Beginning a week of nearly nothing but these is another of those bands we adore but haven't gone on about half enough. Siblings Gideon (vocals, guitar, former pan-American beauty contest judge) and Viva (vocals, keyboard, drums, former Olympic rhythmic gymnast) are Joe Gideon And The Shark, a darkly brooding duo of semi-spoken grimly poetic imagery, majestically discordant intensity and wild-eyed fuzzy blues riffage. After touring with the similarly cut Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds last year their tremendous debut single proper DOL came out in December, with an album on its way harbouring no end of promise. This is what made them so:
First single bought: The Human League - Being Boiled
First album bought: Best of Ike And Tina Turner
First gig voluntarily attended: Lou Reed at Brixton academy
The record that most made you want to get into music: 13th Floor Elevators
The three headliners at a festival you were curating: Patti Smith, Kim Gordon, PJ Harvey
A song not enough people know about but everyone should hear: David Byrne - Dura Europus
A song you'd play to get people dancing: Smog - Cold Blooded Old Times
The last great thing you heard: Angels Of Light - We Are Him
Your key non-musical influences: Kurt Vonnegut. The Road Of Death and other roads.
JG&TS, having literally just come off tour with Seasick Steve, support Wire in February and tour themselves in March. DOL sounds like this:
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