Black Manila Beach Parade

BMBP & FEEDING TIME present:

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Black Manila Beach Parade & Feeding Time host a night at the

Victoria, Grove Road, Mile End.

14th November

with ~

The Band that would be King - Half Japanese - Documentary

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Amazing Documentary // Half Japanese - The Band that Would be King // Big inspiration.

Click here to view the 7:00min Documentary

Amazing Documentary - Big inspiration.

Surf Surf! Horror Horror!

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New Blog post by Alpal on pejhy.com now feeding the hype machine.

BMBP would like to send alot of love to Alpal for his words.

Follow the link for the article or view it below.

Images by Ella Tree

It has been a while since i have posted any of my new finds or interests on here, but at last the time has come once again. I’ve recently been struggling to clamber out of the hole of electronic sounds i have fallen into in the search, once again, of the light of music performed live on instruments. This has been hard due to the excess of beautiful bleeps and bloops that have been blessing my ears, however i do have something to share.

Refuge has been found in the crispy wave of Black Manila Beach Parade’s fresh and freaky horror surf sound. BMBP are a three piece band from south london, formed by a trio of talented souls with differing musical roots, but who have found solace in their collaborative sound and mutual passion.

Conrad Armstrong’s lyrics paint dark washes of colour over urban images, equally able to conjure feelings of despair and decadence as hope and revolution. Much like in Armstrong’s previous project Stazi Static the songs are often built around a bass line core, that drives the song forward whilst twisting, stammering and folding through the walls of noise created by guitarist Gareth Hoskins.

The guitar licks and loops are what really give this band a special edge. Like how Burial or Synkro in the dubstep world use vocals that reference old UK garage and R&B songs and flavours, in Black Manila Beach Parade the guitar mimics the sounds of classic surf licks and broken americana. These audio ghosts echo through the tunes with an energy eager to burst out in a fresh sound both reminiscent of times past and relevant to the needs of todays new ears.
All of this is backed up by the adventurous but steady drums of Liam Ramsden and the unique presence these three performers have when gracing a stage.

As a special treat the band have been kind enough to provide us with demos of two of their recent tunes.

The first is “Brixton Hill”, which after a suitably nautical accordion intro skit, lures us into a misleading introduction, suggesting another predictable London indie band song, before surprising us with a guitar lick which pierces through the sound and reshapes the song completely.
Black Manila Beach Parade – Brixton Hill

Next is “Jean le Loup”. Starting with a rallying and rolling drum beat, this song demonstrates a beautiful balance, finding an area between beauty and calm and chaos and excitement whilst continuously driving forwards.
Black Manila Beach Parade – Jean LeLoup

The following link is to an interview that vocalist Conrad did with supersuper.tv which gives more of an insight into the bands own thoughts about their sound and their desired direction: www.supersuper.tv/index.php/articles/horror_surf_anyone/

More songs and tour dates are to be found on their myspace page: http://www.blogger.com/www.myspace.com/blackmanilabeachparade

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Download New Mini E.P - Calavera for FREE here

1. Brixton Hill (Lets Get Free)

http://rapidshare.com/files/279147411/01_Brixton_Hill.mp3

2. Calavera Catrina

http://rapidshare.com/files/279147412/02_Catrina.mp3

3. Jean leLoup

http://rapidshare.com/files/279147413/02_Jean_LeLoup.mp3

Stream Black Manila Beach Parade's music from http://www.myspace.com/blackmanilabeachparade

Horror Surf anyone?

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This is an article about us, written by the great Vasilisa Forbes - check out her blog here http://www.thelycheeside.blogspot.com/ . The interview and shoot took place in the bath tub of the flat above above the Old Blue Last in Shoreditch minutes before BMBP went on stage @ Dollop in August, also playing on the night were the incredible thrash metal twins 'Kurtz' see their myspace here http://www.myspace.com/wearekurtz .

The article has so far been published on supersuper.tv but there are a few more magazines interested in including it in their publications.

Here is the article -

http://www.supersuper.tv/index.php/articles/horror_surf_anyone/

These are some of the images taken of the gig. All pictures are taken by our Press agent Ella Cutter who has her own blog which can be viewed here - http://treephotographia.blogspot.com/