Noisy rock a la Jesus and Mary Chain seems to having a field day now, a lot of great bands are popping up such as The Manhattan Love Suicides, Ceremony, A Place To Bury Strangers and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and I have a feeling that now is the right time to step on those pedals and blow people away with feedback and distortion.One such band hails from Iceland and is called Singapore Sling. They've been around since 2000 when the band was formed by Henrik and Einar, Henrik being formerly a founding member of Bang Gang. Einar happens to be store manager at the famous little record shop 12 Tónar in Reykjavik, while the drummer Björn used to play bass with PPPönk, and bassist Ester was formerly in Bellatrix.
The band released their debut album in 2002 and has released two more since then, and the fourth is currently in the making. They've toured extensively, most notably supporting The Brian Jonestown Massacre on a North American tour.
I found a few mp3's to share with you, the best of which I consider to be "Guiding Light". Turn up the volume and absorb the feedback:
Singapore Sling - Guiding Light
Singapore Sling - Overdriver
Singapore Sling - Listen
Singapore Sling - Life is killing my Rock 'n' Roll
Singapore Sling will be touring Germany and Austria in a little while, here are the dates:
Jan 22 - Zürich
Jan 23 - Salzburg
Jan 24 - Steyr
Jan 25 - Innsbruck
Jan 27 - Strassburg
Jan 29 - Hannover
Jan 30 - Berlin
Jan 31 - Dresden
Feb 2 - Leipzig
[Singapore Sling on Myspace]
I love Singapore Sling!
I thought this might be right up your alley trev :) they'll also be playing with pains of being pure at heart in reykjavik on march 1st. how about visiting?