Blind Butcher Flirting With the Witch Queen of Ancient Greece
600+ gigs into their career, Blind Butcher celebrate another chapter in their wildly unpredictable career with a new album, their fifth. “Hekate” is out now on the Reverend Beat Man’s revered Voodoo Rhythm Records label. To dedicate their album to the dog-loving Greek goddess of magic and witchcraft clearly is a declaration of intent. Christian […]
Billie Bird is On Fire
Le Temps, Libération and Les Inrockuptibles have all heaped praise on Billie Bird for her live performances and the handful of singles and EPs she has released over the years. Here, at last, is her first album proper. Entitled “Incendies”, it is available now via Mouthwatering Records. “Incendies” was a long time in the making. […]
Blind Butcher Rolling Back the Calendar
New via Irascible Records is the latest LP from Lucerne duo Blind Butcher. True to their reputation for unprovoked lunacy they are calling it “Catch 22” (note the lack of a hyphen!). This, despite the fact that it has absolutely nothing to do with the Joseph Heller novel normally associated with the situation of “damned […]
Blind Butcher Counting the Days
The raucous guitar/drums/pedals duo Blind Butcher from Lucerne have hit on a novel idea to release their new album – they will do so in twelve steps, with one new song available to download from their homepage on the 22nd of each month. First off in January was the footloose glam-punk track “Flash Snap Shot”. […]
Blind Butcher pissing in colours
Sorry about the language. But that’s how Blind Butcher want it. “Piss Me a Rainbow” is the third album by Christian Aregger and Roland Bucher, aka Blind Butcher. It will be released on 11 October 2019 by Irascible Records. And, as we have come to expect from these restless souls, the boys from Lucerne have […]
Waves Vienna, Austria 27 – 29 September 2018
We at Swiss Music Export love the Waves Vienna, and we’re sure that everyone does. It won’t be necessary, therefore, to extol the many virtues of this bijou festival much more, other than to suggest that anyone who misses it will miss a truly lovely event. It offers a fantastic opportunity to meet music professionals […]
Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, 19 – 22 September 2018
It’s been a hot summer, and for anyone going to the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, it’ll be a hot autumn, too. As we all know, the Reeperbahn Festival is THE place that anyone who is anything on the cutting edge of European music will not want to miss. And once again, Swiss Music Export will […]
Swiss Music Export @ The Great Escape, Brighton – 17 – 19 May
It’s that time of the year again – Brighton time, beach time, and time for The Great Escape. We’re pretty confident that you won’t need to be reminded that this festival is probably the most important yearly get-together for the independent music scene in Europe. Swiss Music Export will be going, too, and we’re bringing […]
Swiss Music Export rocks Eurosonic! 17 – 20 January 2018, Groningen NL
Hot on the heels of the big bang that is Silvester – aka New Year’s Eve – follows an even bigger one, namely the Eurosonic music fest in Groningen, Netherlands. With the total number of visitors breaking the 40’000 barrier last year, and 4200 conference visitors from 42 nationalities as well as nearly 400 live acts, […]
Blind Butcher ready to take the world
The wonderfully-weirdly-dressed Blind Butcher are an archetypal Voodoo Rhythm band: mad, bad and impossible to resist. The guitar/drums/pedals duo of Christian Aregger and Roland Bucher follow up their Steve Albini-produced debut album with a second LP, “Alawalawa”. Their typically idiosyncratic Voodoo Rhythm PR blurb describes their musical style as “irritating post punk new wave kraut […]
