"Celebricide are very, very cool." – Nick Cave

“Deeply unsettling…entirely worrying.” – Everett True, Plan B magazine


CELEBRICIDE-"SEE THE BAD NURSE MAKE DISEASE" NOW AVAILABLE AT ROUNDER AND RESIDENT BRIGHTON


CELEBRICIDE strike out with their stunningly assured debut album ‘See The Bad Nurse Make Disease’.

CELEBRICIDE are Tim Leopard (Vocals) Steven Barber (Guitar/Keyboards) Dave Hughes (Keyboards/Piano) Chris Anderson (Bass/Sax/Piano) and Jon Poole (late of the Cardiacs) on drums. The recordings also feature violinist Noah Taylor moonlighting from his day job as an internationally acclaimed movie star.

At points the album comes across like some kind of dark post-punk ‘Screamadelica’ - frequently switching styles and moods to create a work which is as diverse as it is thrilling. Witness the full throttle mashed up rock ‘n’ roll of ‘Monovoid’, or the dramatic Roxy-esque rush of ‘Malice’. Or the way bitter revenge tale ‘Kill ‘Em All’ is set to an achingly beautiful brass and choral arrangement. There’s a touch of Chris Morris about Leopard’s twisted yet strangely moral worldview and the way he unflinchingly slices through to the heart of darkness. – Stool Pigeon

"Elegant psychopaths... a lethal cocktail of Pulp, Roxy Music and The Fall. With literary lyrics about blackmail, contract killings and ruined lives..." - The Fly magazine

CELEBRICIDE’s limited edition debut single ‘Monovoid’ garnered radio support from Six Radio’s Phil Jupitus and quickly sold out. Meanwhile, one of the album’s stand out tracks ‘Is Katie Alright?’ has already been prominently featured in several episodes of Johnny Vegas’s BBC3 comedy drama ‘Ideal’. The band will also be contributing new music to the upcoming third series.

‘See The Bad Nurse Make Disease’ will be followed in the new year by CELEBRICIDE’s first single proper: ‘Resist or Serve’ - a release which sees the band on the receiving end of some world class remixes. ‘Resist or Serve’ itself has already been retooled by Colin Newman of legandary art rockers Wire. Meanwhile, Stephen Thrower & Ossian Brown of Coil are currently working their own strange magic on a new version of ‘Photographer’.

In the meantime, we suggest you see the Bad Nurse and surrender to the dark pleasures of one of the year’s most exciting and intense debut albums…

“I’m a photographer. Gonna take a picture. A picture of you…”

In rock music, the subject of evil is usually dealt with by bellowing indecipherably about Satan, serial killers and Nazism over downtuned riffs and thrashing drums. The dead-eyed, street thug reportage of hardcore hip-hop or the backwards-recorded electronic noise of the industrial art school brigade similarly often fails to rise above adolescent cliché. The result is akin to pornography; desensitising yourself to the horror and proving your strength by looking into the abyss, and then alienating yourself completely from your own emotional response. There’s a fine line between catharsis and cauterisation.

“…Sex is not enough anymore…”

Brighton’s Celebricide sing about child abuse, contract killings and self-immolation in a way that forces the listener to address their own complicity in a culture where such things seem increasingly ordinary. As their name suggests, they’re on a mission; using shock tactics to break the habit of vicarious living, sleepwalking through life and the dream of fame that’s really the ultimate consumer ambition: to finally become a product yourself.

“…In the future, everyone will be anonymous for fifteen minutes…”

A 5-piece (plus, tonight, Sadie of LaMomo on backing vocals), Celebricide musically recall Pulp, The Fall, or Magazine; guitars and keyboards churning up a relentless but darkly melodic groove over which frontman Tim Leopard recites his nasty little tales of blasphemous reality. Looking more like the pub bouncer than the lead singer, Tim is a frightening and compelling presence. Speaking calmly, but carrying a metaphorical big stick, he spits out his words like they disgust him, falls to the floor repeatedly like a string-cut puppet, or stands blankly catatonic at the side of the stage. There’s something of Chris Morris about both his performance style and his twisted yet strangely moral worldview. Did I mention that Celebricide have a sense of humour?

“They’ll. Never. Stop. Us.”

Their album is called See The Bad Nurse Make Disease. No-one since The Birthday Party has sliced through to the heart of darkness with such gleefully unflinching zeal. Tonight, truly, this ain’t rock n’ roll; this is Celebricide.

Ben Graham
StoolPigeon Magazine