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Artist
Trim The Barber
12+ albums
post-punkPsychedelic Rockrock80sGarage Rock
about
Digital media has usurped the real and the tangible. The government ring our necks and bleed us dry and conflicting feelings stifle the breeze as East Londoners prepare for the Olympic onslaught. Weighing up emotion and politics in equal measure, Trim the Barber are an ironclad four-piece with a social conscience. Refusing to pander to trends, where their chosen moniker may be misleading – a jovial attempt at namechecking dub master King Tubby –their anger fuelled, effects laden outpourings are by no means frivolous and ably channel the sense of despair felt by many in these strange, unsettling times. They cling fast to hefty, snarling sonics and thread melodic Wire-esque post-punk grooves through the aesthetic clout of A Place to Bury Strangers. “Words for rainy days,” offers guitarist/vocalist Ramsay Cooper, an idea quite at odds with the current sunny spell but one which nonetheless depicts the band’s uncompromising mien. Bassist/vocalist Matthew Potter (Astral Tide, Dark Patterns) and guitarists Patrick Banks and Ramsay Cooper are school friends who fled the Home Counties for London to flex their creative muscles. They met drummer Jonas Duus (Astral Tide, Dark Patterns, And Yet It Moves, Droem, Nonoia) last year “late one misty evening” and he was impelled to leave Copenhagen and come on board as the final percussive piece in the Trim the Barber puzzle. Much to the dismay of their neighbours, they now reside and practice together in a “cosy” house in Lower Clapton, wh
