London rock saviours NIXA return with masterful new tunes! They are headlining the Zigfird Von Underbelly in Hoxton, Shoreditch this Friday night
The mighty rockers blazed a trail across the UK with singles ’33′ and ‘Exit Strategy’ earlier this year, recorded at the legendary Maida Vale studios for BBC Introducing and supported Feeder in the summer. They’ve been busily writing massive new songs and are getting ready to unleash them in your face this Friday in Shoreditch. We’ve been lucky enough to hear a sneaky bit of the new stuff and it’s freakin awesome!!
Here’s their monthly newsletter telling you more about it…
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“This month: new tunes, new gigs and that bit between your genitals and your bumble.
Oh God, we miss you. The months have seemed like years since last we gazed longingly upon your countenance, and gasped at the wonder of your beauty. We miss you like the desert misses rain… like the bee misses the flower… like… like a pubic louse misses the 70s before everyone started having Brazilians and Hollywoods. We are your pediculosis pubis: you are our hairy bush. Do you mind if we jump straight back in?
Yes, yes, yes: ladies, gentlemen and those of you who tuck it under, we are very pleased and not-just-a-little bit turned on to announce that NIXA are back with new songs, new shows and renewed vigour. But you knew that we were back already, didn’t you? Subconsciously at least: that morning, a week or so ago, when you got up and through the usual fog of mundanity, you felt a little tingle, a tiny sparkle of excitement you hadn’t felt for ages? That was us. Back where we belong, tickling your perineum.
Rest assured, friends, we have not been idle*. We have spent the summer working hard on some stonking new tunes that we’re really, properly excited about and happy with and think you will like them too. Hopefully they show a progression in our songwriting with a couple of curveballs you might not expect… but there’s enough of the old NIXA in there to make sure they not just tickle but positively pummel your fancy. And of course that means lots of thundering riffs, harmonies and sexy rock with a capital ‘C’. Current working titles include ‘Moxy’, ‘Saved By Drowning’, ‘Knives You Stole’, ‘Make Mistakes’ and ‘Fuck You In Your Facehole’. Guess which title Russell came up with. Well, we say ‘come up with’: he grunted once for yes and twice for no as we pointed at the letters of the alphabet.
We’re working towards going back into the studio in December with the genius arch-alchemist and all-round god (small ‘g’) that is Neak. Before that though, we will be back playing live on October 29th at the Zigfrid Von Underbelly in Hoxton Square, Olde London Towne. We would love it if you could come down, and if you do we promise that we will give our all in appreciation.
It’s 8 of your English Pounds to get in, but we’ve sorted an ‘early-bird’ system that will get you in for 6 of your quids. Just go to the event page on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=156534271031577 – put yourself down as attending, and then be at the venue *before* 9:30pm. Give your name at the door when you arrive: but when you do, make sure you do it like your Kate Moss turning up at The Ivy: huff a lot and roll your eyes. Then go to the bog, blow coke up someone’s bum and give your baby an E.
Don’t do that last bit.
As ever, we recommend going down early… because it gets pretty busy in there on a Friday and Matt’s new pheromone spray ‘EZ-Lay for Losers’ is pretty potent.
So that’s it. Ahhhhh, it will be good to get out again. We’ve really enjoyed the writing process, but it has meant we’ve been out of the loop somewhat. We hope you will welcome us back into your ‘loop’. And you know what we mean by ‘loop’. Grrrrrrr! Yes!
We mean ‘warm and tender arms’.
Lots of love and a knowing smile from across the room that says a thousand words,
Matt, Jam, Russ and Andy
* – except Jambo, he basically hasn’t moved from his couch all summer; he employs four New Guinean pygmies to move him from his living room to the practice room, press his effects pedals, then move him back to his living room and pass him his acoustic. He calls them Eeny, Meeny, Miney and Hieronymous Balthazar von Chomsky III.”
scurry along to www.nixa.co.uk to have wee listen
