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Dead Rat Orchestra celebrate Rat Catcher's Day by luring people to watery death

Long-overdue critical recognition for the Dead Rat boys, as Clive Bell reports on their Rough Music show at the Ovada Warehouse in Oxford in Wire issue 363. "The Dead Rats, barefoot and bearded, have cast aside all cool.... their performance stands vigorously on its own strange legs" They have indeed cast aside all cool.

C Joynes and Dead Rat Orchestra present the first fruits of a new collaboration at the New Wolsey Studio in Ipswich.

We’re going out with a bang… or more accurately with ridiculously action-packed Friday night of light entertainment, courtesy of some of the biggest names on the antigen roster. The rural backwater of East Anglia is the only place to be, as Dead Rat Orchestra return to Colchester Arts Centre for their annual Christmas show with Danish oddball Goodiepal. Support is provided by Lee Ashcroft. Also in Colchester, the mighty Dingus Khan take their onstage antics to Tribal. Further east, Rory and Ned return to Ipswich for a one-off show at the Steamboat.In Norwich, Henry Homesweet makes his newly adopted hometown debut with…

Robin Alderton, of Dead Rat Orchestra notoriety, plays a solo show in his Harpoon Group incarnation at Colchester Arts Centre, supporting Godspeed offshoot, Esmerine.

Nathaniel Robin Mann and Daniel Merrill are in Europe again, playing a series of solo shows and Dead Rat Orchestra performances in Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands.

Dead Rat Orchestra take their hollerin', howling, axe-wielding folk mayhem to the Cambridge Folk Festival on 26 July.

Saturday night at the Lightbulb Festival saw Nathaniel Robin Mann return to St.Martin's Church to treat the audience to one of the most memorable performances of his career.

Ok, so they are headlining one of the the smaller stages, but this is one of the biggest festivals on the international circuit and they are duking it out at midnight with Metallica, Chelsea Light Moving and Sigur Ros.

Robin and Dan led a procession of revellers to the ceremonial burning of a 30 foot wicker man at the climax of the Dead Rat Orchestra set at the Sin-Eater Festival in Shropshire on Sunday. No Christian policemen were harmed in the incident.