Thumpermonkey

Today's Haiku: Terror when you catch the scent suffusing the underground. Olfactory Shock. 18/10/2018 - 9 days to impact.

Friday, 31st May - Tickets £8 adv / £10 OTD. Tickets available from WEGOTTICKETS and DICE Listen to all three acts via this handy Spotify Playlist THUMPERMONKEY https://thumpermonkey.bandcamp.com/ 'Veldt' by Thumpermonkey (Official Video). “There’s modern classical, metal, jazz, and post-roc

Sam and Michael sat down with Lee Davidson last week and took over all 2 hours of the Progmetalmadness show in order that they could dust off all the wonky metal tracks they love. It's the wonkiest of shows. Luckily the full anecdote about having a tiny Anthony Kiedis trapped in one's right eardru

S’il ne me restait qu’un jour à vivre, je choisirais d’écouter le vinyle Make Me Young Etc pour le faire tourner encore et encore sur ma platine, jusqu’au dernier moment, pour savourer jusqu’à la fin la musique de Thumpermonkey. Read the full review here:

Feeling the love from Italy in this review by Altprogcore... Aggiungendo il fatto che Make Me Young, etc. è in realtà un concept album su un'imminente apocalisse sarebbe stato legittimo aspettarsi qualcosa di più aggressivo, invece i Thumpermonkey ci stupiscono con un'opera complessa, ma estremam

"This ain’t Sleep Furiously, but it succeeds because of that. With the limited time you have left on earth, Make Me Young, etc is worth devoting your attention to." Read the full review here: http://everythingisnoise.net/reviews/thumpermonkey-make-me-young-etc/

Today's Haiku: Martyrs come and go, Tezcatlipoca remains; steal the face of God. 15/10/18 - 11 days to impact.

You have 23 days until the asteroid hits. This may be your last gig until the matrix is re-jacked. If you don't live in London - then you'll have to source it off hive consciousness in the next realm. If you pre ordered you can pick up your stuff from me at the show. If you didn't - you can't. But

Today's haiku: From the purple cloud, Widmanstätten striations visible from Earth. 27/09/2018 - 29 days to impact

Here are some 'facts'. - The new album contains a song called 'Cranefly'. - Michael once spent 36 hours awake in an attempt to offset the experience of jet-lag. This was on his return from New York after getting married. He tried to stay awake by writing riffs. When he woke up, the verses for t

Try saying that with a mouthful of Multi-Cheerios. Here's the first episode where Mike, Sam, Rael and Ben met up with Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi (Cardiacs / GONG / Knifeworld / Guapo). This was recorded just as Thumpermonkey were releasing 2012's 'Sleep Furiously' on Kavus' 'Believers' Roast'

We chat to Heavy Blog is Heavy about influences, musics, musical influences, things that have influenced us musically, and poo. "The band, active since 2011, traffic in the kind of vocal-centric, off-kilter, and melancholy progressive rock of which we’re talking about, complete with the modern ae

"The culmination of a blazing career,"Make Me Young, etc." is a little gem of protean rock art that is particularly generous in energy and emotion." Read the full review here (French original): Read in English - (google translate)

More lovely words about MMYE, this time from The Progressive Aspect. This is a magnificent release, a grower which takes their previous work as a foundation, expanding it in all directions with mesmerising results. Thumpermonkey continue to prove themselves to be one of the most fascinating bands

Woody breaks down all the apocalyptic nonsense taking place on the latest album, 'Make Me Young, etc for Progradar' "If any humans do escape earth and colonise Mars to start afresh, there’s always the fear that they’ll bring all their awful conceptual baggage with them and make a mess of Earth Mk2 a

James R Turner chats to Thumpermonkey about the 'Electricity' EP, vinyl, and Aztecs. Full text here: https://www.progradar.org/index.php/2018/01/09/interview-with-thumpermonkey-by-james-r-turner/

Today's haiku: Templates are found in The Florentine Codices. Orange bed-form spire. 10/10/18 - 16 days to impact

- The asteroid is coming. Take this useless sadness and throw it away. - You can read the lyrics here before you get a chance to listen to the whole song, which is an unusual way to experience it.

10-09-2018 - 46 days to impact

Here are some 'facts'. - The new album contains a song called 'Figstorm' that Rael wrote the music for about 18 years ago. - You can read the lyrics here before you get a chance to listen to the whole song, which is an unusual way to experience it. - The end makes direct reference to a monolo

It will take literally two seconds In the catagories of "Best Album 2018" https://www.loudersound.com/features/vote-now-in-the-2019-progressive-music-awards/8 And also "Best UK Act" https://www.loudersound.com/features/vote-now-in-the-2019-progressive-music-awards/9

'Make Me Young, etc' is released alongside a couple of unique items - a new run of T-shirts designed by Thumpermonkey bassist Sam Warren, along with a limited run of 30 cassettes containing unreleased demos that didn't make it on to the new album, (each with hand printed lino-cut artwork, also desig

"Make Me Young, Etc” is one of the big surprises of 2018 for me and it puts Thumpermonkey firmly on the prog map." Read the full article here.

"...as us reviewers are starting to think arbitrarily about those pesky ‘best of’ lists that people like so much, that I can say for a fact that Thumpermonkey, with ‘Make me Young, etc’, have released one of the best albums of 2018, and it was well worth the wait..." Thanks to Progradar for the

While 'Carpe Diem' sounds pretty glib, I hope you had fun while you could. 25/10/18 - 1 day to impact

Today's Haiku: 4 days to impact. 'Why haven't you been at work'. I'd rather drink tea. 22/10/18 - 4 days to impact

• Here's our final lyric fragment - posted just before our album launch show this thursday. • The final song on the album is a post-human coda, set on Mars. You are going to enjoy the video. • The mythology is now complete. Hope you had a whole bunch of fun while you could.

Today's haiku: Bad burial hole, These unmetered parking spots make for busy streets. 01/10/2018 - 25 days to impact

- Sometimes awful nightmares create interesting song lyrics. - You can read the lyrics here before you get a chance to listen to the whole song, which is an unusual way to experience it. - This photo is by Ashley Jones.

Always the champion of great new UK bands https://www.loudersound.com/news/thumpermonkey-premiere-video-for-brand-new-single-veldt-with-prog