MTAT NEWS; NEW MUSIC, SHOWS & FULL BOOK YER ANE FEST XV ANNOUNCEMENTS
by writeyeranezine
Disclaimer: I wouldn’t usually publish the BOOK YER ANE ANE FEST announcements and a massive screed of MTAT news on this blog these days. Indeed, I don’t publish much beyond gig news, record announcements and various stripes of press releases at all. Regardless, the MTAT website is currently experiencing technical difficulties beyond my skill-set and parameters of time. All hail Craig, Fernando and all the MTAT crew for their engineering and scientific wizardry. I have an ideas, not a practical brain, hence this piece of shit ten-year old reconditioned laptop.
NEW MUSIC
What do you do when one of your best friends gets diagnosed with cancer? How do you handle losing someone close to you?
Vægtløs are trying to wade into questions like these on their upcoming album, which solely includes songs about people close to the band who died or suffered deadly diseases.
Vægtløs focuses on a vulnerability and openness that are lacking in the music scene, but also in society, in general. Life is fleeting and fragile, and Vægtløs is a bridge to gap between the monumental emotional dread underlying the fact that all beauty will eventually die and the cathartic strength found in music.
Vægtløs are scene veterans coming together for their love of everything emotionally heavy, passionate, honest and sincere. The band is not afraid to wear their heart on their sleeves and paint a scenery of the remote and primitive Nordic landscape that is both silent and loud.
In these immensely bleak times, the need for melancholic and desolate music has never been greater. Vægtløs pours every last bit of passion into their aggressive yet emotional music which can be described as intense and atmospheric post-metal with hints of black metal, post-rock, post-hardcore, and emo, eventhough it is not a distinct variation of neither of those, but a mutated multifaceted modificaton of the sum. Musically the band never took any notice of trends and genres, as the band draws inspiration equally from life as from art and music.
Recorded: Vægtløs
Engineered: Rasmus Glassau Clausen and Vægtløs
Mixed and mastered: Jacob Bredahl
Backing vocals: Victor Kaas and Christian Bonnesen
vaegtlos.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/vaegtlos/
MTATV026 is the incredible “KAKAFONI” 7” EP from danish black metal hardcore punx Vægtløs; two songs & sixteen beautifully punishing minutes of progressive reflective post-rock/shoegaze/bleakcore available on three gorgeous limited colours of 7” vinyl; gold, green & classic black.
Released via a plethora of global diypunk & independent record label crews worldwide, it’s an honour to be involved. We’ve a small number of records, preorders are shipping, Thirteen Records have one copy of each colour. Digital download too.
Much love and respect to Akaip, Angry Music (denmark), Bad Moon Rising (taipei), Dingleberry Records (germany), DIY Kolo (poland), Entes Anomicos (peru), Fresh Outbreak (italy), Geenger, Nasty Cut Records (greece), Nothing To Harvest (greece), Punk Bjarte norway), Rip Roaring Shit (doncaster), TNS Records (manchester), virklighedsfjern (denmark), Voice Of The Unheard (france) & 5FeetUnder (denmark) for being part of it. Please check them out and support diy punk worldwide.
“Rocksteady Girl” / “Hanging Out” is the new single from Dundee City Rockers DAVID DELINQUENT & THE IOUS and is the second release in the MTAT HOMEROWN SINGLES SERIES.
Written and performed by the band, these two jams were recorded live in Conroy’s Basement at Rad Apples, Dundee by Nicholas Mayer in August 2022. The recordings were then also mixed and mastered by Nicholas at home and released as a digital download and super-limited edition two-track CD single,
facebook.com/daviddelinquentandtheious/
daviddelinquentandtheious.bandcamp.com
NOVEMBER SHOWS
Our homegrown basement-born banjo-driven internationalist hardcore anarchist cowpunk riot that is ALLDEEPENDS are out on on tour in europe with The Sewer Cats.
The Sewer Cats jumped aboard in Manchester and are touring to Copenhagen, where the team will meet Forever Unclean.
We’re still awaiting confirmation of dates on 14/15 in eastern Germany, but if anyone can help with Berlin on 15/11, do please get in touch. Likewise for anything either side of Geneva. DIY tour booking is hard, even with an ace team, in this current climate. Much respect to TNSrecords, Disconnect Disconnect Records and Nasty Cut Records for all their help and all the rad promoters who’ve stepped in to help.
Sewer Cats fly home from CPN as ADE & FU tour back to the UK before the family reunite at The Flying Duck at the Pre-BYAF Glasgow show with Mutual Scum and Struggletown. Tour then wraps at BOOK YER ANE FEST XV.
ALLDEEPENDS released the “Throwing A Pit To Nothing” LP this summer, one of the most vital punk rock records in years, to these hefty biased ears.
There’s a whole bunch going down on the hometeam front too.
Very much looking forward to hosting Leeds-based fizzy feminist indie punks NERVOUS TWITCH at their first ever Scottish show this coming Friday. They’ve been out on the road since the summer in support of their awesome “SOME PEOPLE NEVER CHANGE” LP and I very much look forward to getting my hands on the vinyl. They’re joined in the basement by our lofi Aberdeenshire power/punk/grunge-pop pals ARSENIC ANNIE and local queer emo pups CROCODILE TEARS. 8pm doors, six bones advanced, eight on doors.
TINS FOR TUNES in solidarity with DUNDEE FOODBANK goes down on Saturday as the FUTURE SOUND OF DUNDEE throw a DUB’N’GRUB Saturday night basement special for the first time. Unfortunately DJ D-LOVE is unable to join us on this occasion but newcomer djxdrkrx will be joining regular DJs TACKITY BEATZ & FU MAN Q for an evening of roots, reggae, dub, ska, hiphop & whatever from 7pm. Entry is free/pay-what-you-want.
We’ve been running TINS FOR TUNES for almost a decade now and it continues to be a disgusting abandonment of duty on behalf of the state, whether they be the criminals in charge in Westminster or Holyrood. Foodbanks form part of government policy. There are more food banks on this shitty island than there are McDs “restaurants”. Fuck McDs, obviously, but also fuck this, fuck capitalism and fuck anyone who thinks this is a reasonable way to organise humans. Personal opinion, clearly, but it all fucking reeks.
Please bring items of non-perishable vegan foodstuffs, toiletries, hygiene products, warm clothes (socks, scarves, gloves, hats, etc) to trade for music, whilst stocks last. All donations will then be shared with Dundee and Angus Foodbank on Monday & Tuesday.
This coming Sunday, we’re thrilled to finally nailed down Glasgow finest new fuzzy indie pop media sweethearts THE WIFE GUYS OF REDDIT to give them the traditional basement once over. Thankfully, there are more than enough quirky pop zingers and math-y arrangements to keep the post-hardcore heads happy, alongside a bucketful of pop melodies and radio friendly unit shifting songs that’d sound great on the radio. They’ll be joined at their first Dundee show by the returning majesty of HOLY SNAKES and homegrown indie rock’n’roll mastro NICK SHANE. Early doors at 6pm, £6/8 for a Sunday funday.
The following Friday brings an evening of three distinct flavours of metal on our last MTAT stop en route to Book Yer Ane Fest XV. Edinburgh’s blackened hardcore doom / sludge / noise punks CODESPEAKER have just released their incredible self-titled debut album and they’ll be celebrating it’s lead-heavy launch with an evening of lacerating loathing in the basement. Joining them will be homegrown psychedelic stoner crew KURNEL FIST and black metal-influenced satanic thrash metalheads TYRANNUS will be destroying all in earshot to open. 8pm doors, £6/8 mosh tax.
PRE-BYAF; RAD APPLES, DUNDEE
A once in a lifetime opportunity to catch insurrectionary anarchist basque country post-punk legends ALGARA in Dundee as part of their ongoing campaign for total liberation. One of the most important, explosive and influential of the radical basque anarcho punk bands, and by proxy one of the most radical and motivated punk rock bands in Europe, it is our absolute pleasure to be hosting them in Dundee for one night only. Huge thanks to Paco at LA VIDA ES UN MUS for helping makes this happen. Support from THE MARX and TRAGICAL HISTORY TOUR. 8pm doors, £6/8.
PRE-BYAF; THE FLYING DUCK, GLASGOW
For the first (and probably last) time ever, we’ll be hosting concurrent pre-BYAF shows across two Scottish cities. We’d like to extend our thanks and gratitude to the MUTUAL SCUM collective for supporting us in this endeavour and to Steven from Struggletown Records for going above and beyond the call of duty in support of the diy punk community. Thanks also for the sick artwork.
Having last ripped up the boards together in Copenhagen, the touring triumvirate of ALLDEEPENDS, The Sewer Cats and Forever Unclean reconvene on Plague Island to kick-off the weekend on the west coast. They’ll be joined for a unicorn shit-rare hometown show from pre-existence MTAT allies THE KIMBERLY STEAKS. Doors are at 7pm and the running order will be determined in the tradition of the very first incarnations of BYAF; by “lethal lottery” just before doors with no running order announced in advance. If it was good enough for Bad Religion, Ice T, NOFX and awbdy on those early, meaningful years of the Warped Tour, then it’s good enough for some ecossemopunx!
Gig tickets here.
BOOK YER ANE FEST WEEKEND
Friday 25th – Sunday 27th November 2022
Rad Apples Dundee & Conroy’s Basement
Benefit music festival to raise money & awareness in solidarity with Wrasac Dundee & Angus, Dundee Women’s Aid & Dundee Foodbank. Individual day tickets now on sale. Having a weekend or day ticket ensures your entry to the building ONLY. It is YOUR responsibility to ensure you arrive in time at the stage for the performances you want to see. A full programme of events will be published the week before the festival begins but we’d encourage everyone to get in as early as possible, as ye never know what ye might miss at fest.
Thanks to Daniel Hughes Art for the illustration. Card always subject to change, as the bail of The Human Project yesterday after I’d already re-commissioned this piece for the third time. Time is money and all that, I’m running out of both. This will also be the last time I’ll be booking my ane fest. Thankfully, we have a tremendous crew of humans to pass the ball to. It’s been emotional but I’m out. Thank you all for everything.
Friday 25th November 2022 at Rad Apples, Dundee
Doors at 4pm. Day ticket; £16.50
ALLDEEPENDS
THE SEWER CATS (england)
THE KIMBERLY STEAKS
CROCODILE TEARS
WORK TO RULE (first show!)
Plus who knows what?
Saturday 26th November 2022 at Rad Apples, Dundee
Doors at 12 noon. Day ticket; £22.00
FOREVER UNCLEAN (denmark)
ANIMAL BYPRODUCTS (england)
SUNLINER (england)
QUESTION THE MARK (wales)
TIM HOLEHOUSE (nomad)
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Keep yer eyes peeled for morning events popping up!
Sunday 27th Novemver 2022 at Rad Apples, Dundee
Doors at 12 noon. Day ticket; £22.00
BURNING FLAG (england)
BROKEN STORIES (tenth birthday, first ever full band show!)
KAPIL SESHASAYEE (full band performance!)
KADDISH (the undefeated streak lives!)
THE BLOOD RED MOON
THE OVERBITES
That’s pretty much a wrap. There are loads of resources on the internet about the history, origins and story of BOOK YER ANE FEST. It’s been sixteen years since Graham passed, fourteen years of doing this festival and over twenty-five years of playing in punk rock bands. I turned 40 a couple of weeks ago, have been doing this label since I was 23. It’s been over a decade since my dad died and my best friend died a slow, horrible death after four year plus battle with cancer this summer. My own full time band called it quits at BYAF last year, Rad Apples takes up an incredible amount of our time and there are simply other things that I want to do with my life.
No doubt Book Yer Ane Fest will continue in some way, shape or form, but it’s time for the young team to step up and run with the ball. I never want to be one of those bitter old shitcunts who despises and fears the youth, fears change and discomfort. Fuck that, the entire philosophical history of western (capitalist) kind is “fuck you, old man”. Quite right too, really.
So it goes.
Stay rad,
Derrick.
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