King Harvest and The Weight - Aces High

Ben Adey

King Harvest and The Weight
Ben Adey - vocals/bass
Justin Edley - drums
Olly Smith - guitar/vocals

Justin Edley

Date - 10th June 2016
Venue - Aces and Eights, London
Current release - Maps (Harbour Song)

Upcoming dates
Saturday 25th June – The Glad Cafe, Glasgow
Sunday 26th June – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
Friday 1st July – Pine Lodge, Cork
Saturday 2nd July – Roisin Dubh, Galway
Sunday 3rd July – Grand Social, Dublin

Released earlier this week, Maps is the debut album by Halifax-born musician Ben Adey – better known by his nom-de-plume King Harvest & The Weight. Charged on an undercurrent of eclectic revivalism; an ecstatic communion of face-melting riffage and a feverish delivery, Adey describes Maps as “a high energy, good times record. It covers so many bases, it plays like the greatest lost mixtape – a dashboard discovery for a hot summer’s day!”

Olly Smith

The peppering of a fiery set from King Harvest, short sharp strokes buzzing into Aces and Eights. No time for reflection these words came rapidly, usually no more than two at a time. Track shard, rat atat tat, chasm and plummet, beaten, keeled, broken. Spitfire. Spit fire. Split, roll, oil drum, tarred, you cannot wash them off your hands.

Ladder, rattle and drop from the sky as the buildings crash around you. Shrapnel and pavements crack, turned ankles, turned bile and metal fenders, scrape. Bumper to bumper escapes, light out and wait. wait. Light on in the dark. (New York Is Dangerous)

Hole in the wall that an eye looks through. Buzz, static, shock. Walls made of pulsing lines, feeding the populace. A nation that reads the safety advice and does the opposite. Upside down, up turn, cup flow, overflow, sweat, sweet up. (The Night)

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The New 52 - Aces and Eights

Darragh Cullen

The New 52
Darragh Cullen - guitar/vocals
Conor McLoughlin - guitar
Mikey Deasy - bass/vocals
Chris Pepper - drums

Mikey Deasy

Date - 10th June 2016
Venue - Aces and Eights, London
Current release - Album, produced by Boo Hewerdine, to be released in 2016

The New 52 are a rock 'n' roll group from Dublin.

The warp of the road on a carefree journey, rolling away. Staring into the distance as the wheel keeps on turning. Line after white line beating past when you look down below your feet, the rhythm of the known and the unknown. Tunnel hope, always hope along the autumnal fringes of the road. (Good Intentions)

Conor McLoughlin

School corridors, emptying halls, slowly dispersing the tensions as we look toward the summer ahead. I stand on the scorched grass, with sun on the face, a perspective on the skyline and a slow smile starts. There is the burn of the late night bonfire and after a little alcohol nothing else seems to matter but the flickers, and then the black which swallows all our cares. (Last of the Gang)

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