Writespace presents:
Our Space Reading
(6:30-8:30pm Free)
Writespace is launching its first anthology! Join us Friday, August 28th at 6:30pm at Rudyard’s British Pub for a reading to celebrate the publication of Our Space: Shorts & Poetry from the Houston Community.
The anthology includes writers from the Writespace faculty, Writespace volunteers, and the Houston literary community. Copies of Our Space will be available for purchase for $15.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Readers will include:
Layla Al-Bedawi
Andrea Barbosa
Andreana Binder
Jess Capelle
Cassandra Rose Clarke
Tyler Darnell
Christina Escamilla
Christa Forster
Emily Sketch Haines
Carlos Herbert Hernandez
Patty Flaherty Pagan
Sara C. Rolater
Liana M Silva
and more!
Easycreditgroup.com Presents:
Barkerpalooza #8
featuring
Funeral Horse, Vehement Burn, and Blues Funeral
(doors 9pm)
Funeral Horse (Houston, TX)
https://funeralhorse.bandcamp.com/
“…what you mostly need to know about Funeral Horse and this album is that on the very first song they create an opus which could outdo a number of full length albums by other bands claiming to rock.” – Joshua Macala – Raised by Gypsies
“… the band I’m most interested to check out is newcomers Funeral Horse, which formed out of the ashes of the gone-too-soon Art Institute; they’re heavy and sludgy and slow as hell, dwelling somewhere in the realm of High on Fire or Sleep, and that’s no bad place to be.” – Jeremy Hart – Space City Rock
““We’re heavy and slow… so is our music”, this sayeth their facebook page. I can’t comment on the guys themselves, but their music certainly does live up to the claim. Funeral Horse currently have a new EP available for free download with tape copies (Tapes! Love it!) available shortly. They certainly live up to the hype. In fact, the first two words that spring to my mind listening to it are, indeed, “heavy” and “slow” – but not ponderously so. I can almost picture swathes of people with hair over their eyes, wearing black/tie-dyed clothes and nodding slowly to the beat like a crowd of metal zombies. With beer in their hands.” – Iain Purdie – Moshville Times
“There’s a cassette version of Savage Audio Demon available, which I would like to get his clammy paws on. This type of angling shows what kind of band Houston’s Funeral Horse is – vintage, loving those 70’s, and in bed with thick, rocked-up riffs, and vocals with plenty of ominous echo. The bluesy “Scatter My Ashes Over the Mississippi” is the pick of the bunch here (nice dynamics), but don’t leave “Invisible Hand of Revenge” out in the cold either. Rocking stuff.” – David E. Gehlke – Dead Rhetoric
Vehement Burn (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/thevehementburn
Hailing from Houston, Texas, Vehement Burn was formed in late 2008. With a unique writing/playing style, The Vehement Burn keeps their musical foundation firmly planted in the Fuzz sound founded in the mid- to late- 90’s. The band specializes in authentic Desert/Stoner Rock, mixing in nuances of Progressive Rock and Metal. Their influences include Kyuss, Orange Goblin, Fu Manchu, Queens of the Stone Age, Sasquatch, Cowboys and Aliens, Firestone, Truckfighters, Clutch and Led Zeppelin.
In 2011, The Vehement Burn released their self-titled full-length debut album and released their follow up EP The Collective in 2014. Both releases available digitally on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.
Blues Funeral (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/bluesfuneralofficial
Blues Funeral is the new proto-metal project on the Houston scene, featuring guitar and vocal harmonies with a screaming Nord synth!
Formed in late 2014 by Jan Kimmel (guitar, ex-Sanctus Bellum), Cory Cousins (drums, ex-Sanctus Bellum) and Maurice Eggenschwiler (guitar, ex-Sanctus Bellum), Blues Funeral plays a unique brand of 60’s and 70’s infused music with a metal twist. Experienced upright bass player, Gabe Katz, decided to tip his bass over and play it through an amp to complete the band’s lineup.
The band name, inspired by the 1969 Groundhogs cut, “Blues Obituary”, is an ode to many of the groups’ influences including classic bands like: Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, Mountain, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, etc.
In their prior project, the trio has shared the stage with acts like: Pentagram, St. Vitus, Trouble, Orange Goblin, Kylessa, Dio Disciples, Gates of Slumber, Las Cruces, and local Houston metal legends, Helstar.
Though Blues Funeral explores new musical territory for the trio, it will still feel like snake’s venom with a twist of absinthe under a purple sky. You will be witnesses! The band is currently fast at work writing new material to be unveiled in 2015!!!
