Barfly

This New Years Eve the barfly open their arms to celebrate a massive party put together by 4 of Brighton’s most exciting underground club nights.

Nervous Twitch - CONTEMPORY INDIE ELECTROPOP TRASH   

Shibby Shabblers - KAMIKAZE ALTERNATIVE QUEER MASHUP

Cavalcade of Pop - FUTURE-POP-RAVE-KRUNK-DISCO
 
Somewhere in the Universe - NEW & EXCITING ALTERNATIVE DANCE MUSIC
plus the boys dj’s from Luch Libre will be getting in on the antics

Lucha Libre - NO HOLDS BARRED DANCEFLOOR PARTY
 
www.myspace.com/clubnervoustwitch
www.myspace.com/shibbyshabblers
www.myspace.com/cavalcade_of_pop
www.myspace.com/somewhereintheuniverse
www.myspace.com/luchalibreparty
 
Please join their facebook groups to goad and abet the proceedings!
 
4 EPIC CLUB NIGHTS! ONE BIG VENUE! New Years Eve at the Brighton Barfly

Maps started at the end. The end of the night, the end of the music. When the last beat was dropped and the needle finally slipped off the groove, a lost soul began drifting through empty Northampton streets in the vague direction of home. Alas, he never arrived. For it was during his euphoric twilight stumble that this particular ending gave way to a bright new beginning; it was here, in the half light of a joyously desolate Sunday morning, that Maps made itself exist. Spinning through Earth's orbit, he was the first audionaut of our generation.

In reality, it was in a drowsy little village somewhere in the outer reaches of a nondescript midland satellite town that Maps came to exist. Floating through these most uninspiring of surroundings, Maps motherbrain James Chapman came upon a sound that was at once monumental and intimate; glorious and uplifting yet strangely melancholic.

His debut album We Can Create - recorded in his tiny bedroom, then co-produced in an Icelandic moonbase with Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Björk) and mixed by Ken Thomas (Sigur Rós, Hope of the States) - is a work of heart-stopping extremes. Its eleven tracks run the full length of the transmission spectrum, from euphoric space-rock to folksy, downtempo whisperings and clattering, thudding noise-pop

"It will find you," he sings optimistically on the song of the same name. If you're reading this, it already has.

With a review like that what more do you want.

THE YOUNG GODS
‘Super Ready/Fragementé’
(PIAS)

Messrs Treichler, Comet and Trontin have never been ones to rest on their laurels and ‘Super Ready’ marks another sea change in their long and fruitful career. Finely honed over a couple of years of live performances, with songs bolted firmly into place by legendary producer and longtime collaborator Roli Mosimann, it signals a triumphant return to their rock roots. The adrenaline fuelled machine-tooled punk of ‘I Am The Drug’ and ‘Freeze’ share the clanging metal riff and glorious fuck-you attitude of ‘Envoye’ while the joyous, euphoric ‘Everyhere’, propelled by some amazingly fluid drumming from Trontin just might be the greatest ‘had a bad day dear?’ antidote known to man. Franz Treichler has never been on better vocal form, moving effortlessly from sensuous croon to seismic roar although on the curious ‘Machine Arriere’ he sounds more like Oscar the Grouch having a breakdown. The affecting ‘Stay With Me’ continues their longstanding fascination with late Sixties psychedelia while the title track, already a live favourite, dissolves beautifully into lysergic guitar fuzz, trampling over the burning embers of a Stooges riff. The sound of master craftsmen completely at ease and enjoying themselves immensely, these Gods might not be young anymore but their talents are ageless.
www.younggods.com
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Having already received high praise from John Peel (the legendarily impassioned British DJ called "Lottery Winners On Acid" "one of the best songs I've heard in years"), SPIN (which deemed the band's 2004 SXSW showcase "an arena-worthy performance") and the Austin Chronicle ("consolidates all three Kinks eras – Sixties, Seventies, Eighties – in a slick '00 lathering of wit and whimsy"), the Crimea are poised to make more headway in America – certainly more than the Light Brigade did in the Ukraine.

"We want to be a timeless rock band, lyrically, musically and aesthetically," says drummer Owen Hopkins. The Crimea remain amazed their Wall of Sound and vivid lyrics found the U.K. press comparing them to such greats as The Flaming Lips and Leonard Cohen. Or that they were handpicked for opening slots with the likes of Kings of Leon, Dashboard Confessional and Ash. Or that their third single, "Baby Boom," came in at #8 on John Peel's 2003 Festive Fifty, just ahead of "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes.

Their secret weapon is Macmanus' voice – instead of composing and arranging the material on actual instruments, he'd sing the different parts, then turn those vocal melodies into guitar and keyboard lines. It is definitely worth having a listen.

Their acclaimed debut "The Neon Handshake" was released in early 2003 and earned unexpected critical praise from NME to The Guardian, including album of the year in Rocksound and the dubious honor of a top 20 UK chart place. “equal parts fury and celebration, an emotionally-fraught rollercoaster ride, and the sound of a band searching for – and finding – its own voice.” Kerrang, Albums of 2003.

The band returned to the studio in 2004 on their own label with seminal punk producers Pelle Henricsson & Eskil Lövström (Refused, Poison the Well). The result was an album infused with a revolutionary punch and a deeper, darker side. “Gold-plated and with a granite core, the strongest and most glorious fuck you of the year” Rocksound, 2005 With endless months of touring, hell is for heroes have built a community of deeply loyal followers that has enabled them to become one of the only genuine self-sufficient rock bands in the UK.

Drawing inspiration from Dischord to the Zapatistas, they continue to grow and reinvent themselves with every new song and every show. Through serious injury, reckless abandon and a rejection of almost everything they ‘ought’ to do, Hell Is For Heroes have established a track record of unbreakable resilience.

Tickets will go on sale on Tuesday 8th May at 8am

Recently signed to Columbia Records Nashville, Christian Kane is taking some time out from recording in Nashville to visit the UK once again.  Showcasing the talents of both Christian Kane and bandmate Steve Carlson, last year this show sold out tickets to The Troubadour and to Barfly B-sides @ The Enterprise extremely quickly.  Get your tickets early or you may be left out!  Performing an intimate, but high energy, acoustic show has become an annual event for Kane.  Expect each night of this Barfly Tour to bring its own surprises.

Christian Kane has had success not only with his band, but also with numerous film and television roles.  In a role that has given him worldwide exposure, Christian starred as "Lindsey McDonald" in a major role on the WB television series ANGEL.  Christian most recently co-starred in Jerry Bruckheimer’s TV series CLOSE TO HOME.  Christian was also featured in the TNT miniseries INTO THE WEST and feature films including JUST MARRIED, LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT, SECONDHAND LIONS, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, HER MINOR THING, and SUMMER CATCH.  Gaming fans may know him from his appearance in 24: THE GAME where he plays a computer-generated antagonist challenging Kiefer Sutherland to try to stop his evil plan.

A new album is in the works for release through Columbia Records Nashville. Come hear the new songs long before they are released on CD. 

Music samples and more available at www.myspace.com/kanecountry and www.kanemusic.com.

SoD aka Benjamin Darvill is anything but sanitised and dull, but no doubt he’s good for you. Formerly of the Crash Test Dummies (‘mmm’ I hear you mumble?) he has spent the last few years living in London and honing an interpretation of the devil’s music that fuses human beat-box, sampling, blazing harmonica and yelping vocals in a dazzling tech-blues workout that’s completely his own.

Sporting a trim 1950’s suit, 2-tone brogues and a Hollywood tie, he works his arsenal of instruments with a cool dexterity, the odd grin or grimace emerging from under the brim of his hat between rasps of harmonica. He beatboxes the rhythm section, looping results through a pedal sampler - building layers of grunting and ka-chickk-ing, assisted by foot-stomping and the slow shaking of a maraca in one hand. The other hand clasps a harmonica or ‘harp’ as he likes to call it, and this alternates with the seemingly limitless range of his voice to fashion a unique blue wall of sound.

Recent single Goddamn / San Francisco (released on Husky Records) demonstrates the depth of his ability. Whereas ‘Goddamn’ sounds like he swallowed several kilos of tarmac washed down with a gallon of Scotch before recording, flip over and the spine-tingling lamentation of San Francisco leaves you baffled as to how it could be sung by the same cat, but chuffed to bits you’ve got two such original songs on one seven-inch.

"we are crystal castles
we are 1 boy and 1 girl
we are named after She-Ra's home
we play rough"

 www.myspace.com/crystalcastles

Bands often learn the hard way how signing to a major label can do more to end a career than help it. As many had before them, the Mooney Suzuki took that risk and got burned. For them, Have Mercy is simply the sound of a band coming back from the dead. When James was writing the album, there was no guarantee there would even be a Mooney Suzuki when he finished:Unsure of the band’s future, James began writing songs that, he hoped, could stand on their own, unaided by the usual Mooney Suzuki bombast.Bonding over a love for ‘60s-influenced, high-energy rock’n’roll, James and Tyler formed The Mooney Suzuki in 1997, while both were attending art school in New York, where in just a couple of years, the band was embraced by both mod kids and devotees of Lenny Kaye’s famed Nuggets compilation. During this time, “garage bands” and the NYC scene experienced a surge in popularity, and, dubbed “It Garage Band,” by Entertainment Weekly’s ’02 It List, the hard-working Moonies hit the late-night talk show circuit and embarked on tours supporting The Strokes and The Hives, as well as headlining treks across the U.S. and overseas.  With the original line-up intact, Tyler returned and the band recorded Have Mercy in tribute to his father, Robert, Through the purgatory he and the band endured leading up to Have Mercy, one lesson James says he’s learned is summed up by the album’s opener “99%”, in a lyric cribbed from Winston Churchill: “If you’ve been going though hell, just keep going.”

Two girls and a boy heavily influenced by Jackie Wilson / Sonics / White Stripes and straight outta 50s milkshake parlours. Detroit-esque street corner harmonies collide with a tricked out hot-rods drowning in doo-wop. Bluesy duets of heartache and jealousy with candy and hairspray 'n' all … Banish all thoughts of sad old bloke blues bands. This is the new garage blues. It feels like rock but licks up twice as good.

http://www.myspace.com/thesugars

You must’ve noticed that there’s something happening in british rock – many bands are sick of the way things are – major label US rock is over-hyped, over-cooked, over-here and it’s about to be over….period. The Charge Of The Dark Brigade has begun.

Zico Chain are three lads in their early twenties who are part of this new slew of UK guitar bands who are sick of (scr)emo-attention-seeking and are about to grab their slice of the pie. The trio have distilled the punk riffola of Motorhead, the druggy vision of QOTSA, the musical skills and visual impact of the White Stripes and a 21st century homegrown social consciousness to create a potent brew worthy of a hard-rocking, hard-living, hard-thinking east London outfit.

Touring the UK with Alkaline Trio, Thursday, Wolfmother, Fall Of Troy and Nine Black Alps before recording their album in LA with godfather of rock Joe Barresi (Bad Religion, Tool, QOTSA), Zico Chain have been winning over friends, lovers and bartenders on both sides of the Atlantic, with their message of celebrate yourself, use your voice, get fucked up. 

Their debut single ‘Where Would You Rather Be?’ sounds like survival itself, kicking off about hopelessness and mental escapism with a daylight shredding voice over a sick rhythm section rumble. “No future that’s for sure, so stop trying and pray for cures….low living your system crashed, God gave you an autograph.”

It started with a… well, not a kiss, exactly. "We met at a festival," she tells me. "I was the only chick on the bill, and I was singing what we affectionately call ‘tampon music'… You know, singer-songwriter, Ani Di Franco, Lilith Fair, Jewel-type music… tamponics! I didn't wanna be strumming my fucking guitar for ever. I was so bored of that scene." "I was in an improvisational, experimental, drum & bass and breakbeat trio", he tells me. "The fruit of this encounter between Dan and Martina was Dragonette, a duo, who make sharp, sardonically witty electronic pop music. Dragonette are not, it's fair to say, a band who've come up the hard way on the toilet gig circuit.Their second-ever show was supporting New Order at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom, followed by a US tour supporting Duran Duran. Martina has accidentally become a pop star. When she wrote and sang lead vocals on a new Basement Jaxx track, "Take Me Back To Your House", she had no idea that it was to be their next single. Next, it's Dragonette's turn to become pop stars in their own right. If that's the correct description… "I don't see us as a pop band," says Dan, "so much as an electronic-rock band who write pop songs."

Following the 2007 release of their sparkling debut, The Great Unwanted, Lucky Soul won over thousands of hearts across the world with their lush, love-struck, classic pop songs and gained a reputation for some notoriously glittering performances as far afield as Russia, Tokyo and most recently CMJ, New York. The album went top ten in Japan and garnered a fanfare of critical acclaim back home, picking up 4 and 5 star reviews across the board.

Now busying themselves with putting the finishing touches to their sophomore long player, the band are keen to air some exciting new material including the super melodic That’s When Trouble Begins; disco-tinged floor stomper, Up In Flames and the brand new single Woah Billy!, released April 27th.

“Counting one, two, three four… the way I’m acting is ridiculous/like a dog in heat/following and sniffing your tail/what is wrong with me?” – ‘Counting To Sleep’ by Wallis BirdCounting to Wallis Bird: a numerical guide to the Irish singer-songwriter with the loud guitar and belting-pure voice:Six: the age, in months, Wallis was when she first got a guitar… ‘It was never forced on me,’ she insists. ‘I used to dance on it, before I realised you put it round your shoulder. ’Five: the number of songs on Wallis Bird’s five-song sampler that she describes as ‘cathartic’… ‘For sure they’re cathartic. They all mirror my life. I can’t help but be honest in my songs,’ she says. Beautiful ballad ‘All For You’ (“when I am with you I have magic”) is a brilliant case in point.

Oh, loads: the number of influences Wallis will own up to… Ireland. Family. Mates. Life. Love. Pubs. Ella Fitzgerald. Nina Simone. Fiona Apple. ‘I love jazz and I love women with powerful, gutsy voices. I really looked up to Ani DiFranco when I was growing up. She doesn’t give a fuck about anything. She’s a really strong woman. You had to listen to her, and she did everything independently. And she’s got a huge cult following for that.’ Wallis Bird – the Irishwoman with the heaven-sent voice who followed her dreams to Germany, who sings out her own feelings with full-force honesty, who once lost half her fingers but defiantly didn’t let that stop her – thinks that this is the way to do things. ‘If you can live your life, being happy, doing what you do, fair play. That’s what I believe in.’ 

The band will be road-testing tracks from their forthcoming album at the Liverpool Barfly on 11th November. Get your tickets NOW!

An Australian singer songwriter with an affinity to the late Elliot Smith as well as The Shins and Sparklehorse, Josh Pyke is set to make waves in the UK this summer.

Still writing more “songs, themes and concepts” than he could ever possibly release, Josh Pyke knows this year will be eventful for him. “Much as I try to be easy-going, any musician who’s persisted and tried to develop for over twelve years has to have some ambition and drive. Of course, I want to see what happens now that people are responding to Middle Of The Hill and Memories And Dust. It’s crazy - you set yourself goals, then when you achieve them you think of a hundred new ones!”

Josh Pyke’s universal vibe will keep things interesting all the way to the top of the hill. There’ll be surprises along the way. Just don’t take anything for granted.

The SOHO DOLLS
''Soho doll’s are a currently recording their second album in LA and London with a secret top producer... but their first album Ribbed Music for the Numb Generation released in Autumn 2007 caused enough of a worldwide stir to have them play stages all over Europe, Japan, Korea and the USA. Their songs also feature prominently in:
A GOTHIC-PUNK FAIRYTALE? BURLESQUE?  GLAM-CABARET? FUTURO-ELECTRO DICKENSIAN TERRORDOME?
Ladies and Gentleman – the elusive, the enigmatic, the indefinable - Sohodolls!
‘‘A  Horrors-esque keyboardist, a Finnish guitarist, a double bassist, a drummer in suspenders and a gorgeous front girl complete Sohodolls. They landed in Glasgow halfway through their British tour promoting their long-player ‘Ribbed Music for the Numb Generation’, filling the tightly packed venue with electro, sleazy synth, scratchy guitar and disco... sometimes all at once.
Their performance immediately oozes sex, burlesque and allurement; dressed in black, braces, big hair and suspenders, and that’s just the boys. Front woman Maya, or Maya Von Doll as she is more fetchingly known, is amazing to look at, resembling gothic, punk glamour mixed with skinny heroin chic. She may have a voice that borders similarities with Kylie Minouge, but don’t let that put you off - the songs are upbeat and catchy, filled with electro lust, guitar fuzz and trash pop. Their provocative performance is packed with circus sleaze and cabaret.
Commercially, to use a cliche, there's something there to please everybody, and with the producers of bands such as Depeche Mode, The Cure and Babyshambles behind them, success shouldn't allude them. A gothic fairytale in one act.’’

“Strong melodies, wonderful harmonies and clever bits verging on the Radiohead….a cause for celebration.”
(The Sunday Telegraph.)
It is an extremely exciting time for smallwhitelight. This adventurous Brighton four piece fronted by young and Bob Dylanesque Jim Oxborrow have been making considerable waves on both sides of the Atlantic.
In March they played a headline show at the 400 capacity Pavilion Theatre in Brighton to a rave review in the Fly Magazine. The band then jetted off to Texas to play a great open air show at industry honey pot SXSW. They were the runners up in the final of the Glastonbury emerging talent competition and are playing two coveted slots at Glastonbury in addition to a show at FOPP Records and a slot on Glastonbury FM.
They have been named as one of Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephen’s tipped bands and as a result were featured on a Radio 1 podcast. They played a buzz show at the Great Escape Festival and impressed Canadian Music Week who have invited the band to play at their 2008 convention. The Hitsheet Magazine also tipped them in their Great Escape highlights round up.
They have previously received airplay on the Rodney Bingenheimer show on KROQ and Passport Approved on INDIE101. They were also featured in the last edition of tip magazine Future Sounds and the latest A&R Worldwide newsletter. Previously they have had a single ‘Broken Silver’ championed on influential industry tip sheet Recordoftheday.com and received airplay on BBC6 Music and XFM. 
Plans are currently being finalised for a single release of their Indie Disco sing-a-long ‘Spite’ in early Autumn and the sharp and infectious DIY video which accompanies this 1 minute 30” gem is attracting considerable interest.

'The potential is there' said Rosannasaurus, 'We just haven't tapped into it yet.' Suddenly Rosa Rex sat up abrumptly; 'Chaps!' she said 'We need to start a band!' 'Thats it,' cried Katy Klaw with great enthusiasm 'My jove thats it!' And so began the search for the perfect band name. Sarah was recruited for her incredible rhthym and the instruments were distributed... to be continued.

23 year old Jack Savoretti was a late developer. He didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 16. Half Italian, half English, he moved around Europe as a child, wound up at an American school in Switzerland where he picked up an accent he describes as “transatlantic mutt”. The only thing that interested him was poetry.  Jack bummed around for a couple of years, composing “a reggae song one day, a country song the next. What I sounded like depended on what kind of mood I was in.” He rarely wrote the songs down. “If I don’t remember it, it’s obviously not worth finishing,” is his theory. He was playing, “two or three hours a day, just walking around with a guitar, finding who I was in music. I’m always looking for the moment in a song. It should be a great read, not just a three minute shot but a whole movie with an incredibly complicated twist that leaves you thinking for days.” Signed, on the basis of his demo, to London based independent label De Angelis Records Jack headed into the studio to record his debut album ‘Between The Minds’. His first single ‘Without’, released at the back end of 2006, garnered excellent reviews and Radio 2 support. In addition to playing several solo shows – including a packed media showcase at Ronnie Scott’s - Jack was invited by Shawn Colvin to support her on her European tour to close 2006.         
2007 started with a flurry with Jack’s second single ‘Dreamers’ added to the Radio 2 A List followed by an invitation to perform on TOTP2.

Sue Denim and Dee Plume are Robots In Disguise - the most exciting songwriting duo of the moment.

Dee's aerobic guitar solos and Sue's grooving bass lines dance over anthemic lyrics and pogo electro beats.

Dream ESG, Peaches and Gainsbourg in a pop clusterf*ck.

Live, they ROCK! The stage is their playground - on guitars, singing n shouting, RID entertain their audience, partying it up (throwing out DIY art and cool moves) n entertaining in true old-skool style.

Dee & Sue can also be seen playing the 'Electro Girls', Neon & Ultra, in the first series of The Mighty Boosh.

NERVOUS TWITCH HAS A NEW HOME IN BRIGHTON!!!

DJ Cassie O and Dj Pookie (Shibby Shabblers) playing Indie, Electropop, and Trash Disco.

Including CSS, Friendly Fires, The Sounds, Datarock, Yelle, Uffie, LCD Soundsystem, MIA, MSTRKRFT, Chemical Brothers, The Whip, Daft Punk, Peaches, Crystal Castles, to name just a few.........

 Carling Bottles £1.50

K ICe Bottles £1.50

SHOTS FROM £1

Pints from £2.60

House spirit and Mixer £2.40

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.

Lupen Crook is in a fact a Critic; a writer of sick notes and summons, a painter of pictures and singer of songs. A child of 23 years that resides within the belly of Victa, a giant wandering beast who lay like Lazy days in the South Of East England. InVicta the phantom boy sits sorely on the breast of an awful slut whose name you might well know to be Medway, whose rivers run green and streets run wild like children and it be she; the surrogate mother of small villages turned towns where for 23 years the boy has had home.

After finding a drum kit in a junk-yard, Carl Puttnam on vocals, Steve
Goodwin on drums, Mike Dunphy on guitar and William Potter on bass,
formed the band Cud in the English city of Leeds in 1987. Within two
years, their quirky humour and complete disregard for self-respect had
 attracted a large cult following in Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster and
other northern England bastions of style and taste. Before their demise
 in 1995, Cud recorded four fully-fledged albums. 'When in Rome, Kill
Me' (1989) and 'Leggy Mambo' (1990) were released on Imaginary Records along with 'Elvis Belt', a collection of their early singles. There followed a move to major label A&M and the release of 'Asquarius' (1992) and 'Showbiz' (1994). British DJ Legend John Peel invited the band to record a total of 3 sessions in their time for his radio show. Click here for the Peel sessions. A move to the Imaginary label enabled the band to blossom, creating their own groovy mix of kitsch and noise - the singles 'Hey!Wire' and 'Only (A Prawn in Whitby)' embodied this style, and proved firm favourites with the audience. The band's first album When in Rome, Kill Me was released on Imaginary in 1989, and received favourable reviews from the music press. Subsequent singles released on Imaginary were also well received by the music establishment. It has subsequently been mooted that Cud would have achieved mainstream success if Imaginary had been able to afford to splash out on publicity in the early days. In 1991 Imaginary folded, owing the band a substantial amount in royalties. Cud signed with
A&M in 1991, leaving Imaginary to disappear into insolvency. The
greater spending power at A&M enabled Cud to make their first foray
into the charts with the singles 'Rich & Strange', 'Purple Love Balloon
' and 'Neurotica'. All three made it into the British Top 40 charts.
This initial success wasn't to be maintained however, and their 1994
album Showbiz was poorly received. During work on what would have been
their sixth album, A&M dropped them, due to a 'problem with attitude'.

Years later, Cud have reformed! Cud got back to wowing crowds at sold
out gigs and released the very succcessful Anthology, Rich And Strange
in 2006, this was followed up by 2 remastered albums with exclusive
tracks added on which were released in 2007 along side a string of
summer festival apperances.

http://www.myspace.com/cudband

Two old friends and one newer one from Leeds. Gigged with lots of leeds types and had a whale of a time supporting Broken Social Scene, The Gossip, Architecture in Helsinki, The Organ, Howling Bells, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Forward Russia, Los Campesinos!, 1990s, The Vibration, Piney Gir and Metronomy.

Be excited.

The sound of Yorkshire rising, Harrisons’ songs clamour for attention both musically and in the content of what they have to say; things observed from the streets where they grew up and dealt with typical Yorkshire no-nonsense. Townies. Drugs. Fighting. Boredom. ‘I’m going out tonight/Because the TV’s full of shite’ spews the chorus of b-side Out Tonight and you’d be hard-pushed to argue with such bold sentiment. All the bottled-up tension that becomes the raw material of the best. But what separates Harrisons is their enviable sense of community, the idea of four lads in a band; that rare essence that those like Oasis have been striving to stuff back in the bottle since day one.

With Lamacq live sessions and MTV Gonzo single of the week all looks good for the tykes.

Single 'Wishing Well' released August 8th

Now in their 15th year Dreadzone have released five artist albums, one of which was cited by John Peel as one of his top ten of all time, toured their inimitable live show the world over and even found time to squeeze in a top 20 hit inthe form of ‘Little Britain’.
Unfortunately the death of guitarist Steve Roberts, brother of founder member Greg, just days before their UK tour last autumn beset the group with an unbelievable tragedy. But Dreadzone have set out to pick themselves up and do what they do best, taking to the road for the summer festivals this year with two new members, fresh energy and brand new material.
So now in 2007 founder member Greg Dread, the original bassmaster Leo Williams, the unmistakable MC Spee and legendary reggae vocalist Earl 16 return with new input from the fresh faces and continue to hold the stage with an awesome live show, playing classic tunes both old and new to deliver a unique sound.  Chris Compton is the new face on guitar, while another Chris, namely long term friend of the band Chris Oldfield, will be taking care of the laptop and DJ side of the new live setup.
The critics on Dreadzone:
“One of the most interesting groups around”  The Independent
“In the tradition of Lee Perry and Holgar Czukay”  The Times
“Witty, inspired soundscapes”  The Guardian
 

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.

Asobi Seksu presents its new album, Citrus: eleven slices of guitar-swirling, sweet-and-sour, bilingual dream pop. Frontwoman Yuki’s voice is more assured than ever, swinging from a girlish falsetto to plaintive laments and switching effortlessly between Japanese and English lyrics, all the while anchored by the lush, turbulent guitar of James Hanna. This is the sound of a band coming into its own, and having fun doing it.

Asobi Seksu (colloquial Japanese for “playful sex”) released its debut album in 2004 to significant critical acclaim, winning rave reviews from the New York Times, Nylon, Under the Radar, YRB, and XLR8R, among others; scoring a #1 video on mtvU’s Dean’s List with the song “Walk on the Moon;” garnering a top ten spot on CMJ’s radio charts; and becoming an instant favorite in the NYC scene, playing packed shows at the Bowery, Knitting Factory, and Mercury Lounge.

Asobi Seksu have always been masters at creating musical textures; gauzy, cloudy dreamscapes for their slower songs and squalls of guitar and daisy-chained effect pedals for their barnstormers. What truly distinguishes Citrus, though, is that the band has now married this ability to a finely honed pop sensibility. The songs here aren’t just “pretty,” they’re melodically rich and incredibly catchy. As their captivating live show attests, Asobi Seksu have outgrown the comparisons to My Bloody Valentine and Lush, and have finally realized their potential as one of New York’s greatest bands. True to its name, Citrus is every bit as sweet and delicious as it sounds.

This is a band who live it like they play it - hard, dirty and victorious. The single established the band with UK press ("... a rip roaring blues rallying call...Single of the Week" - The Sun) and radio ("One of the best live bands around, I love them and so should you!" – John Kennedy, Xfm) and the boys embarked on their first tour of Europe, supporting Juliette & The Licks in October/November. 

"Like The Rapture with John Carpenter on keys, their pummeling space-disco is the perfect bridge between Bloc Party's indie
elegies and a synapse-shredding Justice DJ set" – NME

Favourite new band: Midnight Juggernauts. Favourite songs of the Year: Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy Pitchfork
(chosen by Justice)

After a year on the road, supporting the likes of The Klaxons, Justice and Digitalism, two single releases through trendsetting French label Institubes, Midnight Juggernauts have now signed their fantastic debut album to Charisma and will be based in the UK for the foreseeable future. 

Very few bands have come through in recent years with such great potential,
the three-piece have been steadily building momentum over the last few years, especially in their Australian homeland (nominated for this years AMP) and 2008 is set to be their year. Vincent (vox/keys), Andy (guitar/vox) and drummer Daniel have everything going for them: a finished album ready to go, a jaw dropping live show, excitement from press and radio, three European tours under the belts and they unite both the indie and electro kids. And this is their debut release!

First single ‘Shadows’ will be released on May 12th with the album ‘Dystopia’ out the following week (19th May)

When music is at its best, it transports you to another place, unleashes your imagination and transports you far, far from the maddening crowd. The Boxer Rebellion's debut album Exits is a flawless piece of melodic escapism that plunges so deep it should come equipped with a bungie rope.. writes Fly Magazine.

pathological noise-rush warfare not heard since the old school mentalism of Richard Ashcroft..This band can alter your life, NME

Levis Ones To watch presents Late Of The Pier.  Despite growing up just down the road from where the Download festival takes place in Castle Donington, modern primitives LOTP have so far managed to resist the lure of the goth leash, the emo fringe or the flame-covered metal boots, instead preferring to paint themselves with geometric patterns and create music as likely to be inspired by arcade machine bleeps as dancehall rhythms. Third single ‘The Bears Are Coming’ is
a compelling piece of burbling electronica that sounds not unlike C-3PO breakdancing on broken glass. Which is great obviously.

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Das Wanderlust are an x-piece wrong-pop band. That is to say that there is an indeterminate number of them, and that their attempts at writing pop songs often come out sounding a bit 'wrong' (but in a very 'right' way).

They are based in (but do not all originate from) Teesside in the North East of England.

Das Wanderlust think that most music is pretty boring, so they try to have as much fun with theirs as possible. They’re not really worried about looking or sounding cool either, and a lot of people don't seem to know what to make of them.

"For one so adroit at composing virulent sonic mayhem, Dev Hynes has undergone a dramatic transformation as Lightspeed Champion. The corrosive riffs and slanted, lug-piercing beats that exuded from Test Icicles’ quivering bombast are long gone; replaced by waltzing acoustic strum-a-longs, melting doe-eyed melodies and a vanilla-scented notion of romance more in tune with the gentle mewing of a coiffeured balladeer than roguish hell-raising miscreant."

 Drownedinsound.com

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Maybe the dilapidated garages and all-ages clubs of the East Coast post-hardcore scene of the late 80s is a fitting place to begin our story. That’s where the chronicle of our era’s ever-humble valedictorian, Ted Leo, really gets interesting, anyway. It was here in bands Citizen’s Arrest and Animal Crackers (and later as the main song writer in Chisel) that Ted developed a sharpened political prowess, an assiduous commitment to his Gibson ES-335, an ear for melody, and charisma contagious enough to be considered chemical weaponry. A mod-punk savant in an age where punk (like practically everything intangible we’ve ever expressed interest in) has been replaced by product. With his latest, Living with the Living, Ted Leo delivers that existentialist ethos to a new crop of rude boys.

www.myspace.com/tedleo 

Japanese noise rock band Melt Banana found more success in the U.S. and the U.K. than in their own country, gaining a small but dedicated fan base among American and European punk rock fans. Although their music sounds noticeably different from any sort of traditional punk, it contains some punk elements: shrieking vocals, overdriven guitars, and one-and-a-half-minute songs. Melt Banana's unique style, however, comes as a result of the distinctly piercing vocals of lead singer Yasuko O. As well as the frenzied, effect-charged playing of guitarist  Agata Searing, intense, and mind-blowingly fast are perhaps the first adjectives that come to mind when listening to Melt Banana's music. Try to imagine an even more energetic incarnation of the Boredoms.

But, for many, the appeal of Melt Banana is not entirely limited to their music. Yasuko O's lyrics and song titles reflect a Japanese pop culture that is fascinating and strange, yet attractive to many non-Japanese fans. As time passes, their overshadowing influence is becoming more and more evident within the cultish following of the noise-core movement. However, it is the band's incredible severity and furious sound that has gained them the most recognition. Their shockingly intense live shows are that of sheer legend, with many fans leaving sweaty and exhausted, and Yasuko O often persevering through nosebleeds.

Kimberley Isaac Moyes was but a young man, small of stature but big of heart, down on his luck, doing the odd performance in a downtown gay bar and eating anchovies from tin cans discarded in the alley behind a local Italian restaurant, putting all his dollar bills in a pillow, with the dream to one day have enough money to buy a Moog synthesiser.

Julian Hamilton was the new bus boy in said food joint, robust and ambitious, taking out the trash and sweating like a malaria ravaged wrestler when he one day chanced upon poor Kim out the back, sucking on those oily little fish like hed never tasted such a delicacy.

These encounters out the back of Luigis Linguini And Pasta Allsorts became regular, and led to the occasional lunch date, when Julian would not only smuggle Kim a fresh can of anchovies, but would even share his own chef-cooked meal. The boys found friendship over faggotini, had leisurely lunches scheming up ways for Kim to stay one step ahead of the Child Protection Services who longed to send the delinquent off to an orphanage in Mongolia, they dreamed of the myriad ways Julian could swindle his evil boss Luigi, and held heated debates about their shared passion, music.

It was in these early days that Kim and Julian realized their meeting had been fateful, and that one day they would make good on their shared desire to make moody, crisp electronic future pop.

If youve ever wondered what they might play when youre standing there staring at the fork in the road between heaven and hell, this could be it.

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Portland's Glass Candy started out as a glammed-out no wave/ disco

band back in 1996, but over the years they have transformed into a

full fledged dance "band"- leaving the live drummer behind and going

100% electronic. Taking cues from cosmic/space and Italo disco,

Glass Candy takes an organic approach to writing music, using all

analogue gear and not a single computer. Comparisons have been drawn

to Cerrone and Moroder for their approach towards making music

without compromise. They have toured the USA seven times, released

over 20 records in every possible format, and have a rabid fanbase

throughout the world.

There just might be a certain warped truth to the phrase "guilt by
association." As in the case of Red Sparowes, its formal associations
with such heavy, propulsive bands as Isis, Neurosis, Angel Hair and
Pleasure Forever would lead you to expect that the Los Angeles
quintet's debut would be a masterfully crafted epic of primal urgency.

It is.

However, Red Sparowes is epic without bombast, heavy without a single
barre-chord riff and eviscerating without any clearly audible vocals.
The chiming, spindly layers of effect-laden guitars and the swinging,
entrancing drums on its Neurot Recordings debut At the Soundless Dawn
create textures reminiscent of Goblin, Tones on Tail, Godspeed You
Black Emperor and early Sonic Youth. Its attack is syrupy and
serpentine; subtle but frighteningly deliberate.

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Jona Bechtolt's band, YACHT, is an amalgamation of self-taught dance moves and anthemic electro-power jams all played backwards and covered in cherry cola. YACHT shows are uncluttered, inspiring sessions of improbable dancing and synchronized crowd-waving; the songs shudder happily into the air, and any preconceived notions of what makes an energetic performance are shattered by Bechtolt's own strain of shamanistic bombast.

"YACHT smells wonderful. I must say, all the time he spent in our bus, it was as if a cool breeze was blowing through my mind. and good songs, too!"
-- James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem

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Formed in Anchorage, Alaska in 1994, 36 CRAZYFISTS named themselves after a Jackie Chan film, and immediately created a buzz coming out of the frigid scene. When their original bassist died in a car accident in 1996, they moved to Portland, Oregon and persevered. They soon made friends with propulsive thrash band Skinlab, who passed their demo to the A&R department at Roadrunner Records. They were signed in 2000 and immediately entered the studio to work on their debut album BITTERNESS THE STAR which came out in 2002 established the band as a powerful new force. Lindow grew up quite a bit since then and his new lease on life shone through 36 CRAZYFISTS' 2004 album A SNOW CAPPED ROMANCE, which showcased positive lyrics with accompanying heartrending melodies that shared elements in common with emotionally expulsive performers like Thursday and Thrice. The band supported the disc on tours with Killswitch Engage and Poison the Well and remained on the road until December 2004. A month later, the band started writing songs for REST INSIDE THE FLAMES. From the ominous arpeggios and ecstatic, distorted ring of "Felt Through a Phone Line" to the skewed chug and harmonized chorus of "On Any Given Night" to the tumbling beats and barbed licks of "Midnight Swim," 36 CRAZYFISTS gives a new twist to familiar themes and leaves listeners energized with fists clenched. "We have fun making music and I think that comes across," concludes Lindow. "Hopefully, at the same time, we can connect with people and help them deal with whatever's going on in their lives so they can have a good time as well. That's what it's about for me, trying to connect with people and hopefully everybody's enjoying themselves and having a good time."

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After five years, two albums and five singles, losing six members

while touring the U.S. repeatedly, Chromatics have successfully

distorted into a solid concept. Taking a cross section from 70¹s

horror films, a fixation with ancient societies, and a love for

percussive electronic music, founding member, Adam Miller, hooked up

with Johnny Jewel in the summer of 2004 to start working on the third

Chromatics album. The main goal apparently being, ³...to not sound

like any record we¹ve done before...² The following months saw the

releases of the ³Healer/Witness 12², the ³Nite² Ep/Cd, and a trio of

limited self released CDR¹s. During the summer of 2006, Chromatics

welcomed Ruth Radelet on lead vocals, and Nat Walker on percussion

and saxophone.

In spring 2007 Chromatics release the official version of ³In the

City² on a 12² single. Bootlegs of the demo version have been

circulating across dance floors and internet radio all year. The

single features a radical remix of the song using a slow 808 beat fit

for a rap freestyle juxtaposed against a sparse piano arpeggio fit

for a European zombie flic. On the B-side, the band throws in a cover

of the Bruce Springsteen classic, ³I¹m on Fire.² ³In The City² is the

lead single from their forthcoming double album, ³Shining Violence,²

released this fall on Troubleman Unlimited Recordings. The album

features Ruth sharing the spotlight with occasional bursts of

vocoder. While the group experiments equally with outsider Electro

and melodramatic string arrangements, she sings a tense lullaby not

unlike Mia Farrow in Komeda¹s theme from Rosemary¹s Baby.

In a live setting, Chromatics keep it minimal. The synthesizers

handle the Cosmic elements, the guitar takes care of the moodier

edge, and the drums are stripped down to a dirty disco for dancing.

What¹s the end result? Well, to quote the group¹s own blog on

myspace, ³Imagine if Michael McDonald accidentally crashed his yacht

into a disco off the shores of Italy while staring into the horse

head nebula.

Ticket available on the Door.

Doors open at 7pm.

Crunch: Not mad just a bit Nutty 

Calling all those Dance crazed Ska fans!  Ten years on and Chrissy Boy and Thommo, lead songwriters and members of Madness, are back and playing in Brighton.  Their original ska sound, a gathering of top class musicians and a touch of nutty boy lyrics have combined to bring about the new sound of Crunch! 

Chrissy Boy now a Brighton resident and enjoying his latest (and more relaxed) musical progression wants a low-key intimate affair that makes the Barfly, BN1 the ideal choice for this one off treat. 

With support from Kung Fu Monsters whose drums & bass backline hails from the Rockabilly/Psychobilly scene, guitars born from the rain-swept British seaside Indie circuit and a passionate vocalist with a love of classic 70’s UK and American Punk – the sound is edgy, spiky, exciting and raw. 

Further support from:

Fat 45 - 11 piece jump jive swing band (50's rock'n roll)

Shark - Punk band from the Midlands (best new band on Steve LeMac's radio one show)

To top it all Preston from The Ordinary Boys will be keeping you entertained before and after the show with his selection of favourite records and some pretty deft mixing. With more musical talent in one room at one time than almost anywhere else, this top class night, to celebrate the May Bank Holiday is not to be missed.  Tickets from www.concretejunglefestivals.com

Holly is definitely the most interesting and diverse artist to come out of the Billy Childish school and is certainly one of the better singer/songwriters of the post-grunge era.

Since her debut in 1995, Golightly has released ten long play records and loads of singles for a wide variety of labels and has toured America eight times. In 1999 she released an album with her friend Billy Childish, on which the two sound like a scuffed-up British version of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood. Another is 2001’s Desperate Little Town, another collaboration, which marked a bit of a stylistic diversion as it is a very relaxed and mostly acoustic record. In the same year she also collected up all thirteen of her singles and E.P’s onto one double album called Single’s Round-Up.

After playing several west coast shows with The White Stripes, and supporting them at their some of their London shows, Holly has become good friends with Jack and Meg, recording a duet with them, "It’s true that we love one another", the closing track on Elephant.

Remember the first time you heard a rock band that was so exciting, you just had to share their music with everyone you knew? Whether it was The Ramones or AC/DC or Guns n Roses makes no difference, it became your mission to blast those righteous sounds upon unsuspecting ears. Prepare to relive that experience with the Backyard Babies-a raw tattoo that rocks sonically with brazen heart and voluminous punch.

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The Wombats, Glasvegas, The Hold Steady, Black Lips, Iron & Wine, The Subways plus many more……. Bringing the best new music from across the world to Brighton on: 15^th, 16^th and 17^th May 2008.The Great Escape, the biggest and best city based festival in the UK is growing bigger by the day as the organisers confirm the latest bands in the 2008 line up. The policy to book the best new and rising artists from all over the world is really taking shape with most recent confirmations from The Wombats, The Hold Steady, The Subways, Black Lips, White Lies, Monobright, Iron and Wine, Public Service Announcers, Born Ruffians, Broken Mirrors, Ipso Facto, Beat Union, Mother Mother, This City, One Night Only, Teenagers, Crystal Castles, Canterbury, Johnny Foreigner, Ida Maria, Team Waterpolo, Ebony Bones and The Black Angels.   Already booked were;  Young Knives, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Yeasayer, Black Mountain, No Age, Tunng, Lightspeed Champion, Wild Beasts, Fujiya & Miyagi, Peter Von Poehl and School Of Language. The Great Escape is all about  spotting new talent and bringing them to a bigger stage where they can perform to a packed out crowd and the world’s booking agents, festival bookers and record labels.  The festival will be backing the likes of  Ebony Bones and White Lies who are both currently unsigned and tipped by The Great Escape to follow in the footsteps of  Adele, Kate Nash and Jack Penate who have been incredibly successful since playing the festival.

Keep checking www.escapegreat.com for updates!

The Cancer Bats have come to destroy. Fueled by a burning desire to rage harder, play louder and have more fun than any other band, Cancer Bats mix hardcore, southern metal, and punk rock into a lethal rock and roll explosion.

With an amazing line up consisting of Johnny Truant, The Ghost of a Thousand, Hexes and Sigh and Explode, this is one not to be missed!!

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What's in a name? Wakefield's upstart punks were originally called Last Gang in Town, after Marcus Gray's biography of the Clash. The trouble was, everyone they knew shortened it to Last Gang, and so the band followed suit. The result? Major labels sniffing around.

Comparisons are not inappropriate. Like Strummer and co, Last Gang specialise in head-rushing harmonies and are more than capable of experimenting with reggae; the Rock Against Racism logo features prominently on their myspace site. However, their sound has a poppier edge, referencing other British pop hallmarks such as Madness, the Housemartins and Buzzcocks. Stepping up into major-label territory is a quantum leap from their feverish gigs in pubs, but the band has some killer tunes and a bittersweet northern effervescence that may take them from Wakefield to the world.

From Georgia Atlanta, signed to Kranky, blissfully fed back ambient
punk fired through lush psychedelic textures.
Fri. 20th June Early Show 7pm-9.30pm
DEERHUNTER + HIGH PLACES
Over 18s with ID only
Audio, 10 Marine Parade, Brighton TEL: 01273 606906
Tickets: £7.50 adv. / £8.50 on the door. Available from Rounder Records:
01273 325440 / Resident: 01273 606312 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk**
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 and the death of a member, finally releasing last year’s genre
bending ambient-punk document, Cryptograms. Fusing the lush shoegaze of
My Bloody Valentine with the freak-out guitar structures of Sonic Youth
their sound is one not easily described, nor pigeon-holed, and this is
what makes what can only be termed their ‘sonic identity’ so alluring.
Maybe Drowned In Sound can help out here:
“An undulating patchwork of attention-deficit kraut-punk squalls and
intoxicating and enveloping sound collages that sweep the listener up in
a broad clutch, a giant’s palm, taking them on a journey through their
own misfiring synapses; it’s soul-infused and passionate, born from
hearts troubled and minds razor-sharp.” Drowned In Sound
Support comes from one of the pick Brooklyn’s current crop of uber cool
bands High Places.
The hypnotic tropical universe of this duo layers bursts of starry pop
psychedelia with bass-heavy poly-rhythms, glistening astral reverb and
singer Mary Pearson's innocent vocals.
www.myspace.com/deerhunter
www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces

The streets gave birth to hip hop, and the streets are where it lives. But the corporate world stole rap. Now Akala’s stealing it back.

‘Garbage’ is how Kingslee ‘Akala’ Daley, 22, describes ‘what was once, not that long ago, the most charismatic, enigmatic, energetic, lyrically creative music on the planet’, because it has turned into a reflex idiolect for plastic players with false values and arid imaginations, who know the price of bling but the value of nothing. With his debut album, ‘It’s Not A Rumour’, (released April 10 2006 on Illa State Records), Akala attacks a lazy, retrograde rap scene from all sides, intent on moving it both forward and back into what it was in the first place – a generational voice for change, empowerment and salvation, for himself, his people and for the streets.

True to hip hop’s original template, ‘It's Not A Rumour’ is alternately reflective and anthemic, stone to the bone and rocked-out all the way to one louder. It may move you to insurrection, to tears or just nearer to the centre of the dancefloor. Just as New York crews rapped over AC/DC’s ‘Back In Black’ way back when, Akala’s album synthesises the raw rock dynamicsm with the lyrical ingenuity of rap with no compromising either – that’s why its appeal extends far beyond the narrow hip hop scene into a far broader music sphere.

No hoods, no caps – full searches are a condition of entry.

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''...these Hampshire boys are definitely on their way to becoming a leading name in the UK metalcore scene with their shredding, thunderous metal...don’t expect Bury Tomorrow to be content with just UK domination as they are capable of much more than that..' - Planet Loud

'...Bury Tomorrow's energetic and entertaining stage performance is by far one of the best unsigned band performances I have seen to date...a must see for any metal fan, be sure to check these guys out.' - Murdergirls
...these Hampshire boys are definitely on their way to becoming a leading name in the UK metalcore scene with their shredding, thunderous metal...don’t expect Bury Tomorrow to be content with just UK domination as they are capable of much more than that..' - Planet Loud

'...Bury Tomorrow's energetic and entertaining stage performance is by far one of the best unsigned band performances I have seen to date...a must see for any metal fan, be sure to check these guys out.' - Murdergirls

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Signed to Kill Rock Stars (The gossip, Decemberists, The Mae Shi) label this band is set to be BIG!

Think Ian Curtis' convulsive intensity and James Browns swagger and you still won't have PANTHER, but a sense of what-the-f**kness that all of them seem to call up.

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One of Mick Collins' many post-Gories projects, for years the Dirtbombs seemed to exist more in concept than in reality. As if in reaction to the bass-less sound of the Gories, the band brought together two drummers, two bass players, and Collins on vocals and guitar. And other than consistently loud volumes and lots of noise, the Dirtbombs actually had a surprisingly diverse sound, composing across a broad spectrum of styles from garage rock, punk, and glam, to classic soul and R&B.

They began primarily as a 7" band, putting out five singles before Larry Hardy of In the Red convinced them to record a full-length, 1998's Horndog Fest. After another handful of singles the Dirtbombs released their sophomore album, Ultraglide in Black, in May 2001, a set devoted primarily to vintage R&B covers. The album won them a growing following in Europe, aided by frequent overseas touring (including a jaunt with the White Stripes). Collins and company returned to a tougher, more rock-oriented sound for 2003's Dangerous Magical Noise, and came back in 2005 on a split album with King Khan and his Shrines, Billiards at Nine Thirty.

In May of that year In the Red put out If You Don't Already Have a Look, a double-CD, 52-track singles compilation that also featured six new songs. Though the band's relatively short lifespan had seen at least ten lineup shifts, by the point of Have a Look it had more or less solidified around Collins, drummers Ben Blackwell and Pat Pantano, and bassists Ko Shih and Troy Gregory

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'Following the release of their debut album 'i want you to know that there will always be hope' the boys are back in brighton after two previous sold out shows. Todd, Will and friends will headline shows in June, additionally, the band will be releasing a new single around the tour. Hunter's Daughter will come backed with 2 new tracks. Expect the space-emo-tastic duo to blow your socks off after touring with the likes of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly in April.'

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"The Beyond" was released in early 2003, to critical acclaim. Cult of Luna proved categorically that they were now ready to bring their soundscapes to a much wider audience. After the release of "The Beyond", Cult Of Luna toured Sweden with The Haunted and the UK with Isis.

For two and a half decades the Hoodoo Gurus have consistently been one of the most inventive, lyrically smart and exciting rock’ n ’roll bands Australia has ever produced. The strange and enthralling saga of the Hoodoo Gurus began when three relocated Perth musicians – Dave Faulkner, Roddy Radalj and James Baker – teamed up with Sydney-based Kimble Rendall to play a rooftop party in Sin City on New Year’s morning 1981.

As Le Hoodoo Gurus the band had released a debut single, ‘Leilani’. By the time it was released Rendall had moved on to work in the film industry and was replaced by bassist Clyde Bramley. Baker departed the line-up and Mark Kingsmill took over drumming duties. Radalj started another band and guitarist Brad Shepherd took his place.

From the get go the Hoodoo Gurus created a distinctive distillation of music that was in their respective record collections, creating a fascinating synthesis of The Cramps, T. Rex, Little Richard, The Ramones, Suicide, Gene Vincent, The Flamin’ Groovies, Nancy Sinatra, Gary Glitter, Bobby Gentry, The Sonics and a thousand others. They spelt it out in ‘(Let’s All) Turn On’, the opening track from ‘Stoneage Romeos’.

Come the early part of 2007 and the Hoodoo Gurus were consistently cited as one of the highlights at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The SXSW performances were part of an extended run of North America and Canadian dates, which were greatly anticipated by a new generation of fans who thought they’d never have the opportunity to see this much-mythologised Australian band perform live.

The Hoodoo Gurus remain as relevant and impassioned about their distinctive brand of rock’ n ’roll as at any time in their twenty-five year career. And along the way they’ve influenced an entire generation of bands which explains why the likes of You Am I, The Living End, Dallas Crane, Grinspoon and many others queued up a few years back to pay tribute to the band’s 1984 debut album, Stoneage Romeos. Like wow indeed.

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We Are Scientists shocked themselves and impressed many others with their 2005 debut With Love & Squalor, which sold over 150,000 copies in the UK on the strength of dancefloor standbys Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt; It's A Hit; and The Great Escape, as well as nine other songs that, to all appearances, people also liked.

Twenty months of near-constant touring culminated in a sold out UK tour, including two nights at Brixton Academy, in the Fall of 2006, plus a very pleasant Christmas.  The band spent 2007 at weight-loss camps, alcoholics' dry-out facilities, and a race car school, yet has also found time to pen, record, and road-test their sophomore offering, Brain Thrust Mastery. If W.A.S.'s first album had been far, far better than it was, and of a far more mature style, and if they had then released a limp, unenjoyable second record, and if Brain Thrust Mastery were actually their third album, it would be hailed as 'a return to form', as 'equal to -- in many ways an improvement upon -- the monumental debut'.   

We Are Scientists began, in spirit, at Pomona College, in Claremont, California, in the Fall of 1997, when Keith Murray and Chris Cain met at a viewing of Dawson's Creek held in the latter's dorm room. Though at the time they couldn't suspect any of the details of the coming decade, it was apparent to both of them that they would spend many long years riding buses together -- some kind of pro-sports, they assumed. In 1999, freshly graduated and moved to Berkeley, CA, the two started We Are Scientists with little more between them than a dream, a couple of cut-rate instruments, and $1.4 million in lottery winnings.

Nine years later, the band has long-since relocated to more fashionable New York City, seen many countries their parents swore to them were 'myth, accursed myth', and finally dated girls. In the Fall of '07, long-time drummer Michael Tapper retired from the band, and We Are Scientists added a new drummer, plus, in a fit of accumulation, a fourth man on-stage. As well, Keith and Chris began giving inspirational lectures at unis across the UK during their hitherto unencumbered afternoons. On Brain Thrust Mastery, all the experience, and some W.A.S. only read about, shows.

 --------------------- Brain Thrust Mastery is released in the UK on March 17, 2008.The first single, After Hours, is released March 3rd. Wearescientists.com and brainthrustmastery.com remain the most popular sites on the internet.

*Please note admission will not be granted for those with a Great Escape Festival Ticket

Alex Turner’s conspirator-in-chief gets on with his day job.
THE RASCALS + THE SUZUKIS
+14s Under 18s to be accompanied
Audio, 10 Marine Parade, Brighton TEL: 01273 606906
Tickets: £7.50 adv. / £8.50 on the door. Available from Rounder Records:
01273 325440 / Resident: 01273 606312 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk
It was whilst on tour with The Artic Monkeys as The Little Flames that
these three lads from The Wirral split from the other Flames and formed
The Rascals (More recently singer Miles Kane joined up with Alex Turner
to form The Last Shadow Puppets- the next super group me thinks). Since
then they have taken their beautiful pop melodies and psychedelic quirk,
all underpinned by a compelling dark soul, to larger and larger stages.
Heavily backed by the NME these scousers have a natural catchiness about
their sound that most of the rest of the contents of Britain’s
“favourite” music rag would barter all their skinny jeans for.
“Guitars thunder along with the urgency of The Coral, sewn to the
dead-eyed post-mortem pop of Sons And Daughters.” NME
www.myspace.com/rascalmusic
www.therascals.co.uk

The Clutch story began in August, 1991, when the band assembled to play their first show. During that hot summer in Germantown, Maryland, all hopes were pinned on the group as the guys sought the solution to life after high school. The quartet started out as an aggressive, motile, hard core-influenced fury, as documented on their 1992 7-inch debut, "Pitchfork" (Inner Journey Records). Their hard rock aptitude was even more evident on 1993's ensuing "TRANSNATIONAL SPEEDWAY: ANTHEMS, ANECDOTES AND UNDENIABLE TRUTHS" (East West) and on 95's "CLUTCH" (Elektra). With 1998's "THE ELEPHANT RIDERS" (Columbia), the group initiated a more roots-oriented rock expression, one that continued the following year with "JAM ROOM," issued through their own River Road Records.

"We just do what we do, with no apologies," explains Fallon. "We entertain ourselves first, and then others. We're not trying to produce what is popular and we never write songs just to be played on the radio. As a result, it's been difficult for labels to place us. Sometimes it's like trying to fit square pegs in round holes."

PLEASE NOTE; Groups containing under 18's must be supervised by an adult over 18.

Need I say more? There’s an air of mystery about Keith. He’s a starry-eyed, wickedly talented man, expressing himself so openly, so truthfully in his music. You may ask, How can one man be so sincere, so honest, and yet so blatantly mysterious to his fans? Well, for one, Keith Caputo is a musical enigma. He sees the world through rose-colored glasses, yet at the same time bleeds his anger through his own brand of poetic license. 

 Yet, despite the success Keith has found in Life Of Agony, it is his solo material that portrays him the as the socially-conscious, vocalist/musician who graciously inspires crowds with his own brand of music. Take for instance the live cuts on the 2004 release LIVE MONSTERS. Keith's rare ability to spiritually connect with the crowd is evident here, his chatter kept to a minimum, the music and lyrics maximized for the full-effect he aims to expose. Keith’s full appreciation for the surrealistic rock movement that Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin founded rings true here with the first two cuts on LIVE MONSTERS, Charade and Pet K. Gone are the power ballad motivations found on his debut DIED LAUGHING. What we now find are 7-8 minute epics, bordering on the progressive rock arena, loosely constructed yet somehow brilliantly tight in their foundations. Pure magic is the only way one can describe these two songs. But it doesn’t let it up there. The CD itself is a musically journey, taking the listener through a wide range of levels and moodSumand yet, at the same time, provides the ultimate backdrop for any incense-burning, pleasure-activity one may partake in.

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Late Of The Pier was created somewhere in the mists of 2003, born from the warped minds of Sam Eastgate and Ross Dawson somewhere in the mists of G.C.S.E's. No-one can remember exactly how it happened but lets just presume it went something like… 'Lets start a band' 'OK' …ignoring the fact that neither Ross or future guitarist Faley had only ever touched their instruments once at this point. (Ross had a knock-about on Sam's drums one evening, Faley skipped school to get stoned in Sam's attic and make a song 'Wasted Intellectuals'... probably LOTP's first song).

LOTP found a home in Way Out West and it's all-ages gigs, their feelings reciprocated by the new generation. Stuck mid-way between an older generation of somewhat static crowds and a younger generation of hyper-active kids, LOTP gained a dedicated following in the younger generations through myspace.com and for the energy of their live shows and in the older generations for the music itself. The Klaxons/NME had just coined the phrase 'Nu-Rave' and Late Of The Pier's ideas of live music began to become popular with the mainstream. With this came more interest from the music industry… NME and Radio1 quickly picked up on the band, noting them as one of the bands to watch out for in 2007 and music industry king-pins and affiliates soon became regular attendees to London gigs, often for pleasure instead of business.

The Orange County, CA-based punk-rap outfit Zebrahead was formed in 1996 by vocalist/guitarist Justin Mauriello, guitarist Greg Bergdorf, bassist Ben Osmundson, and drummer Ed Udhus.

Inspired by acts including Fugazi and the Descendents, the group found themselves uninspired by the local trend toward ska-punk and instead began incorporating elements of hip-hop into their sound, eventually recruiting rapper Ali Tabatabaee to join their ranks. After issuing the EP Yellow on the indie label Dr. Dream in May 1998, Zebrahead signed to major label Columbia to release their full-length debut, Waste of Mind, which appeared later that same year. Playmate of the Year was issued in mid-2000 and the Stupid Fat Americans EP followed only in Japan the next year. The guys headed over to Europe with Green Day to support the records, playing various festival dates as well.

Throughout the years, they also shared gigs with bands like Less Than Jake, Kottonmouth Kings, 311, Reel Big Fish, and Goldfinger. The full-length MFZB (aka "Motherf*cking Zebrahead Bitch!") appeared in 2003, after which Mauriello exited the group to pursue other interests. His departure distressed fans, as the singing/rapping dynamic between him and Tabatabaee was crucial to the band's sound.

However, Zebrahead was soon back in action with the addition of new vocalist/guitarist Matty Lewis to their lineup (who sounded remarkably like Mauriello). They spent summer 2006 on the Warped Tour as Broadcast to the World was released overseas that July through SPV/Sony. The album went gold in Japan in just a month's time, and the guys spent fall on dates throughout Europe. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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Bonde do Rolê is a Funk Carioca group from Curitiba, Brazil consisting of MCs Pedro D'Eyrot and Marina Ribatski, and DJ/MC Rodrigo Gorky. The name "Bonde do Rolê" roughly translated means "Joyride Trolley" in Brazilian Portuguese. The group started in their hometown Curitiba in the south of Brazil, mixing sexual riffs (ranging from Scorpions' "Rock You Like a Hurricane" to Alice in Chains' "Man in the Box", but not restricted to these) with funk carioca (sometimes known as baile funk or Brazilian funk). The trio did their first major tour in 2006, with Cansei de Ser Sexy. During the tour, Marina had an accident at the first Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, dislocating her elbow.

International producer Diplo first found out about the band through their MySpace account, and pushed them using his own fledgling label, Mad Decent, before Bonde was signed to Domino in 2006. "We just started making music out of fun—we didn't have any intentions to work professionally with music," said Rodrigo Gorky.

In December 2007, Bonde Do Role cancelled gigs in Dublin, Ireland, the UK and their Australian tour amidst speculation that the band were experiencing internal difficulties and were on the verge of splitting up. On December 12, Gorky and Pedro announced on a MySpace bulletin that Marina had left the band.

In February 2008, the 2 remaining members of the band, in search of a new singer, launched a contest in association with MTV "Overdrive" Brazil, strongly influenced by shows like American Idol and Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll, with Ana Bernardino and Laura Taylor succeeding to be new members of the group. Laura was chosen mainly due an audience election. Ana got the position after taking a piece of meat from her genitals in the final's show; "it's the spirit of the band" said Pedro.^[

For more info please visit: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/BONDEDOROLE 

or http://www.meltingvinyl.co.uk/

Déjeuner sur l'herbe, the first offense of Montreal’s rock outfit Les Breastfeeders, conquered both the public and the critic after its release in spring 2004, on the Blow The Fuse label. Since then they have travelled throughout Quebec for two years, to present their frenetic and contagious shows. Invited to perform at numerous festivals and events the band also received the Prix Miroir de l’Artiste d’ici at the Festival d'été de Québec 2005 and their song "Angle Mort" was awarded the "Chanson primée" prize from SOCAN in 2003. 

...one can only hope that the rest of the world will also be ready for les Breastfeeders. One of the best local releases this year.
8/10 Johnson Cummins, Montreal Mirror

zZz is the sleazy steamin' locomotive barreling out of Amsterdam - a city, if ever there was one, that needs no introduction.
It all came to life at the turn of the century when two house mates, Björn Ottenheim and Daan Schinkel,
decided to make music with a simple drum kit and an old $50 church organ in their basement. Within
a week they had composed five songs and were invited to play at the party of an infamous Dutch
smuggler, where the Sound of zZz was born. And from then on zZz built up a notorious live reputation.

By combining the doom-laden vocals of the late Ian Curtis and the dark psychobilly madness of Alan Vega, a monstrous thunder is let loose. Organ, drums and vocals is all it takes for this sexy disco cult duo to serve up their Molotov cocktail of violent trance, psychedelic electro wave, garage soul and dirty rock & roll.

zZz went on tour with Fatboy Slim in Japan and supported the likes of the Gossip, the Happy Mondays, Franz Ferdinand, Juliette Lewis and Brant Björk while on the road in Europe and the US. The two piece manages easily to turn any major festival into a total orgy (see their shows at Benicassim, Les Eurockéennes, Pukkelpop and Lowlands to name but a few) and recently even managed to make it into an edgy Japanese mayo commercial.

“Both innovative and truly captivating.”
- Spin Magazine -

A showcase of artists from BIMM: X Certs + Mascara + Sweet Sweet Lies + Your Army

Resident Records presents a very special performance from the Prayers + support. Entry is free for all on a first come first served basis!

The Agency & Lout Promotions present a night of very special performances from Architects, The Ghost Of A Thousand, Textures, and Navel.

Tickets are £6 in advance from Rounder Records, Resident Records, ticketweb, seetickets and brightonticketshop.com.

Entry is free for Great Escape wristband holders.

The Agency & Lout Promotions are proud to present a very special performance from Reuben + The Future + Enjoy Destroy + Redlight Company.

Tickets are £6 in advance from Rounder Records, Resident Records, Ticketweb, Seetickets and Brightontocketshop.com.

Entry is free to Great Escape wristband holders.

Latest 7 & Radio Reverb in association with Troubadour present: Big Hairy Band + Gypsy Squat Pop Project + Nik Barrel& The Gin Club + Megan Goodwin.

Tickets are £3, but free for Great Escape wirstband holders.

The Sound Factory presents an acoustic soul night featuring Alex Gigante + Miss Al Brown + The Joel White Band.

£1 entry, free for Great Escape wristband holders.

Alternative Rock Night featuring The Little Man + Lokei + support.

£1 entry, free for Great Escape wristband holders.

Los Albertos and Friends.

Entry £5, free to Great Escape wristband holders. 

LO Nite presents DJ sets from Brighton's finest, featuring Lo Fidelity Allstars, Kidda, DJ Beathoven

Since 1989 Senser have produced a unique fusion of rock, metal, hiphop and alternative electronica. They became known for their political lyrics and a huge live sound which gained headline slots at most of the major UK festivals. Senser achieved worldwide success with Stacked Up in 1995 and subsequently split up having toured half the planet. One half remained to release Asylum in 1998 and the other half started Lodestar and released an album of the same name. In 2001 the band met up for a festival date to promote a compilation of the first two albums and decided to reform. Schematic was released on One Little Indian in May 2004, it was a big success with fans and the band toured it throughout Europe and the UK. Drawing on their own personal styles, experiences and influences the work represented a broad musical development from their past releases. Becoming disenchanted with the marketing support provided by independent record companies, the band decided to develop their own music company, Imprint Music, headed up by their manager. Encouraged by a strong network of fans, accessible through online channels and unafraid of the changing music business environment, Senser wrote and recorded their fourth studio album working with producers Neil McLellan (who previously produced The Prodigy albums) and New York hip hop producer Scott Harding. The first single taken from the album is End Of The World Show. Mixes of the album are still being finalised and it is scheduled for an early summer 2008 release.

All persons under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18

Sorta odd but hella good Brooklyn four-piece Yeasayer (think Liars at their most mystical toying with Animal Collective oddness and jazzy basslines) are heading to the UK

This Is Rock Music From The Heart For The Soul!!

Following on from their critically and commercially lauded singles ‘Big Red’ (which hit the UK Rock Charts at #4, spent 4 weeks in the Top 10 and has currently re-entered the chart at #37!) and ‘Meantime’ (which went one better and hit the UK Rock Chart at #3!), this latest blast of 100%-proof anthemic adrenalin will be available as a CD single, 7" vinyl and digital download.

Produced by STG and mixed by Chris Sheldon (Foo Fighters, Biffy Clyro, Feeder etc) Mr Regulator is another taster of this new outfit’s mouth-watering take on postmillennial rock. And should further whet your appetite for the band’s debut full-length ‘Scatter The Crow’ (out on March 31). Armed with monstrous riffs, huge grooving rhythms and battle-cry melodies, this record cuts through today’s tired rock scene like razor-wire through an artery.

Having had TWO Top Five singles in the UK Rock Chart, been tipped as 'Hot Band of 2008' in RockSound, Metal Hammer and Big Cheese Magazines, announced as finalists in the 'Best Breakthrough Artist' category at last years BT Digital Music Awards and having performed a number of groundbreaking shows at the CMJ Music Festival in New York…..2007 was a spectacular year for these four London rockers!

But, with a trip to Slovenia imminent to shoot the video to accompany ‘Mr Regulator’, the announcement recently to return to play a series of shows at this years infamous SXSW festival in Austin Texas and a full UK tour lined up to support the release of album ‘Scatter The Crow’….2008 looks set to rival it and become ‘the year of the Slaves’!!!

Catch them at one of the following, but with more dates to be added, WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

In November 2006 three best friends decided it was time to rock the world. Yes. Axe Girl was born. The chicks have been on the road for most of thier short but rock n roll lives in varying lineups, now Axe, Bex and SaRaH begin touring together in an array of styles, colours and sounds.

Following Axe Girl's success on T4's 'Musicool' the neon punkettes are getting rave reviews about their tight, confident set....Ultimately described as 'an explosion of acoustic punk pop, Axe Girl are one of the best bands you will ever see.'

XYZ Magazine Presents 'A night at The Barfly'

Wed 17th oct

Acts:

9:30 - Dj JFB - The DMC UK Champion (a Brighton local) will be showcasing his World Championship routine (it only lasts 6 minutes! Blink and you might miss it - which would suck!!)

10 - Guest act - These anonymous funksters got a sound that is unique...who cares if their name isn't on the flyer!

11 - Sheeva - A brand spanking new Brighton band, born out of the ashes of Jonny Quality. Another Barfly first...

12 - Dj Buckwilde - DMC finalist and tour dj for Fatboy Slim, Buck is the only scratch dj to appear on Jonathan Ross and perform on US TV Show 'Conan O'brien' to an audience of 30 Million!!

The night is totally FREE!!!! And will be fuelled by great drinks promotions!

Doors open at 8:30 - Get down early to avoid disappointment.

There’s no doubt about it; Ben Griffith is destined to be a star. From when he casually wanders on stage to the moment he leaves - you are his. Emanating an infectious passion for music and life, his deceptively simple and beautifully crafted songs capture the hearts and minds of his audience.Drawing from a plethora of influences, Ben conjures melodies reminiscent of the Beach Boys or the Smiths, strung with lyrics that combine the heartfelt emotion of Counting Crows with the wry honesty of Beck. These qualities are underscored by a sense of truth, of depth to his thoughts and ideas that raise his songs up from the ranks of his peers. Live, he presents a delectable range of possibilities. Switching effortlessly from the role of solo troubadour to that of front-man, his songs shine throughout. Guitar and voice merge in a soft, chilled out style of his own, sweetly tempting you in. Other thoughts and troubles drift away as his songs evoke memories of the joyous leap and swell of new love; of nights lost to alcohol and great ideals; of the cauterising ache of a broken heart. In pursuing his own sound Ben took advantage of the scene around him, using the opportunity to work with other artists and producers. In 2006 Ben was approached by Ford to be the face of their new campaign: “Own The Road”.  Brand partnerships are quickly becoming more of a common occurrence in the music industry. Ben’s involvement with Ford has created a lot of press interest, with articles in Q Magazine and The Sunday Times amongst others. One thing is certain; it is only a matter of time before we are all dancing to the beat of his heart.

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…

It's pretty simple.... Its Boss and its Pop and it's from Liverpool. These are 2 of the hottest bands in the country right now. Elle S'appelle have their debut record coming out on Moshi Moshi records 19th November.. buy it! goFASTER>> will be ripping it up around the UK as main support to The Wombats in December.

Advanced ticket purchase is highly recommended for this show!

Boypatient is growing up fast.

Born in Brighton, with a bloodline running through Belgium and beyond, we are carving a space for ourselves as a band that people will remember. We have been together a little over a year, but in that time we’ve developed an intensity and honesty that is becoming our calling card. Our mixed blood reflects a complex sound: original and carefully crafted, mixing delicacy with intensity, intelligence with passion, and honesty with a strong DIY band ethic. Whether taken from the surrounds or from further afield, there’s enough out there to keep people wondering who we are.  

With new material recorded, recent supports to maps and the thermals, and memorable headline shows around town, we’re building momentum and capturing the attention of people we don’t know.  This isn’t production line music with nothing to say, nothing to share and nothing to play; boypatient is a band that wants to engage, and there’s enough out there to engage with.  

With a sound built upon a resolute sense of purpose and shaped by hundreds of explosive live shows, BARONESS position themselves at the forefront of heavy music with their first full length and Relapse debut Red Album.

BARONESS has forged forward with heavy independent touring -almost 250 shows a year - since the band’s inception. They've criss-crossed the U.S. three times, Europe, and the UK twice, and have performed at international music festivals such as SXSW, MacRock, ZXZW in The Netherlands, and more. BARONESS has toured with many friends and peers, including MUNICIPAL WASTE, TORCHE, KYLESA, ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY, CURSED, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, and many more.

http://www.myspace.com/yourbaroness

Gay for Johnny Depp is a hardcore/metal band formed in New York, USA.

They are known for the lyrical content of their songs, which is often
concerned with the band's obsession over the actor Johnny Depp.
Formed from ex-members of post-hardcore bands Garrison and Instruction
in 2004, Gay for Johnny Depp released their first recording effort,
Erotically Charged Dance Songs for the Desperate, on 12 July 2004.
The 5-track EP was met with positive reviews which often compared Gay
for Johnny Depp to fellow hardcore bands The Blood Brothers and The
Locust.

Gay for Johnny Depp have been described as spazzcore, hardcore,
and metal.

Born in the sewers of Richmond, Virginia during 2000, with the aim of spreading the shred, Municipal Waste played their first gig at a Richmond New Year's Eve Keg party in 2000/2001. Blamed for inciting a small riot, Brendan Trache, Andy Harris, Tony Foresta and Ryan Waste went down a storm. As a result, the four swiftly started touring in small clubs; their blazing fast, raw thrash drew from the tradition of DRI, Suicidal Tendencies, 'Animosity'-era Corrosion Of Conformity, Nuclear Assault and Attitude Adjustment.

Municipal Waste had already succeeded in spreading their shred across the ocean, becoming favourites on the BBC Radio 1's 'Lock-Up and 'Rock Show' programmes, They're also firm favourites with audiences around the world, thanks to their relentless touring regime and insane live shows.

 http://www.facethewaste.com

BIG LINDA and SONS OF ALBION, two of the best new bands around in the tradition of Classic British Rock Music, have announced a joint headlining tour in the run up to Xmas 2008. Big Linda has already caused the Guardian to splutter all over their cornflakes, specifically, “a rock band whose hi-NRG raunch’n’roll is crying out for stacks of Marshall amps and a sweaty audience that craves base R’n’R thrills. The very caterwauling essence of rock’n’roll – file next to Led Zeppelin and The Black Crowes” and the band’s debut 7” single I Don’t Even Like You is due on December 3rd. SONS OF ALBION, on the other hand, are just as noisy, were formed in late 2006 and have already packed out the 100 Club. The latter’s cosmopolitan line-up includes Francisco de Sousa (drums), Barnaby Dick (guitars), Richard Fulgoni (bass), Nuno Miguel (guitars) and Logan Plant (vocals).

The tour runs as follows:

Nov 30 Cardiff Barfly, Dec 1 Wolverhampton Civic, Dec 2 Brighton Barfly, Dec 3 London Metro, Dec 5 Glasgow Barfly, Dec 6 Leicester Princess Charlotte, Dec 8 Liverpool Barfly, Dec 9 Reading Fez, Dec 11 Southampton Joiners, Dec 12 Bath Moles

‘I Don’t Even Like You’ was inspired by a real-life incident when the wrong girl proposes on February 29th unleashing the answer “Marry you? I don’t even like you!”  and the song is already proving a huge favourite on the live circuit, spawning an extraordinary YouTube video hit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWJC7p4fWuk - featuring a muppet having sex, driving badly and enjoying intravenous drugs – though not all at the same time, that would be crazy. ‘I Don’t Even Like You’ has been produced by Paul Stacey (Oasis, The Black Crowes) and is a glorious foretaste of the band’s debut album ‘I Loved You’, due for release in Spring 2008. Both records will be released on the band’s own Ursa Major Records.

Big Linda is 22 year old Rob Alder (born in Bishop Stortford, voice like a young Jim Morrison), Patrick Murdoch (born on the Wirral, grew up occasionally in Hong Kong, a guitarist like no other), Vezio Bacci (born in Rome, sophisticate bassist) and Geoff Holroyde (born in Peterborough, hair by Rock Manes Inc, possibly the best drummer since Bonham or Moon) and their story goes like this: Holroyde bumped into Murdoch at Metropolis Studios where they decided to jam together. Producer Andy Wright subsequently introduced the pair to a mystery man who offered to fly them both to Antigua to record some songs at the island’s palatial Pelican Lodge Studios. Blithely, brilliantly they agreed, thereby necessitating a course of events that would see them bump into Bacci at Antigua’s main airport terminal. They recorded nine songs in the hills, came up with an amazing name (after hearing that their mysterious benefactor occasionally, ahem, corresponded with a Madame with just such a name) and then came home. Back home and some time after this, Holroyde noticed the quiet, unassuming Alder locked in his own thoughts in a corner of Townhouse Studios. He looked like a young Jim Morrison and something about him made Holroyde wonder whether he sounded like him too. And when Holroyde heard him sing, Big Linda knew they had their man.

For the record, Alder has a voice that can blow a room apart and Big Linda are a band with tunes and choruses that are set to mark a generation. Naturally, there’s no such thing as generation anymore but when you hear them you will know what we mean. And what we mean is that they are seriously, passionately non Year Zero.

Big Linda already have songs placed in two current feature films – a cover of The Who’s The Seeker for the major Fox feature movie The Dark Is Rising starring Ian McShane and Christopher Ecclestone and ‘Get It While You Can’ which is included in the Ewan Macgregor movie ‘The Tourist’ due at the end of the year.

Mumm-Ra are a band of modest ambitions. All they want out of life is to be like no other band on the face of the planet, to stretch and contort the very fabric of what we mere humans know as 'music' and to write tunes that make the supernatural wonders of the damsel with a dulcimer in Coleridge's Kubla Khan sound like The Horrors with cholera. Oh, and rock like bastards.

Kill Rock Stars (think The Gossip, Decemberists,) new band "Thao with the Get Down Stay Down" come to the Barfly!

Thao Nguyen's music is playful, taking bits of folk, country, indie rock and even soul and funk, mixing it all up into an understated, fun and whimsical sound. Hidden within these songs are the sounds of beat boxing, horns, humming, clapping and the occasional banjo.

But like childhood itself, there's darkness to Thao's songs, an understanding that life is confusing and painful. As Thao and her band - which has the best name of the year thus far - play their wonderfully simple songs, her lyrics bite with images of love withheld, pain both physical and emotional all dressed up in a deceptive package. With a voice reminiscent of Cat Power's Chan Marshall or Mirah, Thao sings these songs in an offbeat, but soulful, style. Its one not to be missed!

The Wombats, Glasvegas, The Hold Steady, Black Lips, Iron & Wine, The Subways plus many more……. Bringing the best new music from across the world to Brighton on: 15^th, 16^th and 17^th May 2008.The Great Escape, the biggest and best city based festival in the UK is growing bigger by the day as the organisers confirm the latest bands in the 2008 line up. The policy to book the best new and rising artists from all over the world is really taking shape with most recent confirmations from The Wombats, The Hold Steady, The Subways, Black Lips, White Lies, Monobright, Iron and Wine, Public Service Announcers, Born Ruffians, Broken Mirrors, Ipso Facto, Beat Union, Mother Mother, This City, One Night Only, Teenagers, Crystal Castles, Canterbury, Johnny Foreigner, Ida Maria, Team Waterpolo, Ebony Bones and The Black Angels.   Already booked were;  Young Knives, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Yeasayer, Black Mountain, No Age, Tunng, Lightspeed Champion, Wild Beasts, Fujiya & Miyagi, Peter Von Poehl and School Of Language. The Great Escape is all about  spotting new talent and bringing them to a bigger stage where they can perform to a packed out crowd and the world’s booking agents, festival bookers and record labels.  The festival will be backing the likes of  Ebony Bones and White Lies who are both currently unsigned and tipped by The Great Escape to follow in the footsteps of  Adele, Kate Nash and Jack Penate who have been incredibly successful since playing the festival.

Keep checking www.escapegreat.com for updates!

Right out of high school. One moody kid armed with a Fender guitar, post adolescent angst in full bloom, misunderstood by parents, the world at large. Enjoying the fruits of a college loan, joined Green On Red, whose country-meets-folk-meets-too many drugs Americana was one of the early warning signs of the alt country scare to come. After one E.P. and eight albums with Green On Red, headed off on his own shortly before the band disintegrated. Released Brother Aldo (Fire Records), a soulful/homespun/lo-fi/country-fried folk affair that Melody Maker called "as close to the genuine article as a white boy can get."

http://www.myspace.com/chuckworld

The Bad Robots play an energetic mix of flat out rock and roll with solid helpings of ska bashed in for good measure. Aspiring to the great heights set by our idols The Clash and The Beatles we make music in the belief that rock and roll is about getting sweaty and that its about jumping to yelling at and cheering for your favourite band.

All of us came together to make a band that plays music that makes people feel good. And not in a creepy 'kissing your best friends younger sister' good. We mean cut to the bone, bounce around the room with no pants on and your shirt over your head, breaking the strings off your tennis racket, covering the hairbrush handle in spit good.

So, with members ranging from clean cut right through on a degrading scale to debaucherously hairy, and pulling in influences from ridiculous places, putting their hearts in their mouths and biting down hard as hell, you get us, The Bad Robots.

Sounds like fun doesn't it??

Opera house (noun)
Definition: A building where musical dramas are performed
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University

There’s no drama about Operahouse, they’re just four guys who make
music. This Camden four-piece is made up of a combination of childhood
friends and strangers with a sound comprising disco beats and chop
guitar.  First single “Man Next Door” caught the ears of Zane Lowe,
winning Fresh Meat & Jonathan Ross at Radio 2. Something like ska on
speed this 2 minutes 30 seconds of sharp, punchy indie pop proved
Operahouse could hit where it hurt.  It was also the Trophy Track on
BBC 6 Music’s Queens of Noize show and ensured listeners of Xfm voted
them Uploaded featured artist of the week.

'In the live arena, My Device have old school British eccentricity in abundance, presenting their own skewiff view of the world  to the wider public with more enthusiasm than a crèche full of 5 year olds with A.D.D... My Device are like a fox in the chicken  shed and they’re not too concerned about who knows it...  a must-see act’ - Notion 

‘They seem to be unable to go for longer than 4 beats without changing tack, time, tempo and whatever else comes to their  feverish minds. Well that’s definitely the case on this impressive offering anyway. Phew!’ – Artrocker 

‘If you locked the A-Team in a garage and they came out with an abrasive and yet sneakily melodic indie band, instead of a  tank with a flamethrower on the top, they might sound a bit like this’ -  Rock Sound 

‘They’re from Brighton, they rock and we should be dancing’ – Disorder 

‘Riotous three piece from Brighton who make a car crash racket that sounds like 80’s Matchbox reworking Pixies’ – The Fly 

‘The scale of what’s on offer is actually staggering’ - Play Music

‘You can tell they’re a band who love distortion pedals and bending weird sounds out of their guitars. They’re not a virtuoso  band, which is cool, because rock’n’roll shouldn’t be about that, it should be about heart and passion and ideas and  romance’  - NME  

Florida's Poison the Well arose quickly within the underground hardcore
punk scene, becoming a major touring act in several U.S. markets on the
strength of their first full-length album and incredibly energized
live performances. They play a style of metalcore that evokes the
guitar histrionics of Slayer and the brutal stomp of Hatebreed, while
balancing the proceedings with a heaping helping of warmth and melody.

"Could they be the UKs answer to The White Stripes? Charles And Rebecca Are Slow Club. They hail from Sheffield and are a sort of one man band. Only with two people. He strums guitar and sings and she plays drums and all sorts of weird instruments, like water-filled glass bottles, spoons and the back of a wooden chair. And sometimes an organ called MIles. Not something you get to see and hear every day. The effect is rockabilly and somewhat folksy but thankfully their songs are fairly jolly affairs without a bit of teenage angst in sight. Slwo Club are touring - don't miss them" [The Independant On Sunday]

"Slow Club are another boy/girl duo but instead of valium'd-up rock n'roll they make sacharine folk-pop that turns your usually miserable scribe into a radiant ray of positivity. Like, I almost smiled and everything."

"Slow Club inject a simple joy and uncomplicatedness into their work which is completely compelling"
[Music Week Playlist]

In the early 90's skinnyman moved on to establish by himself the seminal Mud Family alongside Mongo and Chester P with whom he released lots of EPs. These included the
underground hits "Itchy Town" and "Lash Suttin", a reworking of Redman's "Smash Something". One of the best Hip Hop crews in England whether on vinyl, on stage freestyling or battling other MCs, the Mud Fam expanded with new members joining and Chester P splitting to form Task Force with his brother Farma G.
 

Shortly after, Skinny signed a deal with Talkin' Loud and completed a

handful of album tracks whilst at the label. However, before the album

was finished Skinny was sent to jail for 9 months for distribution of

marijuana. Naturally talented for rapping and writing lyrics, his

reputation has grown even bigger for being in trouble with the police,

since Skinny believes in the good of marijuana and is an active

promoter of its use.

 

While he was inside, Talkin Loud was shut down by its parent company,

freeing skinnyman from his contract. After the period of

incarceration, skinnyman released his masterful solo debut album,

"Council Estate of Mind", with a deal via Low Life Records in 2004.

Well received by fans and critics as the highest new entry in the UK's

charts on the week of its release, heavily autobiographical and

socially analytical, the album makes much use of samples from "Made in

Britain", a British film from the early 80s.

 

Since the album's release, skinnyman received considerable attention

from UK hip hop radio and press, had the opportunity to work with

grime artists such as Wiley and Shystie and supported The Streets at

Brixton Academy. He even won in a rapping contest in London's

Subterranea against Eminem.

Around the turn of the century Jason Stollsteimer attended a concert by
Japanese rock & roll giants Guitar Wolf. At the time, Stollsteimer was
working a job as a bowling alley bartender. The performance spurred the
 him to create his own band, the Baby Killers. After recruiting Lauren
Wilcox on bass, Marcie Bolen on rhythm guitar and Don Blum on drums the
band changed their name to the Von Bondies.

While playing a handful of shows in the Detroit area, the quartet
recorded singles It Came From Japan, an ode to Guitar Wolf, and Nite
Train. Jack White of The White Stripes along with the The Dirtbombs'
Jim Diamond later produced the Von Bondies' debut album, Lack of
Communication, in late 2001. It was recorded in only three days.