Chinchilla Collective, Chinchillaweb, Leeds

[Last Chinchillaweb Update: 06-February-2008]
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SELLING OUR SOUL!
In the highly vain hope of persuading more people to come to CHINCHILLAFEST 6, we've gone and set up a CHINCHILLA-TONE MYSPACE PAGE. It's worth checking the myspace for up-to-date gig listings for all of the bands under the chinchilla umbrella. We also set up a CHINCHILLA-TONE LAST FM page for chinchilla musics, where you can currently download free copies of previous chinchillafest compilations, 'Real Civlised' and 'Get Civilised'. There'll be more stuff added to the Last FM page in a month or so.
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CHINCHILLAFEST 6 - 16, 17, 18 MAY 2008 @ THE BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB, LEEDS
Yeah, so here you go! The sixth annual Chinchillafest is one week after ATP Vs Pitchfork, and the same weekend as the Explosions In The Sky ATP, so we're pretty much going head on head?! The clash was a total accident, but like Diskant said a few years back, "Chinchillafest makes ATP look like a tired, washed up indie fest", so we got more than enough fun to have thank you very much! Weekend tickets are a total bargain at £15 for all three days... and weekend ticket holders can also look forward to a BILGE PUMP covers compilation CD, in celebration of the release of their 2nd album in their 14 year existence! There'll also be some sweet posters, visually stimulating set design (which will end up on display at an exhibition on Leeds DIY music at Leeds Central Library in September - more info on that coming soon), plus all of the usual highly advanced drunkard schinnannegannns and all the fun you want to take advantage of!

Full CHINCHILLAFEST 6 brain fodder and eye candy can be located here!.

	CHINCHILLAFEST 6
FRIDAY 16 MAY	SATURDAY 17 MAY	SUNDAY 18 MAY
Doors 7pm	Doors 3pm	Doors 4pm
Day Ticket £6	Day Ticket £10	Day Ticket £7

GAY AGAINST YOU	DJ SCOTCH EGG	a.P.A.T.t.
COWTOWN	EATS TAPES	QUACK QUACK
MUCKY SAILOR	EX MODELS	ZUKANICAN
BEARDS	ACTION BEAT	BILBAO SYNDROME
CISSY	PLEASE	CHOPS
	STIG NOISE	GHOST FLEET
	BRONZE	BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS
	DRINKS
	CHRONICITY

(LAST FM LISTING)	(LAST FM LISTING)	(LAST FM LISTING)

VENUE - THE BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB
ADDRESS - 33 Queens Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 1NY
VENUE WEBSITE - www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk
VENUE MYSPACE - www.myspace.com/brudenell
CHINCHILLA WEBSITE - www.chinchillaweb.co.uk
CHINCHILLA MYSPACE -www.myspace.com/chinchillatone
E-MAIL - dangerchinchilla@hotmail.com (DOM CLARE) or lofidian@hotmail.com (JON NASH)

WEEKEND TICKETS - £15
Available via Pay Pal on Chinchilla myspace, or from Jumbo Records, or from behind the bar at The Brudenell Social Club.

Any profit made from CHINCHILLAFEST will be donated to the worlds finest club.... The Brudenell Social Club is a vital space in the heart of LS6, with far more to it than the immediately striking Phoenix Night's style decor. It provides space for various sections from the local community to relax together, and provides a welcoming home to a wide variety of locally based entertainment and international acts alike. The Entertainments Committee have raised over £10,000 for sound proofing, and recently acquired funding of a further £10,000. We are keen to raise extra finances to pay for a few more essentials that the funding does not cover. If you're not already a member of the Brudenell Social Club, please remember to keep a couple of extra quid on you to join. To find out more visit www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk
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Dom joins CHROME HOOF (Southern Records)
Dom will be playing sax for a chunk of the forthcoming CHROME HOOF European tour (Feb/March 2008 - Holland, Begium, Germany, Italy, France). They are really, really good!! Go and buy their album on sweet reflective silver embossed gatefold double vinyl!
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"NEW SONIC PIONEERS"
There's a blog on the GUARDIAN UNLIMITED site (November 2007) which lists CHINCHILLA, CHOPS and QUACK QUACK, (as well as our friends UPSET! THE RHYTHM, LEOPARD LEG, BIRDS OF DELAY, HEX OUT TAPES and THE POLLY SHANG KUAN BAND) as the UK's "new sonic pioneers". We don't particularly agree with most of the article, and we think there's a great deal more brilliant UK bands than those mentioned, but that's not to say we're not grateful for the appreciation from someone we don't know, because we very much are.
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DEBUT COWTOWN ALBUM - PINE CONE EXPRESS - OUT NOW! RELEASED 05-11-2007
The new COWTOWN album is ready for your listening pleasure! 12 tracks of total party fun, mostly instrumental stuff, plus a taster of the Cowtown to come, with Steevsie vocalising a song. CHINCHILLA have released the CD, and GOLDEN LAB will be releasing the vinyl version of the album in 2008. ON THE BONE are co-ordinating mp3 downloads as of 12-11-07, keep up to date on it via LAST FM. Artwork by DAVE BAILEY: secret dogs with cocks, ostriches with ying yang eyes - y'know, s'nice. There's an ever growing stack of reviews (DROWNED IN SOUND, SUBBA CULTCHA, CONTACT MUSIC, etc) which you can read by going to the CHINCHILLA INFORMATION PAGE.

A track from PINE CONE EXPRESS, I'm In Your House (Part Two), was played on HUW STEPHENS' BBC RADIO ONE show on 21st November, because ON THE BONE who have released the mp3 downloads of the ablum were chosen as his DIY Label Of The Week. It'll be online and listenable too for 7 days after broadcast. Huw also played the new single by our pals THAT FUCKING TANK on the same show.

EMAIL US FOR A COPY OF PINE CONE EXPRESS, £6 + P&P

You can also buy the album in real-life and online shops such as ROUGH TRADE (London), OUT OF STEP (Leeds), JUMBO (Leeds), CRASH (Leeds), MONORAIL (Glasgow). You'll also be able to buy copies from NORMAN RECORDS and SELECTADISC (Nottingham) soon.
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PIFCO CASSETTE ALBUM RELEASED!!
Finally, the slackest and most prolonged project of CHINCHILLA to date is complete! PIFCO handed us two cassettes containing no fewer than 47 songs, weighing in at just under 180 minutes of music! Together we picked out the best bits, and after a year of delays, they recorded newer songs which have been added to the release. Your ears will be excited! And so will your eyes, because Ste lovingly printed on 500 hand-made cardboard boxes! Email us or see us at gigs to buy one, £2.50 plus postage where necessary. Oh, and you can spot a review of the tape in the August 2007 issue of PLAN B. Thanks!
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CHURNING OUT SOME NEW RELEASES: COWTOWN - CLECKHUDDERSFAX - a.P.A.t.T. - TALIBAM! - CHOPS
Following the PIFCO tape album and COWTOWN cd, we are excited to be starting work on a few more records - snapping at their heels will be a CLECKHUDDERSFAX CD, full details soon. We just got the first mixes of a brand new a.P.A.t.T. album (containing different songs to the forthcoming PICKLED EGG album), and it's totally smoking hot! We'll have it out on CD sometime in November/December, and the 12" version will arrive sometime early in 2008. There's also be a TALIBAM! and CHOPS split DVD in the pipe-line, but it won't see the light of day until the new year, so please sit patiently and reeeelax.
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GIGS! CONCERTS! PERFORMANCES! TOURS! CLUB NIGHTS!
Since 2001 we've organised gigs, festivals and club nights for over 200 bands from all over the world including: ACTION BEAT, a.P.A.t.T., APOPLEXY TWIST ORCHESTRA, BARR, BILGE PUMP, BIRDS OF DELAY, BLOOD RED SHOES, CHARLOTTEFIELD, CLECKHUDDERSFAX, DAVID THOMAS BROUGHTON, EARTH, ENON, HELLA, HEY COLOSSUS, HiM, KAOSPILOT, KID606, KILL YOURSELF, KLING KLANG, LIGHTNING BOLT, LORDS, LUCKY DRAGONS, MAN AUBERGINE, MATES OF STATE, MICAH BLUE SMALDONE, NARCOSIS, NOXAGT, PALEHORSE, PART CHIMP, PIFCO, POLARIS, POLTERGROOM, PRINTED CIRCUIT, PUBLICIST, QUACK QUACK, RACCOO-OO-OON, SOEZA, SUNN O))), TALIBAM!, THAT FUCKING TANK, THE MAE SHI, THE UNIT AMA, TRENCHER, TWINKIE, UNICORN LOVE, UNWED SAILOR, WOLVES! (OF GREECE), WOMAN, and loads loads more we don't mean to offend by missing them out, but the list is getting massive!

Please check the CHINCHILLA-TONE MYSPACE for full gig listings, or check the band pages for their one-off dates; there's too many to keep control of here, so this space is reserved for special stuff like tours and for gigs we're organising...

>>> FUNDER STRIKES! Monthly nights at The Common Place, Leeds - for full, updated FUNDER STRIKES information please visit Cops&Robbers.

>>> CHOPS / a.P.A.T.t. UK Tour, April 28 - May 3 2008
28 April - The Junction, Bristol
29 April - Cargo, London (with YACHT at Upset The Rhythm)
30 April - Sumo, Leicester
1 May - Portland Arms, Cambridge
2 May - West Coast Bar, Margate
3 May - Rootys @ Custard Factory, Birmingham (with TALIBAM!)

>>> CHINCHILLAFEST 6 - MAY 16/17/18, 2008 @ The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds.

	CHINCHILLAFEST 6
FRIDAY 16 MAY	SATURDAY 17 MAY	SUNDAY 18 MAY
Doors 7pm	Doors 3pm	Doors 4pm
Day Ticket £6	Day Ticket £10	Day Ticket £7

GAY AGAINST YOU	DJ SCOTCH EGG	a.P.A.T.t.
COWTOWN	EATS TAPES	QUACK QUACK
MUCKY SAILOR	EX MODELS	ZUKANICAN
BEARDS	ACTION BEAT	BILBAO SYNDROME
CISSY	PLEASE	CHOPS
	STIG NOISE	GHOST FLEET
	BRONZE	BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS
	DRINKS
	CHRONICITY

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DISTRO
Currently stocked records inlclude most of the UPSET! THE RHYTHM releases, lots of GRINGO, GOLDEN LAB and RUN OF THE MILL records, a bunch of stuff from LOAD, as well as various releases by UK bands and from bands Dom has driven on tour. You can buy Chinchilla-Tone releases by emailing us, but to get your hands on distro stock, the records are for sale at most of our gigs, and when Dom is away on tour - in the last couple of years, Dom and the distro have also toured with the likes of THE MAE SHI, CHROME HOOF, KLING KLANG, CHOPS, COWTOWN, PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ, TALIBAM!, QUACK QUACK, ORIGAMI, CISSY, HEALTH, EYE HAI, MIKA MIKO, NO AGE, KIT, OvO, HUMANFLY, BILGE PUMP, PIT ER PAT, FULBORN TEVERSHAM, ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS, COUGHS, TIGERS!, LORDS, THE UNIT AMA, LAFARO, ERASE ERRATA, SNOWBLOOD, ARMY OF FLYING ROBOTS, PARTS & LABOR, T.I.T.S., and LIGHTNING BOLT.
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CHOPS have just finished recording with John Hannon at NO RECORDING for a split 12" due for release on UPSET! THE RHYTHM sometime in VERY soon!! Sharing the slab is a band called HELHESTON from Oxford/London.
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PAST RELEASES: COWTOWN, PIFCO, THE DRAGON RAPIDE, TIGERS! and the CIVILISED COMPILATION SERIES

COMING SOON: CLECKHUDDERSFAX CD, a.P.A.t.T. CD/LP, TALIBAM!/CHOPS DVD

CTR004 COWTOWN 'PINE CONE EXPRESS' CD 1000 press LP out on Golden Lab in 2008 MP3 downloads via On The Bone Released November 2007 COWTOWN website The new COWTOWN album is ready for your listening pleasure! 12 tracks of total party fun, mostly instrumental stuff, with a taster of the Cowtown to come, with Steevsie vocalising a song. CHINCHILLA are releasing the CD, and teaming up with GOLDEN LAB who are releasing the vinyl version of the album in 2008, and ON THE BONE who are co-ordinating mp3 downloads as of 12-11-07 (LAST FM, I-tunes, Digital 7, E-music, etc). Artwork by DAVE BAILEY: secret dogs with cocks, ostriches with ying yang eyes - y'know, s'nice. You can read reviews of the album at DROWNED IN SOUND, SUBBA CULTCHA, CONTACT MUSIC, etc. EMAIL US FOR A COPY OF PINE CONE EXPRESS, £6 + P&P You can also buy the album in real-life and online shops such as ROUGH TRADE (London), OUT OF STEP (Leeds), JUMBO (Leeds), CRASH (Leeds), MONORAIL (Glasgow). You'll also be able to buy copies from NORMAN RECORDS and SELECTADISC (Nottingham) soon.	CTR003 PIFCO CASSETTE ALBUM 500 press Handmade card sleeves, yellow cassette Released May 2007 PIFCO website This package always turns heads! Containing 15 songs, all recorded in the sweetest of low fidelity. PIFCO handed us two cassettes containing no fewer than 47 songs, weighing in at just under 180 minutes of music! Together we picked out the best bits, and after a year of delays, they recorded newer songs which were added to the release. Your ears will be excited! And so will your eyes, because Ste lovingly printed on 500 hand-made cardboard boxes! Oh, and you can spot a review of the tape in the August 2007 issue of PLAN B. EMAIL US FOR A COPY OF THE PIFCO TAPE, £2.50 + P&P
GET CIVILISED Chinchillafest 5 Compilation CD 500 copies, full colour four page inlay Released March 2007 a.P.A.t.T. (Pickled Egg, Chinchilla Tone) Brown Owl (Obscene Baby Auction) Humanfly (Total Prog, Xmas Eve) Kling Klang (Rock Action) Pifco (Run Of The Mill, Chinchilla-Tone) Cowtown (Golden Lab, Chinchilla-Tone) Chronicity CHOPS (Upset! The Rhythm) Sense Or This? (Vilaa Viivivi, Chinchilla-Tone) Dawn Chorus (Fortissimo) Inecto School (Singing Knives) Tigers! (Chinchilla-Tone, Hairy Hairy Fist) Mp3s from Get Civilised; CHOPS - Mind Shards In The Morning	CTR002 THE DRAGON RAPIDE II 12" 330 press, black vinyl Top gatefold sleeve, with 20" x 10" inlay/poster Released September 2005 THE DRAGON RAPIDE website The second vinyl chinchilla-tone release is the second record by THE DRAGON RAPIDE. EMAIL US FOR A COPY OF THE DRAGON RAPIDE II - £8 + P&P vinyl, or £5 + P&P cd. Mp3s from II The Dragon Rapide - Interlude The Dragon Rapide - Kissing The Shuttle Review from Norman Records "Leeds post-math perfectionists The Dragon Rapide have their lushly packaged 2nd studio collection now up for grabs. This is joyous & fizzy, uncompromising, optimistic, widdly, wobbly, kaleidoscopic & heart warming stuff. A great leap forward from the debut CD, musically, stylistically & in the production stakes too. There's elements of free jazz & world music here & there but all in all no threat of Andy Kershaw coming round your house to chew your ear off with that worthy accent. So think maybe a friskier, dizzier Tortoise jamming with small slices of Sea & Cake, Him, hints of Mice Parade & Five Style. Very intricate & clever stuff indeed. The sleeve art was done by their friend from Liverpool & blew me away".
REAL CIVILISED Chinchillafest 3 Compilation CD 200 copies Hand silk screened Released July 2005 20 songs that'll take you over 70 minutes to listen to in all! All bands that played Chinchillafest in 2005! SOLD OUT! TIGERS! Trencher Cowtown Printed Circuit Quack Quack The Dragon Rapide Line Our Beautiful Ridiculous Plan Sense Or This? Monster Killed By Laser Polaris The Ik Jan Cremers The Rest Twinkie Soeza David Thomas Broughton Pifco McWatt Lords Brown Owl Mp3s from Real Civilised; TIGERS! - Sex Pest At The Sex Fest Cowtown - Kitty Runs Away From Garlic Sense Or This? - TURN_UP_TUNE_OUT_TIME_UP Monster Killed By Laser - Riggs, I Hear You Say Riggs Pifco - Jon German Brown Owl - 3x3x3 [live, derby]	CTR001 TIGERS! 7" 500 press, black vinyl released April 2004 TIGERS! website Side A has five tracks and is four minutes fifty seconds. Side B has three tracks and is four minutes twenty one seconds. SOLD OUT! There's plenty of TIGERS! mp3s and videos on the sounds page or their website. Entire 7" on mp3! TIGERS! - 7" side A TIGERS! - 7" side B Review from Jumbo Records Wild guitar heroics like a cross between Fugazi, 80's British underground bands like Bogshed, and the experimental hardcore of Gay For Johnny Depp or Mukilteo Fairies. Uncompromising under ground punk rock! Skewed!"

Chinchillaweb is the online home of the chinchilla collective from Leeds, www.chinchillaweb.co.uk . We organise DIY gigs in Leeds and an annual three day festival known as Chinchillafest. We also run a record label called Chinchilla-Tone, releasing bands such as Tigers!, The Dragon Rapide, Pifco, Cowtown, Cleckhuddersfax, a.P.A.T.t. (apatt), Chops, Talibam!, as well as some compilations including bands such as Lords, David Thomas Broughton, Soeza, Polaris, Quack Quack, Printed Circuit, Trencher, Kling Klang, etc. There are five of us, and we play in lots of bands - Cowtown, Brown Owl, Chops, EYE HAI (I Had An Inkling), Sense Or This?, Beards, Cissy, Quack Quack, Two Minute Noodles, etc.