Gig Preview: Milk Roar at the Libertine, Borough, 3rd October

Milk Roar play the Libertine for ROCK-TIL-YOU-DROP on Saturday 3rd October. I asked their wordsmith and balaclava model, Ande Clarke, alias 'Ming the Mong', to tell me more about his band. Even he couldn't sum up his band better than this, he said, and he attached this review of a recent record release that appeared in... or is it on Organ? Well, it used to be in. But maybe it's both these days? I should find out, eh? Anyway, here it is:

MILK ROAR – Hanging Basket Of Babylon (self release)

Whole album of scratchy space-punk rock and tales of homemade sputniks in garden sheds and cricket paranoia brought on by the Duckworth Lewis method, that and ancient burial chambers and toxic nausea and sinister Crazy Frog ringtones and in case of sonic attack please follow these rules. Inner city units of homemade punk rock fizz and swizz and scratch and get yourself the London look and beam us up to the Here And Now and some Floating Anarchy. Oh that London look, call Max Clifford, get Milk Roar in London Lite with Pete and Kate and a trilby hat and Amy Beehave and a rat in drainpipes and we/they want out of here. Rant and rave and where did he lose those boots and a Southern John Cooper Clarke and you wouldn't like me when I'm happy and what did all these people do anyway? Would the only thing you'd miss be a nice cup of tea? Would you miss Killing Joke or The Who or Pink Fairies, yeah, they'd miss Pink Fairies more than good cups of tea. Wonder what they're like when they're on a bad day? This is good, if you like it garage-like and DIY and you like any of those bands we named dropped, that and backyard rocket ships and here you go, My Space once more, you go look there while I go make a cup of tea and check the latest cricket scores on the Class War page.

(From Organ Magazine - date unknown)

Milk Roar is:

Tonal D (guitars & backing vox),
Nick Rowan (guitars and cricket ball),
Richard Ward (percussion),
Graham 'Probably No Relation To Michael' Eavis (bass),
Ande 'Ming the Mong' Clarke (words, Extra Strong mints & Aled Jones impressions)
Time Out: Adam Paul Leach (bass & backing vox)