The Neutrinos

The electrically charged Neutrinos fused at the turn of the century and became a force to be reckoned with by 2004 when they released Sick Love. This emotive, Paul Sampson (Primitives, Catatonia) produced first album, was voted number 1 album of the year by readers of E-Zone magazine. These former Peel favourites come heavily recommended as a band to catch up close! Taut bluesy garage guitar music fronted by the never less than attention grabbing, audience hooking, incendiary Karen Reilly. They have been likened to a female Nick Cave fronting The Queens of the Stone Age, to a female David Bowie tugging at your eyes, your ears, your organs but they are never less than themselves, never losing identity or direction.

International ambassadors of bluesy garage art-rock, The Neutrinos have played many festivals including Toronto’s 3-day North By North East Festival, Berlin’s British Music Week, Exit Festival (Serbia).

Project Update:

‘The Butcher Of Common Sense’ is the new album by Norwich based The Neutrinos. They took 6 artists (a writer, a film-maker, a sound recordist, a graphic artist and two more musicians: BK+Dad ) with them for a 10-day intensive project in Berlin in a defunct DDR radio station, Funkhaus Nalepestrassse. The idea was to become immersed in the surroundings and create an album which would take its inspiration from this extraordinary space and from the atmosphere and history of Berlin. Four years in the making, the project has challenged their ideas of making music, being in a band and just about everything else!

The result is The Butcher of Common Sense:

An album. A vinyl. An artbook. A performance. An exhibition.

Throughout spring 2013 The Neutrinos are playing european dates in Belgium, Holland and France, with a reconnaissance trip back to Berlin planned in order to put together a site specific show for the autumn in Berlin. Their work is now taking the shape of site specific shows, lectures, immersive multi-sensory playbacks in darkness as well as more conventional gigs. The Butcher of Common Sense art-book and album is finding new homes in prestigious art libraries and bookshops, taking the band’s work to new corners of the creative world. The Butcher of Common Sense project is being documented in a whole chapter by a soon-to-be-published work “The Beechwood Airship Interviews” by Dan Richards (collaborator on “Holloway’ with Stanley Donwood and Robert MacFarlane), set for publication by Faber later this year. For latest events and live show dates please follow links below.

What others are saying….

“The Butcher of Common Sense was the most original and exhilarating concept I saw in all of last year, and the live performances within the Horse Hospital a particularly enjoyable, immersive experience – a noir cabaret for the senses!”

– Cathi Unsworth journalist, novelist.

“I completely loved the under croft event. It was an ideal use of the space, dramatic and moving (both literally and emotionally).”

- Dr. Veronica Sekules Head of Education Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

“The Neutrinos continue to push the boundaries of how live music can be received, enjoyed and experienced. The show at the Undercroft illustrated why the Neutrino’s continue to be revered amongst their peers. Innovation seems to be a Neutrinos forte. The unplugged wandering trio, seducing and seductive in their powers of persuasion. The fractured light; beautifully framed with thought out considerations for the narrative of the moving images and music. This was no ordinary experience – this is what sets them apart from everyone else out there banging out a 40 minute set under flashing LEDs.”

- Paul Sprong Director Ormiston Venture Performing Arts Academy

“post-punk situationist Dada” - Nick Johnson

“Minimalist art nightmare….in a good way” - Luke Emery Producer

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