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Hora Douse @ Coney Island (NYC)

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Band Interview: Hora Douse

Band Interview: Hora Douse chat the first SYS tour with @Petrol_Girls, their EP and future plans. (@HoraDouse)

Hora Douse are an up and coming alternative punk trio from Manchester, England. After releasing their excellent EP Crash (which I reviewed for Seeing Your Scene back in February), we caught up with the band to see how the first ever Seeing Your Scene tour with Petrol Girls went.   First up, how did you get into punk? We all grew up as kids listening to pop-punk bands of the early noughties like…

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Hora Douse to re-release debut EP "Crash" on cassette, announces U.K. tour with Petrol Girls http://bit.ly/1CeyrJG

Hora Douse to re-release debut EP "Crash" on cassette, announces U.K. tour with Petrol Girls

**Featured photo by by Isaac Mellalieu Manchester punk act Hora Douse have announced that they will re-release their debut EP Crash on cassette.  To support the release, they have announced some U.K. tour dates with …

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Seeing Your Scene July tour w/ Petrol Girls & Hora Douse

We’re really happy to announce the first ever SYS tour with two of our favourite bands! The raging feminist hardcore outfit Petrol Girls, who we’ve put on before and absolutely love, and the amazing punky, emoey, rocky Hora Douse! Check out the tour dates here: Fri 10 July – MANCHESTER @ Ducie Bridge Sat 11 July – BRISTOL @ Hydra Bookshop Sun 12 July – BRIGHTON @ The Hope & Ruin Hora Douse only:…

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Thanks again to Tom Lee for standing in for us on Saturday at #LAL15 he’s been an amazing help and a total life saver. To see what else he gets up to check out Hora Douse and is solo project Tea Leaf.

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Episode One of Start A Riot is here. In this part we chat to Hora Douse who are most excellent. This video also features two tracks by the trio, Speak and Trust. They can be found here - horadouse.bandcamp.com and we can be found here facebook.com/startariotmusic More on the way.

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LIVE REVIEW: HORA DOUSE / WALLEATER IN LEEDS 24/04/14.

Five band bills fill me with a vague sense of dread these days. After so many years going to hundreds of shows, watching thousands of bands, I'm so worn out. There are so many average bands out there. After a while, it's just hard to get excited. The idea of going to a show where I don't know a single band on the bill fills me with even more dread – the instances of discovering new bands by seeing them live are getting rarer and rarer for me as the years go by – so while I was incredibly flattered to be invited down to The Packhorse to come and take some pictures, I'd be lying if I said I didn't go a little bit begrudgingly and with a vague expectation of being a bit bored. Thankfully, my cynical outlook is often proved to be bullshit.

I'll spare you the stories of trying to find good spots to take promo shots (the fire escape was the best one – reet gritty and shit), although I will mention that the Packhorse is quickly becoming a favourite venue. Far enough out of the centre to be nice and quiet, but close enough that it's still walkable, with some nicely priced local ales on the bar. The show space is pretty much the epitome of “small, but does the job” - it can sound surprisingly good in there, and it's nice and intimate. I can't believe it's taken me so many years to really get on board with it, and I think it may have gone some of the way towards making the whole 'five band bill' ordeal go down a bit smoother.

It's a shame that I've become so cynical towards shows like this, and I'm glad that this one showed me I need to let go of that hangup at times. Local shows like this, with at most one out of town headliner, are still essential – this is where bands cut their teeth, find their audience and sound, get their start. In a room filled up by a couple dozen friends and all the members of the other bands watching each other, a sense of community is built, links are made. It's just, you can't expect every single one to be a winner, which unfortunately makes it all too easy to forget that some of them undoubtedly are.

I think Super Luxury qualify as winners, at least in some sense of the word. They burst on stage to Kenny Loggins and sellotaped bananas to things before their singer prowled through the crowd sticking post-its to people, and clambered all over the stage while screaming his tits off. It was nuts. They come off like a heavier yet goofier Throwing Stuff and, whilst goofiness is a hard one to get right in hardcore, they seem to have it nailed. They probably shouldn't have been on first, because they built up a lot of momentum that Humans As Ornaments couldn't really maintain – whilst decent, their alt/indie rock sound was a bit too plain compared to the rest of the bands on the bill. I feel mean not having anything else to say about them, but y'know, it was the kind of thing you can find anywhere, padding out endless shows with too many bands on the lineup. Solid, but nothing special unfortunately.

But then: Hora Douse. Oh my fucking god. I think these guys are the most I've been blown away by a new band live in a long time. Coming off sounding a lot like Brand New and mewithoutYou, with the appropriate amount of emo revival vibes as well, it's a pretty unique mix. Frontman Tom Lee is a proper showman who leans heavy on his pedals and throws himself around the place while a comparatively restrained rhythm section keep it together. Exhausting to watch and really unique, they're genuinely exciting and a perfect reminder of the talent on offer if you go looking for it. The same too goes for Walleater, the only band on the bill I'd heard of thanks to a bit of buzz around them in certain circles, who just made the catchiest wall of noise I've heard in a while. People seem determined to pigeonhole them in to the whole grunge/emo thing but to me it sounds just as close to a doomy shoegaze sound that occasionally swings towards the expansive post-rock side as much as anything else. A loud and fuzzy Slint would be an apt comparison, however blasphemous that may seem to some. I remember frontman Rob Dell well from his days in a much less good band, and it's great to see him absolutely killing it with his new one. Their EP is great, yeah, but it doesn't quite capture the full force of what they manage to summon live.

The out of towners in God Damn closed things out with their crushingly heavy bluesynoisepunk and pretty much melted my face but, in truth, the night belonged to the locals. Even if shows this great happen more than I'm willing to admit with bands I've never heard before, they surely can't always be this good?

(Click the names of the bands to see pictures - Super Luxury - Humans As Ornaments - Hora Douse - Walleater - God Damn)