{"id":384,"date":"2009-02-06T18:40:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T07:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discontentblog.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2021-01-31T22:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T22:48:02","slug":"three-trapped-tigers-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/06\/three-trapped-tigers-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Trapped Tigers | 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/discontentblog.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/a0db3850-888b-4b89-a660-95209fe8e10e.jpg\" alt=\"A0DB3850-888B-4B89-A660-95209FE8E10E.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the best things about the recent All Tomorrows Parties was getting my brain scrubbed with dirty wire wool by Fuck Buttons.  A blissful assault from start to finish, it was one of the most sensational live aural experiences I&#8217;ve had since witnessing The Boredoms live back in 2002 (who were incidentally supporting John Cale at the time, oddest master &amp; servant relationship of all time).<\/p>\n<p>But imagine if Fuck Buttons <em>did<\/em> actually believe in taking a breath, in pausing for a second to take stock, and not only that, decided to indulge in a little bit of Four Tet \/ Pivot style angular frippery and Lightning Bolt tubthumping, before counting to three and diving back in again.  London improv trio <strong>Three Trapped Tigers<\/strong> are trapped in that moment. It&#8217;s hard to keep up, but like a late night meeting with a tub of Ambrosia Custard, you just want to keep going &#8211; even after it&#8217;s long gone.<\/p>\n<p>The debut EP is out now on Blood &amp; Paper.  Do it via Paypal at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/threetrappedtigers\">myspace.com\/threetrappedtigers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Tapped Tigers &#8211; 1<\/strong> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discontentblog.com\/downloads\/01%201.mp3\">mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Tapped Tigers &#8211; 3<\/strong> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.clashmusic.com\/music\/Track-of-the-Day\/three%20trapped%20tigers-Track%2003.mp3\">mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>img<\/strong> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hasensaft\/\">hasensaft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things about the recent All Tomorrows Parties was getting my brain scrubbed with dirty wire wool by Fuck Buttons. A blissful assault from start to finish, it was one of the most sensational live aural experiences I&#8217;ve had since witnessing The Boredoms live back in 2002 (who were incidentally supporting John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442,6],"tags":[1605,395],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discontent","category-old-blog-posts","tag-discontent-blog","tag-threetrappedtigers","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21513,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/21513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}