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.

Selfish Cunt delivered a set of astonishing intensity – enough to make your hepatitis ache – that made good on Jarvis Cocker’s promise that this year’s Meltdown Festival “shall rouse you from your slumber”. Martin Tomlinson cracked the microphone whip while Patrick Constable, Matthew Saw and Bambi inserted an adrenaline drip of high frequency feedback, erotic guitar pleads, and metabolic fury. Daring to slow down, bend over, speed up, screech and swarm, Tomlinson sang of dark desires, unsettling sexuality and the stink of money. This was an object lesson for schizophrenics – freaked outness – Pan pranced across the stage and pricked you out!

This is Selfish Cunt. They are an intensity – driving a demon machine – who prance and play like they couldn’t give a shit that Motorhead are hanging out backstage waiting to have their cocks licked under the lights of the Royal Box.

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!!!”

Causing controversy with their provocative stage personas and lyrics SC don’t sacrifice substance for style in their “glamour terror” approach. When Tomlinson screams “the things that you sell, and the things that you do, it’s a lie, it’s a lie” he leaves you in no doubt about SC’s intentions – to expose what gets glossed over in the pursuit of power and money. This is the voice of a generation living through the War On Terror.

With cult followings in London and New York, it’s not surprising that SC have caught the attention of celebrated producer and Killing Joke founder member Youth, who is producing some tracks for their second album including the forthcoming single Avocado.

Judge for yourself at the first night of the Meltdown on 16th June, and see if Jarvis was right.

ENDS.

For press information and images please contact:

Trish | trish@lovehowlmuse.com | 01821 670 293

NOTES TO EDITORS,

Band members:

Bambi – drums, Mathew Saw – bass

Upcoming gigs:

16th June – 8pm Royal Festival Hall – Meltdown

Links:

Hear their new single ‘avocado’ here: www.lovehowlmuse.com

Selfish Cunt MySpace: www.myspace.com/ixnewyork

NY gig review and video: www.spin.com/video/2007/02/070205_selfish/

Selfish Cunt Video: www.241-24-7.com/omnibus/alive/provinces.htm

Picture credit: 241-24-7, Dario Vigorito, 07863 113 088, info@241-24-7.com

Press Quotes:

“At a time when most protest in rock music comes with an air of meek appeasement, their uncompromising rage sounds strangely refreshing.”Alexis Petridis, The Guardian. The Guardian also named SC as one of the top 40 British bands.

“Hardly the first time that the sensibilities of Daily Mail-reading middle Britain have been given a slap but there’s never harm in delivering another…Tomlinson’s superb satire of asylum seeker paranoia ‘Coming Of The White Man’. SC is a brilliant third-person, devil’s-advocate creation.”Simon Price, The Independent on Sunday

“One of London’s most exciting live acts… [Tomlinson is] the closest thing to Iggy Pop this generation will produce.”Time Out

New York’s Spin magazine praised SC too, after their gig at the Ruff Club, noting: “Instead of yelping ‘fuck you’ to New York, as another Brit-punk band might have done, Tomlinson wanted to have New York every which way to Sunday.” Spin also noted how Martin Tomlinson’s playful antics with the crowd came across as if he were “like a prettier Karen O” and the reference to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs certainly bears out in the presence and control of the band.