Freak Valley 2016: Spidergawd Join Lineup
There’s about a month and a week left before Norwegian heavy rockers Spidergawd issue their third album, Spidergawd 3, on Crispin Glover and Stickman Records, but I gotta be honest with you: I’m done waiting. If the record showed up in my inbox right now, I’m not even sure I’d have the patience to download it rather than just bashing my head into the laptop screen in order to try to absorb it as quickly as possible. And I think that, otherwise, this laptop has at least another three good years left in it. It’s that kind of anticipation.
Spidergawd last week announced a European tour for immediately after the release, and it’s been all of one whole day since I last posted an announcement from Freak Valley 2016, so yeah, this seems about right. Have at it:
*** Norway’s SPIDERGAWD Will Bring Their Fuzzed Out Post-Boogie Assault to FREAK VALLEY FESTIVAL 2016 ***
The worst thing that could happen in today’s music-business: That the best bands are not the most popular, known by everyone. But if you really like rock’n’roll you will definitely love Spidergawd – a band that stands for everything we love about guitar driven music.
The Norwegian four-piece has it all: the swagger, the wildness, the danger that real rock’n’roll celebrates these days far too seldom. Helmed by Per Borten – a natural born singer with the perfect croon and a gifted guitar-player – Spidergawd has the best rhythm-section you get these days. It’s MOTORPSYCHO’s bassist Bent Sæther and drummer Kenneth Kapstad. Both lay down masterful and relentless grooves. The line-up is rounded out by baritone-saxophone-player Rolf Martin Snustad who ads a certain soulful and jazzy edge to the mix.
And the magic is surely in the mix: Spidergawd brilliantly blend old blues-styles, heavy psychedelic with improvised freak-outs, the dry-to-the-bone-grooves of Queens of the Stone Age, the soulful heavy-arena-rock of Thin Lizzy and the wild proto-punk of such Motor-City-legends like MC5 and The Stooges.
Spidergawd is the best band you might not have seen yet. They bring back the magic and fun of rock’n’roll – as they did on their marvellous debut (2014) and their even leaner and meaner follow-up II (2015). The third album will arrive in early 2016 – and it is as relentless as its predecessors!
Beautiful poster art by Krisna Ilham Heriawan
FREAK VALLEY FESTIVAL – 26th-27th-28th May 2016
www.freakvalley.de – www.rockfreaks.de
FVF 2016 is SOLD OUT!!
Freak Valley Festival: No Fillers – Just Killers
Line-up 2016:
Dead Meadow [US] – Psychedelic Stonerrock
Spidergawd [NO] – Post-Boogie
White Hills [US] – Fuzzed Out Motorik Psychedelic
Baby Woodrose [DK]- Psychedelic Garagerock
Lonely Kamel [NO]- Heavy Blues, Hardrock & Stoner
Rotor [D] – Instrumental StonerRock/Psychedelic
Monolord [SW] – Doom/Sludge
Farflung [US] – Spacerock for 21st Century Heads
The Golden Grass [US]- Heavy/Funk/Boogie/Psychedelic/Freakbeat
Spiders [SW] – Hard/Glam Rock
Son of Huns [US] – Heavy Riffin Rock
Lé Betre [SW] – Bluesy Hardrock
…more tba very soon
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