One of Ninja Tune's most exciting and entertaining new live acts, The Heavy are ready to steal your soul and you should prepare to BURN! Sorry. Don't wanna put you off or nuffink. But prepare to burn. The Heavy make the kind of dirty, guitar-scorched, blues-inflected soul which leads you into temptation. And then you're going to burn. The dark side of four boys from the deepest underbelly of Bath, the beast of Bodmin Moor, half man/half wolf, The Heavy specialise in making everything wrong sound right. So successful are they, so good does it feel, so natural, that voodoo filth will be pouring through you before you know what's going on.

They play this special one-off Trouble date at the Jazz Bar, promoting new album The House That Dirt Built (Ninja Tune / Counter) with support from Trouble DJs Hobbes & Erik d'Viking. 11.30pm, tickets available now from Ticketweb for ONLY £3!

THE HEAVY BIOG:

In Noid, a tiny hamlet situated to the south west of Bath, some of the most dangerous and ill sounding beats and riffs are being created by four wolf like personalities. The Heavy started out ripping and chopping beats from the likes of Bo Diddley, Little Walter and The Parliaments and fusing them with their now patented brand of high grade dirt. Guitar riffs that intoxicate, bass lines that reverberate around your head like a King Jammy dream and vocals that will challenge any of the genres they decide to take on.

The Heavy continually cross genres as they as a unit are proud to be completely musically schizophrenic. From country to rhythm and blues, garage punk to rock and roll, Studio one to the slums of shaolin, you'll find that The Heavy are indeed like a pack of chemists with the way that genres get cooked up, blended, stirred and then mixed, to create their own unique style of rock and roll. The album Great Vengeance and Furious Fire released on Counter Records in late 2007 generated a great deal of interest with songs like That kind of man, Girl, Set me free, Coleen and Dignity, firmly laying foundations for the house of dirt that they are building at present. There is no other band that sound as raw as The Sonics while holding soul in a headlock and frequently wrestling rock to the ground with the weight of Mr 808 as tag team partner. Listen, then try and tell me different.

The first single to be released from the new album "The House That Dirt Built" will be a garage punk/ soul offering with so much weight that the likes of Bunker Hill and Syl Johnson will wonder why the two genres never came together more often. "Oh no! Not you again!" is a testament to the evil and vices that we all surround ourselves with but don't necessarily want......or need. The track, recorded in one take in a dirty little shack, in a crazy little town, in the west country features vocals from Shingai Shoniwa (The Noisettes) and Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys' producer) on mix and co production duty. You will not experience another song like this from any other band this year. So dirty. So much weight. So much energy and laced with a soul that you just don't hear anymore........

The Heavy have indeed created a monster.

LINKS

http://www.theheavy.co.uk/
http://myspace.com/theheavy73
http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/artist.php?id=132
http://www.facebook.com/theheavy73?ref=search&sid=650930945.712627791..1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz2M1WT8brU
http://hypem.com/#/search/the+heavy
http://emusic.com/artist/The-Heavy-MP3-Download/12179355.html

PRESS QUOTES

“You’d think it would be hard to credibly reinvent blaxplotation-era soul but The Heavy pull it off explosively well. Just listen to ‘Colleen’ and try not to fantasise about Pam Grier fighting off her pimp with a broken bottle.” NME

“One of the coolest sounding records this year. Highly recommended” Zoo Album of the Week

“They skank it, they kill, they give you the horn; the impact is immediate and self evident. The Heavy sound like Curtis Mayfield’s Pusherman resurrecting Led Zeppelin and the exiled spirit of Cassius Clay. Get used to the weight, The Heavy are about to throw it down.” The Fly Live Review

“There must be another way to say “brilliant”, but there isn’t. It’s a good word, so use it up, wear it out. Brilliant is what it is. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.” Guardian Band of the Day

“A kick-ass sound, one which you can imagine rocking a festival tent to its foundations.” Mojo

“Incredible Listening.” Clash

“Like the bastard offspring of Gnarls Barkley and Primal Scream. Each track is a stand up smile puller.” The Skinny

“A pimp rolling collision of ghetto-funk horns, Philly soul and Curtis Mayfield-style falsetto vocals, The Heavy sound like they belong on the soundtrack to a long lost Blaxploitation movie." Q Magazine’s website

HOBBES & D'VIKING (TROUBLE DJs)

In over seven years of hosting the capital's Radio 1 award-nominated Trouble club night (formerly at Cabaret Voltaire, originally Trouble At The Bluenote) and holding down other residencies all over Edinburgh and beyond (Hobbes is a regular DJing feature at the ace Slabs Of the Tabernacle party in Glasgow), the Trouble DJs have also toured the globe, from tiny sweat-boxes in London to super-clubs in Shanghai and Beijing, Rob Da Bank's massive Big Top tent at Bestival to wee hot-spots in Warsaw, Sardinia, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Derry, Ghent, Zadar and Belgrade (not to mention other UK festivals, the Big Chill, T in The Park, Knockengorroch and Secret Garden). They know exactly how to rock the party and always recognise a good groove when they hear one, no matter what musical pigeon-hole people are stuffing it into this week.

The Heavy (live) + Trouble DJs, The Jazz Bar 1a Chambers St Edinburgh 11.30pm-3am £5/£3 concs.

Advance tickets - ONLY £3 - from Ticketweb  

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