Band of the Week: ROLO TOMASSI

Hello everyone, sorry about the lack of frequency in my posts on here, but girlfriends and job hunting have been of the utmost importance recently, but nonetheless I am here to inform you lovely people (if you're there) of this weeks Band of the Week:

Rolo Tomassi

I have heard alot of strange classifications of Rolo Tomassi, like Spazzcore and Indie Metal (wtf?) and their myspace doesn't help much with descriptions either; other/progressive/punk. However you want to try and pidgeonhole Rolo Tomassi, they are artistic, creative, innovative and very different. For me, they sound like The Locust playing Mr Bungle covers or vice versa. From synth infused math rock to mad circus-like "pieces" (as apposed to traditional songs) , then to long doomy grinding passages and then over to long Jazz sections and movements, Rolo Tomassi seem to have it all, including a very hot screamy front women! They do all of this through a musical proficiency that is not encountered all that often, especially not from a bunch of fresh young-ens from Sheffield.

They have existed since 2005, when some of their members were only 16 years old. In 2005 they released a demo, which was followed by a ltd editon Tape and a split with Maths. Then in 2006 they released the Rolo Tomassi EP, which, I have to say, is just pure brilliance. It ticks almost every box I could ask for from a band and achieves it all in 6 tracks, coming in at 23 minutes and 26 seconds.

Rolo Tomassi have a new album called "Hysterics" out on the 22nd of September, which I feverishly demand you to buy on release and they are touring throughout September and October at many small different venues including a FREE show at The Old Blue Last in Shoreditch on the 22nd of Sept which I will definetly be at, I might even come back to Cambridge to see them at The Portland Arms.

If you are a fan of The Locust, Dillinger Escape Plan or Cutting Pink With Knives then I highly recommend you to check them out, or even if you are looking for something a bit different and new. You can buy a 7" from the Holy Roar store or you can buy they full EP off of iTunes (as I had too) as it has now sold out!

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Holy Roar Records

Hope you all enjoyed this weeks Band of the Week, give me some feed back or whether or not you enjoyed the band.

Being the poor jobless dickhead that I am, I havn't been able to go to any shows recently, plainly because I can't afford it, meaning I've missed Gallows, Cancer Bats, The Ghost of a Thousand and Dead Swans, boohoo! So I was chuffed to find out yesterday that Holy Roar were doing this free show:

only to find out today that it has been cancelled because Bossk have split up and Tortuga dont have a drummer, fuck. Oh well, at least I have the Rolo Tomassi free show in September.

On a different topic entirely, my awesome younger brother got his GCSE results today and he fucking slayed them! WELL FUCKING DONE OTTO! So we are going to go out tonight for a meal and get him drunk, if the staff dont notice his 16, hehehe.

I have been listening to -
Dead Swans - Southern Blue
Your Demise - Blood Stay on the Blade EP
The Postal Service - Give Up
Between The Buried and Me - Colors (still one of the greatest albums ever made)
Kate Bush - The Whole Story
Kate Bush - Sensual World
Duran Duran - Greatest

I have been watching -
Transformers: The Movie (still fucking awesome, reminds me of why I was silly enough to get a transformers tattoo)
Mean Creek
Maury
Judge Judy
Audition