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Zombie-Zombie at Taylor John's House, Coventry

Music // Steve // 15th December 2007

You might think I need a better camera, and some actual camera skills might be nice too, but Zombie-Zombie don't actually show up very well on (digital) film you see.

I'm blaming the fact that they are undead, and this knowledge of the Other Place enables them to draw on terrifying experiences and shoot that out all over the equally zombie like audience (bless you all, of course) at Taylor John's House. I'll include myself there, I'd driven over and I was terribly sober, and like most English people I need two pints inside me before I get rhythmic.

And they were great - a disco-horror soundtrack, clearly influenced by John Carpenter and Giorgio Moroder and Goblin. Plenty of throbbing bass, furious drumming and dubbed-out shrieks through the ancient Space Echo, and a stone-cold tune in the form of "Psychic Harmonia", much rougher than their recorded version.

There's a single out right now, "Driving this road until death sets you free", which you hear on ze Myspace, and they're off around the rest of the UK this month, and they did a horror-y mix for Allez-Allez. Oddly the first track of the mix, Spectrum & Silver Apples, was recorded at the Cabin Studios in Coventry.