I’m writing to invite you to the album launch party for Serpentine Pad in conjunction with FictionNonFiction

Serpentine Pad are a Manchester 5-piece who play incredibly innovative, furious punk-rock. They have just finished recording their first album proper; ‘Panic’ and are celebrating by showcasing their brand of 3 guitar wielding sci-fi anxiety on July the 30th at Tiger Lounge. The band are starting to create a buzz in the music press and the Manchester scene in general:

“At first glance, Manchester five-piece Serpentine Pad appear almost confoundingly chaotic, their tunes writhing and slithering all over the place in a viper’s nest of coiled guitar lines and tangled bass…There’s definitely a nod to Sonic Youth and Pixies in there, as many have already commented. Perhaps even stronger influences come from the likes of Captain Beefheart and Shellac (imagine a cross between the two, and you’re approaching the ball-park…just about). Far more importantly though, there’s also a generous helping of originality – Serpentine Pad don’t sound quite like any other band around at the moment, and that alone is worthy of high praise”

- Metro (2008)

Serpentine Pad announce themselves as “Manchester’s purveyors of the tastiest riffs” and yes, they’re half joking, but their frenzied three guitar attack of mathematical surfpunk noisepop (no, I’m not sure either, but it made sense at the time) is rather excellent. It’s always a delight to see a band who don’t fit any pigeonholes but are equally devoid of any pretentious and obvious attempts at avoiding such. One ancestor would be the relentless onslaught of Mission Of Burma – let’s hope they’re looking after their ears. You get the feeling they would like to be playing louder, anyway. Despite playing quite a lot of songs their set seems to race by – “two songs to go and then you can go home” – sadly quite a few have already, but it’s getting near last bus time I suppose – and they pull out a belter; all Dinosaur Jnr guitar mangling and a breathless rush of vocals.

- Cath Aubergine (music-dash.co.uk – 2009)

Tonight’s event focuses more on the dirtier, nosier factions of avante-garde rock. Local quintet SERPENTINE PAD brandish three guitars, a bass and drums as they execute a combination of skittered riffs, that veer off exciting drum slapshots. Each track is a charged rush of post punk, math-processed melodic onslaught. So, there’s plenty to bob along to as they pluck at Sonic Youth chord changes and punished bass lines that suggest that the influence of punk and new wave (via the Pixies) is never too far away. In essence though, It’s Serpentine Pad’s driven rhythms intermingled with the great instrumental passages, that get the blood flowing, coupled with the fact that each number comes in within a two to three minute barrier. Lessons for everyone else out there really.

- manchestermusic.co.uk (2009)
I’m available to contact by phone on 07860 520 870 or email joeycrone85@googlemail.com – give me a shout with your details and I’ll put you on the guestlist for what promises to be an exhilerating night of visceral, complex punk-rock fury.
All the best
Joey
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