Turbowolf

2010-09-29T14:43:00.000-07:00

So it's about time we started our tour diary, 11 days in now so about time! But to be fair I think we needed that time to figure out what's been going on around in order to be able to explain it coherently.

We've finally got bit of time off that isn't spent driving in the van furiously from country to country and being savaged by swiss border patrol. We're in a hotel in bavaria, right next to an awesome castle that I've wanted to see for years cos it looks so fucking rad. Tomorrow it will be done.

Amsterdam
Quite a journey to even make this! Having been literally run out of Calais by screaming racists hitting our van, Amsterdam was a few hours away. And being the fresh faced idiots we are, turning up with a few amps and a pair of pants, what was to follow was a bit of a surprise. The heineken music hall is a 5500 capacity uber-hall, so the usual conversation on arrival of 'where do we load in' was greeted with the entire wall of the venue sliding away and us being told to actually drive into the hall with the van. And getting in, the van seemed like a small toy, dwarved by the stage and truckloads of kit belonging to Dimmu Borgir and Korn. The entire contents of our van spilled out were about the same size as one rolling riser, and the forklift truck being used to get anything up onto the stage was really struggling to find anywhere on our stuff to stick its prongs without it slipping through! I found some shitty wooden pallet to put drums on, much to the amusement of the locals. I thought it would make a pretty wicked drum riser actually. And all this while actual Korn were soundchecking in front of us.
If it wasn't for our soundman and tour manager Ben, we'd be in the total shit, but thanks to him, everything went like absolute clockwork and before we knew what was going on, all the crew knew who we were and were running around for us while we set up on stage and started line checking. With precision timing, at least 3000 kids ran in from all sides and squeezed into the front barrier with eager faces on them. Thank Fuck! They are gonna love what we're about to shit in their faces and smear all over their rosy cheeks…

Zurich
Luckily we had a few days off to get over the whole shock to the system of such a serious production set-up and the fact that we were actually a part of it. And we were getting away with it! But we quickly got around to the swiss gig, in a much more intimate theatre in Zurich. Again, easy entrance, van parking and catering all considered, we were starting to feel more at home with the arrangements. A few technical difficulties with the local crew went flying by and didn't stop our shower of acoustic turd from being slung over a few thousand more unsuspecting metallers. Watched the whole Korn set from the side of the stage this time, just thinking of the day I bought their first album something like 15 years ago. Awesomeness.
By now we've also been getting on so well with the Dimmu Borgir team that they managed to get us on to open at their own headline shows in Milan and Luxembourg! Right, time to get the fuck out of Switzerland to somewhere that has normal sockets to plug things in and takes euros!

Munich
Luckily managed to avoid the whole camping scenario that was booked in and rapidly approaching. Due to Octotberfest, all accommodation was taken, but a few inside leads got us an awesome hotel in the outskirts. With that sorted, time to check the venue out. It's called Zenith Kulturhalle I think, basically a massive converted warehouse done out all industrial and gnarly. Another enormous place like Amsterdam, the network of dressing rooms and offices was almost as impressive.
The shows so far have been pretty easy as far as playing to that many people goes, maybe the past festivals we've played have helped us, or maybe we're just totally awesome dudes.

Vienna
Continuing the theme of awesome industrial venues, this one is a huge brick gas works, 4 massive round towers converted into a city of apartments shops and clubs. Reliably informed by Ben of the phat PA and sub set-up, things look to be very loud tonight, confirmed by the security guards covering their ears and grimacing during sound check.

Milan
Much more scary, this one is a Dimmu Borgir headline show so more black metallers line the streets than the average 2 or 3 in your local high street. Main support was from doom kings Triptykon. It was really nice to see Dimmu's own crowd and they were just as welcoming of us as the Korn crowd, us being the weird non-black wearing rock and rollers that spout shit onto peoples' faces.
Not only facing the joys of satnav not playing in Italy and accidentally finding ourselves in pure ghetto hell by using wrong directions, and then finding our hotel booking had been wiped, we did eventually find ourselves with a bed in a strange James Bond themed hotel. 4 star my arse though.

More to come...

E.P.

2010-06-10T02:19:00.000-07:00

Goddamn. We've just finished mixing our new goddamn E.P.

Kerrang!

2010-02-11T09:28:00.001-08:00

Kerrang! has shone down from the heavens upon our swamp of noise and written some rather lovely words about us. Thank you kind K! people for sticking us in there and showing us your almighty love. Get it this week or forever hold your £2.20 and sob until you turn green and die. Here's the interview that's featured within just in case your eyes have exploded with excitement and you can only read with your mind...

"We have a shared love of the peculiar and unusual," states Turbowolf singer Chris Georgiadis proudly. "We have a scientific thirst for seeing what happens when you do what you're not supposed to!"
The Bristol quartet - completed by guitarist Andy Ghosh, bassist Jeremy Dunham and drummer Chris Davis - may be dedicated to flipping the script on the rock 'n' roll rulebook, but, as they have increasingly discovered, the least obvious route, often makes for the most interesting results.
"We don't pander to anyone," reckons Chris. "We try not to over think anything and see where it takes us. That's the real driving force and so far it's working."
Forming a few years back thanks to a shared love of Danzig and a desire to be as loud as Motorhead, they soon realised a change or tack was in order if they to make any impact beyond raucous local shows.
"We realised we weren't going to better Motorhead," laughs Andy. "So we tried to approach it from a fresh angle adding weird sounds, synths, using guitars like basses and basses like guitars."
It's a formula that's got tongues wagging and jaws hitting floors wherever they go, with a hugely successful 2009 seeing them tear it up at South By Southwest in Texas, The Download festival, and on tour with The Computers. With a debut album in the works, preceded by a teaser EP due out in March, the fiery foursome are hoping to capitalise on that momentum and get back on the road for some more "beers for breakfast" once studio work is completed.
"The record will hopefully take the listener to a pretty weird place," says Chris. "Live, we just smash it as hard we can so we're excited to see what we come up with."

Album Time!

2009-10-15T05:33:00.000-07:00

So it's time to lay down our debut album. We're all pumped, been working out every second of the day to look like how we feel. Looking to get most of it down before Xmas and do a bit more in new year. We're recording it in Bristol, at our favourite haunt, Bink Bonk. We were visited us in our dreams by 4... Fangs of the Serpent, doom changes his flesh, the approaching battle, gold is the the dream of the Alchemist and mortal men.

So thats whats up right now. Looking forward to touring the Album in new year and seeing your faces. If you can't wait that long then check out our myspace for gig dates and fresh hot whimsical melodies.

Wolves

Download!!

2009-06-25T08:49:00.000-07:00

This is our Thrash Hits interview with the most excellent Hugh just after we played at Download '09. We had an awesome time playing and meeting Phil Anselmo and Rex from Down was by far the highlight...well apart from our Thrash Hits interview of course, oh yea and playing in front of almost 2,000 people felt pretty good too...and the food wasn't bad either actually and the free beer and whiskey went down well...basically it was all good. We filmed some nonsense too which we'll put up at some point. Until then, heres us on Thrash Hits!!!!!!

x Wolves x

Our new single 'Read And Write' out today! + Rob Da Bank session from Maida Vale!!

2009-06-15T05:54:00.000-07:00

Yes! Our new single is out today! It's called Read And Write and you can get it as a download or as a limited edition 7" from places like HMV and beyond. The B side is called Seven Severed Heads and is a mass of fury and destruction for your listening pleasure. You can GET IT here... http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=281;1;-1;-1;-1&sku=987206

And... Our Maida Vale live session for Rob Da Bank has just been on Radio 1! We played 3 tracks faster than ever, Ancient Snake, Read And Write and Let's Die. Click on link to listen again!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00l4q08

Thanks to everyone who came to see us at Download this weekend, we had an awesome time.

x Wolves x

North!

2009-06-10T04:31:00.000-07:00

Thanks to everyone who came down to see us in Middlesbrough. Heres a little onstage video for your delectation...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yR_bYuLQZ0

x wolves x

Stag & Dagger!!

2009-05-27T05:06:00.000-07:00

Hey fools,

We pumped the hell out of the Macbeth last week. Blood fell from the sky. Heres an interview we did just before that. Check it out: http://beckiburrows.wordpress.com/crystal-fighters-and-turbo
wolf/

Maida Vale

2009-04-18T06:45:00.000-07:00

Hey Shnozzers, how's it hanging?

So we just got back from our latest London jaunt, had a Levi's

Ones To Watch show in the Barfly (cheers Joel!) and a Maida

Vale Session for Rob Da Bank's show (cheers Rob!).

It started off trying to ditch the van in a dodgy parking yard so

we could get into radio 1's main studios to record some voice

bits to go with the songs. God knows how they'll turn out, it's

kinda weird talking straight when you're in Jo Whiley's chair

after she's just left the room while Edith Bo-Man interviews

Huge Ackman (Wolverine, of course!) live through a window in

the studio next door. It's all over too way too quick to realise

that all we've just said is complete shit but I'm sure those

editors will make us sound like we're as cool as Huge himself

did next door. Actually they were piping his interview into the

bogs as well, he sounded even cooler in there.

Onward then to Camden for the Barfly show. Surrounded by

good friends and all in the luxury of their new dressing rooms,

it really made us feel like the privileged scumbags we should

be by now, relaxing in the shit-stinking fumes of our own

arses! It's been a couple of weeks since we played so the hot

lights and expectant crowd was a welcome sight! Another

chance to spaff it out good and proper!

After a long, drawn-out night, and a quick snooze, it's time

to race across London to try and find this Maida Vale place.

Thinking we're all set up for disaster, getting the van stuck in

a Saisbury's car park and too many roadworks, we made it on

the dot! Of all the minutes in the day, how do things always

end up working out on the one minute you least expect?

We haven't had a recording session go so smoothly as this one

did. Basically, Miti is a hero, whilst setting up our stuff, we

already felt he knew who we were and what we were there for.

3 hours after pulling up at the door, we had 3 hot tracks

sounding almost exactly how we wanted! A tiny bit of mixing

here and there and that was it! I'm listening to them now

actually (but you've got to wait, haha!) and they sound so gritty

it's amazing. And scarily fast too! TURBO SESSION. We found

out the old tape set-up they've got is due to be digitalised the

fuck out of there pretty soon. Don't do it BBC! It's worth every

penny to keep it running. If it goes, thank god we got in

there first!

See you all soon!

Chris D

DOUCHE CITY

2009-04-04T09:38:00.000-07:00

Wolves,

Hope you're stinking and burning in hell. We’ve started a mailing list so we can keep in better contact with you as there’s so much going on. You can sign up on our myspace profile by clicking the box that says 2 free downloads and we'll give you 2 of our favorite tracks (Mystery & Ghost Hunt) just because we love you so much. Or hit this link: http://www.reverbnation.com/turbowolf?add_email=true .

Once you sign up, you'll be savvy to all our exclusive news, videos, interviews and maniacal midnight ramblings. You'll be first to hear new tracks and we'll even chuck you some hidden wonders now and then. We'll also be running competitions where you can win Wolf stuff like free entry to our gigs and other wonderment!

If you love us you can help us to spread the Turbowolf terror by putting these download boxes from Reverbnation on your own sites and profiles. Check our futuristic widgets here for terminator vibe: http://www.reverbnation.com/turbowolf#tab=widgets

Later douche-bags,

xWolvesx

News!

Loads happening, our next corpus-destructo single, ‘Read & Write’ is out 4th May. You can check out the video on our profile or go to Youtube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Phjz6CmZE

Live dates forthcoming include:

London – 16th April @ The Barfly
Scotland – 18th April @ Cairngorm Mountain Snowboard Event
Bristol – 2nd May @ The Thekla

Check our myspace for more live evil: www.myspace.com/turbowolfband

We are also doing a Radio 1 Session @ Maida Vale on 17th April that will be broadcasted on Rob Da Bank’s show on Monday 27th April...we feel like living dangerously, so we'll be playing some new tres cool stuff and throwing caution to the wind.

And finally, we’ve been confirmed for The Great Escape and will be playing with Juliette Lewis at Concord 2, Brighton on 16th May.

Follow us on Twitter so you can get some strange txt messages – www.twitter.com/turbowolfband
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Buy our rad merch here - http://www.turbowolf.bigcartel.com/

SIGN UP NOW WOLVES!

We're playing with Gallows and Juliette Lewis at SxSW!!!!!!!

2009-03-09T10:33:00.000-07:00

Say what?

We're playing with Gallows and Juliette Lewis at SxSW!!!!!!!

It's true.

News hit, SxSW, thee Beeb + Levis

2009-02-27T13:21:00.000-08:00

Hi dudes.....

Hope you're all smashing pumpkins. We're sweating and salivating at the prospect of going to the Americas. First stop Toronto for Canadian Music Week, where we plan to consume maple syrup and wear as many maple leaves as we can while tearing the delegates a new rectal exit. Next stop New York for a one night only gig in Brooooooklyn what?! Then to Texas for SxSW, where steak will be the order of every day. We'll be back at the end of March for a couple of London dates and some Skate 2. We've just finished recording our new single too, which will probably be released in April, to coincide with our Maida Vale session and the BBC for Rob Da Bank. Then at the end of April we're being filmed for a TV show called Levis One's To Watch, at the Macbeth in Hoxton. Keep those eyes and ears peeled raw.

See you all soon for some terror,

Wolves.

Christmas BALLS

2008-12-13T06:10:00.000-08:00

Wow, it's the end of the year, 'ho' my god!

Anyone that was at the Mother's Ruin in Bristl to see us last night, cheers for coming and help DESTROY THE PLACE! People and sweat everywhere, who wants a stage when you're in there together monotonix style?!

Anyway the nice guys at Thrash Hits have put our words to round up the year on their site so we don't have to say them again here.

http://www.thrashhits.com/2008/12/2008-to-2009-turbowolf/

See you on NYE you mothers!

Online Shop Up!

2008-10-16T10:55:00.000-07:00

Alright fiends...

We got an online shop where we you can buy some terrifying Turbowolf stuff now. It's your one-stop shop for all those Xmas presents, so get buying!

Link for Turbowolf shopping:

http://www.turbowolf.bigcartel.com/

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NME & Turbowolf sitting in a tree....K.I.S.S.I.N.G.

2008-09-25T04:47:00.000-07:00

So we've got some love from NME this week in their map of Britain, city guide thing. Go buy it!
It calls us 'Piston-powered industrial cock-rock' and mentions White Zombie. Anything mentioning White Zombie is fine with us. Oh and there's some nice photos of us, including one of our RADICAL mascot.

As if that wasn't enough media tomfoolery, we're opening Bristol's Club NME next Tuesday (30th Sept) with Kid Carpet. I think we're gonna have to sit in a shed and eat spiders all next week to recover...

New Recordings!

2008-09-17T07:18:00.000-07:00

We've been making an unholy noise and someone pressed record...

www.myspace.com/turbowolfband

Orange Act Unsigned

2008-08-26T13:01:00.000-07:00

HEEEEEEEEEEEEELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!

We're doing this Orange Act Unsigned competition, so go vote for us now!! Heres the link : http://orangeunsignedact.co.uk/acts/turbowolf

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaankkkksssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

Wolfparty......3!!!!!!!

2008-08-23T13:27:00.000-07:00

Hi busters!

We had a smasher basically. Us, The Ghost Frequency, You Love Her Coz Shes Dead + The Dead School. It was like the best bits of Reading, without the extortion or Fall Out Boy. Fantastic bands, good times. Much love to all the winners who came, the bands + the Croft for being such a filthy wizard of a joint to play in.

Bags!

Christoper Greensleeves

streeeeeeet-teaaaaam!!!!!

2008-08-13T06:41:00.000-07:00

calling all children of rock n roll...

how would you like to JOIN OUR STREET TEAM!?!

all ya gotta do is plaster your town in wolfy stickers, and generally shamelessly spread the turbowolfword! ...in exchange for t-shirts, cds, and even some sneaky guestlist to our shows! woooop!? can't be bad.
let us embrace you like you were our own little fluffy wolf cubs. i'll even lick you clean behind the ears.

just send us a message with "street team" as the subject and tell us why you're the purrrfect new addition to our family. does your town lack wolfishness? pull on your balaclavas! make stencils! spray our name on your walls! get involved!!!! get your hands dirty! use your imagination!-then send us a picture. :P

i look forward to hearing from you very very soon...lots of love!bettyxx

Vote WOLF for Underage festival!!!!

2008-07-10T00:51:00.000-07:00

YO young bucks!

Wanna see us at this years Underage festival? Go to www.alterhit.com ... buy our song Power!!!!! for a bargain 70p! + you get to see us destroy Underage festival! Our fate is in your hands!!!!!

ERRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

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2008-07-03T17:00:00.000-07:00

ha. here she is.

BIG pimpin'

2008-07-03T16:23:00.000-07:00

jay-z! wow, i actually can't believe i went to glastonbury and missed out on some hip-hop-history; ummmm, hello? i've just checked out his set on t'box and he was sick as! -like, what the fuck was i doing? umm (i actually dont know thats the worrying thing) gutted!!

...also managed to miss dizzee rascal. fucking idiot! i was there primed and ready for some dizzee action but then something terrible and scottish happened... franz ferdinand. needles to say, i left immediately, alsolutely gutted that dizzee had been replaced by such gack. i found out later that they were just a nice "surprise"... and the boy in the corner came on after. NO! :(

anyway, i survived and am home safe and sound. now we prepare for saturday's petit gig sans le bass... y'know i could get used to life without jeremy: i mean, the reggae artist would still be alive: and my head wouldn't be in constant danger of being knocked off and rolling down the street...(he gets really agressive!) -things would just be easy y'know. ....-i would miss those skinny jeans tho.

p.s check my smiling little face in that pic below; surrounded by so many hot guys from wicked bands!!!!!! JACKPOT! :P lucky betty.

Ball and Bats

2008-06-25T04:52:00.000-07:00

Wolfies!!

So we headed down to London last Saturday for 2 days of smashing and brain eating in the Turbosnakemaster van. The soundtrack to our journey was Journey. Our first date?...a night called Adventures In The Beetroot Field at Imperial College University, with XXTeens, The Golden Silvers, Zane Lowe, Fern Cotton (har) and more.

Two and a half hours later...

We arrive in London and i'm desperate for some piss action. This was bad, stuck in traffic on some big road on the way into London. I say to Chris "i need to piss it out!", and hes all like "piss in that 5 litre bottle of water in the back, but empty the water into some other bottles first". A good plan, maybe, but trying to trickle water into several bottles while desperate for a piss is like tying to light a cigarette while on fire. I jumped out of our moving van, ran across traffic, jumped a fence and found a piss haven...a beautifully disgusting underground car-park, where i had a brilliant time. Thank you London. I had to move fast, the van was driving off. I ran back and jumped in van. Sex party, i was all good.

We arrive and...Holy Cats!! It's a Ball?! Like with tuxes and funk like that. The gig room was inside some old University building, tucked away from the rest of the party and a few steps from the Drum&Bass arena. Yeah thats right. So we soundcheck, start drinking, check out the fun-fair, watch a girl throw up onto her shoes, while Fern Cotton provided the soundtrack. Oh and the courtyard we were in had a 700ft tall tower built for some dude, by some chick.

We went off to see a huge gold statue of some dude in Hyde park. Amazing! So sick. There was a stage set up too where Late Of The Pier were playing. Flurr. A quick meal out at Stick&Bowl and we're ready to slam it out. We get back to the tux party and we get onstage. As i start the set its clear things aren't gonna go well. No sound. Then too much sound, everything feeds back eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppp!!!!!!! Then no bass. Then no sound. Nothing. So we do a acappella of God Save The Queen, and continue once some sound has returned. We finish with Power!!!!!, blow some kisses and leave.

A few hours kip on the floor and we're ready to get to the Barfly...a 14+ show at the Barfly with The Ghost Frequency, This City and Outcry Collective (all pictured above).
This was Rad! All the bands were sick, crowd was amazing, generally wicked. We played just before The Ghost Frequency. The packed room was full of hungry for hell kids. We slayed. After a t-shirt swap and plans to gig together again, we get out. Back on the road to Bristol, with Journey.

Thanks to all the bands we met and played with this weekend. All lovely people we look forward to hanging out and playing with again. And a big thank you to all the kids in the Barfly who went nuts for us.

Much Love,

Christopher x

Acacia Realism

2008-06-18T15:35:00.000-07:00

Speaking of Acacias

2008-06-18T12:27:00.000-07:00

Acacias

2008-06-18T12:22:00.000-07:00

That last post was a total lie when you think about it.

BEST FILM EVER!

2008-06-15T15:31:00.000-07:00

ALL AGES SHOW w/ GHOST FREQUENCY!

2008-06-14T11:04:00.001-07:00

Hello Hott Catts!

Us and the Ghost Frequency will be tearing the Barfly a new hole in their sweater on Sunday 22nd June. Its gonna be stinkin' hott and full of slime ridden rats with gold beaks. Lets meet there, say 4pm? Its an all ages too x

By the way......did you know that an octopus has 2 brains. One in his brain and one in his brian. Cool.

Laterzzz

A Child Rasputin x

Things We Love, vol.1

2008-06-11T06:02:00.000-07:00

Hello Wolfies! Just a quick heads-up on whats happening wolfwise at the moment.....so we were hanging out with Mark Strawberry (of '9Koala' fame) the other day, and well, he was eating a chocolate sandwich when Andy yelled "DRAGON BALL Z!!!!!". Needless to say, the Strawb dropped his sandwich and we all had to scrap until we were friends again. We recorded some songs later that day. They sound great.

Lots of love,

Christopher x

Fucking Hell

2008-06-09T03:14:00.000-07:00

Jake and Dinos Chapman's awesome exhibition 'Fucking Hell' is showing at the Mason's Yard White cube until 12th July and must be seen. See Jakeanddinoschapman.com for a sense of how incredible the exhibition is. Also, the main attraction is their new exhibit 'If Hitler Had Been A Hippy How Happy Would We Be' a series of Hitler's 'bland' water colours that they bought for £115,000 and then Hippied up with stars, hearts and psychedelic rainbows. Amazing.

Monotonix Shows

2008-06-01T05:17:00.000-07:00

So we were in the van, listening to Pantera, and thought, well, lets try something else so we shoved on some Billy Idol, Meatloaf, Le Tigre, Europe, Dire Straits and Metallica but at the end of the day, you just don't get to where you're going without putting Pantera back on.

If you think Pantera are a bit too vibratory and you want to watch an actual show, then one answer, three times over, is MONOTONIX MONOTONIX MONOTONIX! We were DJing at their show show in Bristol last night and were blown away. Chris our singer may have a moustache, but not one that is connnected to his pubes by the same matt of hair. And I've never seen Chris pull breakdance freeze poses on the drummer's back while he's playing. Nor has he chucked the nearest sanitary towel bin over drummer's head and shoved bloody tampons into his mouth without him missing a beat (apart from when the bass drum ends up at the other end of the room).

I still went home and listened to Pantera, though.

Souljah boy told her..

2008-05-29T06:15:00.001-07:00