UK to get Killer Brain Waves from Asylums tour.
'Joy In A Small Wage' felt like a song for nearly everybody we know in Broken Britain, because we know all the right people. This January though, I got to see Asylums in the flesh at John Kennedy's Remedy Club in Chapter 8 and they not only lived up to my expectations, but surpassed them to such an extent that they have appeared in every chapter of TheZineUK's picture book story this year, as I learn to use the camera. Whether it's from The Great Escape Festival in May or Camden Rocks Festival in June, there's always a few pages of snap shots in time from the year that the band released Killer Brain Waves - WHAT a debut album!
Asylums were a personal highlight at Tramlines Festival in Sheffield this Summer (some actual professional photography by Duncan Stafford, included) where joy in a small wage/fare meant grinning like a loony on a 1.30am coach back to London. A week later, the Lexington was so packed for their album launch gig with John Kennedy (another fervent fan) that claustrophobia meant trying to use a zoom lens for their set ("pictures" look a bit like they were taken by a nana on crack) but thankfuckfully, we are blessed with professional photographers in this story and Tarquin Clark captured their release day appearance on the Jack Rocks This Feeling stage at YNot? Festival. His photography from that weekend impressed Jack Daniels UK mightily, too. Tarquin made sure not to miss them at Leeds Festival and his image from page 67 jumped out of August's adventures onto the front page of, our picture documentary of music movement's Chapter 11 instalment
Asylums at Leeds Festival 2016 (#JackRocks This Feeling Stage)
by Tarquin Clark, with many thanks to Zeitgeist PR for the photo pass.
Asylums are creating their own, Cool Thing dimension and about to take it on the road for the Killer Brain Waves tour. Just step through the door of these music venues and noisy, joyzy, rock n roll fun beams will zap your mind with earworms of punky energy. It is of the utmost urgency that you investigate this band and album as the antidote to 2016's surreal reality. If you have, already, you'll know that they're just the best songs and gigs for escapism.
October 2016 - Asylums on tour with special guests, BlackWaters and more (except London which is a multi venue music festival)
16 Oct Hackney Wonderland, London
21 Oct Chinnery's Southend
22 Oct The Eagle Inn, Salford
23 Oct The Cellar Oxford
25 Oct Exchange, Bristol
26 Oct The Hope & Ruin, Brighton
27 Oct The Cookie, Leicester
28 Oct The Rainbow, Birmingham
29 Oct West End Centre, Aldershot
Don't take anybody's word for it.
This is a first rate band as demonstrated by the live clips video for 'Second Class Sex'
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