aaamusic | On 24, Nov 2010

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“Their name is Cerebral Ballzy, which is neither big nor clever, and in being neither big nor clever, seems to do quite a good job of defining what one might describe as their essence.” The Guardian

Brooklyn hardcore band Cerebral Ballzy have extended their UK tour, adding on some headline shows including a single launch at XOYO tomorrow (Thursday 25th November). Playing in Brighton tonight, these dates follow on from a blazing tour supporting Trash Talk over the past week. Full details and tickets are below.

The band are set to release their debut single ‘Insufficient Fare’ next Monday 29th November on Moshi Moshi Singles Club, The single comes in a sleeve designed by Raymond Pettibon who famously came up with the iconic Black Flag logo and the artwork for Sonic Youth’s ‘Goo’.

Watch the intense video for ‘Insufficient Fare’ here:

Cerebral Ballzy made their debut visit to the UK in August. It didn’t take long for them to become the band the everyone wanted to meet. They planned to stay for a week and end up here a month having been made a last minute addition to and subsequently making one of the most talked about appearances at Reading Festival. Having heeded singer Honor’s call to “drink like you’re 15 forever” the large crowd that had gathered at the Lock Up Stage soon became an even larger circle pit, a scene that had Radio 1’s Mike Davies predict that the band would be playing the main stage come 2011.

“You haven’t heard of the New York hardcore scene because we it’” says front man Honor. He along with Abe, Mel, Mason and Jason met skating around the same parks in East New York and bonded over a shared love of 1 dollar pizza slices, the Beastie Boys and Beavis And Butthead re-runs. Theirs was a band that formed out of necessity more than desire, all of them equally alienated by the current preppy Brooklyn scene and its infatuation with whichever hybrid of dance music and world music is popular on hype machine this week. Inspired by Bad Brains and Suicidal Tendencies, Cerebral Ballzy started to make music that was louder, funner, dumber and way less aspirational.

Word has travelled fast about the band and their fearless approach to live music. Having spent 3 days on the road with Ballzy, NME called them “Brooklyn’s wildest band” , their demos have been played on radio by DJs as varied as Huw Stephens, Daniel Carter and Nick Grimshaw. and they set tongues wagging at Sonisphere, Boardmasters, Hevy and Reading/Leeds this summer.

November live dates
24th Brighton Prince Albert (headline show)
Get tickets: www.wegottickets.com/event/97403

25th London XOYO Single Launch
Get tickets: http://bit.ly/bmatik