Ship of Fools: THE CESARIANS / RETARDER / BLACK LIGHT ASCENSION May 9, 2010

Kaparte Promotions & Tursa present:
SHIP OF FOOLS

THE CESARIANS / RETARDER / BLACK LIGHT ASCENSION

The Cesarians, the most talked band in town will play an outstanding set for the exclusive club Ship of Fools on a boat on the Thames.

Featuring ex members of Penthouse, Monkey Island and Baadar Meinhoff, it's not since The Birthday Party crashed and burned in Berlin, that the twisted sounds of old style decadence has been pumped so intensely through distorted amplifiers. London scenesters looking for a scene free of recycled rock, have found expression in The Cesarians cabaret world.
Had rock and roll been born in 1930's urban Europe, and not 1930's rural America, it would have been like this; part Kurt Weil, part Jacques Brel, part Ernst Kirchner, part klezma. Looking like a band formed in the mind of George Grosz, The Cesarians capture the urban zeitgeist via the junk shop instruments of old Europe . In their hands, a clarinet, trombone, piano, and drums beaten in waltz time, make raw and raucous rock and roll. Over this beautiful chaos Charlie Finke preaches his own intense message.

"As far as alt.rock oompah bands go, this lot are in a class of their own." - David Sinclair, The Times Online
" It is classic, dirty rock and roll at it's best, a sound missing for at least twenty-five years we're damn happy it's back." - Bearded Magazine
http://www.myspace.com/thecesarians
http://www.thecesarians.com

Support comes from two short performances by experimental-dadaist-electronic acts Retarder and Black Light Ascension, the solo projects of Lloyd James from Naevus and Andrew Trail of KnifeLadder's fame.
http://www.myspace.com/retarder
http://www.myspace.com/knifeladdermusic

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