limited run of heavy weight vinyl in 2007. The album gained the band fans across the world especially in America were the vinyl version was changing hands for almost $100. Three years and countless collaborations later the band signed to Important Records, who released "...Sun, Broken..." in March 2010. The band are currently working on a film and have been commissioned to write a movie soundtrack…

Details:

8pm (doors), Thursday 4th August
Static Gallery, 23 Roscoe Lane, Liverpool L1 9JD
Admission: £6 (on door), £5 (advance through www.seetickets.com)
Further information: neilcampbellcomposer@gmail.com
Web: www.neilcampbell.org.uk, www.mugstar.com, www.statictrading.com

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