All tickets can be puchased from the following places;
- Rock City Box Office Talbot Street, Nottingham. Tel: 08713 100 000
- ALT-TICKETS www.alt-tickets.co.uk
- GIGANTIC TICKETS www.gigantic.com
- Selectadisc over the counter upstairs, at the big shop on Market Street, Nottingham.
Gig
opening & closing times:
An early show doors will open sometime around 7 - 7.30pm and close 10
- 10.15pm
A regular timed show, doors will open sometime around 8pm and close 11pm
or around midnight.
For details about the venue click here
2007SEPTEMBER2007
Wed
SEPT 26th:
YOUTH MOVIES + JONQUIL + ADAM GNADE
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £6
note: ticket price incl. FREE entry to ELECTRIC BANANA
(cheap drinks 'til 3am) club night later.
"Youthmovies
live in Oxford but none of them are from there. They met and formed in
late 2002 and there are now five of them.
To date they have released two mini-albums, three singles and three limited
edition tour-only CDRs.
Amongst others Youthmovies have toured with iForward, Russia!, 65daysofstatic,
Hope of the States, Oxes, Redjetson, Adam Gnade and Blood Red Shoes...
Played shows with the likes of Mission of Burma, Biffy Clyro, Bloc Party,
Death Cab for Cutie, Trans Am and Cursive... As well as playing both improvised
and regular sets at Leeds (as Saul Williams backing band), Reading, Bestival,
All Tomorrows Parties, Truck and Latitude festivals, earning them a reputation
as one of Britains best live bands.
Youthmovies recently recorded their full-length debut, to be released
in late 2007."
For more information see: www.myspace.com/youthmovies
www.drownedinsound.com/youthmovies
www.myspace.com/jonquiluk
www.myspace.com/gnade
Thursday
OCT 27th: Radar: VIDEO NASTIES + CHRIS MAHER + THE
WOWZ
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £3
Video Nasties are from The Smoke and their MySpace
says their influences are; The Adverts, Pulp, The Damned, Jodorowsky,
The Exploding Hearts, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pixies, The Stranglers,
Swell Maps, Sonic Youth
American Chris Maher has been described as "A Lo-fi
Anti-folk Mark Eitzel for the 21st Century!"
The Wowz are a prolific three-piece miscellaneous band
from New York City who comb (and combine) the eternal dolor of Hank Williams
Sr. with the perverse humor of David Berman and the improbable harmonies
of BEATLES FOR SALE. Since 2004, theyve recorded two full-length records
and an EP.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/videonasties
www.myspace.com/chrismaher
www.myspace.com/thewowz
www.myspace.com/???
Friday
SEPT 28th:
Cosmic American proudly presents: JOHN POWER
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £8
As
well as providing the pulse for The La’s, John Power clearly has
his own path to follow. Genial, re-energised (he’s newly married)
and looking into a sunlit future, he’s already thinking about his
next album. In parting he speaks of the commonality of music from the
world over, and how the human ear recognises universal melodic phrases,
and how we all see ourselves in traditional songs that pre-date us and
will survive us too…
It sounds familiar; in this way, Willow She Weeps, his first true solo
album, is a fair exchange between him and you, and you and him. “I’ve
come full circle,” he says, “and now I wanna get active and
do what I do, and get this thing moving. After all this time, I’m
only just starting now to look forward.”
For more information see: www.myspace.com/johnpowerukcom
www.johnpower.uk.com
www.cosmicamerican.com
Saturday
SEPT 29th: HARRISONS + FREERUNNER + OURLIVES
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £7
***Please
take note: Re-scheduled show from JUNE 16th. Old tickets are still
valid for this gig***
Sheffield's finest....
For more information see: www.harrisonsound.co.uk
www.myspace.com/harrisonssheffield
www.myspace.com/freerunnerband
www.myspace.com/ourlives
Sunday
SEPT 30th: "THE BODEGA BALL"
TEENAGERS + LATE OF THE PIER + BLOOD RED SHOES +
TINCHY STRYDER +
THE ANSWERING MACHINE + KID HARPOON + JEREMY WARMSLEY
+ BEANS ON TOAST
+ THE RECOVERY +
HOUSE OF BROTHERS + RATTY RAT RAT lots still t.b.c.
Special
Guest DJ's: NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB + more tbc
5pm - 3am Advance tickets £10
Monster alert! This will be a biggie... oficially the opening night
of the all "new" BODEGA Social Club - there's talk of two (possibly
THREE) stages and a lot of VERY SPECIAL GUESTS (playing live and spinning
some tunes).
For more information see: www.theteenagers.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/theteenagers
www.myspace.com/lateofthepier
www.myspace.com/tinchystryder
www.myspace.com/bloodredshoes
www.myspace.com/theansweringmachine
www.myspace.com/beansontoast????
www.myspace.com/therecovery1
www.myspace.com/houseofbrothers
www.myspace.com/rattyratrattheband
www.myspace.com/kidharpoon
www.myspace.com/jeremywarmsley
www.myspace.com/newyoungponyclub
www.myspace.com/???
www.myspace.com/????
2007 OCTOBER2007
Tuesday
OCTOBER 2nd: EUROS
CHILDS + RADIO LUXEMBOURG
8pm - 11pm Advance
tickets
£8
His MySpace says...I've been ploughing the field of Rock and scattering
tunes as a solo artist since the summer of 2005, releasing two albums
'Chops' (Feb 06) and 'Bore Da' (March 07) and two 7'' singles:'Donkey
Island'(Dec 05) and 'Costa Rita' (April o6).When playing live I'm in the
good company of Peter Richardson (drums) Alun tan Lan (guitar, vocals)
Steven Black (bass, vocals).
For more information see: www.myspace.com/euroschilds
www.myspace.com/radiolux
Wed
OCT 3rd: WE START FIRES + (WE ARE) PERFORMANCE
7pm - 10pm Advance
tickets £6
(ticket price includes FREE entry to ELECTRIC BANANA
club night later - cheap drinks 'til 3am)
"A breathless mix of spiky indie rock, electro noise and
pure pop suss, North East girl / boy gang We Start Fires release their
new single Play You - “A girl-meets-boy / girl-wraps-boy-around-her-little-finger
scenario” - via digital download on August 20th."
For more information see:
www.westartfires.co.uk
www.myspace.com/westartfires
www.myspace.com/weareperformance
Thursday
OCTOBER 4th: - RADAR FRESHER'S SPECIAL - Friday
OCT 5th: PURESSENCE Adv. £10 7pm - 10pm
THE DISPLACEMENTS + CAGE THE ELEPHANT
(and very special guest DJ's: METRONOMY & MYSTERY JETS)
9pm - 3am Adv. £4 Indie/Electro club night with Radar resident
DJ's & the best in NEW MUSIC
Introducing
The Displacements, a young band from Leicester with big ideas. They formed
a few years ago, Andy, Nick, Schwill and Bone – mates and brothers
picking up instruments and learning to play them together in the front
room of their house.
The displacements honed their talents playing free gigs in local pubs
and getting all of their mates rammed in. They then started touring and
playing gigs all over the country travelling in the backs of vans and
big red trucks.The lads spent many nights writing songs in their hometown,
inspired by the bands they loved, the girls they liked, the things they’ve
seen and the nights out they’ve had.
Their style has been likened to The Who, a Hamburg era Beatles, The Kinks
and even Scouse Horror! Or as one reviewer put it: Think Motown meets
the Clash after a pint with circa 1966 Mick n Keef along the way"They
then started running their own club night in Leicester, each one they
put on sold out and a real buzz started. After a riotous set at the summer
sundae festival, plays on steve lamacq, a manager that goes by the name
of Justin, lots of gigs, drinks and songs, they started to receive a lot
of industry and A & R attention. Then they wrote this biog…
For more information see: www.myspace.com/radarnottingham
www.myspace.com/thedisplacements
www.myspace.com/cagetheelephant
www.myspace.com/mysteryjets
www.myspace.com/metronomy
Puressences fourth, as yet untitled, album is scheduled for release
later this year and the four piece will be showcasing their stunning new
songs this Winter.
This year the band return with a new album, recorded at Revolution studios
in Manchester, produced by the legendary Andy Macpherson (Badly Drawn
Boy, Buzzcocks, Johnny Marr, Doves, The Who etc).
The band have released three classic albums so far, Puressence, Only Forever
and Planet Helpless. Planet Helpless was hailed as the bands greatest,
with lead singer James stating that it was, like 15-20 years of all the
different facets of Manchester music, the acid house scene, the Roses,
the Mondays, even Joy Division all rolled into the present day 2002.
Their brilliance is driven by voice of James Mudrizcki one of the greatest
front men Manchester has ever seen.
Now, free from the shackles of that bound them in the form of major record
company, the band are ready to release their most inspired offering yet
on new Manchester based label Reaction, with the first release being a
single entitled "PALISADES".
Massive in Greece their last album reached number 4 in the Greek charts
America has recently acknowledged the bands excellence with the groups
first US offering (a collection of songs from the bands first three albums)
scheduled for a winter release with a tour of Europe, North America and
Japan set to coincide.
"A 'best kept secret' that surely can't remain so for much longer"
- The Guardian
"Why Puressence arent one of the biggest bands on the planet is anyone`s
guess". - Manchester Evening News
For more information see: www.myspace.com/puresssence
www.puressence.co.uk
Saturday
OCTOBER 6th: i LiKE TRAiNS
7pm
- 10pm Advance
tickets
£7
Leeds five-piece, they are signed to Beggars Banquet records...
For more information see:
www.myspace.com/iliketrains
Sunday
OCT 7th: NIZLOPI + JIMMY DAVIS
8pm
- 11pm Advance tickets £10
Leamington
Spa acoustic/folk/hip hop duo.
For
more information please see: www.myspace.com/nizlopi
Monday
OCTOBER 8th: CHARLOTTE HATHERLEY + SOMETHING BEGINNING
WITH L
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £7.50
Charlotte was a working rock guitarist even before she left her West
London high school. Working towards her A levels during the day, the 15-year
old was playing loud, scungy gigs round the London club scene with the
proto-riot girl group, Nightnurse.
Aged 17, Charlotte joined Northern Irish rockers Ash, her guitars adding
beef to their heavy schedule of live performances. She had two weeks in
a rehearsal studio before making her Ash debut at the V97 Festival in
front of an audience of 50,000!
Grey Will Fade
In the Summer 2004 when Charlotte commenced an 18 month tour of the world
with Ash, her own website 'charlottehatherley.com' was launched with a
free download single 'Kim Wilde' to a fantastic response. Her next single
'Summer' was released in the UK in August 2004 and entered the UK national
chart at 31.
Charlotte found time to play the headline slot on the Red Marquee stage
at Fuji Rock in Japan and play second headline on the Carling Stage at
Reading and Leeds festival in the summer of 2005, whilst still touring
the world with Ash. In February 2006 Ash and Charlotte parted ways and
she is now looking forward to asserting herself as a full time solo artist
and hitting the road, starting with a UK tour in February 2007.
The Deep Blue
Charlotte's new album 'The Deep Blue' was written and recorded in Italy
in the summer of 2006. The album is produced by Eric Drew Feldman (once
part of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band and producer of Frank Black and
Deus), Rob Ellis (best known for his work with PJ Harvey) and Charlotte
herself, and is mixed by Ben Hillier (Blur, Elbow). The album develops
beyond the post-punk melodies of first album 'Grey Will Fade', to a grander,
more elaborate sound with influences ranging from Kate Bush to David Bowie
to The Flaming Lips. In addition to this ambitious new musical direction,
Charlotte has also co-written a remarkable collaboration with one of her
musical heroes, XTC's Andy Partridge.
'The Deep Blue' is out on Little Sister Records, set up by Charlotte and
her manager Ann-Marie Shields, with distribution by Vital, to make sure
the artist has complete creative control.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/charlottehatherleyofficial
www.myspace.com/somethingbeginningwithl
www.myspace.com/thebrightlightssound
Wednesday
OCT 10th:
THE ONLOOKERS
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £5
Blues Garage Psychedelic four-piece from somewhere down south, with
a new 7" "Mine" b/w "Hardplace"out now on 1965
records.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/theonlookers
www.myspace.com/????
Thursday
OCT 11th:
SHYCHILD + WESMOKEFAGS
8pm 'til 3am Advance tickets £7.50
Back again, NYC's finest LIVE electro rockin' duo...
For more information see: www.myspace.com/radarnottingham
www.myspace.com/shychildmusic
www.shychild.com
www.myspace.com/wesmokefags
Friday
OCT 12th:
JIM WHITE + JENNY OWEN YOUNGS
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £12
JIM
WHITE IS A MUSICIAN, WRITER, STORY-TELLER AND FATHER WHO LIVES IN ATHENS
GA. HIS MUSIC HAS BEEN DESCRIBED (BY THOSE WHOS JOB IT IS TO DESCRIBE
MUSIC WITH WORDS) AS SOUTHERN GOTHIC, ALT-COUNTRY, FREAK-A-BILLY, AND
HICK-HOP.
JIM HAS RELEASED 3 OR 4 RECORDS AND AN EP ON LUAKA BOP RECORDS, THE LABEL
FOUNDED BY DAVID BYRNE. HIS NEWEST RELEASE “TRANSNORMAL SKIPEROO”
IS SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE IN THE AUTUMN OF 2007. GUEST MUSICIANS ON JIM’S
RECORDS HAVE INCLUDED VICTORIA WILLIAMS, OLLABELLE, MORCHEEBA, JOE HENRY,
BARENAKED LADIES, AIMEE MANN, AND ON AND ON.
WHITE HAS BEEN A MODEL, A BOXER, A PREACHER, A PROFESSIONAL SURFER AND
A NY CITY TAXI DRIVER.
A FEW YEARS BACK THE AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR ANDREW DOUGLAS FEATURED JIM
AS DEFACTO TOUR GUIDE IN HIS FULL LENGTH BBC DOCUMENTARY FILM “SEARCHING
FOR THE WRONG-EYED JESUS: WHICH TAKES IT’S NAME FROM JIM’S
2ND RECORD.
OTHER PROJECTS INCLUDE “HELLWOOD” A RECORD WITH JOHNNY DOWD,
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE ONE DAY, AND “JIM
WHITE’S ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS”. THE LATTER IS A CONCERT-CUM-STAGE-PLAY
THAT IS CURRENTLY "BEING DEVELOPED" AS THEY SAY IN THE WORLD
OF THEATRE.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/officialjimwhite
www.jimwhite.net
www.jennyowenyoungs.com
www.myspace.com/jennyownyoungs
Saturday
OCT 13th:
THE CHECKS
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £6
Blues/Soul rockers from New Zealand..."I watched The Checks erupt
like a volcano. I was transfixed. Adrenalin flooded my system so fast
my hands started shaking. Other bands shambled; the Checks scorched. Other
performers rode oh-so-fashionable bandwagons; The Checks poured petrol
over predictable hipster clichés and tossed a match. Other bands
scowled and stomped like crabby nippers; The Checks fuelled their performance
on pure joy."
Grant Smithies, Sunday Star Times
For more information see: www.myspace.com/thechecks
www.thechecks.net
www.myspace.com/???
Sunday
OCT 14th: AMY McDONALD + THE SONIC HEARTS
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £8
Back again... her last show sold out (if I remember correctly) so I'd
be pretty sharp about buying a ticket for this show. It will (presumably),
also sell out.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/amymacdonald
www.amymacdonald.co.uk
www.myspace.com/thesonichearts
Mon
OCT 15th: PALLADIUM 8pm 'til 10pm Advance
£5
Like
your guitar bands to wear skinny jeans, namecheck Gang Of Four and display
an air of nonchalance? You're in luck – there's about 352,487 of
them out there right now, playing soon at a toilet venue near you. Want
a band who'll mess with your preconceptions, challenge everything you
ever thought about music and force you into a frenzy of fist-pumping joy
down the front row? It's time you met Palladium, then – four guys
whose very existence demands you build them a brand new pigeonhole.
Here are some of the facts. Palladium formed last September, acquaintances
through grueling tours on the session musician circuit. They make music
that is epic, joyful and ludicrous, bringing to mind things that you love,
and things that might make you feel rather uneasy: Pink Floyd, The Police,
Fleetwood Mac's 'Tango In The Night', Steely Dan, Toto, Stevie Wonder,
Hall & Oates and The Who in the early 70's. Better still, they wear
some of the oddest clothes on earth: tweed jackets, flowery shirts, dangly
earrings, bleached hair and golf visors (yep, all at once). On paper they
sound like the worst band on earth, right? But then who ever enjoyed a
band on paper?
Palladium consist of Peter, Rufio, Fez and Rocky – four supernaturally
talented musicians who look like they got lost in fancy dress cupboard,
delivering a barrage of positive vibes. Wasn’t rock’n’roll
always supposed to be about breaking the rules?
For more information please see: www.myspace.com/palladiumofficial
www.palladiumofficial.com
Tue
OCT 16th: PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL 8pm 'til
11pm £6
First full non-US signing to DFA records.
For more information please see: www.myspace.com/prinzhorndanceschool
www.myspace.com/dfarecords
www.thisisbattle.com
Wed
OCT 17th: STEPHANIE DOSEN + JACOB GOLDEN
7pm 'til 10pm Advance £7
ticket price includes FREE entry to club night later... ELECTRIC
BANANA (Cheap drinks 'til 3am)
Stephanie Dosen was raised on a peacock farm in Wisconsin. One
day while sifting through flotsam in the attic, Stephanie found an old
guitar covered in dust. It was her secret prize. During the feather harvest,
when everyone was busy, Stephanie would sneak up into the attic to compose
songs for boys at school. She also wrote many lullabies for her two favorite
pets, a swan and a fox. Stephanie now writes mostly for ghosts with a
rusty tape player named jean-pierre that follows her everywhere. He has
made it through 7 states and 2 minor sets of injuries but still holds
onto her twilight written songs with happiness. The influence of the nightly
peacock mewing and swan swimming can still be heard in her music. Her
new record a lily for the spectre is filled with driving cradlesongs for
ghosts gone astray. She has recently teamed horses with Simon Raymonde
(Bella Union Records, Cocteau Twins) who blesses a lily for the spectre
with bass and filigree sounds for lost peacocks.
For more information please see: www.myspace.com/stephaniedosen
www.stephaniedosen.com
www.myspace.com/themusicofjacobgolden
Thrsday
OCT 18th RADAR present: REPUBLIC OF LOOSE
9pm - 3am Advance tickets £3
Come join Republic Of Loose; a band as well named as this, their second
album. A collective of like-minded souls with a loose aggregation of influences
and inspiration. But they’re not some funkateers from LA, Memphis
or Philadelphia. This is a bunch of white Dubliners on the musical razzle.
And if you have a problem with that, then frontman Mick Pyro, he of the
gorgeous white soul voice, will cheerfully stick two fingers in your direction,
but in the most academic manner<br><br>
It all originated from when I was in college, in bands, and going through
all kinds of torture about authenticity and what it meant, and trying
to find proper voice for the person I was. I started educating myself
and reading a lot of shit and I realised that – I know this sounds
highfalutin – but authenticity was a construct. And a bogus construct
at that, invented by a bunch of wack-jobs outta their heads on opium and
nature in the nineteenth century. Once I’d made that revelation,
I felt completely liberated. I just stripped down my brain for all the
things I liked in music, which all came down to James Brown and The Rolling
Stones; they were the cornerstones I could build a foundation on.
Pyro used the Stones as iconic role models. They were listening to contemporary
music, the hip shit. Even in the early 1960s, stuff like Howlin’
Wolf would only have been ten years old, so it wasn’t this ancient,
archetypal canon of music; it was fresh and immediate. I wondered why
can rock’n’roll bands still don’t draw from that source
of American music? In England, a whole narrative and self-contained mythology
has developed about rock music so it’s hard to see the wood for
the trees. To me, the Stones went straight to the source, and the fact
that they were from such an alien environment to what they were trying
to engage in, it made for this weird, new hybrid. We’re not throwing
ourselves at the wall and going goofy with it; it’s just fuck the
irony and the parody of it, and why not completely immerse ourselves in
the music that we love and block out all bullshit and fashion, and create
our own values? We know we didn’t look right for R&B, which
spurred us on even more! Plus the women at rock gigs are non-existent
or bet-down. Its good to watch women dancing!"
By going their own way, Republic Of Loose have forged their own originality
and naivety, with a hip-swinging centre that women – and yes, you
men too! – love. In any case, the music has its own authenticity
because it’s forged from passion and empathy, not from style and
careerism, and it’s already paid off; when released in Ireland,
Aaagh! reached number two in the charts and garnered two nominations apiece
for the prestigious Meteor and Choice Awards. Meanwhile, mesmerising live
performances led to tour supports with The Neville Brothers, The Thrills,
The Zutons, Scissor Sisters, Alabama 3, Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Snow
Patrol, The Roots, and Dilated Peoples, plus festival appearances at Glastonbury,
T In The Park, The Fleadh, Oxygen and the Transmusicale, Nice Jazz and
Furia Sound festivals in France
For more information see: www.myspace.com/radarnottingham
www.myspace.com/republicofloose
www.republicofloose.com
Friday
OCT 19th: 1,000 Watts present: DAVID R. BLACK +
DIVERSION OF THE MASSES
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £5
“This
Mancunian three-piece hone a unique combination of Undertones, Husker
Du and Pixies influences. The statuesque, pop-tastic melodies, mature
introspection and Who-esque riffs are simply intoxicating.” - CLASSIC
ROCK (8/10)
For more information see: www.myspace.com/davidrblack
www.davidrblack.net
www.myspace.com/diversionofthemasses
www.myspace.com/???
Saturday
OCT 20th: SHADY BARD
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £5
Shady Bard's debut album, From The Ground Up, is OUT
NOW on Static Caravan (VAN134) in the UK and XTAL (XTAC006) in Japan.
The Sunday Times called the From The Ground Up ‘dazzling’
and the album has been receiving rave reviews from the likes of Drowned
in Sound and Uncut, as well as radio plays from Steve Lamacq, Phill Jupitus,
Marc Riley and XFM.
Described as a miniature indie orchestra, their line-up includes violin,
cello and French horn alongside guitars, piano, percussion and samples.
They’ve been drawing comparisons to Mercury Rev, Super Furry Animals,
Low, Godspeed and Arab Strap, and both their debut ep and album promo
have been fetching over £100 on ebay.
They've toured the UK and played Green Man Festival, Knowsley Hall and
Supersonic Festival alongside Mogwai this summer. They support iLiKETRAiNS
on tour in September.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/shadybard
www.shadybard.co.uk
Sunday
OCT 21st: Cosmic American Proudly presents: MARTHA
TILSTON
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £8
As
political as often as she is romantic, her voice weaves magic... ...sounding
redolent of wet leaves and spider-webbed hollows... ...The Tilston name
seems fair set to dominate the English folk scene for another generation.
' - Netrhythms
For more information see: www.cosmicamerican.com
www.myspace.com/marthatilston
www.marthatilston.co.uk
www.myspace.com/???
Monday
OCT 22nd:
FIONN REGAN + BABEL
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £8
From Wicklow (Eire), and signed to Bella Union records, he is one of
twelve nominations for the prestigious 2007 Mercury Music award.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/fionnregan
www.fionnregan.com
www.myspace.com/babelbristol
Wednesday
OCT 24th: PETE & THE PIRATES
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £6
Note: ticket price incl. FREE entry to ELECTRIC BANANA
(cheap drinks 'til 3am) club night later.
Stolen recordings, indie folk/rock/pop four-piece from down sarf.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/peteandthepirates
www.peteandthepirates.co.uk
www.myspace.com/???
Thursday
OCT 25th:
RADAR present: HATCHAM SOCIAL + BRYN CHRISTOPHER
9.30pm - 3am Advance tickets £3
"Think - Josef K meets Aztec Camera and you're halfwat there..."
- Alan McGee
For more information see: www.myspace.com/radarnottingham
www.myspace.com/hatchamsocial
www.myspace.com/brynchristopher
Saturday
OCT 27th: THESE NEW PURITANS + KAP BAMBINO
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £7
"Four-piece
from Southend on Domino records, their MySpace says their influences are;
"...Loops, gold, silver, Frank Zappa, samplers, Sonic Y, J Dilla,
Flowdan, Faith No More , Dr Feelgood, medieval magic realism, John Dee,
text ,This Heat, circles, ice, cLOUDDEAD, pluvial William The Conqueror,
RZA, Fall, compression, Gang Gang Dance, G. Cavalcanti"
For more information see: www.myspace.com/thesenewpuritans
www.thesenewpuritans.com
www.myspace.com/kapbambino
www.wwilko.com
Sunday
OCT 28th:
CUT OFF YOUR HANDS! + THE PISTOLAS + THE ADS
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £6
Power Pop punk from Auckland New Zealand with strong two band supporting
bill.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/cutoffyourhands
www.myspace.com/thepistolas
www.myspace.com/theads
Monday
OCT 29th: PONY UP
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £7
Pony Up is your existential dream team. Laura Wills (vocals/keyboard)
is the neighbour-girl you watched metamorphose from a heartbroken teen
into a cynical sensualist of fully fledged femininity. Sarah K. Ruckus
(vocals/guitar) is the hard candy that broke your teeth when you chewed
instead of sucked. Lindsay Wills (drums/vocals) is your every secret misery
and ecstasy at midnight with the lights out. And Lisa J. Smith (bass/vocals)
is the perfidious lover who mends your heart by moonlight only to break
it again over breakfast. From amidst the mock-depravity and pseudo-intellectualism
of all that is hip, from amidst the scenester wank-rock and the tearful
art-house bedarkening the musical West from Williamsburg to Mile End,
emerge Montreal’s ever poignant, ever jubilant Pony Up. Combining
the sapphic pop sensibility of their debut E.P., with a sad-eyed experiential
woe that only time can teach, Make Love to the Judges With Your Eyes is
a white-hot light rising from the vain and willful obscurity of our time.
Adjectival endorsement and constraining citations of influence be damned:
Pony Up are the latter day mistresses of bittersweet revel and they know
how it feels.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/iheartponyup
www.ponyup.ca
www.myspace.com/???
Tuesday
OCT 30th:
PITTY PATT CLUB - LIVING DEAD SPOOKTACULAR
JACK RABBIT SLIM + EVA BRAUN & THE GHOULS
8pm - 3am Advance tickets £6
With all the usual BURLESQUE trimmings it's another PITTY PATT CLUB
special -
Expect turns from; Fanny Devine, Netty Page, Fleur Du Mal, Minty
Darkstar, Little Miss Mort and of course regulars The
Deville Dolls.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/????
www.myspace.com/????
www.myspace.com/???
www.myspace.com/???
www.myspace.com/????
Wednesday
OCT 31st:
THE DAYS
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £5
Drummerless and bored, Simpkins brothers Luke and Dan decided to visit
the local annual Ugborough fair day where they bumped into old school
associate, me (Harry) and we got on well enough to start jamming. A month
later we moved to London together. After a year of relentless rehearsing
mixed in with a select batch of dates playing around the London vicinity,
we attracted a bit of interest and upon arrival back home in Devon for
the summer, and enlisted fellow school buddy and axe wielder Tim Ayers
to 'rock us up a bit'. Within two months the four of us were putting pen
to paper to our record deal, shaking slightly and wondering what on earth
had just happened to us, expecting to wake up at any second.
Present / Future......
Our debut album is due to be released Spring time next year..........
but bare with us, in the mean time we are based in Hollywood pursuing
careers in acting... When / if we come back we will reside in various
manors around the English countryside, and get on with rehearsing in our
barn on Dartmoor, recording b-sides and acoustic tracks, and preparing
for the release of our EP next month.
We recorded the majority of the album in Grouse Lodge, Ireland, and made
the finishing touches over the border in Kernow (AKA Cornwall) with legendary
gentlemen and Producer, John Cornfield at his resident studio, Sawmills.
Making the album was stupendously fun but we can't wait to get on tour
again and play the songs live. We had a taster of touring at the back
end of last year with label mate Paolo Nutini and a brief spell this summer,
playing at beach bars around the South West. We are set to go on the road
again at the end of October, dates to be confirmed very soon!
As well as touring and the release of our E.P, in the next few weeks we
will also appear in a few episodes of internet T.V series, 'Kate Modern',
so check it out. We actually really enjoyed the filming process, after
initial fears of huge video cameras and cheesy lines we got into it and
ended up having a great laugh.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/thedaysmusic
www.myspace.com/????
www.myspace.com/???
2007 NOVEMBER2007
Thursday
NOV 1st: Radar present: ASOBI SEKSU
9.30pm - 3am Advance tickets £4
Please take note: The band will NOT take the stage
until after The WHITE STRIPES show (up the road at the Ice Arena) has
finished...
For more information see: www.myspace.com/radarnottingham
www.myspace.com/asobiseksu
www.asobiseksu.com
www.myspace.com
Friday
NOV 2nd: SONS & DAUGHTERS
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £8.50
Sons and Daughters are:
Adele Bethel - Vocals, guitar, piano
David Gow - Drums, Percussion
Ailidh Lennon - Bass, mandolin, piano
Scott Paterson - Vocals, guitar
adele was on tour with arab strap when she mentioned to david that she'd
an idea for a band called sons and daughters and he said i'll do it and
at the same time adele's friend ailidh was turning her dainty hand to
any instrument she could pick up so they started recording onto 4 tracks
but there was no band yet until adele meets scott right and he's got a
guitar and he's an act called march of dimes which is good and soon they
all start hanging out and chewing an idea called sons and daughters and
before long a practice was booked and it wasn't rubbish then after hot-housing
the tunes for a few months a band happened and they got a gig in the thirteenth
note in glasgow using guitars mandolins pianos drums bass and tambourines.
then what happened was loads of gigs with good bands and at the same time
this new yorker called ben goldberg wanted to put out a record of some
tunes on his ba da bing label after hearing some of the songs on a tape
so the band got some money together and paid andy miller to do a good
job on it in chem 19 which he did and it's called love the cup featuring
seven tunes and it's twenty five minutes long.
the band are currently making new tunes to play at gigs and to record
and usually say yes so just ask speaking of which adele and ailidh would
like new amps also scott would like a shiny new metal necked guitar and
david would like some wires that don't explode every second gig.
January 2004
For more information see: www.sonsanddaughtersloveyou.com
www.myspace.com/sonsanddaughters
www.myspace.com/???
Saturday
NOV 3rd: SERETONE + COMPUTERMAN + others tbc
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £tbc
Farmyard Records very proundly present - The SERETONE EP launch
party...
For more information see: www.myspace.com/farmyardrecords
www.myspace.com/seretone
www.myspace.com/computerman
Sunday
NOV 4th: VINCENT VINCENT & THE VILLAINS + OX.EAGLE.LION.MAN
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £6.50
London four-piece on EMI make a very welcome return...
For more information see: www.vincentvincentandthevillains.com
www.myspace.com/vvandthev
www.myspace.com/oxeaglelionman
www.oxeaglelionman.com
Monday
NOVEMBER 5th: THE
KISSAWAY TRAIL + THE AUTUMNS + JACOB GOLDEN
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £6
Since
the recordings for The Kissaway Trail's debut album began in spring 2006,
things have exploded around the band.
The self-titled debut was released in the UK in April this year to rave
reviews calling it “a savagely beautiful noise” (NME), "the
debut album of the year so far." (The Independent) “mesmerising”
(The Guardian), “an absolute revelation” (The Fly) and simply,
“phenomenal” (Rock Sound). The band’s live performances
are also taking the critics by storm, with The Guardian declaring them
“this year’s jawdroppers” and Drowned in Sound concluding
that, “the whole experience sticks with the attendee for days, weeks
afterwards; they should one day, soon, be playing to far larger crowds.”
Hailing from Odense, Denmark, the five young guys in The Kissaway Trail
have set sail for new shores, armed with an album full of love, hope and
loss. On deck they have their labels Bella Union in the UK, Europe and
Japan, and Etch n Sketch in Australia, who after listening to two of the
band's songs on MySpace, instantly fell in love with the band and offered
to release the album. In Scandinavia, the album is released by Playground
Music.
For more information see: www.thekissawaytrail.com
www.myspace.com/thekissawaytrail
www.myspace.com/theautumns
www.myspace.com/jacobgolden
Tue
NOV 6th: Liars Club: DEERHUNTER + EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL
SCHOOL
9pm -
3am Advance tickets £5
Deerhunter
began in 2001 with the ambition of fusing the lulling hypnotic states
induced by ambient and minimalist music with the klang and propulsion
of garage rock. The band has weathered chaotic line-up changes, the death
of a member, and much discouragement. Their live performances almost always
leave audiences polarized. They are a five-piece based in Atlanta, Georgia
USA and release music on Kranky records.
For more information please see:
www.liarsclub.co.uk
www.myspace.com/deerhunter
www.kranky.net
www.myspace.com/experid
Wed NOV
7th: OKKERVIL
RIVER
8pm 'til 10pm Advance £8.50
ticket price includes FREE entry to club night later... ELECTRIC
BANANA (Cheap drinks 'til 3am)
For a VERY LONG biography please check out their
official .com site...
For more information please see: www.okkervilriver.com
www.myspace.com/okkervilriver
Thursday
NOV 8th: BOY KILL BOY
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £8
Just finished their second album...
For more information see: www.myspace.com/boykillboy
www.boykillboy.com
www.myspace.com/???
Thur
NOV 8th: RADAR present: T.B.C.
+ T.B.C.
9.30pm 'til 3am Adv. tickets £4
Still to be confirmed...
For more information please see: www.myspace.com/radarnottingham
www.myspace.com/mstu
www.mstu.co.uk
www.myspace.com/viarosa
www.viarosatheband.co.uk
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £10
They're back...
For more information see: www.gallondrunk.com
www.myspace.com/gallondrunk
Saturday
NOV 10th: CAPTAIN
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £8
Captain are a British band from London, who formed in early 2005. They
perform a range of alternative rock songs, getting their musical influences
from groups such as the Smashing Pumpkins, The Beach Boys and My Bloody
Valentine. They are currently signed to EMI.
The band have been working with producer Trevor Horn, who has helped create
their debut album This Is Hazelville, which was released on August 14,
2006.
Recently the band have been working on their second album with Richard
Haines. Some songs from there second album have been played on their recent
London ICA, Norwich Arts Centre and Glastonbury shows. The second album
is due to be recorded before there October UK Tour and release after this.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/captaintheband
www.captaintheband.com
Sunday
NOV 11th: B-MOVIE Adv. £10 8pm - 11pm
Formed in Mansfield Nottinghamshire circa 1979...... Critically acclaimed
after releases on local label Dead Good Records, the band signed to Some
Bizarre and released the brilliant trio of new wave singles Marilyn Dreams,
Nowhere Girl and Remembrance Day. Every one an indie classic ! The band
played some great gigs and built a strong live following but an album
failed to materialise and band members left at the end of 1983. Steve
Hovington and Paul Statham carried on with new member Martin Winter and
secured a deal with Sire Records. The singles A Letter From Afar and Switch
On Switch Off were followed by the debut album Forever Running in 1985.
The band disintergrated after this with Hovington forming the band ONE
and Statham going on to work with Peter Murphy for a number of years.
Various retrospectives and session albums have been released since, whilst
the band have played live again recently too.....
For more information see: www.myspace.com/bmovieuk
www.b-movienet.co.uk
Tuesday
NOV 13th: MAKE MODEL
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £5
Make Model's debut single, The L.S.B. is available on limited edition
cd, 7'' & download NOW! on The Biz Records. The Single also features
an exclusive Union of Knives remix of Czech Neck.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/makemodel
www.makemodel.co.uk
www.myspace.com/???
Wednesday
NOV 14th: EUGENE McGUINESS + THE MULES
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £6
Eugene McGuiness has a single and video "Monster
Under The Bed" that you can check out at his MySpace or You Tube...
Whilst The Mules proudly proclaim to "enjoy both
kinds of music, - country and western".
For more information see: www.myspace.com/eugenemcguiness85
www.myspace.com/itsthemules
www.myspace.com/???
Thursday
NOV 15th: RADAR present: MAN FROM MICHAEL
9pm - 3am Advance tickets £3
Birkenhead acoustic/indie four-piece.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/radarnottingham
www.myspace.com/manfrommichael
Friday
NOV 16th: SLEEPING STATES + KOTKI DWA
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £5
… a musical project undertaken by Markland Starkie, a Midlands-born
artist who has so far spent the first half of his twenties living, working
and studying in the Big Smoke. Having grown up learning various instruments
and classical music theory, Markland became enamoured with the possibilities
of noise in a musical context and began experimenting with noise in various
bands, including noise-pop outfit Kaito (Mute). After moving to London,
and feeling a subsequent sense of dislocation, Markland began a series
of home recordings of short songs from the heart that were more minimal
in both volume and arrangement, with vocals and melodies that took more
of a central role. Sleeping States was born.
Armed with an electric guitar, found sounds, vocal samplers, and a strong
DIY punk ethos developed from a love of labels like K and Slampt, Markland
has amassed a wealth of material over the past couple of years and has
developed a range of ideas within the context of 'the song'; from lovesick
ballads (eg. his cover of Bacharach's Don't Make Me Over), to multi-layered
choral drone pieces (eg. Counterpoint A/B) to a capella pop (eg. A Trip
To NYC) to off-kilter indie rock (eg. I Wonder).
With more instruments than can feasibly be played by one person, Markland
has employed a steady throng of contributors for his live performances,
though the current core live line-up is completed with Craig Gell (Beacons)
on guitar/radios/found sounds and Caroline Banks (Seafood, Caz Mechanic)
on drums. The more recent addition of a drummer (Banks joined in 2006)
has allowed Markland to rearrange older songs in a live setting and has
also helped develop a more structured sound to new recordings. He has
even started to reintroduce the more noisy elements of his pre-SS experimentations
with, amongst other things, a feedback-drenched interpretation of Trumpet
Calls (originally recorded for 'Distances Are Great' LP), which was recently
awarded praise from avant-garde noise composer, Rhys Chatham (a live recording
of this can be heard at www.myspace.com/tomerecords).
For more information see: www.myspace.com/sleepingstates
www.sleepingstates.co.uk
www.myspace.com/kotkidwa
Saturday
NOV 17th: Kreepers present: THE CREEPSHOW
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £10
THE CREEPSHOW is a Horrorbilly outfit that has seemed to come from
directly out of the pages of one those lurid pulp magazines deemed illegal
by the U.S government in the 1950s for fear it’s contents would
hurl the teenage population into reckless abandon, engage in garish sex
rites and lewd, wanton behaviours…if THAT was the moral majority’s
view of an apocalypse for clean living and wholesomeness…Then THE
CREEPSHOW may just be the very pied pipers of debauchery they’ve
been dreading… The Creepshow are a soundtrack to back alley knifings
and drunken cat fights…. The kind a weak and beaten down tramp doesn’t
walk home from…They are of that same drunken and deranged spririt
that drove Gene Vincent to drive fulll throttle into a wall only to explode
on impact. The Creepshow are no soft-assed candy striped "pop-in-psychos-clothing"
kind of band but rather a "broken beer-bottle-in your mouth-knock
you down and boot fuck you" kind of band"!!! They are coming
to your town and the way I see it, you have two choices:
1) either come and have probably the best time you've had in a long time
getting wasted to some kick-ass horrorbilly......
~or~
2) hide in your basement for fear they might come and personally kick
your head in.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/thecreepshow
www.thecreepshow.ca
www.myspace.com/lovvers
Tuesday
NOV 20th: THE DUKE SPIRIT + CREEPY MORONS
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £7.50
Liverpudlian Alt.Soul rocker five-piece led by talented Leila Moss,
back with a bang and lots of new material...
For more information see: www.dukespirit.com
www.myspace.com/thedukespirit
www.creepymorons.com
www.myspace.com/thecreepymorons
Friday
NOV 23rd: QUI
7pm - 10pm Advance
tickets £7
Qui was founded in 2000 by drummer/vocalist Paul Christensen
and guitarist/vocalist Matt Cronk in Los Angeles, CA. Since debuting in
LA in early 2001 and the release of their first full-length CD, "Baby
Kisses," (Heart of a Champion) in 2003, they have maintained a prodigious
pace of both local performances and national tours. Their idiosyncratic
blend of punk, noise, metal and experimental genres, coupled with their
advanced musical prowess, earned them a small but dedicated following
throughout the U.S. In late 2006, Qui was joined by vocalist David Yow
of The Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid fame. Shortly thereafter, the trio released
the single, "Today, Gestation" b/w "Freeze" on the
Los Angeles-based Infrasonic Sound Recordings label. After a brief spring
tour and two acclaimed performances at the South By Southwest music conference
in Austin, TX, Qui partnered up with Mike Patton and Greg Werckman's Ipecac
Recordings for their forthcoming full-length entitled "Love's Miracle,"
scheduled for release on September 11, 2007.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/qui
www.myspace.com/?????
Sunday
NOV 25th: CARIBOU
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £9
Merge/City Slang act who have prevoiusly released material on bothy
Leaf and Domino recordings.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/cariboumanitoba
www.myspace.com/????
Monday
NOV 26th: Sonic Cathedral presents: THE WARLOCKS
+
8pm - late ? Advance tickets £5
"In many respects, the style-tombs this LA band plunders exist
in the underground's collective subconscious. Rhythm guitar and organ
combine like nothing but mid-period Velvets; gentler lead flourishes are
pure extensions of the Angelino Byrds/Love/Rain Parade tradition; the
pulse's slow-moving inevitability and the shimmering, staggering wall
of heavy drug imagery are classic Spaceman 3. These building blocks have
been utilised by entire generations of sullen youths. But the way the
Warlocks assemble them makes it all sound new, loud and ripe. The band's
considerable size (they're an octet) gives them a natural sonic width
that skinnier combos lack. And their twin drums can conjure up either
the 68 Dead or the 78 Cramps (two truly Platonic ideals). But for all
this name-checking, the Warlocks' raunch is unique, thuggy and essential".
- By Byron Coley, MOJO
For more information see: www.myspace.com/soniccathedral
www.thewarlocks.com
www.myspace.com/thewarlocks
www.myspace.com/???
www.myspace.com/????
Thursday
NOV 29th: Radar present: AGASKODO TELIVEREK
9pm - 3am Advance tickets £tbc
Judging by their MySpace they're a three-piece from London with influences;
Butthole Surfers, George A Romero, Gentle Giant, Seijun Suzuki, Gershwin,
Prince, Marco Ferreri, Black Sabbath, Ivor Cutler, Wesley Willis, Shex,
Devo, Bob Hund, Young Marble Giants, Pere Ubu, Gavin Bryars, Bo Diddley,
The Bones Brigade, Captain Beefheart, Cow'P, Kevin Blechdom, The Fall,
Bauhaus, Sonic Youth, UM, Susumu Yokota, Popol Vuh, Paganini, Bjork, Pat
Martino, Kate Bush, Mudhoney, Dresch Quartet, Bogdan Raczynsky, David
Cronenberg, The Loft Project, Matmos, Amon Duul, Melt Banana, Dj 100 000
000, Faust, Satie, Chan-Wook Park, Guns N Roses, The Ramones, The Shadows,
Magma, Claude Debussy, Skateboarding, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Monster Pussy,
Duracell, Autechre, Yo La Tengo, Thelonious S. Monk, The Show Is The Rainbow,
Frank Zappa, Gyorgy Ligeti, Gulpepsh, Doddodo, Jim Jarmusch, Sebadoh,
Mogwai, Dat Politics, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Stereolab, Love, Man
From Uranus, Bernard Herrmann, The Chap, Neu!, Deerhoof, Silverlink, Charles
Mingus, Sigur Ros, Aphex Twin, Dick Dale, Tortoise, Tangerine Dream, Throbbing
Ghristle, Popeye, Lightning Bolt, The Rebel, Nirvana, Federico Fellini,
Kraftwerk, Robert Wyatt, David Bowie, Can, Ommm, The Beach Boys, Schubert,
Jimi Hendrix, Pavement, Germlin, Max Tundra, The Country Teasers, Lester
Young, Luis Armstrong and the Hot Five and Seven, David Lynch, Smashing
Pumpkins, Weezer, Fritz Lang, Dj Scotch Egg, Nurse With Wound, The Beatles,
Puyo Puyo, Gulpepsch, Romvelope, Current 93, John Zorn, Einsturzende Neubauten,
Sparks, Steve Reich, Ove Naxx, Swans, Vagtazo Halottkemek, Europa Kiado,
URH, Andersen, The Legendary Pink Dots, Johnny Cash, The Jesus Lizard,
Bela Bartok, Faust, Michael Gira, Fugazi, Sun Ra, Bauhaus, Tuxedomoon,
Joy Division, Ennio Morricone, Art Blakey, J.S.Bach i need a coffee break!
For more information see: www.myspace.com/radarnottingham
www.myspace.com/agaskoadoteliverek
www.myspace.com/???
www.myspace.com/???
Friday
NOV 30th: JAKOBINARINA + VIDEO NASTIES
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £6
Icelandic six-piece
For more information see: www.myspace.com/jakobinarina
www.jakobinarina.com
www.myspace.com/videonasties
2007DECEMBER2007
Tuesday
DEC 4th: AKRON/FAMILY + PHOSPHORESCENT
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £8
Their MySpace says... "Akron/Family are four
extremely nice, sincere and well-mannered young men from rural America
who came to NYC (in 2002) to make music, hoping to find a thread of real
magic still winding through this city's music scene. They certainly did
just that, but they did it by retreating into a tiny Brooklyn apartment,
where they made their own world instead, in complete and stubborn isolation.
They proceeded (while simultaneously growing alarmingly long beards and
developing a playful but hermetic quasi-religious/sonic worldview/creed
known as 'AK' to make several albums worth of recordings on crude home
equipment the material compulsively chopped, spliced, and orchestrated
into fractal jewels of song and schismatically opposed atmospheres. They
accrued at least 3 albums worth of music in this obsessive manner. Along
the way, they sent me the increasingly compelling results. Soon I was
completely won over stunned in fact by a show at Brooklyn's Petes Candy
Store, where the music veered from gentle American country folk to unabashed
electronic noise to gathering and erupting crescendos, to extended skronk
improvisations that then suddenly cut to an LSD version of a backwoods
barbershop quartet or a Louvin Brothers spiritual sometimes all within
the course of one ridiculously long "song" ha ha! Ryan, who
sings lead on most of the songs, has one of those pure and sonorous voices
that when sliding up to the higher registers inevitably evokes comparisons
to angels and elicits uncomfortable feelings in girl and boy alike, but
when they all sing together it's like the goddamn Beatles or Beach Boys
or maybe an eerie and twisted version of The Band. When we started work
on this album we first spent a good deal of time sifting through the trove
of already-recorded songs. A few of those are included here with varying
amounts of further orchestration. The rest of the songs are highly edited-down
studio versions of the abovementioned live "epics", Young God
Records not being just yet in the position of being able to release a
triple CD debut (!). We've got an enthusiasm for pure sound too that shows
through in many of the songs note the squeaking chair in Italy that Miles
"played" or the weirdly skewed composition of Suchness (but
still a formidable "pop"song, in my opinion), or the "drum"
in Rainforest, which is actually all four Akrons simultaneously violently
beating their chests, the resulting percussive sound being the air released
from their mouths with each beat. As we worked, a song would sometimes
be described as too "red" or not "aluminum"enough
or some other arcane (to me) reference, but inevitably, corrections made
with the aid of a screwdriver or maybe the sanded metal rails of a staircase
resulted in an unpredictable but "correct" result. In any event,
there's a wealth of sonic variety contained herein, and first and foremost
they're great SONGS, and well sung indeed. I certainly hope you enjoy
our music".
...and about Phosphorescent - "Pride" the beautiful
third album by alt-folk original Phosphorescent (aka
Matthew Houck) is released on October 22 by Dead Oceans, the new Austin,
TX-based label which is also home to Bishop Allen, Citay, Dirty Projectors
(licensed to Rough Trade in the UK), Evangelicals, The Explorers Club
and Iran.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/akronfamily
www.akronfamily.com
www.myspace.com/phosphorescent
Wednesday
DEC 5th: THE GOOD LIFE
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £8
Note: ticket price incl. FREE entry to ELECTRIC BANANA
(cheap drinks 'til 3am) club night later.
There's something to be said for throwing down all the money you've won
and laying all your cards on the table, face up. It's a gutsy move–one
that takes a bit of courage, a bit of crazy, a bit of worry and a staunch
belief that the outcome will be well worth the risk. Musically, Omaha,
Nebraska's The Good Life lives in a moment of that complexity. Led by
Cursive's Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar), the band–featuring Stefanie
Drootin (bass), Roger Lewis (drums), and Ryan Fox (guitar, keys)–creates
bold songs that are not afraid of the mixed up emotions they describe,
sometimes in vicious, heart-battering detail. The characters that inhabit
The Good Life songs live on the precipices of courageous, crazy, worrisome
and determined, throwing down the hand they’re playing in each relationship
they’re trying to save or hoping to begin. Every song on the band's
fourth and finest LP, Help Wanted Nights, delivers those perspectives
with sheer aplomb–sometimes a little messy, sometimes a little blurred,
but never ashamed of asking for what they need.
Recorded by A.J. Mogis in Omaha, NE, the songs on Help Wanted Nights were
written to take place in the same small-town bar, and were initially meant
as the soundtrack to a screenplay that Kasher started writing in 2006
(he’s since completed it). Unlike Album of the Year’s start-to-finish
narratives, these songs seemed to describe moments of raw emotion more
than chronicle a linear tale. Keeping with this idea, when it came time
to prepare the tunes for the studio, The Good Life decided to keep the
songs as close to their original incarnations as possible, spending long
practice sessions on arrangements to record them as true to their form
as they could. The resulting recordings, all set to tape, show the compositions
on Help Wanted Nights as more stripped down and threadbare than previous
Good Life creations.
This isn’t to say that the songs on Help Wanted Nights are not expansive;
quite the contrary. Akin to stark lyricism of artists like Bruce Springsteen,
each track digs into deep emotional territory through its narrative and
melodies. Some songs touch on a dark version of Americana, as seen on
the grand chords of "You Don’t Feel like Home to Me" and
the church organ hum of "Rest Your Head." Others are softer
like "So Let Go," which delivers its late-night laments via
hushed vocals, moonlit, reverb-driven guitars and washed out cymbals.
“Heartbroke” dissects a break-up with a heavy dose of sarcasm,
while “Keely Aimee” is the best song Fleetwood Mac never wrote.
Achingly beautiful and sharply astute, Help Wanted Nights details human
nature in the most honest way possible, taking risks without regret.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/thegoodlife
www.saddle-creek.com
www.myspace.com/???
Saturday
DEC 8th: JENNY OWEN YOUNGS
7pm - 10pm Advance tickets £6
Jenny Owen Youngs is a feisty, hyper-sensitive, disease-free
singer/songwriter/former girl scout who wants to be your friend. claiming
influences from Beck to Jesus Christ Superstar to Britney Spears, her
music is an echo of Erin Mckeown hopping into Jeff Buckley's Pontiac,
cruising backwoods Alabama red dirt roads and singing along to The Sundays
and Nick Drake. Her songs straddle the heart-wrenching and the tongue-in-cheek
and say giddyup.
Raised in the lush greenery of northwest New Jersey amongst cows, haystacks,
and eastern deciduous forest, our heroine began singing immediately upon
exiting the womb. After exploring the flute (elementary school) and the
tuba (junior high), Jenny finally stepped up to the guitar at the tender
age of fourteen and, as they say, got down to business.
Her current goals include musically causing the hair on your arms to stand
up, learning greek, and like fellow jersey boy Jon Bon, seeing a million
faces and rocking them all.
For more information see: www.myspace.com/jennyowenyoungs
www.jennyowenyoungs.com
Sunday
NOV 1th: T.B.C.
8pm - 11pm Advance tickets £8
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