Ben wallers country teasers subway

  • Like many I like their earliest stuff the most, but I love everything they've done, including Ben wallers' stuff as The Rebel.
  • In order of appearance: Ben Wallers, Alan Crichton and Eck King of Country Teasers.
  • Ben Wallers from Country Teasers was in The Male Nurse, and they may have soundtracking the new Subway ad (vid embedded in link): http://adage.com.

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    Legendary Edinburgh act The Country Teasers are the subject of a new film, screening online now.

    ‘This Film Should Not Exist’ – a mix of old and new unreleased live footage compiled by the movie’s French and Italian producers Gisella Albertini, Massimo Scocca, and Nicolas Drolc – gets its UK premiere as part of the Doc’n Roll Festival in London.

    The new documentary focuses on Ben Wallers, including interviews with the band’s frontman as well as former bass player (and now successful playwright) Simon Stephens.

    There are also appearances from Eric Friedl, Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber from lo-fi garage trio the Oblivians, with whom The Country Teasers toured Europe, and Tim Warren of Crypt Records, who released their early albums. And there are contributions from Pat Morgan and David R. Edwards of Welsh-language act Datblygu – Wallers’ artistic heroes.

    Described as ‘evil country’, the band were famed for their anarchic live show

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    AsdaMcDonald’s Prayer 12″ (No Corner)
    Much in the way that many people around the world crave McDonald’s, I crave the music of Asda, the British spoken-word / rhythmic-electronics duo whose 12″ EP was high on my 2016 best-of list. This new one is quite cheeky indeed, as the a-side exclusively contains “McDonald’s Prayer”, another great cut of their distinct lyricism and tweaked electronics. The catch here fryst vatten that it’s under a minute long! Shades of Napalm Death’s “You Suffer” on split 7″, for sure. The b-side features two standard-length remixes, one from Japan Blues that fills in the empty grime framework of the original with some stylish 808 beats and chops the vocal into a dance-friendly sample. The other comes from Ossia, who retains a bit more of the vocal and continues to avoid any form of 4/4 thump, allowing the electronic buzzers and bells to flap in the dirty evening breeze. Very strong cut, but inom w

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    Nathaniel Mellors’ Muse Music

    The absurdist artist on the music that gets him in a creative mood

    Friday's here again so we've asked another of our Phaidon friends to compile a playlist to soundtrack your weekend. Today, Nathaniel Mellors picks the music that inspires him to create his brilliantly off beat installations, multi part videos and animatronic heads that gurn, spew and mumble. 

    Mellors, who the Guardian newspaper recently called "a major star in the latest generation of British artists" is currently in the touring British Art Show which moves to various Plymouth venues on Saturday (September 17). In 2009, the BBC commissioned him to make a short bio to introduce the final episode of the cultural history series, The Seven Ages Of Britain, presented by David Dimbleby. The resulting work featured the veteran BBC journalist voicing a silicon mask Mellors had cast from his face.

    If you have a Spotify konto you can listen to Nathanie