The Hobknobs

Please Please You & Brudenell Presents... R.M.F.C., the brainchild of New South Wales rock'n'roller Buz Clatworthy have released one album and a trio of singles for awesome Aussie indie Anti Fade Records (Delivery, Parsnip, Terry, Civic, Vintage Crop). They've played alongside the likes of Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Snooper, EXEK, UV Race, Institute, The Shifters, toured Europe and the US and are back for a handful of UK shows in September. The Hobknobs is the duo of Yaël Dekker (The Klittens) and Arie van Vliet (Lewsberg) - live they are a trio and have recently toured alongside Horsegirl, Cass McCombs, Ora Cogan, Cindy and Prewn. Their first album ‘Helmets Off’ will see the light of day on June 26th! R.M.F.C. For those who read these things without listening first, you might ask: what does this R.M.F.C. sound like? Let’s stay with the overused descriptors – I think R.M.F.C. is rock music band, more specifically a post-punk band.Indulge me. If you could say anything about post punk it means post-Wire, who were past punk before punk had an opportunity to codify and become everything brilliant and stupid that we’ve spent 40 years unpacking. Wire unpacked punk immediately and spent three perfect albums mapping what comes next – their “long awaited debut” came after a pub rock punk phase… and entered into the world of angular guitars and arctic ice feel. Wire’s opening Pink Flag jab – Chairs Missing straight – and 154 hook knockout has haunted the mixing desks of ambitious post-punk bands since, and every major city in the western world has at least one Pink Flag band, one Chairs Missing band, one 154 band.Few bands manage to sound like all 3 records, but R.M.F.C. are rock music fan club… The Hobknobs “To describe the music of The Hobknobs, use the word ‘natural’. And what you will mean is: fitted to itself; essentially, albeit politely, uninterested in whether or not you’re looking. You might think of early rock ’n’ roll and you’ll be thinking of its energetic nonchalance and honest economy minus any sentimentality. Sonically and lyrically, the elements of the songs dovetail showing how they move but giving no temptation to take them apart. The duo Yaël Dekker and Arie van Vliet have long admired each other's music but their collaboration here is not a closed conversation -- at the same time colloquial and cerebral, we are invited in, if we can hang. As a natural thing is self-possessed, The Hobknobs deftly maneuver so that we stand with them, hearing and seeing with them, and find that each song is a place to be.” – Karina Gill (Cindy) ***IMPORTANT***Wharf Chambers is a members' club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. To join, please visit our website. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.