Alunah are happy to be hosting this event. Local bands and Concerts4cures are coming together to benefit the Teenage Cancer Trust Music Programs in the Midlands. Bands joining us will be: SELFLESS This hardcore / crust / grind band exists to have a doss and churn out pummeling grinding songs. THE ATROCITY EXHIBIT A grindcore / sludge / crust band from the Midlands of Northampton and Milton Keynes. MONKEY LEECH This part man, part ape ferocious beast feeds on Raging Speedhorn, Murder One, Napalm Death and Slayer. GRINGO Midlands-based stoner-rock band who are inspired by music of the past and have a bag full of awesome tunes to prove it! Scruffy Murphys will be making recordings of the show to sell on behalf of the charity, we will also be holding a METAL RAFFLE with kindly donated goodies from all kinds of awesome bands. Entry is £4 and all proceeds will going to the Birmingham Children's Hospital's Teenage Cancer Trust Music programme. Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/248664308541658/ Official poster coming soon... ----------------------------------------------- Concerts4cures.org was started over 3 years ago in USA with a charity called drumSTRONG.org. Drum Strong is a US registered non-profit charity organization who have an annual drumathon in Charlotte, NC every May where they set a Guinness World Record each year for the longest continuous drum circle (last year was 30 hours!). There are several cities around the world who do simulcast internet streams to join with the main event in Charlotte, they work with Drum Strong to hold charity concerts to help local children who are battling cancer through their Pediatric Percussion Program. PPP brings music to children's cancer unit's around the US and C4C was started with a goal of raising funds to purchase instruments and get instruction for those children. C4C aligned with The Teenage Cancer Trust (Roger Daultry's charity) to put on shows in different cities to raise funds for TCT music programs at TCT children's cancer units in those cities. TCT is one of the biggest children's charities in the UK and have a fabulous reputation for the work they do for children with cancer including their star studded week of shows each March at the Royal Albert Hall. C4C has done shows for TCT in Liverpool to support the Alder Hey Children's Hospital's 'Imagine' program for music and arts and also shows around London to support The Royal Marsden Children's Hospital and the TCT's Southeast Music Program. This year they will have shows in London, Liverpool, Leeds, Brighton, Nottingham, and this one in Birmingham. Their goal is to get funding to put on big shows that make big money for the music programs but for now are making whatever they can for local children's hospitals in the towns that host the show. In Birmingham the money would go to the Birmingham Children's Hospital's TCT units music program. Please check out concerts4cures.org, drumstrong.org, and teenagecancertrust.org websites for a total understanding of what we all do. Add Comment Thanks so much to the Stonerandmore blog in France for writing the following lovely things about us. English translation can be found underneath. Alunah (anciennement Aluna ) est un groupe anglais formé en 2006 et basé à Birmingham . Après avoir tourné de manière intensive avec des groupes comme Trouble , Orange Goblin , Acid King ou Nebula , Alunah a sorti en 2008 un premier manifeste - un EP "Fall to Earth " qui nous a permis de découvrir la musique du quatuor qui mélange avec virtuosité Stoner Doom et Heavy Psyché . De très beaux riffs qui savent mixer les sonorités lourdes et graves et celles plus légèrement fuzzées apportant ainsi une ambiance plus psychédélique ; côté rythmique les tempos tantôt lents et oppressants savent aussi se faire plus virevoltants et nerveux . L'autre particularité est la voix enchanteresse de la chanteuse Sophie Willett qui apporte une couleur particulière et une subtile douceur aux compositions du groupe . Le groupe a déjà sorti plusieurs albums que vous pouvez vous procurer via Catacomb Records . Le prochain LP est attendu ( avec impatience ) cette année sur le label Psychedoomelic Records . Fortement recommandé !!! TRANSLATION: Alunah (formerly Aluna) is an English band formed in 2006 and based in Birmingham. After shooting extensively with bands like Trouble, Orange Goblin, Acid King or Nebula, Alunah released in 2008 shows a first - an EP "Fall to Earth" which allowed us to discover the music of the quartet that mixes with virtuosity Stoner Doom Heavy and Psyche. Beautiful riffs that know mix sounds heavy and serious and the more lightly fuzzées bringing an atmosphere more psychedelic side of rhythmic tempos slow and sometimes oppressive also know to be more nervous and twirling. The other feature is the enchanting voice of singer Sophie Willett brings a particular color and a subtle sweetness to the compositions of the group. The group has already released several albums that you can purchase via Catacomb Records. The next LP is expected (forward) this year on the label Psychedoomelic Records. Highly recommended! Visit the Stonerandmore blog!! Join Soggy Bog this Saturday January 21st, 2012 for their weekly Podcast. This week it’s all about the Doom! Doom on! Grip of Delusion Radio is the place to be 3-5EST. Tune in and doom out! Setlist:
 We're very pleased to announce that this week we have signed with Bristol based Big Bad Mother's House Music Talent Booking Agency. The agency is home to Riot God (Monster Magnet members Bob Pantella (Drums) and Jim Baglino (bass)), the Argentinian sludge rockers Banda De La Muerte, Venezualan heavy-lords Cultura Tres and many more. Alunah will be playing the International Powerhouse of Doom Festival on April 5th at Scruffy Murphys, Birmingham with both Banda De La Muerte and Cultura Tres. Other bands on the bill include Stone Axe, Stubb and Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight. Both Alunah and Cultura Tres will also be hitting DesertFest in April. To contact Big Bad Mother's House regarding an Alunah booking please email: info@bigbadmothershouse.com, call (UK) +44 1179390432 or +44 07505775703 or visit: http://www.bigbadmothershouse.com. When contacting the agency for further information or to book dates for Alunah, please either use the ‘contact this artist’ button, located on the Alunah section of the website,or please ensure the email to the agency includes "Alunah" in the subject line. Alunah Take New Sound Engineer On The Road 01/12/2012
Happy new year! Hope it was a good one! We start the year with some awesome announcements! To start things off, from April we will be taking awesome sound engineer Mez Dewsbury out on the road with us. Mez is the engineer for legendary Birmingham music venue Scruffy Murphys which is where we first met, and also owner of Heretic Music Promotions. He knows the Alunah sound better than most and we're super happy to have him along for the ride, for plenty of beers and knob-twiddling... Merry Christmas from Alunah!! 12/24/2011
Hey! Hope you're all getting ready to eat too much, drink far too much and receive/give some awesome pressies! Who says the true meaning of Christmas is lost on us! We also want to thank everyone who made 2011 such an amazing year for us, with special thanks to the following: Mark at PsycheDOOMelic Records for having enough faith in us to sign us and release our second album in 2012. The awesome Mez of Heretic Promotions at Scruffy Murphys in Birmingham for being one of the best promoters and sound engineers that we deal with. Scruffy's is the best underground music venue in the Midlands and Mez does them proud! Two more awesome promoters - Dan and Reece at DesertScene! Constantly bringing the best bands over to the UK to play and inviting Alunah to play with them. This year we were invited to support Acid King and Karma to Burn and next year we're on the DesertFest bill - these guys deserve a HUGE thank you. There are loads of promoters who have helped us out this year - too many to mention so if we've not mentioned you we still love ya!! Bob at Soggy Bog who has continually supported us throughout the year and for inviting Soph to guest on one of his podcasts (listen here). Hellride Music, Core of Destruction Radio, Grip of Delusion Radio, Midlands Rocks, Blood Worm Brand and anyone else we've missed. Bit cheesy but everyone in 2011 who has watched us, listened to us, brought our merch, brought us drinks, told everyone how much they like us and even told everyone how much they hate us... it's all good! Massive thanks and salutations to the following bands who we've had the pleasure of sharing a stage with this year, if we've missed you it's nowt personal we were probaby just drunk! Acid King, Carlton Melton, Sally, Lifer, General, Karma to Burn, Fu Manchu, Black Spiders, Bastard of The Skies, Engines of Armageddon, Meadows, Iron Void, Viking Skull, Slab, Desert Storm, Pig Iron, Stone Axe, Stubb, Trippy Wicked and the Kosmic Children of the Knight (I used the full name lads!!), Firebird, Serpent Venom, A Million Miles, Gringo, Shebrew, Gurt and Dopefight. 2012 will be even better, we'll give birth to our second album which again will be recorded by the awesome Greg Chandler but mixed and mastered by Tony Reed of Stone Axe. we're supporting A Pale Horse Named Death (members of Type of Negative, Biohazard and Life of Agony - tickets £9 from us with free p&p), we're featuring on the Fallng Down zine compilation (track can be listened to here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl8aLhOpAew ) We're embarking on a couple of tours... more details soon but one will hopefully be with a PsycheDOOMelic label mate, the mighty DesertFest in Camden in April, and the International Powerhouse Doom Fest at Scruffy Murphys with Stone Axe (USA), Stubb (UK), Trippy Wicked and the Kosmic Children of the Knight (UK), Cultura Tres (VEN) and Banda de la Muerte (ARG). Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! See you in 2012! Alunah & A Pale Horse Named Death 11/29/2011
We are ridiculously pleased to announce that we have been added to the A Pale Horse Named Death show on 26th January 2012 at The Slade Rooms in Wolverhampton. The band features members of Type O Negative, Seventh Void, Life of Agony and Biohazard. Alunah Announced For DesertFest 2012 11/01/2011
This week Desertscene have announced some more Brits for DesertFest 2012 and this little message comes direct from their website... http://www.thedesertfest.com/london/ "Desertfest are proud to announce this amazing trio of British bands – DOPEFIGHT, SLABDRAGGER and ALUNAH. These doom laden beasts are just the start, as we have many more of the UK’s best bands and much more doom to come!" The festival is sponsored by Orange Amps, Metal Hammer, Jagermeister and Classic Rock Magazine. Bands confirmed so far are Church of Misery, Orange Goblin, Gentlemans Pistols, Valient Thorr, Truckfighters and Greenleaf. .. the date that we play has not been confirmed yet but as you can see we're in awesome company!! Alunah get heavyweight producers on board 10/13/2011
We're proud to announce that we will be once again working with the awesome Greg Chandler of Esoteric to record our second album which will be out mid-2012 on PsycheDOOMelic Records. Greg has previously worked with Serpentcult, Moss and of course us, he did such a blinding job with "Call of Avernus" at his idyllic rural studios in Canwell near Sutton Coldfield that we can't wait to return. This time around we will be turning to Tony Reed of Mos Generator and Stone Axe to mix and master the album. What we have heard of Tony's work so far is awesome and he is currently working on the new St. Vitus record so we are definetly in good hands. The title of the new album will be announced very soon. All content copied from Soggy Bog... _________________________________________________________ "Thanks Soph for putting together a great mix of tunes! Check out her band Alunah here www.alunah.co.uk She put together a great list of classic rock and doom! Download the show here: www.TheSoggyBogofDoom.Podomatic.com or subscribe via itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soggy-bog-doom-sludge/id370873403 Playlist *** Sophs selections! --- Black Tusk - Way Past Dead Raging Slab - Mississippi Queen *** Heart - Crazy on You *** Alunah - Dance of Dionysis Devil - Break The Curse The Doors - 5 to 1 *** Black Sabbath - Sabra Cadabra *** Nine Worlds - Dead Mules Jethro Tull - A new Day *** Amebix - The God of Grain Caravan of Whores - Now Big Brother and the Holding Company - I need a man to Love *** Wizards of Firetop Mountain - Sonic War Glorior Belli - They Call me Black Devil Grand Magus - Fear is the Key Steppenwolf - The Pusher *** Alunah - Magick Lantyrn *** Comets on Fire - Blue Tomb *** Domes of Silence - Hunter S.T. Acid King - Not Fragile *** Goatsnake - Heartbreaker *** Mastodon - Blasteroid Noothgrush - Imperial march/Alderaan DONT FORGET MY CONTEST STARTING NEXT WEEK "THE GREAT DECEIVER"! HERE ARE THE RULES...VERY SIMPLE JUST LISTEN FOR ME TO TELL TWO BLATANT LIES. YOU WILL KNOW THEM WHEN YOU HEAR THEM FOR SURE! THEN EITHER MESSAGE ME (ON FB), POST IT ON MY WALL(HERE ON FB) OR EMAIL ME AT BANGLUM@GMAIL.COM THE FIRST TO RESPOND CORRECTLY WILL WIN A COUPLE OF PRETTY SWEET PRIZES! ITS VERY SIMPLE! ANY QUESTION..FEEL FREE TO ASK! WWW.BRUTALEXISTENCERADIO.COM TO LISTEN TO THE BROADCAST EVERY FRIDAY FROM 11PM-1AM EST WWW.STEAMINGHEATHEN.COM EVERY SUNDAY FROM 3-5PM EST WWW.RASCALRADIO.NET EVERY FRIDAY AT 7 PM EST WWW.COREOFDESTRUCTION.COM EVERY THURSDAY 11PM-1AM EST WWW.TWITTER.COM/THESOGGYBOG WWW.THESOGGYBOGOFDOOM.PODOMATIC.COM FOR SHOW DOWNLOAD itpc://thesoggybogofdoom.podomatic.com/rss2.xml TO SUBSCRIBE VIA iTUNES WWW.CRESTFALLENRADIO.PODOMATIC.COM GREAT DOOM PODCAST! WWW.RADIOVILLAINS.COM WWW.MAKINGANGELSCRY.BLOGSPOT.COM WWW.DOOMMANTIA.COM AND WWW.DOOMMANTIAFORUM.COM | AuthorAlunah ArchivesFebruary 2012 CategoriesAll |
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