left to right: Gyrus, Merrick, Phagus, Simon, Mahalia

We've broadcast one night a week during seasons of Leeds Student Radio. They usually have two four-week seasons a year, one in spring and one in autumn. Check their web site for the current frequency (if they're on air now)... Streaming audio of the station comes from their site, but if they ain't on air now then you've got to check out our archive of good stuff we've done, buy our CDs or remain a Beasty Virgin.

NEWS

24 Oct 07 - we're not dead yet

Despite appearances to the contrary, we're still here. We've not done owt new in a year or two, and so there's been no updates to the site. But yes, we still exist and yes, you can still order the CDs.

8 Nov 05 - live set at Aspire

Once again, Aspire rears it's funkacious head and from 17th-20th November it's set to give the good burghers of Leeds and environs a big dose of what they need most.

It'll be the classic Aspire formula - bands Friday night, big all-nighter Saturday, acoustic and open mic Sunday, with a great assortment of workshops and films in the daytimes on a variety of political, practical and spiritual things. And a cafe too.

Once more, we're pleased to get to lend our Beastoid skills to the proceedings, and will be doing a room all of our own on the Saturday night. Much more 'up' and much less twisted than the radio shows, it'll be an antidote to the electronic music going on elsewhere. My favourite bit of last time was late on, as the dance music got less and less intricate, we played more and more subtle and rich musics from around the world. Then we closed at about 11am by playing Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. The whole album.

The date is Saturday 19th November. The venue is as yet unannounced, but check the Aspire site nearer the time for that. It'll be in inner Leeds somewhere.

Rock like a bugger, daddio.

13 Feb 05 - one-off radio show coming up this month

The cool folks at Lifeforce are doing a one-week radio station to give an airing to the best underground talent in Leeds, and to RSHB as well. It'll be broadcating on 87.7FM across Leeds from 8am-2am from the 20th to 27th February. RSHB are doing a two-hour slot 7pm-9pm on Sunday 27th. Dunno if it'll be webcast - we'll update here when we find out.

And thanks to everyone who came to the utterly rocking Aspire on 11th December. Man it was great, what an amazing uplifting vibe throughout the weekend. We loved the crew, the punters, the room and we took the groove so many places, and eventually closed the set at 10am with What's Going On by Marvin Gaye - the whole frikkin album! I've not heard a single person say a single bad thing about the event, and there's a strong feeling amongst the Aspire crew that there should be another soon. If that happens, we'd love to do another room like in December. Watch this space...

27 Oct 04 - live Beasty action coming soon

3 Feb 04 - NEW CD! - 'King Monged out now

We did it! We got our proverbial excremental solids together, and flying hot off the Beastoid presses and into your teeth comes 'king monged.

Like Karma Khazi, it's a hefty two-disc affair. Disc one is more comedytastic and abrasive, disc two is a sweeping tapestry of sonic warpedness and opiate textures, ideal for challenging your mashed self with when you're in no fit state. The discs have been titled 'In Yer Face' and 'Off Yer Face' respectively.

We've added some of the 'king monged tracks as MP3s on the downloads page.

5 Dec 02 - live set at Aspire; a new Beasty frontier opens

The debut RSHB live set at Aspire was a novel experience. We went prepared for a mong-out, but the high energy of the room led us to something altogether more boistrous. We played a right mix-up with some cool soul, dirty funk, and we even had people dancing to the theme from Terry & June.

At 3.30am it was starting to wind down and we could see classic twisted Beatyness coming, then the place was raided by vicious police. Despite the intense police provocation and violence, all the crew and punters at Aspire handled it very well.

It's given us a taste for live sets and we like it, and through Aspire we've made links with some fine folks, so we'll be back somewhere soonly.

In the meantime, fuck tha police. If anyone was there when it kicked off, please get in touch with Aspire - they are collecting witness statements and they're going to sue the police for what they did. It doesn't matter if you don't have a lot of details, your one incident may corroborate someone else's statement. And if we sue them it'll discourage them from doing it in future.
info@a-spire.org.uk
07796 343 085
Aspire website

20 Nov 02 - live radio shows finished, CD on the horizon

RSHB has just finished ignoring an assortment of UK laws about broadcasting, taste, decency and copyright by doing another series of live shows on LSR. The shows went very well, and there will certainly be a CD compilation released from it (working title: " 'king monged "). Because it took a lot of work to get Karma Khazi out and that project overlapped with the live shows, we're probably gonna leave it a while before sifting the discs to make the new CD. There's a general feeling in the Beasty camp that we've let our other projects slide for too long, and we're unsure whether we'll do much more after this.

10 Oct 02 - New CD out! - Karma Khazi available now!

RSHB is back to batter your brain with bastardly buffoonery and abundant aural freakery.

The spring 2002 series of live radio broadcasts went really well, and we were left with soooo much good stuff that the new CD is a mighty sprawling two-disc affair. One disc is a lively quick-fire and comedy heavy one, the other a sprawly mongout montage of soundscapes.

The title is Karma Khazi, with a total playing time of 132 minutes for £3 (if you're outside the UK: 7 $/Euros). With tracks like The Peaking Deacon Speaking, Peaking, Heron Dildo, and the 7 minute epic Dirty Bastard Dirty Fucker, you know it's a full-on Beastoid frenzy.

A selection of tracks from Karma Khazi have been added to the downloads page.

17 July 02 - The CDs Just Got Cheaper!

It just got cheaper for us to make the RSHB CDs, so we're passing that saving straight on to you. We're not interesting in making any money from this, we just want people who'd like our stuff to have it. So we make the CDs as cheap as possible and put up loads of free downloads. And now the CDs are £2 each (£3 for double CDs). Check out the CDs page for more details.

new downloads

The MP3 and downloads archive, which has recently become as expanded as the mind of the child who mistook a bag of crystal LSD for a sherbet dip, has just had the addition of some of the little spoken word samples used on the shows. More to be added soonly.....

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