Some of the My Kung Fu roster are heading to London on Fri 27th Feb for a bash at the ICA. RICHARD JAMES will be playing songs from his forthcoming second solo album, and TRUCKERS OF HUSK will no doubt take the roof off previewing forthcoming single PERSON TO PERSON / AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA. Also on the bill are Derwyddon Dr Gonzo, Sweet Baboo, Sibrydion and Colorama. A cracking line up - every band recommended.

Tickets are £7 adv from www.ica.org.uk

Here’s some footage of Truckers of Husk performing Awesome Tapes From Africa at last year’s Green Man Festival… it’s a blast.

here’s the first snap of a happy customer in a Truckers Of Husk tee… it’s Mike Williams, co-founder of Kruger magazine. Now whether it’s his allotment or not I don’t know, but I am interested to know if that is some kind of special fork with those weirdly aligned prongs…

Oh yes. Here’s some splendid Truckers Of Husk t-shirts designed by the wonderful Casey Raymond reflecting the artwork he created for the Truckers Of Husk ‘Physical Education EP’. They’re available for both sexes (or all sexes if there’s a third sex we don’t know about yet) through www.sebon.co.uk . Click on the merchandise button and it’ll take you to them. Or if you’re passing Spillers Records in Cardiff, then you can call in and buy one there too. A third option would be to wait until Truckers Of Husk play your town. A fourth option would be to invite them to play your town. There’s plenty of options you see. If you buy one and email john@my-kung-fu.com with a photo of you wearing the t-shirt then I’ll put it up on this blog too because I like things like that.

Here’s what the t-shirt looks like. Go get one!

So I’ve gone to Google Maps and I now know where Thurrock is. It East of London, along the Thames, getting towards Southend. Welcome people from Thurrock!

 Here’s a review that The Thurrock Gazette did of Concrete & Glass. I’m sure there’s more that involve Truckers Of Husk, our band who played there, but this one landed on my lap this morning…

CONCRETE & GLASS BRICK LANE, LONDON 3 OCT

On paper this is a great idea; ace bands, several venues within walking distance, with the streets full of excited indie kids and impressionable fools, like a festival but in normal venues. Like The Camden Crawl, then. That’s where it falls down. At a festival you’ve got several medium-sized arenas, and most of the people who want to get in manage it. Here it’s a nightmare, because the venues vary in size, from tiny to very small and to plain inadequate. And everyone - well, it feels like that - wants to see the same bands at the same times, and often in 350-max venues, leaving big groups of people very disappointed and not a little fucked off. To the two bands we did get to see… Truckers of Husk in the Vibe Bar, 9pm, with the ‘festival’ still warming up. Welsh post-math-rock performed by phenomenally tight musicians - and without any of the messy self-indulgence that often comes with the territory. As good a live band as anyone in that field, further illustrating their superior ‘P.E.E.P.’ EP from early this year. You’ll like them, of that I’m certain - and they’ll surely reappear with an album sometime soon. Here’s hoping. With a lot of huff and puff we were shoehorned into a genuinely frightening heaving Macbeth, a superhuman effort that no-one on tonight’s multi- bill other than album of the year purveyors Pete & The Pirates would warrant. We can’t really see a great deal, but we know what they look like so that’s not crucial. There’s not a bad song on the album, and live they inject an extra dose of energy - like the record needs it - while dropping early b-side ‘Wrong Man’ into the mix to a rousing reception. The demand is at least justified, but they really should be headlining your Forums or Astorias rather than playing an albeit nice pub more suited to a Kingmaker comeback show in truth. So, the bands we did see were marvellous, but like many others we went home riled by our inability to get in where we wanted on a few occasions. I’m sure lessons will be learned though… ANDY SLOCOMBE

Truckers Of Husk are playing East London’s rather marvellous Concrete And Glass festival on 3rd October. Mmm!

They’ll be at the Vibe Bar (Inside) which is located at 91-95 Brick Lane.

Check out concreteandglass.co.uk for full line-up and list of venues.

If you’ve been to one of Truckers Of Husk’s fiercesome gigs lately, you may have heard a tune provisionally titled Person For The Person. We’re busy filming a video for this tune at the moment, with film maker Ewan Jones-Morris and ideas man Casey Raymond.

Here’s a passage from this morning’s email from Casey:

Thanks ever so much to everyone who’s been helping out with with the Truckers of Husk video, what we’ve shot so far looks amazing. Giant baby in a trolly, exploding presents, lobster homicide, an airborne brass ensemble, ping pong with a steam train, and it’s only going to get weirder

More news soon…

We’re back, from a sunny and fun-filled excursion to Suffolk for Latitude Festival 2008. Hats off to Grinderman, Stewart Lee, Wave Pictures, Blondie, Moshi Moshi DJs, Voluntary Butler Scheme, Scrabble Sunday and other purveyors of quality stuff.

Truckers Of Husk utterly rocked the Lake Stage on Saturday, with the full compliment of ferocious drumming, guitar, cello and samples. At one point they invited audience members to form an impromptu choir onstage, which is what festivals are all about.

You can now hear two tracks from that monumental set online courtesy of BBC Radio 1. The tracks are called Awesome Tapes From Africa and Person For The Person and both are brand new songs.

Listen to Bethan Elfyn’s Radio 1 show, featuring two tracks from Truckers Of Husk at Latitude.

Truckers Of Husk’s next festival appearance is Green Man. There are still some tickets available from Sebon but hurry!

And the debut EP pictured above is also available on My Kung Fu.

Here’s a recorded stream of Truckers Of Husk performing their live TV debut on the show Bandit.

http://www.bandit247.com/perl/bandit247.pl?rm=av;a=98;vt=324

The track is Panther Party and when I say live I mean LIVE! Meaning that every sound you hear is coming from the band.

“a rhythmically thrilling web of twisting motorik grooves” Clash Magazine

“(they) release their debut EP shortly, at which point fans of Battles and Tortoise can get their bone on” Rock Sound

Physical Education EP has the tracks:
This Odd Modern / Cookie Cool And The Candy Mob / Salad Ballad / A Future Animal / Panther Party

Pre-order: Amazon | HMV | Sebon