“What happens when you take stop-start, prog-jazz weirdos Evil Usses and mix them with someone even stranger? Well, Ichi’s DIY dada-pop genius isn’t going to make things more normal is it? Witness new combo Ichigo Evil knock at the doors of perception with dayglo skronk and one stringed fiddles. FFO: Black Midi & Damo Suzuki, Melt Yourself Down, Cornelius.” Headfirst Bristol Staff Picks

THE EVIL USSES make a kind of undefinable, instrumental, protopunk, jazz not jazz, noise that reaches extreme euphoric moments on stage. Inspired by the nonsense poetry and music of Ivor Cutler and angular altrock groups such as Deerhoof. They have been touring across the UK and Europe for nearly a decade to drools of cult like extasy. Releasing records via Bristol ‘Stolen Body Recordings’. On bills including Paddy Steer, Henge, Part Chimp, The Comet is Coming and Melt Yourself Down.

 ICHI is the Japanese One-Man-Band dadaist instrument maker, songwriter and performance artist. Releasing music with Pictish Trails ‘Lost Map’ Records, ‘Kit Records’ and ‘Sweet Dreams Press’ in Japan. He has performed his hugely unique show to metal heads, grandmas, folkys and crying toddlers across the world including performances at Green Man, Glastonbury, Supersonic as well as an art instillation at End of the Road festival which virilized.
 Earlier in 2022 The Evil Usses and Ichi got together to work on some tracks, a few weeks later they formed for the first time as ICHIGO EVIL, performing a bounce-off-the-walls-bonkers part improvised set to a sold out Bristol Psych Festival.

2023 saw the guys put out their first release, a cassette of demos and home recordings. They have since taken their live show to WhereElse in Margate and Wanderfal Festival in Cornwall. The band Squid saw the Evils live at the festival, recommended them via The Guardian and have invited them on tour this Autumn.

*“Ichigo Evil are the mad combination of The Evil Usses – an incredibly smiley Bristolian four-piece making exuberant rock music – and the alt-pop and performance art of Ichi, a homemade inventor of all things weird and wonderful from Nagoya in Japan. Separate artists in their own right, they first joined forces last year for a gig in Bristol and cemented a blooming musical relationship this year through a couple of residencies – PRAH in Margate and The Cornish Bank in Falmouth – which we also had the pleasure of doing. Highlights from that Falmouth set were many but the real standouts were predominantly gymnastic: the length of time that Ichi can hold a handstand (over five minutes!) and the height at which Ichi, The Evil Usses – and the subsequently soaring crowd – could jump.” Squid Recommends for The Guardian. *

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