Ut c/d, s/d

If they come to the west coast pls bump this thread

Remember very well seeing their LPs on the shelves >20 years ago, but never actually heard them; then I bought Griller from the cheapo 2nd hand bin today, and damn this is pretty great!

Is there any authoritative info on how their name is pronounced, btw? Regarding orthography, I see that discogs use all-caps ("UT"), while e.g. Wikipedia and musicbrainz go with "Ut". Silent-H "Hut"? "Oot"? "U.T."?

ut as in kick your butt

ut as in gut's house

!!!

UT
Friday 23 September
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

!!!

Conviction is a great record; don't sleep on that one...

i almost picked up In Gut's House this weekend, but it was $20 and i didn't know what it sounded like. i knew it was post punk and i think it was on souljazz's new york noise comp, but no one at the store could help me out, so i passed.

Of the top of my head, I think the track on the soul jazz comp was earlier. In Gut's House is pretty great though I mostly return to two longtime faves...Evangelist and Mosquito Botticelli.

UT
Friday 23 September
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 16 May 2011 Bookmark

No fking way!! *marks calendar*

xp, yeah, the track on New York Noise 2 (if that's the Soul Jazz comp people are referring to) is "Sham Shack," from their 1984 debut EP.

here's what you missed out on jaxon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONqP2rnCKo

I prolly listen to in gut's house and the first EP more than anything else by them

they never made a bad album, or a non-interesting one

so the uk shows are imminent. who's reachin?

brighton show this sunday - cannot wait! listen to 'in gut's house' all the time, so dense & fractured. love the dead c reference upthread.

I'm going to the London show on Friday.

I'll be at the Brighton show too. I know that Bruce Russell was a big fan of the band cos I remember he talked about them in a review of the Dial album that he wrote in Opprobrium.

got my eye on Bristol on Saturday but I need transport, also I am going to a cheese festival in the daytime which normally leads to me eating so much cheese I need to lie down all evening

would love to hear all yr thoughts after yr respective shows. i'm also keen to find a copy of bruce russell's wire review of the ut re-issues.

mencap, being "with cheese" shouldn't stop you going out and having fun like everyone else, but i guess i understand.

I'll be at the Brighton show too. *excited*

Should actually listen to some other stuff aside from In Gut's House on repeat, mind you.

I'm trying to free up my diary to get to Bristol.

I'll be at the Brighton show too. *excited*

Hooray! Their last album, Griller, is on spotify btw (along with In Gut's House):

http://open.spotify.com/album/7GoWZB4mnyBDgod9AAWRBI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YviHsiTQvmY&feature=related

I really liked Quint, Sally Young's later folky-proggy outfit. Their lp Time Wounds All Heels is pretty god though they may have been better live.

I had no idea they'd reformed until I saw this thread. Thought it would have come up somewhere else.

Great video Tim, thx

Makes me crazy and mad that i missed them though!

They were pretty great in Brighton, I will say.

I'd heard of Quint, but never made the connection. Might see if I can find some youtubes.

From show in Paris earlier in the month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ax_OFb1w4

I used to have all of their records. I wish they were available on streaming - it kind of sucks that I can't put tracks of theirs in a mix.

Early stuff is here:

https://utmusic.bandcamp.com

bought a copy of 'in gut's house' from a guy on discogs marketplace, he included a photocopy of a review penned by none other than mark s!

it me haha, hi donna

i'm back at griller today for obvious and sad reasons 😔

Safe Burning is such a strong start to an album. Just amazing sound, and Ut at their most accessible.

The best they ever sounded. They really went out at their peak.

I didn't think this when it came out -- it seemed a bit too clenched and I was secretly a little disappointed -- but I think that I do think this now.

"Went out" isn't right though, they still tour now and then!

the drummer makes a big difference to the feel of the music. not sure who he was, looks like he also played with the pastels at some point. saw them live a few times around this point. but that was as the usual three piece all swapping instruments between songs

Griller was the first one I bought and I was a little disappointed with it at first, probably because all I knew about them was they were a "no wave" band, and I expected them to sound like Teenage Jesus & The Jerks or something. I bought Early Live Life next which was a bit more like that. of course I grew to love Griller after I'd listened to it a few times

faintly wondering if "charlie dinsdale" (= the drummer on several tracks, tho not all) is maybe actually a pseudonym, for some arcane in-indie industry reason

if not, the pastels and ut is a p strong CV lol, he shd be inducted into RaRHoF

i mean he's just "charlie d" on the LP sleeve but discogs says it"s "charlie dinsdale"

fwiw it looks like the only Pastels release he was on was their collab with Jad Fair, which might make it more likely it's the same person

I didn't think this when it came out -- it seemed a bit too clenched and I was secretly a little disappointed -- but I think that I do think this now.

"Went out" isn't right though, they still tour now and then!