Beef

seen live

There are at least five bands named Beef: from the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, Japan, as well as a rapper from the US, as follows in chronological order: 1) The English band: Formed around 1988 in Greater London, Beef released their first album, Living In A Hee Hee Wey (LOS002), together with an EP Stop The Pigeon (Rat001) and a single Lazen Hags (Rat003)) taken from the album, in 1989. The album received some lukewarm reviews and was given airtime on stations in the UK, BeNeLux and Germany, but generated limited sales. A second album Low Slung Town (Rat009) was released in 1991 after which the band disappeared into thin air. 2) The Spanish band: An indie-rock band from Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Barcelona), Beef was started by former Bach Is Dead member, David Rodriguez in 1993 and has since become one of the foremost groups in the Spanish indie scene. Beef’s first album, “Beef Songs,” was released in 1994 on a fledgling label founded by Servando Carballar and went largely unnoticed due to insufficient and poor promotion. Carballar’s label soon went under and Beef, free of any ties, was signed to the label Acuarela (then a sub-label of Elefant Records) and the EP “Beef Sings” (comprising material recorded before “Beef Songs”) was released in 1995. David Rodriguez then began to rehearse with his current band: Juanjo (also in Stereorent), Joanra (now in Love Of Lesbian) and Blas (also in Penuria); and gave the first live show with this line-up. In March 199...