Hi everyone,
We are very sad to announce that after 5 years, 4 releases and over two thousand tour miles, our friend and brother Tony Burhouse, aka Gene Mutation, will no longer be playing bass guitar with us.
There are absolutely no hard feelings between us, and we wish him all the best in both his art and his new life as the shadowy leader of a hippy death cult.
The remaining trio will continue to make music together, more than likely under a new name. All gig commitments will be fulfilled, and all of the newest songs will still be played in slightly altered arrangements.
This is not the end, just a change.
Thank you all for everything.
Daria / Kayleigh / Rob

AD/EK 7INCH

Our split 7 inch record with Amorous Dialogues is out now! It costs circa £4 plus postage. It comes in a sealed colour-printed envelope, containing a risographed inner sleeve, insert, sticker and black vinyl disc. Open with a craft knife or scalpel for best results. Plays at 45rpm. 320 copies.

The track listing is -

Side AD - Amorous Dialogues
Body Heat
Thumb
Total Fucking Disastro

Side EK - Etai Keshiki
Vitamin She
Grey Lie

Buy it from us or from Norman Records, or at shows of either band.
http://etaikeshiki.bandcamp.com
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/142606-etai-keshiki-amorous-split

In extra curricular news, Rob plays on this album by noise group Panelak. http://angurosakuson.bandcamp.com/album/panelak

and Daria has recently released another EP of occult electronic music as 1-800-LIPSTICK.
http://1-800-lipstick.bandcamp.com

Thank you for your time
EKXO

ADEK TOUR 2013

Local explosions

We are playing some Leeds dates while we write some new songs.
They are these-

28th June - Wharf Chambers, Leeds - w/ Castrato Attack Group, Forgets, Unstable Journey and Legion Of Swine.
https://www.facebook.com/events/329407927187227/?fref=ts

5th July - Wharf Chambers - Badgerfest w/ The Wankys, War All The Time, Prolefeed, Goatspeed and Woes.
https://www.facebook.com/events/624950277534016/?fref=ts

9th July - Wharf Chambers - w/ Marvin (france), Bilge Pump and Cowtown.
https://www.facebook.com/events/404196626342625/?fref=ts

26th July - Santiago - w/ Sly & the Family Drone and Pacer
https://www.facebook.com/events/640069376021153/?fref=ts

28th July- Wharf Chambers QUEER WE GO riot grrl all dayer w/ Scragfight, Jesus and His Judgemental Father and loads more
https://www.facebook.com/events/677391525609355/?fref=ts



The CD-R version of the castratoattackgroupetaikeshiki split will also be available at all of these shows, for a mere 4 pounds.

We are going on tour mid-august with Amorous Dialogues.If you live in a big place, you might find us playing there at that time.
More soon.

UP NEXT

(click to embiggen)

One more show after that in December with NU POGODI and JESUS AND HIS JUDGEMENTAL FATHER at Wharf Chambers, Leeds. Details announced sooon.

At time of writing these are our only scheduled shows.

We are absolutely sold out of the EK/CAG tape. You might be able to get one if you can get in touch with Phil Todd, but do it fast because they are running low. There may be a CD run also. Our side of songs is available unmastered for donations at our Bandcamp.

The current word on the Amorous Dialogues split is that we will hear some form of mix before Christmas, so expect it early next year some time.

Finally, our bass player Tony has made a website for his artwork. It can be seen at http://www.genemutation.co.uk

exkx

The lesson is never try.

Hey peeps,

Here's what's going on with us. Our next actual shows will occur mid-october and look like this

Oct 15th - Leeds, Wharf Chambers w/ YOWIE, That Fucking Tank, Digger Barnes.
Oct 18th - Nottingham, Bunker's Hill w/ After The Last Sky, Death Tripper
Oct 19 - London, Power Lunches w/ Sattelites Of Love.

Also our split with Amorous Dialogues is being mixed and readied for existance.

We are also playing with our buddies ROSEANNE BARRR and Melanie O'Dubhslaine in Leeds on Nov 12th.

Thankyou for your time.

wiz biz

We just got back from tour, it was rad. Here is the news in brief -

Our tape is out! Holy crap! It's taken a long while but it's finally tangible. We recommend getting it here ->
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/136305-etai-keshiki-castrato

Here are our next two shows, more to follow.
Fri Sep 14th // LEEDS // Wharf Chambers
(w/ Divorce + Queer'd Science)
FB event page
Sat Sep 15th // LIVERPOOL // The International Gallery
(w/ Divorce, Horse Bastard, AMERiCANS and shit-tons more)
FB event page

xo

sick, sad world (tour/tape/interview)

Hi friends of Etai, we are organising a North England/Scotland tour at the beginning of September and need a wee bit of help filling up the schedule. If you live in any of these places and would be up for putting us on or know someone who would, give us a bell! Happy to jump on existing bills or play

house shows and we only need a little petrol money and a floor to crash on.

Thurs 30th Aug - CONFIRMED, Leeds @ WCCC
Fri 31st Aug - CONFIRMED, Newcastle @ The Star & Shadow
Sat 1st Sept - CONFIRMED, Durham @ The Fishtank
Sun 2nd Sept - CONFIRMED, Edinburgh
Mon 3rd Sept - HELP NEEDED! Stirling/Dundee/Perth/Aberdeen/Somewhere in Scotland?

Tues 4th Sept - HELP NEEDED! Stirling/Dundee/Perth/Aberdeen/Somewhere in Scotland?
Wed 5th Sept - CONFIRMED, Glasgow
Thurs 6th Sept - HELP NEEDED! Lancaster/Preston/Blackpool/Manchester?
Fri 7th Sept - HELP NEEDED! Manchester/Huddersfield/Sheffield?

Reply here or email etaikeshikiAThotmailDOTcom

Also we have a new record out. No biggie. Tape copies soon.

http://etaikeshiki.bandcamp.com/album/split-w-castrato-attack-group


Finally, here's an interview we did for DangerPOP zine.

1. How long have Etai Keshiki been around?
The band started as Rob (drums) and Daria (guitar, voice) in late 2008. Tony (bass) joined shortly afterwards, and we started playing shows in summer 09. Kayleigh (voice, electronics) joined the group at the start of 2010. We started as a strange, noisy hardcore band, and have become more weird and less traditionally "hardcore" over time. I think we are all fairly happy about that progression.

2. Would you say you are quite a confrontational band?
Not really? In the early days, when we often found ourselves playing shows with bands we didn't like, and to unsympathetic audiences, we certainly felt a tension, and perhaps we tried to create a more uncomfortable mood. These days, we would be less likely to play a show like that. I find any sort of physical confrontation totally deplorable, and we wouldn't want anyone to feel in danger at one of our shows. I personally feel in danger enough of the rest of the time, I don't need that at a punk rock show. I'd rather see people rocking out at our gigs than being all confronted. We are nice people playing weird music, and we want that to come across when we play.

3. How is Leeds right now for bands and that?
Totally rad. We are really spoiled here, compared to other cities. There are loads of sweet groups here, and now we have a stable co-operative DIY venue in the form of Wharf Chambers. Check it out - www.wharfchambers.org

4. do you have a 'queer' audience at all?
Yes, definitely. Queer is punk. I think we appeal to people who want a queer-positive, girl-friendly punk scene, and it's awesome when people respond to that, and to be a part of that. We also have songs about queer issues, which is still relatively rare within punk even on a wide scale. It's odd that queer and punk have become separated when they seem so closely linked to me. I hope that bands like ours can help to bridge that divide. Queer as in fuck you etc...

5. what is your most favourite gig to date?
Playing Newcastle with Beauty Pageant, Woolf and No Fit State felt like being in queer punk feminist utopia. Other gigs of note include Riot Grrill becoming a tiny room full of kids going nuts, playing Equal Fest 2, playing in a living room in the Scottish borders to a load of drunk teenagers in the middle of winter, playing a Ramones covers set on my birthday, the list goes on.

upcoming shows...

Etai Keshiki / No Fit State (Newcastle) / Dj Fuzzy Jones - The Chemic - 7th July

Weekends (Baltimore) / Los Pecadores / Etai Keshiki - Wharf Chambers - 17th July

We are also stepping in for Jesus and His Judgemental Father (<3) due to injured Liz at the Ten Speed Bicycle/T-shirt Weather show on the 11th of July and also at Wharfy C.

We play very much last at Tramlines festival in Sheffield on the 22nd July at the Audacious Art Space. That place is rad and the bands we play with include our buddies Maxillofacial Death Pyramid (<3) and other no doubt rad groups. I hear that this is the "punk" day so it should be raging.

Then we play London at the Marginal Music festival, which is a fundraiser for East London Rape Crisis and DIY Space For London. Venue is TBC currently. Bands on our day include Satellites Of Love, Drunk In Hell and The Process.

Any more shows are welcome, send to the usual address. Also, we have some patches now. Get in touch if you want some.

x o  

interview with Even Clean Hands Cause Damage #3

Interview by Julia Downes.

1.Tell me your names, where you come from, where you are now, what you have been involved in before and why/how did you wind up here?

Rob: Live in/from Leeds. I was in a silly fast pop punk called Gorgon Brown. Now I am in Etai which conveniently includes by best friends.
Kayleigh: From Nottinghamshire, live in Leeds with Rob and our dog, involved in some bands as a teen but they didn't last past a couple of practices. I do vocals and some electronic noise box. I don't really know why I ended up here but I'm pleased about it.
Daria: I'm from Slough but I've lived in Leeds most of my life. Before Etai I was squatting and playing in palpably worse bands. Me and Rob started jamming in summer 08 and gradually recruited our most trusted buddies. Conveniently we all play different instruments, like most of the same music and live with each other. It's the best thing I have ever done.
Tony: From Leeds, currently residing at Hypno HQ. Idle Decay and general noise forging with Daria since teenhood, and last few years with Rob. No other bands that managed to actually play together. How did I wind up here? Outsider genetics? A passion for gnar!


2. What was the most important thing or moment that got you interested in making music?

R: Probably getting to play an actual drum kit in a GCSE music lesson, after playing pencil drumsticks on pencil cases along to “pretty fly for a white guy” for a while. Rubbish song but I guess it opened some doors.
K: Belonging to a group of supportive, non-judgmental people while you figure out what the fuck it is you're supposed to be doing. Also....overriding the feeling that you look or sound stupid while performing with boozin'.
D:Personally it was Nirvana that made me want to play, and Sonic Youth that showed me how. Something that seemed important was seeing a house show that Warboys and The Afternoon Gentlemen were playing. Seeing my friends playing mental grindcore and putting out tapes and 7”s made me want to make some really harsh music. I also remember a crucial early conversation after watching Chaps at Clean Hands ! When we decided to play FAST.
T: Thing – My sister's bass guitar. RIP Sandra (that's the guitar, not my sister). Moment – back of a Mclusky show with D, agreeing that we should team up to make righteous noise jams!


3. What has the process of making and performing music been like so far? (how long did it take, who/what was important, any weird moments, has anything surprising happened, what support have you had/not had etc…)

K: Interesting. We've all changed quite a lot since we started doing it, and as our politics and understanding of the world has changed so has the style. The Leeds music people have been supportive, oh yes. Everyone pulled together and chucked a bunch of borrowed gear our way when we had gear nicked from D and T's house. Will Barker lent us both his childhood bass and childhood guitar, the lovely man that he is.
R: A constant struggle. But a good constant struggle.
D: I find writing songs really easy and a lot of fun. The difficult things are practical things, recording, touring etc. We don't really fit in anywhere so we've had to learn to do a lot of things ourselves. This has been a blessing and a curse in equal measure.
T: Often frightening, and sometimes bewildering, but mostly fun and inspiring! It's been surprisingly easy. Making music is the best and anyone can do it. Get together! Start a band!


4. What kind of reaction have you had to your music so far? (the bad, sad and ecstatic? Superfans?)

R: So far a mix between enthusiasm and polite indifference. Our set once cured a friend of a bout of vomiting before she had to play a gig. I like when people seem pleasantly surprised after we have played.
K: I think most people are too polite to be really horrible to our faces. It's quite easy to leave the room if you don't like it after all. Once I was having a smoke after a set and heard some people going off on one about how shit we were, not realising that I was the small ginger girl shouting on stage only 10 minutes previous. Not that bad really. Art Is Subjective etc.
D: Ambivalence bordering on contempt. I tend to feel like most people just ignore us and hope we'll go away. I do feel that we are finally finding some people like us after nearly 4 years of distress signal.
T: Occasionally an older disillusioned music fan says they've found something in us that brings back the excitement of when live music felt new and true. It's great when the music doesn't just sound cool to some one but the fact that it exists genuinely means something as well.

5. Is queerness, feminism and girl gangs related to what you do? How? Why/Why not?

K: Emphatic yes. It's all connected. If it wasn't related there'd be no fucking point in doing it. What are you left with if you don't examine that stuff? Lurrrrve? Bah. It's all well and good being a feminist but once you've started to recognise the many weapons of oppression it becomes such an overbearing part of life trying to fight it. You need a fucking outlet after a while. It's so important to speak to/meet/befriend like minded people so that we don't just get choked out and ground down by all the jerks.
D: All of these things are relevant to me and me everyday life. One of the many reasons we were and still are frustrated by the punk/hardcore/noise scene was a lack of visibility for these ideas. As a trans girl, I often feel uncomfortable in those spaces, so I hope doing an anarchafeminist noise band can create a situation that is queer and girl friendly explicitly while still being punk.
T: I think queerness and feminism should be related to what everyone does as much as it involves the freedom and power to express yrself and support one another, particularly in dispelling personal fears and social inequalities. Make a fuss to wake people up, fuck you to the problems that threaten our enjoyment of life.
R: Yes. A lot of the stuff that doesn't have anything to do with these ideas or is actively working against them tend to be draining/depressing/aggravating/upsetting/boring maybe even dangerous so I try to act as an antidote to that as much as I can. Also gangs are fun. Emily's Sassy Lime say it better.


6. Who do you consider to be your (inter)national peers of rad? What makes them rad?
Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, No Womb, Woolf, Gropetown, Divorce, Ultimate Thrush, Eternal Fags, Le Singe Blanc, Roseanne Barrr, No Babies, Fem Bitch Nation, Phat Trophies, Nu Pogodi, Stab, Future Of The Left, Maxillofacial Death Pyramid,
Rad are the honest visions and the amazing new sounds. And anyone putting their best into doing their OWN thing and helping others do theirs.


7. Who are the prime movers (bands, organisers, artists, activists) in your city? Tell me all about them (give us links and info too...)
Beards, Ashtray Navigations, Executive Legs, Castrato Attack Group, Afternoon Gentlemen, Harry Callahan, Shallows, Pifco, Nope, Circuit Ben, No Guts, Cowtown, Endless Rope, Sloth Hammer, and Bilge Pump are the current bands gleaming our cube. All playing sick gigs on the regs in Leeds/Bradford and featuring people who put on and contribute to more sick gigs. Wharf Chambers is the best place in Leeds right now for sure, and Cops and Robbers zine is still going strong. Shout out to Big Spaceship keeping it surreal. Also Irena and Active Rebellion (Equal Fest 3 please).

8. What are you going to do next?

K:TAPE TAPE TAPE TAPE TAPE TAAAAAAAAPE
D:Another tape, more shows, hopefully tour, maybe a 7”. Big Leeds shows with Beauty Pageant and Stig Noise, and we're doing another Big Takeover in LDN this summer. Thank you for the interview! Xx
R: Play more
T: Collect an extra life and level up.

god shook my mind by the hand.

Hello,

1. we are playing some more shows.

April 28th - Bradford Urban Garden - Mayday 2012
https://www.facebook.com/events/260704910690674/#!/events/170330736420286/
Zounds, Beards, Etai Keshiki, Jesus and His Judgemental Father, Lazarus Blackstar, Lowlife UK, Nu Pogodi, Endless Rope, Joe Tiltson, The Olive Branch and The Drastics.

May 11th - Newcastle - Star and Shadow
even clean hands cause damage 3
WOOLF/ETAI KESHIKI/BEAUTY PAGEANT/NO FIT STATE
https://www.facebook.com/events/260704910690674/#!/events/246879812075130/

May 12th - Possible Glasgow show with Woolf tbc

May 14th - Leeds - Wharf Chambers
WOOLF/NO WOMB/PIFCO/ETAI KESHIKI
https://www.facebook.com/events/260704910690674/#!/events/260704910690674/

June 27th - Leeds - Wharf Chambers
Beauty Pageant, Moral Holiday, Etai Keshiki, Transhuman
https://www.facebook.com/events/367146289998612/


2. A lot of our gear was stolen from our house a few days ago. We lost

-metalic red Squier Stratocaster (stickers read Jeromes Dream, The Psychic Soviet, Long Live The Etai Youth and Suitable For Vegans)
-a heavily customized, broken no name bass guitar (easily identifiable due to Tony's abstract black and white artwork pasted on to it and hand painted black areas)
-two microphones
-Boss DS-1 (non-Boss grey knobs)
-MXR Blue Box (modified, missing a C11 capacitor for more noise)
-Danelectro Fish and Chips EQ
-hand made Skronk ring modulation/noise pedal built by our friend Luke Iley (strange black box with three knobs and three switches, and the word SKRONK handpainted onto it, no others exist.)
-Boss ODB-3
-Behringer UO100 Octaver (discontinued)
-Ibanez tuner
-all of our leads
-a broken, european projector
-a broken mp3 player
-SoundLab power pack.

We would be very surprised if there is any resale value on this stuff, but it does vastly inconvenience us. Thanks to the generosity of Phil Todd, Will Barker and Mike Randall, as well as the british taxpayer, we can still play shows at time of writing, but by no means has all of this been replaced. If anyone does come across any of it somehow, please inform us, or the place selling it, since it's not only stolen but also too customised or weird to sell in good conscience.

Here's us playing most of the stuff.

And here's Daria's whole set up. We still have the amp, everything else is gone.

An eternal and undying fuck you to whoever tried our door, wandered around my house while I was asleep and decided to take sentimental and useful, but ultimately not valuable items from two people on benefits.

ek

a stupifyingly futile conceit

Hello friends,
Just a vague ramble to fill your eyes with facts. We just played two total ragers at Equal Fest 2 in Bradford and Leeds. The 1 In 12 day was probably one of the best shows we've ever played. Endless thank yous to Irena Rebel for hooking it all up for the second year in a row. All money raised went to domestic violence charities. It was the best.

We are all stoked because we recorded some fresh jams on Monday 19th March at the 1 In 12 Club. The session was scooped by Keeby of Please and Cops and Robbers. The set is a bunch of old classics we've been playing out for a year or so by this point, so hopefully you'll recognise the odd riff here and there. This will comprise our split tape with Castrato Attack Group. It looks like this -


(art by Daria and Tony)

Track listing is something like this -

1. new jive
2. harsh realm
3. unbelievable krimewave
4. quest for tranquillity
5. chest hairs of prosperity
6. vrai ou faux
7. mondo frowno


More when it exists.
x

you're different man. you gleam the cube.

Hi everyone,
We've been a little quiet on here so I thought I'd fill you in on what's happening.

We played a bunch of amazing shows in scotland and at home, we obtained servicable equipment for the very first time, and we have various plans for stuff to put in your stereo.

In March we are playing these items -

2nd-4th March - EQUAL FEST 2 at the 1 In 12 Club, Bradford
w/ EXECUTIVE LEGS, LICH, BEARDS, NU POGODI, NERVOUS TWITCH, BELGRADO and a fucking ton more to be unleashed. You better believe in it's healing power.

24th March - Pete's insane birthday noisefest all dayer at the Fenton, Leeds
w/ Cementimental, Sump, Etai Keshiki, petals, dogliveroil, Hobo Sonn, Target Shoppers, Duncan Harrison, Ocelocelot, foldhead and more tbc

The benefit show for the 1 in 12 has been postponed.
We will be playing in London at the end of March too hopefully, more on that soon.
Also there is a new website for the fake record label we sustain over at http://hypnowaverecords.tumblr.com/
Everything is up for free download with artwork for you to print and burn yr own copies. Various noises made by ourselves and our friends in the past few years can be snagged for nothing.

Finally, some nice people have written kind words about us at these places -

http://radiofreemidwich.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/artifacts-of-the-no-audience-underground-etai-keshiki-etai-or-die/

http://deathbyboredumb.tumblr.com/post/17729604000/etai-keshiki-etai-or-die


x

the plan

Ok dudes, here's what's going on for the rest of the year. These are solid, uranium plated facts.

NOV

4th - Leeds Royal Park Cellars with FEM BITCH NATION/SILK CUT/NO WOMB
5th - Manchester as above. Sunshine Studios practice space.
26th - Leeds Fenton with DIASCORIUM/SHALLOWS/MAGPYES

DEC

6th - Leeds w/ LE SINGE BLANC/BEARDS
9th - Leeds Packhorse with MAGNAPINNA/NO GUTS

*an attempt at a scottish tour*
16th - Somewhere in the Scottish Borders, House party show.
18th - The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow with Gropetown.

Possibly more Scotland dates after this (Edinburgh and Dundee hopefully)

I'd also like to reiterate our plea for more shows outside of Leeds. We have only played about 4 other cities in the 3 and a half years or so we've been doing this stupid shit. Help us to help ourselves.

loveyoubyex

vrai vs. faux

Our next shows will be -

OCT
22nd LaDIYfest Sheffield fun raiser with Special Education, Pudge, Kerplunk @ the Riverside
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=115510595217949

27th Hypnowave affair with Ultimate Thrush, Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, More Than A Joke, Beards  in Leeds.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=194936947241219

NOV
26th Big Spaceship doings with Diascorium, More Than A Joke and Magpyes @ the Fenton, Leeds
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201065919965135

Come to these! We still have a bunch of tapes left so this is as good a place as any to get one.
We have two splits coming up in the near future. The big one is a tape with our buddies CASTRATO ATTACK GROUP noising one right the way off. We are planning to record our side with Keeby (Please/Cops And Robbers) in a room and it's gonna be over five songs long.
We are also spoiling to put out a 3" cd with long dead Leeds emo band THE PATRON SAINT OF LOST CAUSES. Will and Mary are some of the best people we know and their song slays.

But if that seems too abstract and intangible then soothe that woe with this ---> http://www.mediafire.com/?qqda6qu3ctbvz8c

This is a track called "Mondo Frowno" which was recorded at some point this summer. It's about 7 minutes long and we've never played it live. It features our close associate Dr. Andy Sissons on noise machines, and some heavy reverb. Best sampled after a tasty zoot or two. Take it, it's yours.

More stuff soon I swear.
x

new schedule

We survived the "tour". New events so far penciled in are forthcoming...

Our advertised gig with Weekends and Los Pecadores is postponed indefinately due to a collapsed lung.
OCTOBER
22nd LaDIYfest fundraiser in Sheffield.
26th at Wharf Chambers (ex-commonplace), Leeds w/ Ultimate Thrush, Blue Sabbath Black Fiji + more tbc

NOVEMBER
26th at the Fenton, Leeds with More Than A Joke, Diascorium, and Magpyes.

More deets when we have them. Always open to playing more shows but we can't do anything between 14th - 20th of Oct. Email etaikeshiki@hotmail.com for bookings etc.

Our cassette tape is still widely available. You can email us or come to a show but you can also get it from Jumbo Records and there are some copies in the US availble via Bear Records. We do trades!
Hoping for a few more distro hookups in the future.

Etai World Tour

Hey all,
Our "So-Called" Tour kicks off tomorrow. Here's where we are playing.

THURSDAY 25th - York City Screen w/ Castrato Attack Group, And The Hangnails.
FRIDAY 26th - Leeds Fox and Newt w/ Freedoom, Casus, Life Destruction.
SATURDAY 27th - Leeds Test Space w/ Roseanne Barrr, Thee Cuss Words.
-a few days-
WEDNESDAY 31st - Bristol w/ Glasses, Caves, Casus.

Please come and watch these shows if you are also in these places.
Other news, the cancelled date with Weekends has been rescheduled for later in the year.
We will be playing in Sheffield and Glasgow at some point too.
There's still some tapes left so hurry up and get one if you havent already.
Don't be all "oh I haven't got a tape deck anymore" GO AND GET ONE DUDE.

Soon...

live dates

 We are also playing a Royal Park school fundraiser show at the Fox and Newt, Leeds on the 21st of July.

We are playing a show at Test Space, Leeds with Ultimate Thrush, Roseanne Barrr, and Cuss Words on August 20th.

Please get in touch if you want us to play your city. We would like to do some dates in August.

ekx