Aucan (Italy) + With That Knife + A Middle Sex + Celebrity Love Crisis April 1, 2009

Manchester's wonderful Wotgodforgot presents, from Italy - AUCAN
AUCAN’s music is based on a powerful combination of precision, energy and power. A dizzying concoction of barbaric guitars riffs, break on/break off drumming, sparse keyboard melodies and a tangled web of electronic sounds form a dense wave rich in frequency and tone. Picking up where 90’s Chicagoan rock bands (Shellac, Don Caballero) left off, AUCAN draw influence from a wide range of artists who marry the electronic with the organic Fridge, Squarepusher, Tortoise, Battles. But it is the seeming ease with which they achieve this that really surprises; so many others have failed when trying to bring together two very different approaches, yet AUCAN use the tensions between timbres and textures to their advantage. As all great groups should, AUCAN turn weaknesses in to strengths, and take control of chaos.
www.myspace.com/aucan

WITH THAT KNIFE
"blindingly impressive" - manchestermusic.co.uk
"the talent and cohesiveness is just plain jaw-dropping" - Second City
"nothing short of impressive." - God is in the TV
www.myspace.com/withthatknife

A MIDDLE SEX
"an intriguing and unclassifiable fifteen minutes of brain-melt. Using a small synth, a pile of cables, a miniature bongo (singular), a microphone, a heavily abused and possibly detuned guitar and a suitcase with "Because you know I forgot" written on it" - manchestermusic.co.uk
www.myspace.com/amiddlesex

CELEBRITY LOVE CRISIS
With a ‘we will play anywhere’ attitude this York band band can be seen everywhere except Hello Magazine. Expect heavy as hell, metallic prog, juicy, low frequency riff rock but don’t expect Paris Hilton! They play prog-infused metal of the highest order, think a more interesting Pelican, more jazzed-up than shoegaze, but still with a self-reflective element to the sound, should be LOUD
www.myspace.com/celebritylovecrisiss