LOVVERS / SMALL DOSES / CIGARBOX PLANETARIUM

[Nicki P.]

Come over to Comet Ping Pong Friday night for:

LOVVERS (UK)
SMALL DOSES (DC-Ben Gilligan, Jerry Busher, Tom
Bunnell)
CIGARBOX PLANETARIUM (DC)

Friday, July 17, 2009
9:00pm / $8

Comet Ping Pong
5037 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC


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SMALL DOSES
Small Doses is a group started in Australia in the mid 1990's by two
bored Brisbanites, Ben Gilligan and Andrew Davis. It has since grown,
added and subtracted members, changed cities, crossed oceans and moved
countries. Ben remains the constant, and is now lucky to be joined by
Jerry Busher and Tom Bunnell. Although the line up may have changed
the Small Doses commitment to "simple foot stomping, hip shimmying,
mind bending music" continues. They are currently hard at work on
their debut long player "Twice Daily".
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LOVVERS
Great bands do not gain popularity, develop musically or give you what
you want; based nowhere and residing pretty much everywhere Lovvers is
compromised of ... (more) four ambitious nobodies; that have tellingly
appeared at a moment in musical history that can only described as a
yawning deluded mess.

Two years in and having trawled the UK time and time again, playing
nearly 200 shows and sharing multiple gigs with bands like Butthole
Surfers, No Age, Times New Viking, Jay Reatard, Awesome Color, Mika
Miko, Fucked Up, Black Lips, Brutal Knights……..

Lovvers are a strange mix of music’s forgotten / blank generation, re-
calling the spirit of Darby Crashes' Germs, the weirdness of Flipper,
Wipers style pop and the careless attitude of The Replacements; at one
show a girl was so confused / annoyed that she wrote to KERRANG!
describing this music as highly offensive, wanting to erase them from
her mind.

Having been written about or featured in most major magazines, it
appears the select few have largely missed the point of Lovvers.

Maybe it’s because they have no idea of their context or the idea of
this music isn’t anything they’ve experience directly? Instead they
continue to focus on the bands stunning good looks and hair colour,
for this select group of writers music has to be defined to a style or
pigeonholed with a brand.

After the release of four noisy and highly questionable 7inchs (three
on the Jonson Family record label and one a 4 way band split release
on OIB records) the band are now pursuing a career with the shady folk
at Wichita Recordings.

Lovvers debut release with Wichita comes in the form of a 7 song CD/LP
entitled THINK. Clocking in at just under 13minutes, it gives you the
perfect amount of time you need to piss off your boss, quit your job
and throw out those shitty records you keep getting told to buy.

Sounds appealing yeah?
www.lovvers.co.uk