Welcome to BlackpoolNoise.com, home of the Post Rock project Blackpool.

If you are at all familiar with the sound that has been labeled post-rock, then you probably have a good idea of what Blackpool is all about: guitar, bass, real drums, drum machines, soft slow melodies growing to overpowering distortion. No vocals.

Music.Download.com had the following to say about the band:
"Your patience is rewarded when you listen to Blackpool's sprawled-out, hypnotic post-rock. The sonic layers on "Circumstances Dictate" slowly build into what finally becomes a wash of glorious volume and crashing cymbals."

Blackpool is was the outlet for San Francisco based musician Kurt Hobson, ex-drummer for power-pop-punk screamers Peppercorn and the modestly powerful indie rock band The Decoration

photo credit: Peter Ellenby

releases / mp3s

Released in January of 2003, 'Yamamama' is the first true full length from Blackpool. The album was recorded at the Chez Frederick home studio, with drums being tracked at 9Up by The Decoration's Tim Mitchell. Musically, the album diverges slightly from traditional Blackpool, with a few of the songs containing actual choruses(!) and the first track breaking the 100bpm mark.


	fusillade	(4.0mb mp3)
	yamamama	(7.1mb mp3)
	decide	(5.2mb mp3)
	august melt	(5.0mb mp3)
	batofar	(5.0mb mp3)
	iena	(4.6mb mp3)
	code no more	(7.0mb mp3)

'One Helluva Spaceman' combines the 'Fever Pitch' EP (CDR/MP3 release June of 2000) and the 'Cow Skulls' EP (CDR/MP3 release January 2001). The songs on 'Fever Pitch' were issued as a self-titled EP on the Prion Music Cartel CDR label (prion 055). Everything was recorded at the Chez Frederick studios, with drums for 'One Helluva Spaceman' being tracked in 11up by Frank Ha (ex-Maxiwagon, current Covington mastermind). The bass line on Circumstances Dictate was written by another ex-Maxiwagon'er, Janna Matsuoka.

One Helluva Spaceman Tracks / MP3s


	circumstances dictate (aka cow skulls)	(7.5mb mp3)
	your god loves disco loud	(4.5mb mp3)
	fever pitch	(5.5mb mp3)
	one helluva spaceman	(5.5mb mp3)
	so many godamn fruit flies	(5.1mb mp3)
	dim none	(5.7mb mp3)

contact

What? You want to talk to us? OK try this email: blackpool [AT] blackpoolnoise [dot] com

random

So, what you see here is a goth big hair metal band I witnessed in Yoyogi Park, Japan, on a Sunday, circa 1995. And the hair/black dress mess in front of the goth big hair metal band is a bunch of teenage fan girls. Banging their heads. In unison. With their arms wrapped around each other. So awesome. And freaky.