Superman Revenge Squad comprises of one man from Croydon, called Ben, playing the acoustic guitar and singing. He used to be in Nosferatu D2, who played their final gig at the Spitz supporting Los Campesinos in March 2007. Since then Ben has been playing around London, York and Brighton as SRS.
Who are Small Crew? Small Crew is Richard Adderley and Dan Edwards (formerly of bands like The Boyfriends, The Lucas Group and Vermont), although neither is necessarily on any given Small Crew Recording. Small Crew is whoever is in the room at the time when Small Crew music is being made. Small Crew can also be at the end of a phone line, in the post or on a computer, radio or television. If you aid, facilitate or enjoy Small Crew activities, you are Small Crew. Activity is currently limited to this planet but this is purely for technical reasons.
Small Crew make any kind of music depending on what's in the room or who's on the phone. They like singing and dancing and they like to keep it dirty.
The Sailplanes formed in London two years ago with no pre-conceived notion as to where the band would go, just a mutual appreciation of noisy experimental music. Since then they’ve released four records of challenging, sharp, arty, experimental, noisy music to the acclaim of the UK underground. In June of this year they released their debut album: 'a second, or ten years later' on their own Redheaded Stepchild imprint.
Drowned In Sound: “That very debut is The Sailplanes’ noisy, discordant, and succinct raison d’etre. In short – it’s awesome.” and iShotthedeputy: “aggressively and wonderfully different… Some songs have the sort of edgy and crazed distortion and noise ... others are simply sublime little pop gems and sometimes they're both." Robots In Electronic Brains hailed it as “genuinely arresting. Pristine but intricate: a difficult balance, yet here it is, fuzzy/lucid, baroque/austere, harsh/pretty. They blast out non-conventional chords and guitar figures less like riffs than flowing thoughts….”
New single “The End of the World” sees Time. Space. Repeat. step up and produce their most accessible song to date, combining the emotional ferocity of Six. By Seven with the widescreen stargazing of My Bloody Valentine, and it’s everything that shoegaze should have been the first time round. With epic, fuzzy guitars, arching melodies and a real knowledge of what makes music work that borders on the obsessive, Time. Space. Repeat. are ready to take the world on a journey through the universe and back, and show the Nu-Gaze imitators how to combine noise and tunes in equal measure.
