About JESUS BRUISER
New MP3s online from split album with WAR COMA -
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We are an anarcho-punk band and identify with the anti-capitalist and autonomist movement. Since our inception we have played benefit gigs for climate change activists, social centres and communal art spaces, anti-fascist football tournaments, youth music programmes, campaigns against the arms trade, radical freepapers, vegan prisoner support and Anarchist Black Cross groups, fox-hunt saboteurs, the defence of active squats, Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, resistance against the British National Party, the movement for the abolition of immigration controls, and more. Many of these gigs we organise ourselves.
We are currently looking for D.I.Y labels to work with Active Rebellion / Pumpkin Records / Anti-Koerper Export / Wretched Form Record Distribution on releasing our split LP with our friends WAR COMA from Manchester (CD version already available from Pumpkin Records, SLit Records or from us direct) - you can hear two songs out of the five on it at the top of this page (more to be posted soon) and read the lyrics here.
The story of JESUS BRUISER starts in the mists of time, New Years Eve 2005, Bristol, Easton. A living room in a squat… a lethal combination of ingredients came together to form a vile cocktail that has been bruising innocent people ever since. The cocktail was:
It was consumed and people exclaimed “Jesus!”; more was consumed and the next day people felt as though they’d been crucified and a feeling of internal bruising lasting up to 3 days followed. Later they recovered as if they had risen from the dead, feeling fine.
Time passed and the legend took on a new form…
The band started rehearsing in a cellar with smelly drains and frequent wafts of cat piss punctuated with the occasional downward flush of someones shite from upstairs through the pipes. A perfect setting for the creation of a new genre of music:
The band has since lurched through various musical styles, line-ups and states of sobriety. From Bristol’s worst support band to our first European tour back in 2008 little has stood in the way of optimism over ability - you can hear MP3s of various stages of the band at this website, or get in touch at info (A) jesusbruiser.co.uk for any you want to know. A big thanks to everyone and anyone who has helped and supported us along the way - you are not forgotten.