Glorious independent London label THRASMOUTH RECORDS
has survived 10 years of slash & trash bash, this month.
They’re alive and kicking and will shake the pandemic world with a commemorative LP, titled TRASHMOUTH RECORDS – 10 YEARS STILL NOT DEAD. The LP will be pressed on the finest affordable, luxurious fake-gold vinyl & encompass a visual history of the label within its artwork, featuring photographs of the now-legendary Trashmouth live nights. More info to come.
Trashmouth Records, I hear you ask? Well, it’s actually a sort of psychiatrist hospital.
The (small) staff prevent (almost) lost outcasts from going to jail by giving them a chance
to make some deranged noise and put records out.
They opened the doors of their smelly basement for lots of dope(d) bands such as Fat White Family (one of the best bands of the 21st Century to my ears), Warmdüscher, Chupa Cabra, Pit Ponies, Madonnatron (I miss them), and many more other patients
Turn Up The Volume loved dearly as they helped me to ease my own mental health problems.
Anyway, the birthday festivities start here and now with London’s misfits WARMDUSCHER, the coolest mustache-fronted band on this fucked-up planet. Trashmouth remixed their kooky 2015 track YOLK BUNS USA. Check it out, folks.
Cheaper than laying on the knee
of your shrink for an hour…
Independent London label TRASHMOUTH RECORDS does a fantastic job for humanity. They prevent musical talented youngsters from going too soon into psychiatry by giving them a chance to put records out and at the other end, we do not need to pay big money for therapy. A win-win situation. TR brought/bring you mind-boggling bands such as Fat White Family, Chupa Cabra, Bat-Bike, Warmduscherand Madonnatron.
Another bohemian combo is PIT PONIES. A stirring band from London, formed in 2013. They released their excellent, somber debut album Magnificent Second Occupation five years ago and return now with brand new, sorrowful ballad LATIN MUSIC. A woebegone reflection that moves you to tears. Jukeboxes should be installed again in all pubs so you can get drunk and cry your heart out in your beer when you’re feeling miserable. Indie melancholy at its weeping best with a romantic Latin touch.
One man band WESTON DECKER hails from Boulder, Colorado, US and landed recently
on alternative British indie label Trashmouth Records who’s live mission is to work with all musical weirdos on the planet.
The label just shared Decker’s debut single called ‘9PM’. A mind-pleasing pschy-o-delic groove containing some unexpected, eclectic influences. Yeah, just imagine the late great Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett and Chic‘s Nile Rodgers having a guitar injected jam. Final result: a hallucinogenic and bizarrely funky meditation with an electronic vibration.
Here are two punk-spirited desperado bands, respectively from North Wales and
East Of England. CHUPA CABRA and NO FRIENDZ are sexually ambiguous trash
rockers with the right DIY attitude and a middle finger for the establishment.
Confused but confident youngsters who picked up a guitar and formed a band
to scream out their frustrations and burning anger. They’re here to entertain you
and themselves with shattering uppercuts and crazed stories. Imagine outlaws Fat White Family‘s confrontational spirit and The Fall‘s sonic chaos. HELL YEAH!
Last Friday these rackety cowboys released a split longplayer (6 songs each) via Thrashmouth Records. A hefty powerhouse of a record packed with loud and
clear eruptions from both sides. Intoxicating riffage, nasty hooks, explicit lyrics,
bluesy reflections here & there and tons of scream-along choruses. It feels like
both bands have the same mission: survive this mad world with a grin on their
faces. Let’s have a closer look at these two up and coming gangs with 10 split Q’s…
From North-Wales welcome… Tayt, Nathan and Hayden from CHUPA CABRA
1/ What the hell is the band’s name about? Tayt: ” When I was a young boy, I went to visit my brother in Argentina whilst he was on
his gap year and I was viciously mauled by the legendary chupacabra. The band is a mere homage to my many, many years of work researching the chupacabra.”
The legendary goat-sucker creature called ‘chupacabra’. Reported to live in the Americas…
2/ Who’s King Leech? Nathan: “All of the people in my songs are you.” Hayden: “Some bastard. The lord of slugs. The baron of all worms.”
Here’s the king of slugs…
3/ Who came up with the idea to split an album with another band? Nathan: “Well it was Luke at Trashmouth Records really. It’s a thing they used to do back
in the day, split records and that. You still get a lot of split singles but Trashmouth have brought back the split record. We think its dead cool, good way for both us honorable friendz in No Friendz to get stuff out there. Big ups Liam and Luke, vive la France.”
4/ Who’s the guy on the cover of the album? Hayden: “All of the people on the cover of the album are you. Nah, we don’t know. We work closely with Datamosh, they do all our graphics/visuals and we’ve done a few events with them. We played their exhibition, there was a huge wall made from cardboard and hazard tape, we played behind it and through the course of the set it was cut apart by men in lab coats and stapled to the gallery walls. There was a dude there watching a plant all night. The plant was on wheels. Weird stuff. They did the video too, check it out.” Nathan: “They’re really cool guys, Paul and Guy from Datamosh. Paul looks like all things must pass era George Harrison, cool.”
5/ If the band was a horror movie which one would it be? Hayden: “Rubber. The protagonist is a tyre. A masterpiece.”
And from Cambridgeshire, East Of England here are… NO FRIENDZ
1/ Are the band members no friends or does the band has no friends or both?
“……………………………….” (no answer, no idea why. Whatever next please)
2/ ‘Ballad’s chorus goes like ‘I’m useless, I’m a mess’. Is that why you formed a band?
Angus: “I formed a band because it’s better than getting a worthless degree and to fall into the 9-5 doledrum. I’m broke and homeless, but I’m in charge. Call me naive cause it’s true.”
3/ Your songs on the LP come after Chupa Cabra’s songs.
Did they win the toss?
“Wasn’t my decision mate. Conspiracy.”
4/ Will you do split gigs with Chupa Cabra too in the future?
“Dunno really. Quite hard considering we live 200 plus miles away from each other.
Up to the ingenuity of promoters. I’m usually busy trying to buy Morley’s.”
5/ If the band was a war movie which one would it be?
Thanks Chupa Cabra & No Friendz for the split chat.
May the road rise with your earsplitting hullabaloo…
