From the Archives - Volume Six

Studio photos from the sessions for Modern Currencies, including such exciting things as cables, buttons, knobs ...

Nice People Say Nice Things

Brazeau's Blog had some kind words about the show on Saturday:

Uncut reminded me why I like them so much: speedy guitar riffs, cynical yet inspiring punk lyrics and a solid rhythm section holding everything together. Their set ended with "Darkhorse" from their last album Modern Currencies and the song continues to grow on me each day. I can't wait for their new album as it is definitely going to be one I will pick up as soon as its released.

Read the full review here.

Thanks Jon!

Blistering Hardcore

Wow -- the show at Trash Palace was super fun. I literally think that it might be literally the best place in Toronto, literally. Hot dogs, Pop Tarts, popcorn, custom screened drink cozies, Argento's Demons ... what's not to love?

Some other folks had nice things to say about the show as well.

From AOL Music:

Then we abandoned CMW/F altogether to hit up a semi-secret show in Toronto's hippest venue, The Trash Palace (which deserved to be more packed than it was). Usually a cult-pop cinema -- as evidenced by the b-movie posters, popcorn machine and early 80s arcade game -- this no-stage spot (and home to the Toronto pillow-fighting league) has the feel of a Vice mag photo shoot, but less contrived.

So we stuffed napkins in our ears and downed cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon and watched Vancouver two-piece Japandroids tear through their fast, loud and distortion-laced catalogue, howling in harmony, while a 30 minute clock counted down and the best 70s Japanese monster movie I've ever seen screened in the background. It was fierce and exciting and far better than that over-hyped other noise duo No Age. They could soon be as big as the late, lamented Death From Above 1979.

Japandroids were followed-up by an equally intense set by perennially under-appreciated Toronto rockers Uncut, whose new tunes revealed an apparent hardcore change of heart.

Read full article here.

From The Star:

Japandroids and Uncut: Trash Palace, Saturday. Not a CMW show, but I had it on good authority from two friends who'd seen Japandroids at the Gladstone the previous night that this was a must-see. Quite correctly. The Vancouver duo raises a jubilant guitar-and-drums racket (earplugs recommended). Endlessly, but rightly, compared to No Age, Brian King and David Prowse sweeten the noise-pop with smiley-faced melodies that would have made peak-period Cheap Trick green with envy. Local lads Uncut chose to unveil a good chunk of what should be a blistering next record.

Read full article here.

Thanks again to Trash Palace, Japandroids and everyone else who helped make it a fun show.

Tonight!

Just a reminder (as if you need any more of them) that we're playing tonight at Trash Palace. The address is 89-B Niagara St, which is one block south of Wellington, between Tecumseth and Bathurst. It's an early show -- doors are at 8 pm and the whole thing is over at 11 pm.

See you there!



Ps See how rad this picture is ... that's how rad the show is going to be.

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

Great review of the Japandroids record Post-Nothing in today's Now -- four Ns -- along with a plug for the show on Saturday (although they call it a day show ... it's not).

Well done chaps!

They Live

Just a reminder:

Saturday March 14
Trash Palace (89-B Niagara St)
8pm Doors
9pm Japandroids
10pm Uncut
$5

Keep in mind that it's an early show ... the whole thing is over at 11pm.

Stay Gold Pony Boy

To you, the casual observer, it may seem as though we haven't been up to all that much in the past little while. Well you know what? In your face. You're totally wrong ... and stop being so negative.

We have, in fact, been writing new material like crazy. We even went so far as to demo a couple of the songs that we've been working on. We thought that they turned out pretty well, so we decided to go even further and post them here. You could even say that we were taking things to the limit. But then we would tell you that you had gone too far.

So, with no further ado ... new music!

All Hands


Stay Gold


We'll be playing these, along with a few more new ones, at our show with Japandroids on March 14th at Trash Palace. Stay tuned for more details about that.

Physical Evidence

You may remember that back in November I made a post about our record being available in the UK and also made mention that there was a 7" for Darkhorse. At the time, I wasn't entirely sure that it actually existed.

Well, I now have come to think that it might. I found an image online that appears to be an actual photograph of the sleeve, rather than just a digital mock up. That's good news! Unless, of course, the conspiracy to make us believe that it exists has simply redoubled its efforts ...

History Lesson -- Jake Fairley 101

When Uncut first started out, it was just me on bass and my friend Jake Fairley playing guitar and singing. We were using a collection of samplers, drum machines and computers at various points to provide drums and some keyboard parts, trying to come up with a mix of minimal techno and post-punk in the Joy Division vein. (As a small point of pride, this was before both "House of Jealous Lovers" and Interpol. Just saying is all.)

We put out a couple of 12"s in Germany (see pics below) that I think might have been well received (but I don't speak German, so I'm just going to go ahead and assume that people liked them) and had plans to release our first full length on Paper Bag ... but this would never be. You see, this whole time Jake was making techno records on his own and had started living on-and-off in Berlin while he was touring Europe. He eventually decided to not move back to Toronto, so we broke up, but only in the band sense, not in the friend sense.





Since then, Uncut has obviously been a different thing entirely.

So, what is Jake up to these days, you may find yourself asking ... he's still making the techno (doing quite well at it in fact) and living in Amsterdam. I've included some clips for your listening/viewing pleasure. You can also listen to more on his Myspace page.

Huh?

Oh YouTube, you so crazy.

Someone decided to take part of the German version of the movie Girl Interrupted and put "Understanding the New Violence" under it, to what purpose I am unsure.

But hey, thanks for thinking of us.