Monday 19th April: Chain and The Gang + Chapter Sweetheart @ Cargo

Ian Svenonius' new band play Cargo with support from Chapter Sweetheart at Cargo tonight. The Sticks are stuck in Portugal. Olá guys!

CHAIN AND THE GANG is current musical project from Ian Svenonius, a man who needs little introduction. Chain And The Gang is packed with conceptual sass, slinky rhythms, gospel punk and as much call-and-response fun as you'd expect from the man. For this tour Ian has a live band consisting of members of Finally Punk and Curious Mystery, helping to slap the groove and power up the soul. They are tired of liberty… tired of being free… they say "if this is 'freedom' then lock me up and throw away the key." Chain are concerned that the spread of liberty has been detrimental to the world. Everywhere liberty goes, it leaves a path of destruction. Fast food, bad architecture, militarism, rampant greed, environmental destruction, imperial conquest, class struggle; these phenomena, when combined, seem to be synonymous with "Liberty." So just as they call it "liberty" or "freedom" when war and greed stalk the land, Svenonius calls his band Chain And The Gang. For Svenonius, this is another step in a life spent trying to do as little as possible. He's been seen on stage as a lecturer promoting his book "The Psychic Soviet", as a singer in the groups Make-Up, Scene Creamers, Weird War, and Nation of Ulysses, and also as interviewer of interesting people on the internet chat show Soft Focus.
http://www.myspace.com/chainandthegang

CHAPTER SWEETHEART are a five piece ensemble from London specialising in tumbling, loose-limbed rock with a secret love for horns. Mixing maybe some of the heavy oddness of Sweep The Leg Johnny with the jagged edge of The Sonics, Chapter Sweetheart make a glorious din, as informed by their old soul records as much as those hardcore cassettes. So far Chapter Sweetheart have a self-released CDR which is still available for your purchase, and a split with fellow londoners Not Cool which is now long gone.
http://www.myspace.com/chaptersweetheart

CHAIN AND THE GANG (Ian Svenonius' new band)
CHAPTER SWEETHEART
Monday 19 April
Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY
8pm | 7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/68834