Selfish Cunt Archive
Posted by LoveHowlMuse on July 29th, 2008 - Add a comment
Selfish Cunt are coming! See their tour dates below.
You can also get a free MP3 of Feel Like A Woman by clicking here (you’ll need to give them your email address). Feel Like A Woman is a track from their forthcoming album English Chamber Music, which will be released on 20th August.
See photos and videos on their LoveHowlMuse page, or find out about the album on their MySpace page.
1st Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Kendal - Kendal Calling Festival w/ Dizzee Riscal & British Sea Power
2nd Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Wigan - The Tavern (Club Underground)
4th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Aberdeen - Tunnels (14+)
5th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Glasgow - TBC
7th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Edinburgh - Edinburgh Festival Caberet Voltaire (sick note) - FREE ENTRY
8th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Wakefield - EscoBar
9th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Blackburn - Cellar Bar - MARTIN’S HOMECOMING SHOW
12th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Manchester - Ruby Lounge
13th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Cheltenham - 2 Pigs (16+)
14th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Bath - Moles
15th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Cardiff - Barfly
18th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Southampton - Joiners
19th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Brighton - Freebutt
20th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - London - 100 Club - ALBUM LAUNCH
21st Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Exeter - Cavern Club
23rd Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Plymouth - Hubb
24th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Bristol - The Croft
25th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Tunbridge Wells - The Forum (16+)
26th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Colchester - Arts Centre
29th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz
30th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - London - Offset Festival (Last FM Stage)
5th Sep 2008 - 20:00 - Olso, Norway - Garage
6th Sep 2008 - 20:00 - Stavanger, Norway - Cementen in Stavanger / NuMusicfestival
19th Sep 2008 - 20:00 - Paris, France - La Mechanique Ondulatoire
26th Sep 2008 - 20:00 - Vienna, Austria - Icke Micke @ Planetarium Vienna
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on February 27th, 2008 - Add a comment
See Selfish Cunt in all their glory at The George Tavern on Friday 29th February
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on June 17th, 2007 - Read comments and add your own
Imagine your lover teases you into a position you never dreamed possible - you discover a passion you never knew you had - you flail and plead - and scream for a god - and surrender and surrender - you are undone. Selfish Cunt in all its innocence knows how to take you there - this is not an idea - this is not an image - this is your undoing.
What do you do when you put THAT before an unadventurous lover - someone who secures power in their routine? What do THEY do when their power is shown to be a pastiche?
So many questions, so many questions, when all that there really is, is desire.
The Royal Festival Hall wakes up to desire…
Selfish Cunt take the stage dwarfed by Motorhead’s Marshall stacks - that probably go up to 11 - and render them irrelevant. A black hole opens - and screams - YOU’VE GOT IT ALL WRONG! Right from the start there’s a misunderstanding about what you’re expecting and what you’re going to get.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on June 14th, 2007 - Add a comment
This week, Selfish Cunt released Avocado as a digital single. The band are now hitting their stride - faster, angrier and more confident - and you can hear it. Martin Tomlinson sounds like he’s shouting at his wayward children from the open balcony of a housing estate - urgent, wise and ain’t gonna take no shit. Patrick Constable’s guitars achieve the seemingly impossible by sounding speedy and louche at the same time. Their electronic drum machine has been replaced by Bambi, who drums like the hammers of Hades. Youth, a founder member of Killing Joke, holds down the fort with his bassline and deft production skills.You can listen to an excerpt on Selfish Cunt’s page.On submission to iTunes, the artwork was deemed to be “not in good taste” and the track was “hidden” from public view. Here is an excerpt from their email rejecting the artwork:
“The image of a woman laying on her back with exposed breasts, spread legs, holding an avocado (?) over her genitalia, combined with the word “cunt” is not felt to be in good taste. Due to differences in definitions there is a chance that this cover art would be okayed for a European release… A playlist under North American or world wide release is subject to different scrutiny. We are dealing with why the hide notes only said “nipples” when this was obviously not the only problem.”
So here’s the artwork in question:
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on June 5th, 2007 - Add a comment
Photos and review by X3X2X
Martin Tomlinson, lead singer of “Selfish Cunt”, was arrested on June the 2nd 2007 for allegedly racist lyrics following an incendary live perfomance on a baking Saturday afternoon at Cambridge’s traditionally family orientated Strawberry Fayre. Following crowd jeers, violent bottle throwing, audience complaints to stewards, and two rapidly restrained yet highly irate stage intruders, police swiftly moved backstage to detain and question Tomlinson following S.C.s thrilling performance on the East Stage at one of the country’s last great free festivals.
The mixed age crowd were stunned by his refreshingly lewd Alice Donut / Iggyesque stage theatrics which included masturbatory and scatalogical mimes to lyrics like ‘cum stain’ and ‘when the shit hit the fans’. A seemingly possessed Tomlinson, stripped down to his underpants, socks and a t-shirt proceeded to tear down the ‘love music / hate racism’ banner which the organizers had placed at the back of the stage. He then launched into the song ‘Batty Boy’ which at first shockingly seemed to be attacking, in no uncertain terms, a black audience presence from a white supremacist viewpoint. This viewpoint was abruptly subverted when the distinctly camp singer began to make homophobic, first person references within the lyrics.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on May 10th, 2007 - Add a comment
***Meltdown warm up gig this Friday May 18 at the Macbeth, Shoreditch***
As soon as you hear the name Selfish Cunt you know that you are in for some serious attitude - ask anyone from their cult following. Uncompromising and politically motivated, it’s no wonder that this year’s curator of the South Bank’s Meltdown festival, the equally uncompromising and politically-aware Jarvis Cocker, has selected SC to open the festival by supporting metal legends Motörhead.
Asked why he thought Jarvis had selected Selfish Cunt to open this year’s Meltdown, lead singer Martin Tomlinson replied, “We played a show together in 2004 when Jarvis was fronting Relaxed Muscle. I think what has happened since then is that he has become more politically charged and disillusioned and I believe the Meltdown allows him to vent this frustration with acts such as Motörhead, The Stooges, Forced Entertainment and ourselves. This is also the Royal Festival Hall, so never mind the bollocks!!!”
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