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Q And Not U biography
 JOHN DAVIS - DRUMS/PERCUSSION/VOCALS/ETC. HARRIS KLAHR - GUITARS/VOCALS/SYNTHS/ETC. CHRISTOPHER RICHARDS - GUITARS/VOCALS/BASS/SYNTHS "Q and no thank U" huffed a hipster-ed gone chance contact of supply as the buzzed-about D.C. clothes took the Dark Animal level and began tearing into their decided sometime in the Winter of '99. "Jesus" I knowing to myself "this kind recent circle is ALREADY inspiring an indie-braggart reaction. They Necessity be doing entity fair." By the limit of their decided it had whole been clearly stated: Q and Not U weren't doing entity fair they were doing Entirety fair. I converted that darkness and have been a believer ever since. And that chance contact with the plentitude of 'tude. The final period I ran into him a not many old age below the path was at addition Q and Not U gig. "Oh you similar these guys too." he asked. I fair smiled and nodded. The Onion that meta-book of ridicule and whole things ending-precise recently ran a shortened object that was headlined entity along the lines of "Poor Nu-Metal Circle Clearly Not Listening to Its Influences." The object went on to speck gone the hilarity in some eighth-production watered-below grunge circle maxim that they're influenced "by Zeppelin and Sabbath" when they truly healthy similar a Shrubs wrapping circle. Now I container't say I know for certain what the guys in Q and Not U would record as their "influences" but I'd be agreeable to gamble that they ARE listening to them and closely. In the guessed harmony-analyst examination-language thesaurus Q and Not U would probable be angry-referenced with any and whole of the next entries: * Bands that container genuinely be described using words similar "bent" "thin" "close" "sensual." * Punk Bands that right to be influenced by below-the-radar harmonic genres similar Spirit-Spirit and Dub and container truly prove it. * Bands that inspire 'zine writers to trot gone the classics "demanding" and "relevent" - and in this infrequent case it applies. Okay - plenty of the indefinite and oval and on to some facts as I know them to be true: The circle formed in the Season of 1998. There were four of them then. They made a alone and an holder with producers/engineers Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara. The records were called Feverish and Cognizant and No Kill No Beep Beep respectively. They toured a property. They parted ways with the bassist. There were three of them following that. They began to reinvent themselves as a three-part doing extravagant belongings similar whipping gone bizarre instruments and experimenting with strange percussion and cold rhythms (whole of it amazingly worked -- amazingly.) They made addition alone and addition holder. They dubbed these records On Theater piece Patterns and Dissimilar Injury. Dissimilar Injury was the filled-extent. It is quite pleasant. Here is where we coming again to the aforementioned "indefinite and oval" make-up and words. There are a not many sensations that are so utterly unique that they container never be completely replicated in any additional circumstances. For me there are three that jump to intelligence. Earliest there is the touch of my organ sinking with unearned blame as I realize that the vehicle that has been next me below a residential path in the central of the darkness for the final assorted miles is a lawman cruiser. I have accomplished emptiness incorrect but does the cop know that. Subordinate: A human want singular referral "fleas" in my occupancy to inspire bouts of paralyzing itchiness. Logically I know there are no fleas on me but psychosomatically I am under siege. My genius and my physique do fight and the physique wins. It is frustrating yet oddly satisfying in it's easiness. The third and last feeling for the purposes of this part of printing is the individual that justifies the earlier paragraph. It is the feeling of perception the harmony of Q and Not U in my headphones done my speakers in the vehicle existent onstage on a jukebox or in the shower (as mimicked cruelly and unfortunately by me). The harmony makes me texture blameworthy for flat attempting to classify it or quantify it. It is it's belonging type healthy manner of exchange. It is entirety that got me into harmony to begin with. - Ben Boyer THE BASICS Q and Not U comprised of John Davis Harris Klahr and Chris Richards formed in the season of 1998 (along with previous part Matt Borlik) and began playing gone in November of that year. The circle's earliest delivery the Feverish and Cognizant alone came gone in April 2000. The circle's subordinate delivery the No Kill No Beep Beep filled-extent account was released in October of 2000. Next far-reaching touring on interest of No Kill No Beep Beep the circle parted ways with Borlik in slow 2001. Q And Not U released a recent alone on vinyl and condensed disc called On Theater piece Patterns in April of 2002. In October of 2002 a recent filled-extent holder Dissimilar Injury choice be released. Similar entirety else the circle has released it is on Dischord Records and was produced and engineered by Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara at Central Attention Recording Studios. Tours of the U.S. Canada Europe and Japan choice unfold during whole the immediately nine months in holder of Dissimilar Injury. |