Do Make Say Think (canada)
Buick 6
Epic 45

Do Make Say Think evolved out of early experimental and improvised home recordings by founding members Charles Spearin (bass, trumpet), Justin Small (guitar) and James Payment (drums).

Sublimating their rock instincts through dub and lounge filters, they began to brew up a heady batch of psych-tinged instrumentals. Collaborations with fellow Toronto-area musicians Ohad Benchetrit (guitar, horns, keyboards) and Jason MacKenzie (drums, keyboards) led to the formation of a proper band, where the signature chill vibe, marked by syncopated rhythms and repeating melodies, took shape. Jason’s growing collection of old synths led him away from the drum kit and into full-time knob-twiddling, so drummer Dave Mitchell was added to the group in mid-1998.
Do Make Say Think are now a finely-calibrated musical Sputnik tracing stardust orbits around the good green Earth. Ultimately, Do Make Say Think remain very much a rock band, devoted to brash riffing and blissful repetition, but moving towards more sublime dynamics and harmonics.

“As that South Park film made mercilessly plain, Canada is not a nation usually associated with its momentous contribution to popular culture. Yet, along with fellow Canucks Godspeed…, Do Make Say Think are breaking the mould by producing some of the most exciting, truly innovative music of the moment. Managing to be both unsettling and deeply beautiful, genuinely experimental yet infinitely palatable, Goodbye Enemy Airship…rarely resorts to the tired quiet/loud Slint methodology that has contributed to post-rock being pilloried in some quarters. Instead, they inject squalls of jazzy horns into opener “When Day Chokes The Night”, employ a Ry Cooder-style country twang on “The Apartment Song” and recall Future Days-era Can on the gloriously woozy “All Of This Is True”. The lasting impression is of a band overflowing with a restless flow of ideas. Stunning. “
Pat Long Select Magazine April 2000

To find out more about Do Make Say Think:
www.cstrecords.com

EPIC45 come from the staffordshire area of england and formed at school during 1995. Founder members Ben Holton(guitars), Rob Glover (bass) and mark oldfield (drums) starting rehearsing together in that year but it wasn’t until around late 1997 that they started listening to bands like ‘Spiritualized’ and ‘Mogwai’ and with that came the realisation that you could make 10 minute noisy instrumentals and get away with it.

After sucessful gigs in the past supporting such acts as Muse,Cay,Do Make Say Think,Rothko and Twist, epic45 return with two additions to the band with Scott Massey (keyboards/guitars) and Matt Kelly (guitars/bass) brought in to enhance the sound experience.

To find out more about Epic 45 check:
www.epic45.com/

Exhibition of work by Shepard Fairey

What started out in 1989 as a sticker campaign targeting a college campus in Rhode Island, to create a pseudo skate posse has over ten years expanded into the worldwide phenomenon that is ‘the Andre the Giant sticker campaign’.
Legendary wrestler Andre Renee Rousimoff (Andre the Giant) who suffered with the rare disease ‘acromegaly’ or ‘giant syndrome’ is the source of Shepard Faireys work. For eleven years Shepard has played with society’s worship of corporate icons, logos or anything else aimed to steer you in a preconceived direction. Shepard Fairey describes his sticker campaign as an experiment in phenomenology

“The process of letting things manifest themselves” Faireys stickers strive to

“reawaken a sense of wonder about ones environment”in a world saturated by visual information through advertising, Giant offers us an image without any obvious product to promote, causing the public to speculate its meaning and the purpose of its existence.

Exhibited throughout America and at the Chamber of Pop Culture in London and most recently in Tokyo. Shapard Fairey sends a selection of his work to display at Capsule. Unique silk screen prints will be exhibited alongside prints most commonly seen billboarded on the streets of American cities. Look out for an increase in Giant visibility throughout the UK in the weeks leading up to the show.

You can find out more about Giant from:
www.obeygiant.com

Capsule would like to take the opportunity to thank our sponsors of the Giant show.
Level magazine have featured an article on Fairey in their August edition and will be providing free copies for the opening night.

Billy Mahonie
Calvados Beam Trio
Buick 6

Funky post-Rock heroes BILLY MAHONIE return to the live circuit to play Birmingham, joined by the math/improv genius of CALVADOS BEAM TRIO and the plaintive country stylings of BUICK 6.

The night was an astounding success with over a 100 people turning up. Thanks to all of those who joined us for a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

You can check out more info from the billy mahonie site: http://www.billymahonie.com

Wonderland Retail Therapy is made up of a collective of djs and artists, united in their passion for collecting other peoples junk.

Spending far too long in their bedrooms, incorrectly playing records, or in charity shops, car boot sales and 2nd hand record stores, hunting out obscure sounds. This results in samples, soundbites and dialogue being reclaimed, modified and taken out of context to create new meanings, ideas and stories, often amusing and always entertaining.

The show at Capsule will be a one night performance, supporting James Lavelle (mo wax). The audience will not only experience a journey through collected sounds but the incorporation of visuals. Taking the form of a sing along comic book, projections and manipulated objects.

This is the first of three commissions by Capsule which will take place as sonic/visual interventions within the club space.

Snail racing are from Leeds and have members of Polaris, Imbis,
Month of Birthdays and Solanki. There are two girls and two boys
not to mention 3 bass players and a drummer.

Bilge Pump are also from lovely Leeds and are made up of members
from Polaris, they sing through telephones…

Ross is a local lad, living in Brum and sings country style with
acoustic guitar.

The Millennium has been anticipated in many ways throughout history, from science fiction imagining silver clad people in flying machines to religious groups predicticting the end of the world. However, in the present, thoughts nd attitudes towards the millenium mainly centre around new years eve itself.
Earlier this decade laws were brought in to curb anarchic raves, parties and spontaneous gatherings of people who wanted to have a good time. Now we are being allowed and encouragd to gather and celebrate. However, the official stamp on fun and celebration has driven most spontaneity and desire to do so into cynicism and disinterest. PMT is a realist voice in these superficial time, raising questions about the lack of fantastic imagination when considering the future and how of the future is focused purely on the second when 1999 becomes 2000 and how meaningless this is in the context of the complexities of life.

Ben Javens presents lethargic party products, reflecting the feeling created through enforced celebration.

Lisa Meyer in Unknown has rejected the use of contemporary high end visual imaging technology combining traditional casting with lo-fi technology to create a portrait which exists across specific times being Victorian, Ice-Age or contemporary.

Jenny Moore considers the transient nature of time in her landscapes, documenting moments connecting the past and the future, introducing the old to the new through using the past to allude to things to come – the cyclical nature of time nd progress.

Ian Richards looks back to the future and how previous generations had imagined the year 2000. Through literature, film, comics and science this point in time was seen as being inhabited with silver-suited super heroes who would fly through the stratosphere battling with the evil forces of Big Brother.

Claire Smith rejects the significance of official time, seeing time as relative to experience and emotion.

Wunderkammer present New Media, a collection of material formats of recorded information storage the collection of obsolete and thriving materials allude to the promise and disappointment of future technologies.

Photos courtesy of Katja Ogrin

Photos courtesy of Katja Ogrin